Hale, Nathan

soldier and patriot, was born in Coventry, Conn., June 6, 1755; graduated at Yale (1773), and tanght school at East Haddam and New London in his native State. At the beginning of the War of Inde pendence he enlisted, and became a lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Col. Charles Webb. He was made captain in Jan., 1776, and, with a few picked men, captured a British supply ve el at New York under the guns of an English frigate. Subsequently he volunteered to enter the British lines as a scout; was apprehended, and hanged as a spy in New York city, Sept. 22, 1776. Hale, a . [A. S. hal ; Ger. heil.] Healthy; sound; hearty: well-complectioned; robust; unimpaired; as, a hale body. -r. a. haul. -n. To drag by force; to pull violently or rudely; to Lest he hale ye to the judge. Luke xii, 58. A violent pull or haul. Hale, in Mi ouri, a post-village of Carroll co. Pop. (1897) about 590. Hale's Eddy, in New York , a post-vill. of Delaware co. Hale's ia, n. ( Bot .) The Snowdrop-tree, a genus of plants, order Aquifoliaceæ , represented in N. America by the two beautiful species H. tetraptero and H.diptera . Halevy, JACQUES FRANÇOIS FRO MENTAL, a French musical composer, B. at Paris, of Jewish parentage, 1799. The first work of H.'s that brought him any considerable reputation was La Juive , produced at the Grand Opéra in 1835. The most important of his subsequent pieces (of a serious character) were, La Reine de Chypre, Charles VI., Le Juif Errant , and La Magicienne . Those executed for the Opéra Comique are regarded as his most succe ful; the principal are- Les Mousquetaires , L'E clair, and Le Val d'Andorre. D. 1862. Half, ( haf ,) n ; pl . HALVES. [A.S. half , healf ; Ger. halb .] A moiety; one part of a thing which is divided into two equal parts. -v. a. To divide into two equal parts. -a. Consisting of a moiety or half; as, half a loaf is better than none. -adv. In part, or in an equal degree; as, half loth, half consenting.