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Hale   /heɪl/   Listen
Hale

noun
1.
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).  Synonym: Nathan Hale.
2.
United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938).  Synonym: George Ellery Hale.
3.
Prolific United States writer (1822-1909).  Synonym: Edward Everett Hale.
verb
(past & past part. haled; pres. part. haling)
1.
To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :.  Synonyms: coerce, force, pressure, squeeze.  "He squeezed her for information"
2.
Draw slowly or heavily.  Synonyms: cart, drag, haul.  "Haul nets"
adjective
(Written also hail)
1.
Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.  Synonym: whole.  "Whole in mind and body" , "A whole person again"



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"Hale" Quotes from Famous Books



... cupping as if it were a spiritual devotion. Maiden mistresses would tell them their love stories, when they wouldn't tell their own mothers. I am a southern man, born and reared mid slavery, and I pay this tribute to the black "mammies" of the South before the war. Down there in that hale, hearty colored motherhood was laid the foundation of future health and strength for many a white baby, when otherwise its mother would have had to see it die. Frail, delicate mothers, who because of ...
— Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures • George W. Bain

... Edward T. Channing, and then followed in succession Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, Alexander H. Everett, John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Bowen, and Andrew P. Peabody, all Unitarians. Among the early Unitarian contributors were Nathan Hale, Joseph Story, Nathaniel Bowditch, W.H. Prescott, William Cullen Bryant, and Theophilus Parsons. For many years few of the regular contributors were from any other religious body, not because the ...
— Unitarianism in America • George Willis Cooke

... omitted from this list are the various "Lend-a-Hand Clubs," and "10 x 1 10 Clubs," and circles of "King's Daughters," and like coteries, that have been inspired by the tales and the "four mottoes" of Edward Everett Hale. ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

... will ye gang Shear wi' me the hale day lang; An' love will mak' us eithly bang The weary ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... your thoughts to look into. Know I am named Fallerio to deceive The world with shew of truth and honestie, But yet nor truth, nor honestie abides Within my thoughts, but falshood, crueltie, Blood-sucking Avarice, and all the sinnes, That hale men on to bloodie stratagems, Like to your selves, which care not how you gaine, By blood, extorcion, falshood, periurie, So you may have a pleasing recompence: [They start. Start not aside, depart not from your selves, I know your composition is as mine, Of bloud, extortion, ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen


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