Obs. Also 6 exhall. [f. EX- pref.1 + HALE v.] To drag out or draw forth.
1. trans. To drag (a person) away; to draw (a thing) out of. Also absol. to draw (a sword) from the scabbard.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., II. i. 66. O Braggard vile … The Graue doth gape, and doting death is neere, Therefore exhale.
1601. B. Jonson, Poetaster, III. i. Wks. (Rtldg.), 116/1. Nay, I beseech you, gentlemen, do not exhale me thus.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 400. A Mouse being flead … and put unto a wound … will presently … exhale and draw them [the head of a Dart, etc.] out of the same.
1615. T. Adams, Spir. Navigators, 34. Couetous wretches, that would dig to the Center to exhale riches.
b. To cause (blood, tears) to flow. Const. from. (Prob. influenced by EXHALE v. 4.)
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. ii. 58. ’Tis thy presence that exhales this blood From cold and empty Veines.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. ix. (1632), 633. These words exhaled ioyfull teares from many of the hearers.
1613. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. v. That did from Fida’s eyes salt teares exhale.
2. To draw up; raise (a person) to a higher position. rare. Cf. EXALT v. 2.
1595. Markham, Sir R. Grinvile, B vij b. Thou … Whom men adore, and all the gods exhall [rhyme call] Into the books of endlesse memorie.
1604. Drayton, Owle, 689. They whose Minds should be exhal’d and hie.
1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler (ed. 4), 48. When Kings rise higher than they should, they exhale Subjects higher than they would.
