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A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress. Without any halt they marched. Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. Davenant.

One who halts or limps

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

In a halting or limping manner.

To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets.

esidue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.

Asphaltic mastic or cement. See Asphalt, 2.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous. "Asphaltic pool." "Asphaltic slime." Milton.

Asphaltic.

See Asphalt.

A disease affecting the feet of sheep.

Lame in the hip. [R.] Gower.

A kind of halter usually made of raw hide.

See Pissasphalt.

Pissasphalt. [Obs.]

tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt. [Written also pisasphaltum, pisasphalt, etc.]

One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

Retinite.

2d per. sing. of Shall.