1. Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. Shak.
2. Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised.
Dryden. Holily
(Ho"li*ly) adv. [From Holy.]
1. Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.
2. Sacredly; inviolably. [R.] Shak.
Holiness
(Ho"li*ness), n. [AS. halignes.]
1. The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence.
Who is like thee, glorious in holiness!
Ex. xv. 11. 2. The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness.
Israel was holiness unto the Lord.
Jer.ii.3. His holiness,
a title of the pope; — formerly given also to Greek bishops and Greek emperors.
Syn. — Piety; devotion; godliness; sanctity; sacredness; righteousness.
Holing
(Hol"ing) n. [See Hole a hollow.] (Mining) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down
the upper mass. Raymond.
Holla
(Hol"la) interj. [F. hola; ho ho + là there, fr. L. illac that way, there. Cf. Hollo.] Hollo.
Holla
(Hol"la), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hollaed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hollaing.] See Hollo, v. i.
Holland
(Hol"land) n. A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades,
children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
Hollander
(Hol"land*er) n.
1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.
2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; — called also, Dutch
clinker. Wagner.
Hollandish
(Hol"land*ish), a. Relating to Holland; Dutch.
Hollands
(Hol"lands) n.
1. Gin made in Holland.
2. pl. See Holland.
Hollo
(Hol*lo") interj. & n. [See Halloo, and cf. Holla.] Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a
call to attract attention; a halloo.
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo.
Coleridge. Hollo
(Hol"lo) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Holloed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Holloing.] [See Hollo, interj., and cf.
Halloo.] To call out or exclaim; to halloo. This form is now mostly replaced by hello.