hale

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Free from infirmity or illness; sound. See Synonyms at healthy.
2. v. To compel to go: "In short order the human rights campaign was haled before a high court of indignation” ( Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
3. v. Archaic To pull, draw, drag, or hoist.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To drag; draw; pull; move by dragging.
2. To vex; trouble; worry; “pull and haul.”
3. To get by solicitation or importunity.
4. To go or come by means of drawing, pushing, or pressing; push or press on; move on; proceed.
5. n. A violent pull; a haul; the act of dragging forcibly.
6. n. A rake with long teeth for raking pebbles from brooks.
7. n. An instrument for hanging a pot over a fire.
8. Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired in health: as, hale of body.
9. Whole; entire; unbroken; without a break or other impairment.
10. n. Safety; welfare: same as heal.
11. To pour out.
12. n. A tent; a pavilion; a temporary shelter.
13. n. A pseudo-archaic form of hole.

Wiktionary

1. n. Health, welfare.
2. adj. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
3. v. To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired.
2. n. Welfare.
3. v. To pull; to drag; to haul.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
2. v. draw slowly or heavily
3. n. United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)
4. n. 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)
5. n. prolific United States writer (1822-1909)
6. v. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :