Dictionary: HAK – HALE

► HAKA n. a fuss → 1960 NZ sl.
► ׇHAKE int. an expression of defiance → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 1. a hook used to suspend a pot or kettle over a fire → 1402 orig. Sc.
n. 2.a lounging, idle fellow → 1529 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 3. a merry meeting; a rustic dance or gathering → 1848 Eng. dial.
n. 4.a greedy, grasping discontented person; a miser; a pertinacious asker or beggar; a covetous person → 1848 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a stir, turmoil, tumult → 1870 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a large comfortable room or place → 1895 Eng. dial.
n. 7. a forward, tattling woman → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 8. a lean horse or cow → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to tramp, trudge, or wend one’s way → 1450 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to hanker or gape after → 1721 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to wander about aimlessly and idly; to loiter, to lounge; to hang about with intent to eavesdrop; to sneak → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to kidnap; to carry off by force → 1802 Sc.
vb. 5. to urge; to pester → 1855 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to beat, batter, drive or knock out of one’s way; to butt with the horns or head → 1878 Sc.
vb. 7. to drag or carry from one place to another with little purpose → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 8. to tease, to worry, to importune; to pester or worry with questions, etc.; to persecute → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAKE ABOUT vb. to drag or carry from one place to another with little purpose; to tramp, to trudge → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAKES n. 1. an animal that wanders in an unsettled manner over the pasture, or strays from it → 1884 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. an idle, lounging fellow → 1884 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HAKE UP AND DOWN vb. to drag or carry from one place to another with little purpose; to tramp, to trudge → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAKIM n. a doctor → 1623 Anglo-Indian
► HAKY vb. to hear, to give heed → 1888 Amer. dial.
► HAL n. a fool, a jester; a silly person → 1857 Eng. dial.
vb. to banter; to worry or bother → 1881 Eng. dial.
► HALA adv. pretty well → 1837 Eng. dial.
► HALAL adj. acceptable, correct → 2006 sl.
n. a Muslim, esp. a Pakistani immigrant → 1990 sl., derogatory
► HALARI n. a low-class woman given to fighting → 20C W. Indies sl.
► HALBERT n. a tall, thin person → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► HALCEDONIAN adj. calm, tranquil → 1611 obs.
► HALCH vb. 1. to clasp in one’s arms, to embrace → 1400 obs.
vb. 2. to fasten, to tie, to knot → 1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to hail, to salute, to greet → 1600 obs.
► HALCYDONIAN adj. calm, quiet, tranquil → 1611 obs.
► HALCYON adj. calm, quiet, peaceful, tranquil, undisturbed → 1578
n. a period of calm, happiness, or prosperity; calm, tranquility → 1567
vb. to calm. to pacify, to tranquillize → 1616 obs.
► HALCYON DAYS n. a period of calm weather occurring in winter; esp. such a period lasting fourteen days, occurring around the winter solstice → 1545
► HALCYONIAN adj. calm, quiet, peaceful → 1602 obs.
► HALE adj. 1. free from disease, healthy, in good health, well; recovered from disease → 1330 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
adj. 2. free from injury; safe, sound, unhurt → 1400 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
adj. 3. of things immaterial, time, numbers, etc.: whole, entire, complete → 1400
adj. 4. morally sound or correct; virtuous, wholesome → 1400 obs.
adj. 5. of the spirit, heart, etc.: emotionally sound; happy, carefree → 1522 obs.
adv. wholly, entirely, completely → 1480 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
int. 1. a cry to call attention → 1290 obs.
int. 2. a cry used to drive away geese → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 1. a corner of a room or building, a nook; a secret place → 897 obs.
n. 2. health, well-being, welfare; cure, remedy → 1330 obs.
n. 3. a place roofed over, but usually open at the sides; a pavilion; a tent; a booth, hut, or other temporary structure for shelter → 1330 obs.
n. 4. the whole, the whole amount or number; the sum total → 1437 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 5. a haul of fish → 1572 Sc.
n. 6. a pot-hook → 1589 obs.
n. 7. a building, esp. a house, a dwelling place → 1885 Hawaii
n. 8. the face → 2002 UK rhyming sl. (Hale and Pace)
vb. 1. to make hale or whole; to heal → 1200 obs.
vb. 2. to draw or pull along, esp. with force or violence; to drag, to haul → 1275
vb. 3. to project, to extend, to reach → 1300 obs.
vb. 4. to restore a person to health; to heal an injury; to cure a disease → 1330 Sc.
vb. 5. to take a pull or draught of a drink, esp. an alcoholic one; to drink → 1400 obs.
vb. 6. to flow, to run down in a large stream; to pour → 1400 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to pull or tear asunder or in pieces; to cause to shrink → 1398 obs.
vb. 8. to molest, to harass a person persistently; to pester→ 1530 obs.
vb. 9. to pour or empty out, as water from a vessel by inclining it to one side → 1851 Eng. dial.
vb. 10. to breathe heavily; to pant; to inhale → 1892 Eng. dial.
vb. 11. to carry on the trade of a carrier; to cart, to carry → 1895 Eng. dial.
► HALE AND HEARTY adj. robust, vigorous → 1865
n. a party → 1984 UK rhyming sl.
► HALE AND PACE n. the face → 2002 UK rhyming sl.
► HALE AND TOGETHER adv. all together; in one group → 1466 Sc. obs.
► HALE FOR BREATH vb. to breathe heavily; to pant; to inhale → 1892 Eng. dial.
► HALE-FOU adj. extremely drunk → 1877 Sc.
► HALEFUL adj. healthy, vigorous → 1862 Sc.
► HALE-HEADIT adj. unhurt; whole and entire → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► HALE-HEARTED adj. with unbroken spirit, undaunted, unmoved, unaffected → 1875 Sc.
► HALE-HIDE adj. unhurt; whole and entire → 1785 Sc.
► HALE-LOT n. a considerable number, a ‘whole lot’ → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HALELY adv. wholly, completely, entirely → 1400 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HALENESS n. 1. the full or total amount of something → 1500 obs.
n. 2. the quality or state of being hale; healthiness, robustness → 1815
► HALER n. one who works or does anything energetically and effectively → 1870 Eng. dial.
► HALE-RUCK n. the sum total of a person’s property → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► HALES n. the two handles of a wheelbarrow or plough → 1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HALE-SCART adj. without a scratch, unhurt; wholly safe → 1829 Sc.
► HALESKARTH adj. free from injury; unhurt, unscratched → 1513 Sc. obs.
► HALE-SKINNT adj. having a whole skin without sores or disease → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► HALESOME adj. wholesome, healthy, sound → 1400 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HALEWARE n.  the whole, the whole number or company; the whole assortment of things → 1785 Sc.
► HALE-WATER n. a heavy fall of rain → 1820 Sc.
► HALE-WHEEL adv. in wholesale fashion, in quick succession → 1882 Sc.
► HALE-WORT n. the whole number or amount → 1822 Sc.