Hallowmas
(Hal"low*mas) n. [See Mass the eucharist.] The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows.
To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas.
Shak. Halloysite
(Hal*loy"site) n. [Named after Omalius d'Halloy.] (Min.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft,
smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.
Hallucal
(Hal"lu*cal) a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hallux.
Hallucinate
(Hal*lu"ci*nate) v. i. [L. hallucinatus, alucinatus, p. p. of hallucinari, alucinari, to wander
in mind, talk idly, dream.] To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; — used of mental processes. [R.]
Byron.
Hallucination
(Hal*lu`ci*na"tion) n. [L. hallucinatio: cf. F. hallucination.]
1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.
Addison.
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.
Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity.
W. A. Hammond.
