haled English
Verb
(head)
(hale)
Anagrams
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hale English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
( -)
(archaic) Health, welfare.
* Spenser
- All heedless of his dearest hale .
Etymology 2
Representing a Northern dialectal form of (etyl) .
Adjective
( er)
Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
* Jonathan Swift
- Last year we thought him strong and hale .
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
- "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
- "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
Antonyms
* unhale
Usage notes
* Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase "hale and hearty".
Etymology 3
From (etyl) halen, from (etyl) haler, from (etyl) ‘upright beam on a loom’). Doublet of (l).
Verb
( hal)
To drag, pull, especially forcibly.
* , II.6:
- For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
* 1820 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), , :
- The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.
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- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance..
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:
- They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.
Anagrams
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halted English
Verb
(head)
(halt)
Anagrams
*
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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)
(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
- How long halt ye between two opinions?
(label) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).
Verb
( en verb)
(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.
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Noun
( en noun)
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
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* Clarendon
- Without any halt they marched.
A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
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Etymology 3
(etyl) healt (verb (healtian)), from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.
Adjective
( en adjective)
(archaic) Lame, limping.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IX:
- It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell [...].
* Bible, Luke xiv. 21
- Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt , and the blind.
Verb
( en verb)
To limp.
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
- 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.
To waver.
To falter.
Noun
( en noun)
(dated) Lameness; a limp.
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