Vi"tals (?), n. pl.

1.

Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.

2.

Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state.

"The vitals of the public body."

Glanvill.

 

© Webster 1913.

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