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bious.—How long halt ye between two opinions? r Kings. 
—To tail ; to faulter.—All my familiars watched for 
my halting, faying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and 
we (hall prevail againft him. Jeremiah. 
HALT, / Lame; crippled.—Bring in the poor, the 
maimed, the halt, and the blind. Luke. 
HALT , f. The aft of limping; the manner of limn¬ 
ing.' [_Alte, Fr.] A flop in a march.—Without any halt 
they inarched between .the two armies. Clarendon. 
The heav’nly bands 
Down from a fky of jafper lighted now 
In Paradife, and on a hill made halt. Milton. 
HAL'TER, f. [from halt.~\ He who limps. 
HALTER,/. [healptpe, Sax. from hal|^, the neck.] 
Tlie rope or trace which fecures a horfe to the manger. 
A rope to hang malefaftors: 
He’s tied, my lord, and all his pow’rs do yield; 
And humbly thus, with halters on their necks, 
Expert your highnefs’ doom of life or death. Shakefpeare. 
A cord ; aftrong firing.—Whom neither halter binds nor 
burthens charge. Sandys. 
To HAL'TER, v. a. To bind with a cord ; to catch 
in a noofe.—He might have employed his time in the 
frivolous delights of catching moles and haltering frogs. 
At ter bury. 
HAL'TERCAST, adj. Thrown down by means of an 
entanglement of the halter. 
HAL'TERCAST,/ - . In farriery, an excoriation of the 
pattern, occafioned by the entanglement of the halter. 
HAL'TEREN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and bifiiopric of Munfter, fituated on the 
Lippe : twenty miles fouth-wefi of Munfter. Lat. 51. 
45. N. Ion. 24. 40. E. Ferro. 
HALTERING, /. Binding with a halter. 
H ALTERIS'TiE,/ In Grecian antiquity, were thofe 
who at the games exercifed themfelves in vaulting or 
leaping; which was performed Sometimes with the hands 
empty; Sometimes with weights of lead, either in their 
hands, or on their heads and fhoulders. Thefe weie 
called ; which were mafles of lead or ftone, 
which they held in their hands; and which they threw 
into the air to augment the elatticity of the body in 
leaping; whence they have, by fome writers, been erro- 
neoufly denominated quoit-players, becaufe they threw 
thefe leaden weights into the air, in a Similar manner to 
the difcus. The place from which they leaped was 
called [?tx.Trg ; that to which they leaped ; be¬ 
caufe it was marked by digging the earth, from cry.a^ca:, 
a ditch, or ateamru, to dig. Hence arofe the proverbial 
expreflion, arr^av wig vtx. lo-^a^tva., “ to leap beyond 
the bounds;” meaning then, as at the prefent day, a gid¬ 
dy extravagant perfon. 
HALT'ING, /. The aft of going lame; the aft of 
Hopping in a march ; a failure. 
H ALTON, an ancient but decayed town in Cheftiire. 
Its market is on Saturdays; and fairs, old Lady-day and 
April 5... It is pleafarttly fituated on a high hill, com¬ 
manding a delightful and very extenfive profpeft of 
parts of thirteen Surrounding counties. It ftands on the 
road from Frodfham to Runcorn, within about a mile 
of tire latter, and near five of the former, and 186 miles 
from London. It had formerly a cattle or citadel, whofe 
fcite and ruins are now remaining, and are often vifited 
by travellers. This caftle was built anno 1071, and is a 
member of the duchy of Lancatter; which maintains a 
large jurifdiftion in the county round it, by the name 
of Halton-fee, or the honour of Halton, having a court 
of record, prifon, &c. By inland navigation, this town 
has communication with the rivers Merfey, Dee, Ribble, 
Oufe, Trent, Derwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, Avon, 
&c. which navigation, including its windings, extends 
above 500 miles, in the counties of Lincoln, Notting¬ 
ham, York, Lancafter, Weftmoreland, Stafford, War¬ 
wick, Leicefter, Oxford, Worcefter, &.c. 
HAM 
HAL'TWESEL, a town in the county of Northum¬ 
berland, 317 miles north from London, in the road from 
Carlifie and Hexham to Newcaftle, having the Tyne on 
the South Tide; and the Fofle-way, which runs parallel 
to the Pifts Wall, at a little diftance on the north fide. 
Fairs on May 14 and November 22 ; and a market on 
Thurfdays. Its Situation is lofty, and commands a fine 
profpeft over the vale, which is bounded by Billifter- 
caftle and the adjoining hills on one hand, and Heydon- 
bridge on the other. This place was plundered by the 
Scots-in the reign of Elizabeth. It enjoys all the ad¬ 
vantages of a healthful Situation, and carries on a large 
manufaftory of baize. 
HAL'VAN, orCHAULAN, a kingdom of Africa, in 
the kingdom of Fez, celebrated for its baths: ten miles 
South of Fez. 
To HALVE, v. a. [from half, halves. ] To divide into 
parts. 
HALVES, interj. [from half, halves being the plu¬ 
ral.] An exprefiion by which any one lays claim to an 
equal, fl)are : 
Have you not Seen how the divided dam 
Runs to the fummons of her hungry lamb ? 
But when the twin cries halves, file quits the firft. 
Cleaveland. 
HAL'VING,/. Dividing into halves. 
HAL'YARD. See Halliard. 
HA'LYMOTE,/ A holy or ecclefiaftical court; but 
there is a court in London, formerly held on the Sunday 
next before St. Thomas’s day, called the kalymote , or 
holy court, Curia SanElimotus, for regulating the bakers of 
the city, &c. Blount. 
HA'LYS, in ancient geography, a river of the Hither 
Afia, through which it had a long courfe, and was the 
boundary of Croefus’s kingdom to the eaft. Running 
down from the foot of mount Taurus, through Cata¬ 
lonia and Cappadocia, it divided almoft the whole of 
the Lower Afia, from the Sea of Cyprus to the Euxine, 
according to Herodotus. According to Strabo, himfelf 
a Cappadocian, it had its fprings in the Great Cappa¬ 
docia. It feparated Paphlagonia from Cappadocia ; and 
received its name «« tov «2io;, from fait, becaufe its- 
waters were of a fait and bitter tafte, from the nature 
of the foil over which they flow ed. It is famous for 
the defeat of Crcefus king of Lydia, who was milled by 
the ambiguous word of this oracle: Xgots-o? aXvv hctGus 
utyoeMv a.qxi'i' 1 hceKvcrii. “ If Croefus paifes over the Halys 
ne lhall dettroy a great empire.” That empire was his 
own-. See Crcesus, vol. v. p.372; and thearticle Lydia. 
HA'LYWERCFOLK, /. People who anciently en¬ 
joyed lands by the fervice of repairing or defending a 
church or fepulchre ; for which pious labours they were 
exempt from all feodal and military fervices. It denoted 
fuch of the province of Durham in particular, as held 
their lands to defend the corpfe of St. Cuthbert; and 
who claimed the privilege not to be forced to go out of 
the bifiiopric, either by the king or bifliop. Hijl. Dunelm. 
apud Wartoni Ang. Sax. par. 1. p. 749. 
HALY'ZIA, in ancient geography, a town of Epirus, 
near the Achelous, where the Athenians obtained a na¬ 
val vlftory over the Lacedaemonians, 
HAM, whether initial or final, is no other than the 
Saxon ham, a houfe, a farm, or village. Gibfoiis Camden. 
HAM,/, [ham. Sax. hamme, Dut.] The hip; the 
hinder part of the articulation of the thigh with the 
knee.—The ham was much relaxed ; but there was fome 
contraftion remaining. Wifeman. —Tjhe thigh of a hog 
falted; 
Who has not learn’d, frelh fturgeon and ham pye 
Are no rewards for want and infamy ? Pope. 
HAM, [Heb. hot.] The youngeft fon of Noah. He 
was the father of Culh, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan; 
each whereof had the feveral countries peopled by them. 
With refpeft to Ham, it is believed that he had all Africa 
for his inheritance, and that he peopled it with his chil¬ 
dren. 
