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† ˈhealthing, vbl. n. [f. health n. or v.] 1. The furthering or imparting of health. rare.
1581Mulcaster Positions xlv. (1887) 298 The helping, and healthing of all studentes. 2. The drinking of healths; toasting.
1611Bp. Hall Serm. xxiv. Wks. 1837 V. 324 What bouzing, and quaffing, and whiffing, and healthing is there. 1654Trapp Comm. Esther i 8 This detestable healthing and carousing too too common in all parts of Christendom. 1696O. Heywood Let. in Thoresby's Corr. (Hunter) I. 229, I prefer this exercise to ranting, railing, healthing. |