Halsed vs Halted - What's the difference?
halsed | halted |
(halse)
(label) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
*:
To greet; salute; hail.
To beseech; adjure.
(obsolete) To haul; to hoist.
(halt)
(label) To limp; move with a limping gait.
(label) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
* Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 21
(label) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
(lb) To stop marching.
(lb) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
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*:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
(lb) To bring to a stop.
(lb) To cause to discontinue.
:
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
* Clarendon
A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
(archaic) Lame, limping.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IX:
* Bible, Luke xiv. 21
To limp.
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
To waver.
To falter.
As verbs the difference between halsed and halted
is that halsed is past tense of halse while halted is past tense of halt.halsed
English
Verb
(head)halse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hals, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) halsen, halchen, from (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
(hals)- soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes
Etymology 3
From (etyl) halsen, . More at (l), (l).Verb
(hals)Etymology 4
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(hals)Anagrams
* * * * * * ----halted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *halt
English
(wikipedia halt)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian (m), Swedish (m).Verb
(en verb)- How long halt ye between two opinions?
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- Without any halt they marched.
Etymology 3
(etyl) healt (verb (healtian)), from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.Adjective
(en adjective)- It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell [...].
- Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt , and the blind.
Verb
(en verb)- Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
- For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
- And make it halt behind her.