Hale

Noun

 * 1) Health, welfare.

Adjective

 * 1)  Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
 * 2) * 1883,,  Chapter V
 * "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
 * "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"

Verb

 * 1) To drag, pull, especially forcibly.
 * 2) *1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.6:
 * For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
 * 1) * 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 262:
 * They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.

Adverbs for Hale
delightfully; sturdily; stoutly; vigorously; vivaciously; cheerily; healthily; soundly; hardily; robustly; ordinarily; vibrantly; exuberantly; remarkably; incredibly; exceptionally; unwontedly; enthusiastically; unbelievably; cheerfully.

Synonyms for Hale
healthy, vigorous, well, chipper, robust, sound, lusty.

Antonyms for Hale
unhale, infirm, decrepit, feeble, weak, unhealthy.

Thesaurus
able-bodied, beefy, bouncing, bunkum, doughty, drag, draggle, draw, fit, flourishing, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, full-blooded, full-strength, gutsy, gutty, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, haul, healthy, hearty, heave, hefty, husky, in the pink, iron-hard, lug, lusty, mighty, nervy, obstinate, potent, powerful, puissant, pull, red-blooded, right, robust, robustious, robustuous, rude, rugged, sane, snake, sound, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, take in tow, tow, trail, train, trawl, troll, tug, vigorous, vital, well, wholesome

Etymology 1
From hælu:, hæl:, from a noun-derivative of.

Etymology 2
Representing a Northern dialectal form of hal:, perhaps influenced by  heill: (Webster's suggests ‘partly from OE, partly from ON’). Compare whole:, hail#Etymology 3:.

Etymology 3
From haler:, from  *undefined:, from. Compare haul:.

Adjective

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Anagrams

 * heal
 * Leah

Etymology 1
From hali:.

Noun

 * 1) tail, brush, scut
 * 2) bottom, fanny

Etymology 2
From late hala:, from  halen:.

Verb

 * 1) haul, heave, pull
 * 2) drag

Anagrams

 * héla

Etymology
Originally vale

Noun

 * 1) house