Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The neck; the throat.
- To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
- n. An obsolete form of hawse.
- To greet; salute; hail.
- To beseech; adjure.
- Same as hawse.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy, archaic The neck; the throat.
- v. obsolete To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
- n. Alternative form of hawse.
- v. obsolete To haul; to hoist.
- v. transitive To greet; salute; hail.
- v. transitive To beseech; adjure.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.
- v. obsolete To adjure; to beseech; to entreat.
- v. obsolete To haul; to hoist.
Etymologies
- From Middle English halsen, halsien ("to beseech, adjure"), from Old English healsian, hālsian ("to entreat earnestly, beseech, implore"), from Proto-Germanic *hailesōnan (“to greet”), from Proto-Indo-European *kailo-, *kailu- (“whole, safe”). Cognate with Middle High German heilsen ("to predict"), Swedish helsa ("to greet"), Icelandic heilsa ("to salute"). More at whole, hailse. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“October 20th, 2006 at 4:56 pm nullfrank halse says:”
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“Lawson's head 'leap from its halse though it was as big as a haystack.”
“Did off from his halse then a ring was all golden,”
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“By the halse then he took him; from him fell the tears”
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“So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped,”
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“Hot and battle-grim; he all the halse of him gripped 2690”
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“John Oxenham, in the _Bear_ frigate, could sail "Eastwards towards Tolu, to see what store of victuals would come athwart his halse.”
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“Over there by the halse o 'the pass, there stand tethered two good horses that will take us before the morning to the”
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“-- Comp.: fēond -, hilde-grāp. grāpian, w. v., _to grasp, to lay hold of, to seize_: pret.sg. þæt hire wið halse heard grāpode, _that_ (the sword) _griped hard at her neck_,”
“-- Comp.: feónd -, hilde-grâp. grâpian, w. v., _to grasp, to lay hold of, to seize_: pret.sg. þät hire wið halse heard grâpode, _that_ (the sword) _griped hard at her neck_,”
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