To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
To draw slowly or heavily.
A soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776)
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Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
1 I must have the gentlemen to hale and draw with the mariners.
2 Both of us are hale fellows; let us henceforth be travelling companions.
3 Say but the word, and I shall hale him to your feet.
4 On his ninetieth birthday the hale veteran sent my wife his photograph.
5 The holy father was very old, but he was hale and active.
6 But the aged inmate, though wrinkled as well, looked neat and hale .
7 The team may not be hale and hearty but there's a pulse.
8 He was hale and hearty, though more than eighty years of age.
9 To Cowperwood she seemed to float, so hale and graceful was she.
10 He was stout and hale , with a ruddy, always smoothly shaven face.
11 Old Parslow turned up on Sunday, just eighty, but still fairly hale .
12 To the sheets of hail rain, Kilbane gave a hale high head.
13 Frank's grandfather has silver hair, but is still hale , erect, and strong.
14 Thorbeorn kept hale and hearty throughout; and Gudrid took no harm.
15 Millard Fillmore, hale and hearty in personal appearance, represented his home at Buffalo.
16 The hale pauper is far better off than the invalid Duke.
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