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The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The feast of All Saints. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [ Obs. ] “Allhallown summer.” Shak. (i. e., late summer; “Indian Summer”). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. All the saints (in heaven). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. All Saints' Day, November 1st. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. tīd time. ] The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any plant of the genus Amorphophallus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny. ] 1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. [ 1913 Webster ]

A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A claim or demand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There must be no challenge of superiority. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. Blackstone [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. --
Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. --
Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. --
Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause. --
Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Challenged p. pr. & vb. n. Challenging. ] [ OE. chalengen to accuse, claim, OF. chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L. calumniar to attack with false accusations. See Challenge, n., and cf. Calumniate. ] 1. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. [ 1913 Webster ]

I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. [ 1913 Webster ]

By this I challenge him to single fight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To claim as due; to demand as a right. [ 1913 Webster ]

Challenge better terms. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To censure; to blame. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mil.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with “Who comes there?” [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To challenge to the
array, favor, polls. See under Challenge, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To assert a right; to claim a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where nature doth with merit challenge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be challenged. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having doubts expressed about its truth.
Syn. -- disputed, questioned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. handicapped or disabled; -- used as a euphemism, especially in combinations; as, physically challenged; mentally challenged. [ PJC ]

n. One who challenges. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.
Syn. -- ambitious, demanding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.
Syn. -- insubordinate, resistant, resistive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. chaly, challis, a stuff made of goat's hair. ] A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses. [ Written also chally. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large room at a college or university, used especially for dining. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. for- + hale to draw. ] To harass; to torment; to distress. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. halle, hal, AS. heal, heall; akin to D. hal, OS. & OHG. halla, G. halle, Icel. höll, and prob. from a root meaning, to hide, conceal, cover. See Hell, Helmet. ] 1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer.

Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall: (b) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. Hence: (c) Any corridor or passage in a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. [ Obs. ] “A hall! a hall!” B. Jonson.

Syn. -- Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (O. Eng. Law) A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.

{ } n. & interj. [ Heb. See Alleluia. ] Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. Rev. xix. 1 (Rev. Ver. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

So sung they, and the empyrean rung
With Hallelujahs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those days, as St. Jerome tells us, “any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs.” Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Halyard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Halidom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Hale to pull. ] A kind of net for catching birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, [ figuratively ]: A distinguishing characteristic or characteristics; as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

See Halloo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. fr. ah + lo; cf. AS. ealā, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

List! List! I hear
Some far off halloo break the silent air. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hallooed p. pr. & vb. n. Hallooing. ] To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo. [ 1913 Webster ]

Country folks hallooed and hooted after me. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To encourage with shouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old John hallooes his hounds again. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To chase with shouts or outcries. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To call or shout to; to hail. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ OE. halow. See Halloo, n. ] An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one. Now mostly replaced by hello. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Hallowing. ] [ OE. halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. hālgian, fr. hālig holy. See Holy. ] To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. “Hallowed be thy name.” Matt. vi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [ Gettysburg ]. A. Lincoln. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power; made holy. Opposite of unholy. [ Narrower terms: beatified, blessed ; blessed ; consecrated, sacred, sanctified ] Also See: consecrated, consecrate, sacred.
Syn. -- holy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day (November 1); also the entire day, October 31. It is often marked by parties or celebrations, and sometimes by pranks played by young people. [ Scot. ] Burns.
Syn. -- Hallowe'en, Allhallows Eve. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Mass the eucharist. ] The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Omalius d'Halloy. ] (Min.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Of or pertaining to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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Hallstatt civilization 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, possession of domestic animals, agriculture, and artistic skill and sentiment in manufacturing pottery, ornaments, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] The Hallstattian civilization flourished chiefly in Carinthia, southern Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, Silesia, Bosnia, the southeast of France, and southern Italy. J. Deniker. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] --
Hallstattian epoch, the first iron age, represented by the Hallstatt civilization. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hallux. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. hallucinatus, alucinatus, p. p. of hallucinari, alucinari, to wander in mind, talk idly, dream. ] 1. To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes. [ R. ] Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: To perceive a non-existent object or phenomenon; to believe that one is experiencing something which in reality does not exist; to experience a hallucination{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

v. t. To experience (something nonexistent) as an hallucination{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

adj. Experiencing hallucinations.
Syn. -- delirious. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. hallucinatio: cf. F. hallucination. ] 1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. W. A. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations. N. Brit. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Partaking of, having the character of, or tending to produce, hallucinations; as, hallucinatory visions. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A substance capable of producing hallucinations when ingested; a hallucinogenic substance; as, LSD is a powerful hallucinogen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. capable of producing hallucinations; as, LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic drug. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. hallex, allex. ] (Anat.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]