Hales
A topographic surname.
A village in Norfolk, England
A village in Staffordshire, England
• Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, halse, heals, leash, selah, shale, sheal
hales
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hale
• Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, halse, heals, leash, selah, shale, sheal
Source: Wiktionary
Hale, a. Etym: [Written also heil, Icel. heill; akin to E. whole. See Whole.]
Definition: Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body. Last year we thought him strong and hale. Swift.
Hale, n.
Definition: Welfare. [Obs.] All heedless of his dearest hale. Spenser.
Hale (hal or hall; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haled (hald or halld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haling.]
Definition: Etym: [OE. halen, halien; cf. AS. holian, to acquire, get. See Haul.]
Definition: To pull; to drag; to haul. See Haul. Chaucer. Easier both to freight, and to hale ashore. Milton. As some dark priest hales the reluctant victim. Shelley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
