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Definition of Haley

1. Noun. United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981).

2. Noun. United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992).

Definition of Haley

1. Proper noun. (surname from=Old English dot=), a common spelling variant of Hayley. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surnames female given name), popular in the U.S. in the 1990s and the 2000s. ¹

3. Proper noun. Any of several places in the U.S. and Canada named after persons with the surname. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haley

Haldane effect Haldane relationship Haldane transformation Haldane tube Haldea Haldea striatula Haldol Hale Hale's colloidal iron stain Haleakala National Park

Halenia Hales' piesimeter Halesia carolina Halesia tetraptera Halevy Haley Halfrican Haliaeetus Haliaeetus leucocephalus Haliaeetus leucorhyphus

Haliaeetus pelagicus Haliatus albicilla Halicoeres Halicoeres bivittatus Halicoeres radiatus Halictidae Halifax Haligonian Haligonians

Literary usage of Haley

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"haley failed to pay these loans, and Block instituted proceedings to foreclose them. haley Interposed various objections to the foreclosure proceedings, ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1909)
"indicate that appellant, receiving money from haley, another salesman, ... If the testimony of Wilder, haley, and ap pellant state correctly the fiduciary ..."

3. A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island: Including a by Wilkins Updike, James MacSparran, Daniel Goodwin (1907)
"haley, or Haily, Catharine (dau. of Jeremiah, s. of John, and w. of Paul ... haley, or Haily, Elisabeth (bapt. as child, 1738; dau. of John and Mary), ..."

4. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1887)
"WHW MADAM haley. . . August 23, 1855. MK. ... the second husband of Madam haley, was a brother of Francis Jeffrey, the Scotch reviewer. ..."

5. The City of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922 by Clarence Monroe Burton, William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company (1922)
"Martin C. haley, their only child, attended the public schools of Wyoming and later became a student in the Sarnia Institute, from which he was graduated ..."

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