Vales vs Hales - What's the difference?

vales | hales |

As a noun vales

is plural of lang=en.

As a verb hales is

third-person singular of hale.

vales

English

Noun

(head)

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hales

English

Verb

(head)

(hale)

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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.

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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