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English Dictionary: (halt)	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for (halt)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HaltHalt\Halt\, n. The act of limping; lameness.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HaltHalt\Halt\, v. i. [OE. halten, AS. healtian. See {Halt}, a.] 1. To walk lamely; to limp. 2. To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective. The blank verse shall halthaltfor it. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HaltHalt\Halt\, 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Hold}, contraction for holdeth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HaltHalt\Halt\, n. [Formerly alt, It. alto, G. halt, fr. halten to hold. See {Hold}.] A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress. Without any halthaltthey marched. --Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. --Davenant.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HaltHalt\Halt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Halted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Halting}.] 1. To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still. 2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain. How long halthaltye between two opinions? --1 Kings xviii. 21
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HaltHalt\Halt\, v. t. (Mil.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
HaltHalt\Halt\, a. [AS. healt; akin to OS., Dan., & Sw. halt, Icel. haltr, halltr, Goth. halts, OHG. halz.] Halting or stopping in walking; lame. Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. --Luke xiv. 21.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
HaltHalt lame on the feet (Gen. 32:31; Ps. 38:17). To "halthaltbetween two opinions" (1 Kings 18:21) is supposed by some to be an expression used in "allusion to birds, which hop from spray to spray, forwards and backwards." The LXX. render the expression "How long go ye lame on both knees?" The Hebrew verb rendered "halt" is used of the irregular dance ("leaped upon") around the altar (ver. 26). It indicates a lame, uncertain gait, going now in one direction, now in another, in the frenzy of wild leaping.