HALT,
1. To stop in walking to hold. In military affairs, the true sense is retained, to stop in a march. The army halted at noon.
2. To limp that is, to stop with lameness.
3. To hesitate to stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do.
How long halt ye between two opinions? 1 Kings 18 .
4. To fail to falter as a halting sonnet.
HALT, To stop to cause to cease marching a military term. The general halted his troops for refreshment.
HALT, a. Lame that is, holding or stopping in walking.
Bring hither the poor, the maimed,the halt, and the blind. Luke 14 .
HALT, n. A stopping a stop in marching.
The troops made a halt at the bridge.
1. The act of limping.