Sir P. Sidney.
Hal*loo", v. t. 1. To encourage with shouts.
Old John hallooes his hounds again.
Prior.
2. To chase with shouts or outcries.
If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare.
Shak.
3. To call or shout to; to hail. Shak.
Hal*loo", interj. [OE. halow. See Halloo, n.] An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one.
Hal"low (hl"l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hallowed(-ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Hallowing.] [OE. halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. hlgian, fr. hlig holy. See Holy.] To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9.
Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein.
Jer. xvii. 24.
His secret altar touched with hallowed fire.
Milton.
In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [Gettysburg].
A. Lincoln.
Hal`low*een" (hl`l*n"), n. The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.] Burns.
Hal"low*mas (hl"l*ms), n. [See Mass the eucharist.] The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows.
To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas.
Shak.
Hal*loy"site (hl*loi"st), n. [Named after Omalius d'Halloy.] (Min.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.
Hal"lu*cal (hl"l*kal), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hallux.
Hal*lu"ci*nate (hl*l"s*nt), v. i. [L. hallucinatus, alucinatus, p. p. of hallucinari, alucinari, to wander in mind, talk idly, dream.] To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes. [R.] Byron.
Hal*lu`ci*na"tion (-n"shn), n. [L. hallucinatio: cf. F. hallucination.] 1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.
Addison.
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2. (Med.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.
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