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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Halt \Halt\, 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Hold}, contraction for holdeth [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Halt \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 halt they 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]: Halt \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 halt ye between two opinions? --1 Kings xviii. 21 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Halt \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]: Halt \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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Halt \Halt\, n. The act of limping; lameness. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Halt \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 halt for it --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: halt adj : disabled in the feet or legs [syn: {crippled}, {halting}, {lame}] n 1: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "he spent the entire stay in his room" [syn: {arrest}, {check}, {hitch}, {stay}, {stop}, {stoppage}] 2: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: {stop}] 3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement: "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn: {freeze}] v 1: cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses" [syn: {hold}, {arrest}] 2: come to a halt, stop moving "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: {stop}] [ant: {start}] 3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: {stop}, {block}, {kibosh}] 4: come to rest [syn: {settle}] 5: as of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a wound [syn: {stem}, {stanch}, {staunch}] 6: cause to stop or halt; "Halt the engine" From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Halt lame on the feet (Gen. 32:31; Ps 38:17). To "halt between 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.
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