Halimas
(Hal"i*mas) a. [See Hallowmas.] The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]
Haliographer
(Ha`li*og"ra*pher) (ha`li*og"ra*fer or hal`i-), n. One who writes about or describes the sea.
Haliography
(Ha`li*og"ra*phy) n. [Gr. "a`ls the sea + -graphy.] Description of the sea; the science that
treats of the sea.
Haliotis
(||Ha`li*o"tis) (ha`li*o"tis or hal`i-), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "a`ls sea + o'y^s, 'wto`s, ear.] (Zoöl.) A genus
of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone.
Haliotoid
(Ha"li*o*toid`) (ha"li*o*toid` or hal"i-), a. [Haliotis + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the genus
Haliotis; ear-shaped.
Halisauria
(||Hal`i*sau"ri*a) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "a`ls, "alo`s, sea + say^ros.] (Paleon.) The Enaliosauria.
Halite
(Ha"lite) n. "a`ls salt.]—> (Min.) Native salt; sodium chloride.
Halituous
(Ha*lit"u*ous) a. [L. halitus breath, vapor, fr. halare to breathe: cf. F. halitueux.] Produced
by, or like, breath; vaporous. Boyle.
Halk
(Halk) n. A nook; a corner. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hall
(Hall) 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.
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.
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.
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.
4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
5. The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall
is at six o'clock.
6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; — formerly an exclamation. [Obs.] "A hall! a hall!" B. Jonson.
Syn. — Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule.
Hallage
(Hall"age) n. (O. Eng. Law) A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.
Halleluiah
(Hal`le*lu"iah Hal`le*lu"jah) 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
