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Definition of Healths
1. health [n] - See also: health
Lexicographical Neighbors of Healths
Literary usage of Healths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"Hence, no doubt, our custom of toasting, or drinking healths,2 a ceremony which
Prynne, ... This extraordinary man, who, though he drank no healths, ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"and are against drinking any healths, and all excess, both before his coming in
and after * and we desire the king's good, and that the blessing of God ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1762)
"... of drink- Tbe antiquity of drinking healths. ing to the health and ...
of drinking to the healths fens from killing the Minotaurus, ..."
4. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"To the Tune of 'The healths' 1 COME, faith, since I'm parting, and that God knows
when The walls of sweet Wickham I shall see again ; Let's e'en have a ..."
5. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Education and by Thomas Clarkson (1806)
"They have ex- m ploded the unmeaning and troublesome custom of drinking healths
at their dinners. This custom the Quakers have rejected upon the principle, ..."
6. Poems, &c. Written Upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons. by Edmund Waller (1722)
"For Drinking of healths. TET Brutes and Vegetals, that cannot think, ^~* So far
as Drought and Nature urges, Drink: A more indulgent ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... Colonel Clifford and the other Irish Officers drinking healths over to our
Men, and those on our Side returning the Complement. ..."
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