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