3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy
exercise; a healthy climate.
Syn. -- Vigorous; sound; hale; salubrious; healthful; wholesome;
salutary.
Heam (hm), n. [Cf. AS. cildhamma womb, OD. hamme afterbirth, LG.
hamen.] The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.
Heap (hp), n. [OE. heep, heap, heap, multitude, AS. he·p; akin to OS.
hp, D. hoop, OHG. houf, hfo, G. haufe, haufen, Sw. hop, Dan. hob, Icel.
hpr troop, flock, Russ. kupa heap, crowd, Lith. kaupas. Cf. Hope, in
Forlorn hope.] 1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of
persons. [Now Low or Humorous]
The wisdom of a heap of learned men.
Chaucer.
A heap of vassals and slaves.
Bacon.
He had heaps of friends.
W. Black.
2. A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
[Now Low or Humorous]
A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations.
Bp. Burnet.