(adjective) Favorable to or promoting health or well-being.

(adjective) Salutary.

(verb) To speak or write at length or in detail.

(noun) The original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies: prototype.

(adjective) Delicious.

(noun) Werewolf.

(adjective) That puckers or causes puckering.

(adjective) Tending to CONTRACT or bind: astringent.

(adjective) Of, relating to, or occurring during childbirth or the period immediately following.

(verb) To be necessary, proper, or ADVANTAGEOUS for.

(noun) Leader; tyrant.

(noun) A resident in an apartment building, especially in France, who serves as doorkeeper, landlord's representative, and janitor.

(noun) Any of several birds.

(verb) To make a harsh cry.

(noun) Discontinuance from use or disuse.

(noun) The quality or state of being GENTLE: meekness, tameness.

(verb) To assail by words or arguments: oppose or ATTACK as FALSE or lacking integrity.

(adjective) Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness: serene.

(noun) Rascal.

(noun) A minor battle.

(noun) Capitalized: the 50th Psalm in the Vulgate.

(noun) A ragged often disreputable person.

(verb) Literature: to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar.

(verb) To censure severely: castigate.

(verb) To form or move in WAVES.

(adjective) Of a timid disposition: fearful.

(adjective) Lively or frisky in action: capricious.

(noun) A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents to the exhalations of flowers.

(noun) A way or place for passage.

(adjective) Circuitous; INDIRECT .

(adjective) Extremely loud.

(adjective) Mournful.

(adjective) Of, relating to, or consisting of two dactylic HEXAMETER lines that lack the arsis in the third and sixth feet.

(adjective) Published after the death of the author.