(anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.

(dialectal) To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.

(transitive) To greet; salute; hail. / (transitive) To beseech; adjure.

Alternative form of hawse

(obsolete) To haul; to hoist.

plural of halse

simple past tense and past participle of halse

present participle of halse

A village in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5452).

(transitive) To predict; promise. / (intransitive) To promise; bode; bid (fair or ill).