hault

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French hault, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French haut. See haughty.

Adjective

hault (comparative more hault, superlative most hault)

1. (obsolete) Lofty; haughty.
   • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Through support of countenance proud and hault

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hault”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Lauth

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Luxembourgish

Verb

hault

1. third-person singular present indicative of haulen
2. second-person plural present indicative of haulen
3. second-person plural imperative of haulen

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• haut, ault

Etymology

From Old French haut, halt, from a conflation of Latin altus and Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).

Adjective

hault m (feminine singular haulte, masculine plural hauls, feminine plural haultes)

1. high; high up
2. (figuratively) high; elevated

Descendants

• French: haut