What does the word hale mean?

Usage examples for hale

  1. Bless my statue of Nathan Hale! – Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Victor Appleton
  2. An ardent patriot, this John Hale, in 1676, gave about one- twelfth of his salary, some seventy pounds, for defense in King Philip's War. – Nathan Hale by Jean Christie Root