- (n.) A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) An ideal glory investing or affecting one's perception of, an object.
- (v.t.&i.) To form or surround with, a halo; to encircle with or as with, a halo.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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