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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.

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, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs." Sharp.

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.

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.