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A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.

The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]

One who writes about or describes the sea.

Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.

A genus of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone.

Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped.

The Enaliosauria.

Native salt; sodium chloride.

Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous. Boyle.

A nook; a corner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

g or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

ticles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.

A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.

ise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. Rev. xix. 1 (Rev. Ver. ) So sung they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Milton. In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he walked in the fields,…

Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs. [R.]

See Halyard.

Same as Halidom.

A kind of net for catching birds.

See Halloo.

te attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout. List! List! I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air. Milton.