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Hale    Audio Help   [heyl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Edward Everett, 1822–1909, U.S. clergyman and author.
2.George El·ler·y    Audio Help   [el-uh-ree] Pronunciation Key, 1868–1938, U.S. astronomer.
3.Sir Matthew, 1609–76, British jurist: Lord Chief Justice 1671–76.
4.Nathan, 1755–76, American soldier hanged as a spy by the British during the American Revolution.
5.Sarah Jo·se·pha    Audio Help   [joh-see-fuh] Pronunciation Key, 1788–1879, U.S. editor and author.
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ha·le3    Audio Help   [hah-ley] Pronunciation Key
–noun
(in Hawaii) a simple thatched-roof dwelling.
[Origin: < Hawaiian; house, building]
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hale2    Audio Help   [heyl] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), haled, hal·ing.
1.to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
2.to haul; pull.
[Origin: 1175–1225; ME halen < MF haler < Gmc; cf. D halen to pull, fetch; akin to OE geholian to get, G holen to fetch. See haul]

—Related forms
haler, noun
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hale1    Audio Help   [heyl] Pronunciation Key
–adjective, hal·er, hal·est.
free from disease or infirmity; robust; vigorous: hale and hearty men in the prime of life.
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME (north); OE hāl whole]

—Related forms
haleness, noun

—Synonyms 1. sound, healthy,
—Antonyms 1. sickly.
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Main Entry:  hale
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  drag, energetic, hardy, healthy, hearty, hoist, pull, robust, sound, stout, strong, vigorous
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Main Entry:  healthy
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Having good health.
Synonyms:  fit, healthful, hearty, right, sound, well, whole, wholesome
Idioms:  fit as a fiddle, hale and hearty, in fine fettle
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909, American author and Unitarian clergyman, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1839. He was the nephew of Edward Everett. The pastor of a church in Worcester, Mass. (1842-56), and of one in Boston (1856-1903), Hale was widely influential as a reformer and a prolific writer of magazine articles. From 1903 until his death he was chaplain of the U.S. Senate. His famous short novel, The Man without a Country, was published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. Of his voluminous writings the best are Franklin in France (1887-88), the autobiographical New England Boyhood (1893), and Memories of a Hundred Years (1902).

See E. E. Hale, Jr., The Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale (1917); study by C. P. Hartnett (1966).

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