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hale (1)

Flag: gbEnglishOxford New American Dictionary
hale1 /hāl, heɪl /
▸ adjective (of a person, especially an elderly one) strong and healthy:
he's only just sixty, very hale and hearty.
– DERIVATIVES
haleness
– ORIGIN Old English , northern variant of hāl ‘whole’.