Hale
[heɪl]
Definition
(noun.) prolific United States writer (1822-1909).
(noun.) United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938).
(noun.) a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776).
(adj.) exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health; 'hale and hearty'; 'whole in mind and body'; 'a whole person again' .
Checked by Benita--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
(n.) Welfare.
(v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Healthy, sound, strong, hearty, hardy, robust, well, in good health.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BEHALF]
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Definition
adj. healthy: robust: sound of body.—n. (Spens.) welfare.—n. Hale′ness.
v.t. to drag.
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Examples
- I don't think, Mr. Hale, you have done quite right in introducing such a person to us without telling us what he had been. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mr. Hale went out to his bookseller's, and to call on a friend or two. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mrs. Hale cried without restraint. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mr. Hale sipped his tea in abstracted silence; Margaret had the responses all to herself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You will see Milton without smoke in a few days, I imagine, Miss Hale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Everybody is ill now, I think,' said Mrs. Hale, with a little of the jealousy which one invalid is apt to feel of another. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When Mr. Hale came in, Margaret went out, oppressed with gloom, and seeing no promise of brightness on any side of the horizon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Who are these Hales that he makes such a fuss about? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- His calculation, therefore, though different in appearance, corresponds very nearly at bottom with that of Judge Hales. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Then, in 1726, Dr. Hales told how many cubic inches of gas a certain number of grains of coal would produce. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Hales--father and daughter come,--mother too great an invalid--Macphersons come, and Mr. Horsfall, and Mr. Young. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She was ill at ease, and looked more than usually stern and forbidding as she entered the Hales' little drawing-room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Editor: Margaret