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Muscular is a related term of hale.


As an adjective muscular

is of, relating to, or connected with muscles.

As a noun hale is

, black pine (pinus nigra ) or hale can be awn, beard of grain.

muscular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or connected with muscles.
  • * 1912 , , A Princess of Mars , chapter 2
  • It was an effort of the mind, of the will, of the nerves; not muscular , for I could not move even so much as my little finger, but none the less mighty for all that.
  • Brawny, thewy, having strength.
  • * 1843 , , Stave Two
  • The arms were very long and muscular ; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength.
  • Having large, well-developed muscles.
  • (figurative) Strong, robust.
  • * 2014 June 9, Samanth Subramanian, " India After English?" (blog post), nybooks.com:
  • Future prime ministers may struggle to replicate the sort of muscular countrywide support that Modi was able to earn.

    Synonyms

    * (of or relating to muscles) myo- * (having strength) athletic, beefy, brawny, husky, lusty, muscled, muscly, powerful, strapping, strong * (having well-developed muscles) beefy, brawny, heavily muscled, husky, musclebound, muscled, muscly, powerfully built, well-built

    Derived terms

    * most muscular * muscular dystrophy

    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.
  • *
  • 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.

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