Health officer

A person charged with the sanitary supervision of a town, . Health'y, n. Being in health or in a sound state of body; enjoying health: vigorous; hale; hearty; as, a healthy constitution. Conducive to health; healthful; salubrious; wholesome; as, healthy exercise, a healthy climate. Heam, n. [A. S. ham a, hame, the womb.] The afterbirth in beasts. Hea'nor, a town of Derby shire, England, 9 miles N. of Derby; poр. 7,100. Heap, n . [A. S., from hebban, to raise; Dr. hoop ; Ger. haufe . See the verb. A pile or ma ; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of stones, a heap of rubbish. A crowd; a concourse; a cluster; a throng; - used in application to persons. (Colloq. and vulgar.) "The sailors run in heaps , a helple crowd." - Dryden. -v. a. [A. S. heapian ; Ger. häufen ; O. Ger. hûfón , gahu fon , to heap up, to accumulate.] To heave, raise, or lift up, as in heaps; to pile; to throw or lay, as in a heap; -often before up ; as, to heap up sand,- or on ; as, to heap on coals. " Heap on wood, kindle the fire."- Ezek . xxiv. 10. -To ama ; to accumulate; to lay up; to collect in great quantity; to add something else, in large quantities; generally followed by up ; as, to heap up riches. - To add till the ma takes a roundish or conical form, or till it rises above the usual quantity; as, heaped measure. Heap'er, n . One who heaps, ma es, or accumulates. Heap'y, a. Lying in heaps. "O'er the mud pavements, heapy rubbish grows."-Gay.