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     #656.  Salubrity. —­ N. salubrity; healthiness &c.  Adj.
fine air, fine climate; eudiometer[obs3].
     [Preservation of health] hygiene; valetudinarian, valetudinarianism;
sanitarian; sanitarium, sanitorium. 
     V. be salubrious &c.  Adj.; agree with; assimilate &c. 23. 
     Adj. salubrious, salutary, salutiferous[obs3]; wholesome; healthy,
healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian[obs3], hygienic.
     innoxious[obs3], innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious,
uninfectious.
     sanative &c. (remedial) 662; restorative &c. (reinstate) 660; useful
&c. 644.

     #657.  Insalubrity. —­ N. insalubrity; unhealthiness &c.  Adj.;
nonnaturals[obs3]; plague spot; malaria &c. (poison) 663; death in the pot, contagion; toxicity. 
     Adj. insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome;
morbific[obs3], morbiferous[obs3]; mephitic, septic, azotic[obs3], deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous[obs3], teratogenic; narcotic.
     contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic[obs3];
epizootic.
     innutritious[obs3], indigestible, ungenial; uncongenial &c.
(disagreeing) 24.
     deadly &c. (killing) 361.

     #658.  Improvement. —­ N. improvement; amelioration, melioration;
betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending &c. v.; advancement; advance &c. (progress) 282; ascent &c. 305; promotion, preferment; elevation &c. 307; increase &c. 35; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture[obs3]; race-culture, eugenics.
     reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts,
correction, limoe labor[Lat], refinement, elaboration; purification &c. 652; oxidation; repair &c. (restoration) 660; recovery &c. 660.
     revise, new edition.
     reformer, radical. 
     V. improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.
     advance &c. (progress) 282; ascend &c. 305; increase &c. 35; fructify,
ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one’s head, sow one’s wild oats; recover &c. 660.
     be better &c. adj., be improved by; turn to right account, turn to
good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.
     render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate;
correct; decrassify[obs3].
     improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.
     promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring
on; foster &c. 707; invigorate &c. (strengthen) 159.
     touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten
up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off