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Halloo   Listen
noun
Halloo  n.  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."


verb
Halloo  v. t.  
1.
To encourage with shouts. "Old John hallooes his hounds again."
2.
To chase with shouts or outcries. "If I fly... Halloo me like a hare."
3.
To call or shout to; to hail.


Halloo  v. i.  (past & past part. hallooed; pres. part. 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."


interjection
Halloo  interj.  An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one. Now mostly replaced by hello.





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"Halloo" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice against Rhoda's being interested in an Indian's suggestion. Both Rhoda and Cartwell felt this and there was an awkward pause. This was broken by a faint halloo from the ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... grey; there, too, are the dead dry stalks of many plants that cultivation has driven from the ploughed fields and that find a refuge at the edge. A hare starts from the very verge and makes up the Downs. Dickon slips the hounds, and a faint halloo comes from the shepherds and the ploughmen. It is a beautiful sight to see the hounds bound over the sward; the sinewy back bends like a bow, but a bow that, instead of an arrow, shoots itself; the deep chests drink the air. Is there any moment so ...
— The Amateur Poacher • Richard Jefferies
... now came at him with a rush. Suddenly he leaned over and let out a wild "halloo!" in the creature's ears. At the same time he lifted her and plunged his spurs hard into her flanks. The effect was instantaneous, electrical. Just for an instant it seemed to him that some unseen power had suddenly shot her from under him. He had a sensation ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... A loud halloo greeted me from the swamp, where a party of negro shingle-makers were at work. They manned their boat, a long cypress dug-out, and followed me. Their employer, who proved to be the gentleman whose abiding-place I was now rapidly approaching, sat in ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop
... gold-green turf, sweet-brier, and wild pink rose! How rich that buoyant air with changing scent Of pungent pine, fresh flowers, and salt cool seas! And when all echoes of the chase had died, Of horn and halloo, bells and baying hounds, How mine ears drank the ripple of the tide On the fair shore, the chirp of unseen birds, The rustling of the tangled undergrowth, And the deep lyric murmur of the pines, When through their high tops swept the sudden ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. I (of II.), Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic • Emma Lazarus


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