halter

t. [HALTER, v.] To put a halter upon; to bind or tie up with a halter; as, to halter a horse. "A haltered neck, which does the hangman thank For being yare about him." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 13. hăl-tër-ēş, s. pl. [Gr. haltēres =weights held in the hand to give an impetus in leaping; they were something like dumb-bells; hallomai =to leap.] Entom.: Two small knobbed filaments rising from the opposite sides of the thorax in the insect order Diptera, just where the hinder pair, to which they are analogous, would be were they present; in fact, tend to balance the insect in its flight, and are they are this second pair of wings modified. They from háls the neck, the front sheet of a sail, the called by Sir Richard Owen and others balancers. IMG:content-0929.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0930.png:[blocks in formation] Halts , like the best of Luther's psalms." R. Browning: Para cels us, iv. *4. To be slow; to move slowly. "Till halting vengeance overtook our age." Dryden: The Medal , 320. *hâl-ter-măn, s. [English halter (2), and man .] A hangman. "Halter men and ballet-makers were not better set a-worke this many a day."- Bundle of New Wit (1638). *hâl-ter-săck, s. [Eng. halter (2), s., and sack .] A term of reproach and contempt. "Away, you halter sack , you."- Beaum . & Flet.: King and No King, ii.