Crossword clues for halloo
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halloo \Hal*loo"\ (h[a^]l*l[=oo]"), n. [Perh. fr. ah + lo; cf. AS. eal[=a], G. halloh, F. haler to set (a dog) on. Cf. Hollo, interj.] A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.
List! List! I hear
Some far off halloo break the silent air.
--Milton.
Halloo \Hal*loo"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hallooed (-l[=oo]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Hallooing.] To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo.
Country folks hallooed and hooted after me.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
Halloo \Hal*loo"\, v. t.
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To encourage with shouts.
Old John hallooes his hounds again.
--Prior. -
To chase with shouts or outcries.
If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare.
--Shak. To call or shout to; to hail.
--Shak.
Halloo \Hal*loo"\, interj. [OE. halow. See Halloo, n.] An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one. Now mostly replaced by hello.
Wiktionary
interj. 1 Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention 2 Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers n. A shout of #Interjection vb. To shout #Interjection.
WordNet
n. a shout to attract attention; "he gave a great halloo but no one heard him"
v. urge on with shouts; "halloo the dogs in a hunt"
shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention
Usage examples of "halloo".
Brak pulled his broadsword, wigwagged it high over his head and hallooed again.
There was another joyous cry from below, like the halloo of the fox hunter, and they saw their pursuers strung out over a mile or more of the track.
Two russet-clad varlets, with loud halloo and cracking whips, walked thigh-deep amid the swarm, guiding, controlling, and urging.
They are forbidden by our statutes to take one bird by means of another, to shoot beasts with bow or arblast, to halloo to a hunting-horn, or to spur the horse after game.
At a given signal, the war-whoop burst from the lips of the savages, and the wild halloo of the backwoodsmen reverberated through the forest, as both parties rushed forward in the impetuous charge.
The loud-hailer hallooed, and a laser boltin massive overkillcrisped them to cinders.
I am fairly clemmed, with climbing and hallooing - Stephen, you have a knife!
Fortunately, I hallooed loud enough to make O'Brien, who was close down to the boats, with a large cod-fish under each arm, turn round and come to my assistance.
When Nevyn called out a halloo, a young, sandy-haired man hurried out of the cow barn with a rake in his hands.
While they were debating thus, came up the three Englishmen, and standing without the wood, which was new planted, hallooed to them.
But when Friday came to hear him speak, and look in his face, it would have moved any one to tears to have seen how Friday kissed him, embraced him, hugged him, cried, laughed, hallooed, jumped about, danced, sang.
But when they were come to the brow of the hill where they could see a great way into the valleys and woods, which lay towards the north-east part, and where the island lay lowest, they shouted and hallooed till they were weary.
They hallooed again, and called their two comrades by their names a great many times.
As soon as Friday came in sight of the man, he hallooed out as loud as the other, "O master!
The chief hallooed and alarmed the camp or town, informing them that the Mahas were about, attacking them.