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Halloo
Definitions
- 1 Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
- 2 Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers.
"Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue."
- 1 A shout of halloo.
"List, list, I hear Som far off hallow break the silent Air."
- 2 a shout to attract attention wordnet
- 1 To shout halloo. intransitive
"For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems."
- 2 shout ‘halloo’, as when greeting someone or attracting attention wordnet
- 3 To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on. transitive
"There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings."
- 4 urge on with shouts wordnet
- 5 To chase with shouts or outcries. transitive
"If I fly, Coriolanus, Holloa me like a hare."
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- 6 To call or shout to; to hail. transitive
"A lake allows an average father, walking slowly, To circumvent it in an afternoon, And any healthy mother to halloo the children Back to her bedtime from their games across:"
- 7 To shout (something). transitive
"Halloo your name to the reverberate hills And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out ‘Olivia!’"
Etymology
From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
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