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part 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.…

The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.] Burns.

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.

A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

Of or pert. to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. -- Hallstatt, or Hallstattian, civilization, a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron…

Of or pertaining to the hallux.

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes. [R.] Byron.

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison.

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations. N. Brit. Rev.

Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.

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.

Same as Haulm.

The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.

used 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.

Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. Some haloed face bending over me. C. Bronté.

An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.

Of the nature of a halogen.

A haloid substance.

See Alomancy.

An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.