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▪ I. halloo, int. and n.|həˈluː|
[Goes with halloo v.; it may be a varied form of hollo int. and n., suited to a prolonged cry intended to be heard at a distance.]
An exclamation to incite dogs to the chase, to call attention at a distance, to express surprise, etc.
A. as int.
[1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 79 Pillicock sat on Pillicock hill, alow; alow, loo, loo.] a1700Dryden (J.), Some popular chief..but cries halloo, And, in a trice, the bellowing herd come out. 1728Swift Mullinix & Timothy Wks. 1755 III. ii. 213 Will none of the Tory dogs pursue, When through the streets I cry halloo? 1796Scott Wild Huntsman i, The Wildgrave winds his bugle-horn, To horse, to horse! halloo! halloo! 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 311 Halloo! I said, I begin to perceive a track.
B. as n. (See also view-halloo.)
1707Friend Peterborow's Cond. Sp. 211 Be sure..you answer with an English Halloo. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xxxvii, The minstrel heard the far halloo. 1859Art of Taming Horses, &c. xii. 201 When hounds do not come up to the huntsman's halloo till moved by the whipper-in, they are said to dwell. 1885W. A. B. Hamilton Mr. Montenello II. 47 A piercing view-halloo announces the much-desired event.
▪ II. halloo, v.|həˈluː|
Also 7 hallew.
[Either f. halloo int. and n., or a variant of earlier hallow v.2, with shifted stress as in OF. haˈloer, il haˈloe.]
1. a. intr. To shout ‘halloo’ to dogs in order to urge them on. b. trans. To urge on or incite with shouts.
It is doubtful whether the first two quotations belong here or to hallow v.2
1568Hist. Jacob & Esau i. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley II. 195 Then maketh he [Esau] with his horn such toohing and blowing, And with his wide throat such shouting and hallooing. 1606J. Carpenter Solomon's Solace xli. 162 Admonitions whereby he halleweth men away from those vanities. 1717Prior Alma ii. 312 Old John halloos his hounds again. 1826Scott Jrnl. 17 Feb., Many who have hallooed me on at public meetings, [etc.]. 1836H. Rogers J. Howe viii. (1863) 214 Bishops, who hallooed on the inferior clergy..in this cruel and ignoble sport.
2. intr. To shout in order to attract attention; to holla.
1722De Foe Plague 105, I halloo and call to them till I make them hear. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest i, His conductor then hallooed. 1805Wordsw. Waggoner iii. 124 Hallooing from an open throat, Like travellers shouting for a boat. 1807Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) 25 We were..hallooed after to go into every lodge to eat. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park (1870) III. vii. 333 Hallooing out at sudden starts.
b. Proverb. not to halloo until one is out of the wood, not to shout till one is safe from robbers in the forest; esp. fig. not to exult till all danger or difficulty is past.
1801W. Huntington Bank of Faith 85 But, alas! I hallooed before I was out of the wood. 1876Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 137 He halloos, not only before he is out of the wood, but before he is well into it.
3. trans. To shout (something) aloud.
1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iii. Wks. 1856 I. 31 He might fall thus, upon the breast of earth, And in her eare halloo his misery. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park (1870) III. viii. 341 The servants hallo'd out their excuses from the kitchen. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xiii. 134 He hallooed into the gaping ears of the landlady the terrible intelligence.
Hence haˈllooing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1568[see sense 1]. 1748F. Smith Voy. Disc. I. 24 We heard a Halloing from Shorewards. 1808J. Barlow Columb. vi. 540 And with hallooing blast Shake the vast wilderness. |