hals Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666)
    Frans Hals.

WordNet

Hals noun
Etymology
AS. heals; akin to D., G., & Goth. hals. See Collar.
Definitions
  1. The neck or throat. Obs.
    Do me hangen by the hals. Chaucer.

Webster 1913