healthsome

[Eng. health, and suff. -some.] Healthy; tending to promote health; wholesome. "To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in." Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, iv. 3. *health'-some-ne , *health'-some-ne e, s . [Eng. healthsome; -ne .) The quality or state of being healthsome. "He [Cæsar] himself made so many iorneyes as he thought sufficient for chaunge of the places for health somene e." - Golding: Cæsar , fo. 271. health-ỹ, a. [Eng. health; -y.] 1. Enjoying good health; being in a sound state of body; hale; sound; free from disease or sickne . "They that haunt the healthy limbs alone." Bishop Hall: Satires , iii. 3. 2. Conducive or tending to health; wholesome; healthsome; salubrious; salutary. "Gardening or husbandry, and working in wood, are fit and healthy recreations for a man of study or busine ." Locke . 3. Morally wholesome, or salutary; as, There is a healthy tone in a book.