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Definition of Halsed
1. halse [v] - See also: halse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halsed
Literary usage of Halsed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications (1847)
"In such a state was St. Bernard who was ravished before the cross when the body "
losed itselfe from the crosse, and halsed* and ..."
2. Recently Recovered "lost" Tudor Plays: With Some Others, Comprising Mankind by John Stephen Farmer, Henry Medwall, John Redford (1907)
"... said, What is that you say, sir ? Hath the clocke strucken ? " — Notes on Du
Bartas, To the Reader, 2nd page. halsed, " his fair wife ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"He wayed up his anchors and halsed up his sails.'— "rafton in R. The hawse-holes,
the holes n the bow of a ship through which the cable runs in ..."
4. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1900)
"CHAPTER XIV How Sir Tristram lay with the lady, and how her husband fought with
Sir Tristram. AND there she welcomed him fair, and either halsed other in ..."
5. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"O, WILL you hear a knightly tale of old Bohemian day, It was the noble Moringer
in wedlock bed he lay; He halsed and kissed his dearest dame that was as ..."
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