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.
Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are
common phenomena of insanity.
W. A. Hammond.
Hal*lu"ci*na`tor (hl*l"s*n`tr), n. [L.] One whose judgment and acts are
affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his
hallucinations. N. Brit. Rev.
Hal*lu"ci*na*to*ry (-n*t*r), a. Partaking of, or tending to produce,
hallucination.
||Hal"lux (hl"lks), n. [NL., fr. L. hallex, allex.] (Anat.) The first,
||or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in
||the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.
Halm (hm), n. (Bot.) Same as Haulm.
||Hal"ma (hl"m), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "a`lma, fr. "a`llesqai to leap.]
||(Greek Antiq.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most
||important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.
Ha"lo (h"l), n.; pl. Halos (-lz). [L. halos, acc. halo, Gr. "a`lws a
thrashing floor, also (from its round shape) the disk of the sun or
moon, and later a halo round it; cf. Gr. e'ily`ein to enfold, 'ely`ein
to roll round, L. volvere, and E. voluble.] 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an
object.