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.
HALLOO
Hal*loo", interj. Etym: [OE. halow. See Halloo, n.]
Defn: An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one.
HALLOW
Hal"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hallowed(); p. pr. & vb. n. Hallowing.]
Etym: [OE. halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. halgian, fr. halig holy.
See Holy.]
Defn: 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.
HALLOWEEN
Hal`low*een", n.
Defn: The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.]
Burns.
HALLOWMAS
Hal"low*mas, n. Etym: [See Mass the eucharist.]
Defn: The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows.
To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.