hall 
In colleges and hall*, in ancient days, . . . 
There dwelt a sage call'd Discipline. 
Cowpcr, Task, II. 699. 
Halls, or places of licensed residence for students, also 
lii'KKii to ! I'stiiblished [in the thirteenth century). 
Encyc. Brit,, XXIII. 837. 
(/) In English colleges : (1) The large room in which the 
students dine in common. Hence (2) The students' 
dinner. 
Hull lasts about three quarters f an hour. Two Schol- 
ars conclude the performances by reading a long Latin 
grace. C. A. Kristcd, English University, p. 37. 
Hall is at five o'clock. Macmillan's Magazine, 
(g) In American colleges: (1) A room or building appro- 
priated to the meetings of a literary or other society ; also, 
the society itself. 
These [Clio and Whig Halls in the College of New Jer- 
sey] were the prototypes, and are the most vigorous sur- 
vivals, of what, for nearly a century, were the most flour- 
ishing and numerous of student societies the twin lit- 
erary societies, or halln, generally secret, and always in- 
tense in mutual rivalry, which have been institutions at 
every leading college in the land. 
The Century, XXXVI. 751. 
(2) One of the buildings in which students sleep ; a dormi- 
tory. 
2. An entranceway or passageway in a house 
leading to or communicating with its different 
parts. 
Anne ran up the path toward the frontdoor, and entered 
the dark hall. C. F. Woolson, Anne, i. 
A hall ! a hall ! an exclamation formerly used at masks 
or other entertainments in order to make room in a crowd 
for an exhibition or a dance, or to call people together for 
any ceremony or spectacle, or to summon servants : equiva- 
lent to a ring! a ring! as now used. 
A hall, a hall ! whist, still be mum, 
For now with silver song they come. 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, li. 1. 
A hall ! a hall .' who's without, there ? [Enter two or 
three with cushions. 1 Come on; y'are proper grooms, 
are ye not?. . . Their honours are upon coming, and the 
room not ready. Chapman, Widow's Tears. 
The Monarch lightly turned away, 
And to his nobles loud did call 
Lords, to the dance a hall ! a hall ! 
Scott, Marmion, v. 17. 
Apothecaries' Hall. See apothecary. Bachelor's or 
bachelor hall, an establishment presided over by a man 
(especially an unmarried man) or by men only. 
The dishes having been set upon the table by a slip- 
shod old woman, they were left to enjoy it [dinner] after 
their own manner. " Bachelor's Hall, you know, cousin," 
said Mr. Jonas. Dick-enn, Martin Chuzzlewit, xi. 
Divinity hall. Seedun'nftu.-HallOfEbllS. Seei'W.V. 
Liberty hall, a place where every one can do as he 
likes. 
Gentlemen, pray be under no restraint in this house ; 
this is Liberty-Sail, gentlemen ; you may do just as you 
please here. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 
hallabaloo (hal"a-ba-lo'),. Same ashttllabaloo. 
hallage (h&'l$j)j n. [= F. hallage; < hall + 
-age.] In Great Britain, the toll paid for goods 
or merchandise vended in a mercantile hall. 
hallan (hal'an), n. [Also hallen, hallon, halland; 
origin uncertain; perhaps orig. applied to the 
stone at the threshold; cf. Sw. hall, a flat 
stone, Goth, hallus, a rock.] A partition be- 
tween the door of a cottage and the fireplace, 
serving to shelter the inner part of the house 
from the cold air when the door is opened. 
[North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
He lifted the latch without ceremony, and . . . found 
himself behind the hallan or partition. 
Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, xii. 
hallanshaker (hal'an-sha"ker), n. A beggar 
who stands shivering at the hallan, waiting for 
alms; a beggarly knave ; alowfellow. [Scotch.] 
Tho' I were a laird of tenscore acres, 
Nodding to jouks of hallamshaker*. Ramxaif. 
hall-Bible (hal'bi'bl), n. A large Bible used 
for family worship, and kept in the hall or prin- 
cipal apartment of the house. [Scotch.] 
The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, 
The big ha'-bible, ance his father's pride. 
Burn*, Cottar's Saturday Night. 
hall-dayt, . A court-day. Xares. 
An hall day : a court day : a day of pleading, as in terme 
time at Westminster hall, &c. Nomenclator (158f>). 
hallecret, halecret (hal'e-kret), . [OF. halle- 
crrt, hatecrct, Italcret, alecret, allecret, alaeret, 
cilcret = Bret, halacred (Roquefort); of uncer- 
tain origin.] A corselet, or a partial suit of 
armor, in use toward the end of the sixteenth 
century. It is denned by Cotgrave as "a corselet." Ac- 
cording to Meyrick (approved by Burgess and Cosson, Arch. 
Jour., XXXVII.), the hallecret was a half-suit of light 
plate-armor worn alike by footmen and horsemen, fur- 
nished with long tassets. According to Demmin, it was a 
gorget with cpaulierus attached. 
Hall effect. See effect. 
halleflinta (hel-e-fliu'tji), . [Kw., < Mil, dial. 
hall (= Dan. helle, a boulder, also a slope, de- 
clivity, = Norw. hall, a boulder, esp. a small 
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boulder, as a cobblestone, = Icel. hallr, a stone, 
boulder, also a slope, declivity, = Goth, h/i/litx, 
a rock), + J/int</, etc., = E. flint."] A very fine- 
grained variety of gneiss, generally free from 
mica : a Swedish term. It is sometimes banded and 
sometimes porphyritic. It resembles many rocks else- 
where called eurite smd/elsilf. 
The general aspect of this rock recalls to my mind those 
Ittilleflintas of Treifgarn and Koche Castle. 
Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc., XLIV. 228. 
halleflintoid (hel-e-flin'toid), a. [< lirillpflin/ti 
+ -of'rf.] Of or resembling hiilleninta. 
The great fidllejHntuid mass which . . . forms the west- 
ern slopes of Brynian Bangor. 
Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc., XLIV. 279. 
hallel (hal'el), . [Heb., praise.] In Jewish 
ritual, the hymn of praise, beginning in the 
original with the word halleluiah, ' Praise ye 
the Lord,' and consisting of Psalms cxiii. to 
cxviii. inclusive, chanted in the temple while 
the Passover lambs were being slain, and also 
at the Passover supper. This hallel or song of praise, 
called the Egyptian hallel because the slaying of the Pass- 
over lambs was first commanded in Egypt, was also chant- 
ed at the sacrifice on the first day of the Passover, after 
the morning sacrifice on the feast of Pentecost, on the 
eight days of the feast of Tabernacles, and on the eight 
days of the feast of the Dedication. Another, called the 
great hallel, consisting of Psalm cxxxvi., or according to 
some of Psalm cxxxv. 4 to the end of Psalm cxxxvi. , was 
chanted by those who wished a fifth cup at the Passover 
feast, and also on occasions of great joy. 
halleluiah, hallelujah (hal-f-lo'ya), interj. 
[Also alleluia; < LL. hallelujah, allelitiah, after 
Gr. iMiTifoi'ia, repr. Heb. halelujdh, praise ye Je- 
hovah, < halelu, praise ye (< halal, shine, which 
in one ' voice' (stem) means 'praise'), + Jah, a 
short form of Jehovah: see Jehovah. The,/ or i 
represents the consonant yodh, equiv. to the E. 
consonant y ; so in other words of Heb. origin, 
as proper names, where, however, j has con- 
formed in sound to the assibilated j of L. or F. 
origin, as Jehovah, Jesus, Joseph, Jordan, etc.] 
1 . Praise ye the Lord : a word used in songs of 
praise or pious rejoicing, or in solemn ascrip- 
tions of thanksgiving to God. It is also used as a 
noun. It occurs in the English Bible only in Rev. xix. 1, 3, 
4, 6j and then in the Greek form, as alleluia. This is the 
form employed in liturgical usage. It is found in litur- 
gies and offices from very early times. Its most promi- 
nent liturgical use is that after the epistle and before the 
gospel in both the Eastern and Western churches. (See 
gradual and jubilation.) In the Mozarabic rite it follows 
the gospel. (See Lauda.) There are probably traces of 
an original, perhaps Jewish, use of halleluiah before and 
after psalms. The Greek Church has a triple "Alleluia" at 
the end of the cherubic hymn. In the day-hours of the 
same church it is said after the gloria at the end of stases 
or portions of psalms. In the Western Church it succeeds 
the gloria after the versicles at the beginning of the sev- 
eral hours. In Western usage alleluia is not said from 
Septuagesima to Easter eve. 
I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, 
Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, 
unto the Lord our God. Rev. xix. 1. 
Angels peep round to view this mystick thing, 
And Halleluiah round, all Halleluiah sing. 
Cowley, Davideis, ii. 
And the empyrean rung with Halleluiahs. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 634. 
2. Specifically, a musical composition wholly 
or principally based upon the word halleluiah : 
as, the Halleluiah (chorus) in Handel's "Mes- 
siah" or in Beethoven's "Mount of Olives." 
Common halleluiah meter. Same as common long me- 
ter (which see, under common). 
halleluiah, hallelujah (hal-e-16'ya), n. 1. 
See halleluiah, interj. 2. In bot., same as alle- 
luia, '2. 
halleluiatic, hallelujatic (hal"e-l6-yat'ik), a. 
[< LL. hallel ujaticus (sc. psalmus), containing 
halleluiahs, < halleluiah, hallelujah, q. v.] Of or 
pertaining to the halleluiah. Also alleluiatic. 
Halleluiatic sequence, the hymn beginning with the 
words, "The strain upraise of joy and praise." 
hallen (hal'en), n. See hallan. 
Halleria (ha-le'ri-a), n. [NL., named in honor 
of Albrecht von Sailer (1708-77), a German 
botanist and physiologist.] A genus of shrubs, 
of the natural order Serophulariacea;, having 
opposite leaves, a cijp-shaped calyx, short-lobed 
red corolla, exserted stamens, and an indehis- 
cent berry-like fruit. It embraces 8 species, natives 
of South Africa, Madagascar, and Abyssinia. One of 
these, H. lucida, of the Cape of Good Hope, is known as 
the white olipe or African jly-honeymtckle. It is an ever- 
green shrub, 12 to 14 feet in height and 6 to 8 inches in 
diiiineter. The wood is fine-grained, hard, and tough, and 
is used for wagon-tongues, planes, screws, joiners' benches, 
etc. 
Halleriaceae (ha-le-ri-a'se-e), n. pi. [NL. 
(Link, 1829), < flalln-in + -acea;.] A division 
of the Sarophulariaeeai or figwort family of 
plants, embracing the genus Hnllcrin only. 
Hallerieae (hal-e-ri'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (Don, 
1838), < Halleria + -we.] Same as Halleriacea:. 
hallo 
hall-house (hal'hous), N. A manor-house ; the 
habitation of a landed proprietor. 
There were mair fnles In the laird's ha'-house than Davie 
Gellatley. Scott, Waverley, x. 
hallian, n. See hallion. 
halliard, . See halyard. 
hallidomet, Same as halidom. Denser . 
hallierH, w. [< hall + -ier.] A university stu- 
dent belonging to a hall. 
The students also that remafne in them are called hos- 
telers or halliers. Holinshed, Descrip. of Eng., iii. 
hallier a (hal'i-er), n. [For "halier, < halei, 
haul, + -i<rl. Cf. haler^ hauler.] 1. One who 
hales or hauls, as for hire. [Prov. Eng.] 2. 
A kind of net for catching birds. 
hallingH (ha'ling), . [< hall + -ingl.~\ A suit 
of hangings, tapestry, or the like, for a hall. 
Where the sayd thre kynges sat crowned all, 
The best hallynge hanged as reason was, 
Whereon were wrought the ix orders angelical. 
Bradshaw, tr. of Life of St. Werburgh. 
hailing" (ha'ling), H. [Norw.] 1. A Norwe- 
gian country-dance in triple rhythm. 2. Mu- 
sic for such a dance. 
hallion, hallian (hal'yon, -ian), n. [Formerly 
also hallynge. Origin unknown.] 1. A clown; 
a rogue ; a worthless, idle fellow. 
They took their departure, shabby hallwnn, by a side 
passage. Carlyle, in Froude. 
2. An overbearing, quarrelsome, and vulgar 
woman. Jamieson. 
hall-mark (hal'mark), n. 1. In England, an 
official stamp put upon articles made of gold 
and silver as an evidence of genuineness : so 
called from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the 
seat of the Goldsmiths' Company, by whom the 
stamping is legally regulated. It consists of va- 
rious marks placed close together, as follows: (1) the 
mark indicating the standard, as, for silver of the new 
standard, a figure of Britannia and a lion's head erased ; 
(2) the mark of the assay-town, as a crown for Sheffield 
or an anchor for Birmingham ; (3) a mark denoting that 
the duty has been paid ; (4) the date-mark, consisting of a 
letter of the alphabet for each year, in series of differing 
style or design ; (5) the maker's mark, usually two or more 
initial letters; (6) the workman's mark, which is not al- 
ways present. 
Hence 2. Any mark of genuineness, good 
quality, or respectability. 
And this is the hall-mark of all true science, that it de- 
stroys by fulfilling. Nineteenth Century, XIX. 209. 
Landor, however, would not admit into his pages any 
word or phrase which lacked the hallmark of the best 
writers. The Literary Era, II. 15. 
hall-mark (hal'mark), r. t. [< Mil-mark, n.] 
To assay and stamp, as with the official mark 
of the Goldsmiths' Company. 
Inasmuch as all articles of gold and silver made in Lon- 
don have to be assayed and stamped at Goldsmiths' Hall, 
the assay-marks have come to be called "hall marks." 
The term has become so popular that a facetious writer 
in the Quarterly Review, April, 1888 (p. 281), speaks of the 
Council of Trent as "hall-marking " the Vulgate. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 167. 
Guaranteeing of quality by inspection has been shown, 
in the hall-marking of silver, to be superfluous, while the 
silver trade has been decreased by it. 
H. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 57. 
hallmotet, . [ME. law-term, < hall + mole, 
ME. form of AS.- gemot, E. moot, a meeting.] 
In England, a court held in a justice's hall ; a 
court-leet : now called a court-baron. 
The manor of Colne comprises the township of Colne, 
the forest of Trawden, and the township of Foulridge ; 
and for this tract two halmote or leet courts are held on 
behalf of the lord, the duke of Buccleuch, yearly. 
Baines, Hist. Lancashire, II. 27. 
He was a fellow of infinite humour, and performed his 
duties to his lord and the halmot jury as if to the manner 
born. Quoted in If. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 4. 
hallo (ha-lo'), interj. [In early mod. E. also 
written hallow, halow, alow, and even a lo; ME. 
halow; in mod. E. also hello, hullo, and halloo, 
q. v. Such forms, being mere syllables to call 
attention, are freely varied for sonorous effect ; 
hallo, hello, halloo, may be regarded as the mod. 
representatives of the common AS. ed la or 
edld, used similarly to call attention, whether 
loudly from afar, like hallo, hello, halloo, or 
quietly from near by, like hello colloquially, or 
like mod. ah, oh, well, and similar preliminary 
syllables. AS. ed represents E. ah or oh, and 
Id is E. lo. These forms, in hunting use, are 
represented by OF. Italic, an interjection of 
cheering or setting on of a dog, mod. F. lialer, 
set (dogs upon one), encourage with shouts. 
So G. hallo, halloh, perhaps after the E. The 
form hallow, as a noun or verb, with accent on 
the first syllable, is a var. of hollow, hollo, holla, 
now scarcely used as an interj., and is in so 
