HALO
\hˈe͡ɪlə͡ʊ], \hˈeɪləʊ], \h_ˈeɪ_l_əʊ]\
Definitions of HALO
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
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A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
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An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
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A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
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To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
By Oddity Software
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A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
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A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
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An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
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A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
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To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
By Noah Webster.
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A ring or circle of light around the sun or moon, caused by refraction; a glory; the bright ring represented in pictures as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Brownish discoloration around the nipple.
By William R. Warner
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A luminous circle round the sun or moon, caused by the refraction of light through mist: (paint.) the bright ring round the heads of holy persons:-pl. HALOS.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
