Word Meanings - HAULSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

HALSER
See POPE
HALSE
1. To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser. 2. To adjure; to beseech; to entreat. O dere child, I halse thee, In virtue of the Holy Trinity. Chaucer.
HALSENING
Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. Carew.
MARSHALSEA
The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between