halsing

Verb (1)

halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (dialectal) To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
   • soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII

Verb (2)

halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (transitive) To greet; salute; hail.
2. (transitive) To beseech; adjure.

Verb (3)

halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (obsolete) To haul; to hoist.

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