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1. To walk lamely; to limp.

2. To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.

The blank verse shall halt for it.

Shak.

Halt"er (-r), n. One who halts or limps; a cripple.

Hal"ter (hl"tr), n. [OE. halter, helter, helfter, AS. hÊlftre; akin to G. halfter, D. halfter, halster, and also to E. helve. See Helve.] A strong strap or cord. Especially: (a) A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse. (b) A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose. Shak.

No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.

Trumbull.

Hal"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haltered (-trd); p. pr. & vb. n. Haltering.] To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter. "A haltered neck." Shak.

||Hal*te"res (hl*t"rz), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "alth^res weights used in ||jumping, fr. "a`llesqai to leap.] (Zoˆl.) Balancers; the rudimentary ||hind wings of Diptera.

Hal"ter-sack` (hl"tr*sk`), n. A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Halt"ing*ly (hlt"ng*l), adv. In a halting or limping manner.

Hal"vans (hl"vanz), n. pl. (Mining) Impure ore; dirty ore. Raymond.

Hal"ve (h‰l"ve), n. A half. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Halve (h‰v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halved (h‰vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Halving.] [From Half.] 1. To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.

So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves their own.

M. Arnold.

2. (Arch.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

Halved (h‰vd), a. Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.

Halves (h‰vz), n., pl. of Half.

By halves, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely.

I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not.

J. H. Newman.

To go halves. See under Go.

Hal"we (h‰l"we), n. [OE., fr. AS. hlga. See Holy.] A saint. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hal"yard (hl"yrd), n. [Hale, v. t. + yard.] (Naut.) A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc. [Written also halliard, haulyard.]

||Hal`y*si"tes (hl`*s"tz), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "a`lysis a chain.] ||(Paleon.) A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See ||Chain coral, under Chain.

Ham (h‰m), n. Home. [North of Eng.] Chaucer.