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The neck or throat. [Obs.] Do me hangen by the hals. Chaucer.

To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.] Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. [Obs.] Carew.

See Hawser. Pope.

rison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. [Eng.] Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants. Blackstone.

The office of a marshal.

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.

Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2. [Obs.] Withals (1608).

To cry like a crane. [Obs.] "The crane crunketh." Withals (1608).

An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.…

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the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. Macaulay.

One who marshals.

A punch or stamp. [Obs.] "A pounce to print money with." Withals.

first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. Hallam.

ud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen. Chapman. A vault, or shroud, as under a church. Withals.

A token of victory. [Obs.] Joyless triumphals of his hoped success. Milton.

supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. Withals (1608). I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. Nash.

The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.