# hallow
## English
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -æləʊ
** (UK) IPA: /ˈhæləʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (US) IPA: /ˈhæloʊ/
* Rhymes: -ɒləʊ
** (US, dialectal) IPA: /ˈhɑloʊ/
** Homophone: hollow (father-bother merger)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English halwe (“a saint, holy thing, shrine”), from Old English hālga (“a holy one, saint”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagô (“holy one”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Scots halow, hallow (“saint”), German Heiliger (“saint (male)”) / Heilige (“saint (female)”). More at holy, whole.

#### Noun

hallow (plural hallows)
* (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
    All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints' Day").
* (obsolete, in the plural) The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods.
    To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.

##### Derived terms

* All Hallows
* Hallow-day
* hallowdom
* hallowed
* Halloween
* Hallow-eve
* Hallow-fair
* Hallowmas
* Hallowmass
* Hallow-tide
* Reedley Hallows

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English halwen (“to hallow, sanctify”), from Old English hālgian (“to hallow, sanctify, make holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagōną (“to make holy”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Dutch heiligen (“to hallow”), German heiligen (“to hallow”). More at holy.

#### Verb

hallow (third-person singular simple present hallows, present participle hallowing, simple past and past participle hallowed)
* (transitive) To make holy, to sanctify.
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:[…] I am coming on, to venge me as I may and to put forth my rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
** 1847, Charles Swain, Dramatic Chapters: Poems and Songs, D. Bogue, page 324:Come hallow the goblet with something more true / Than words we forget in a minute.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:consecrate

##### Derived terms

* behallow
* hallowed
* hallower
* rehallow
* unhallow

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English halowen, from halow (interjection), from Old English ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”, interjection), probably conflated with Old French halloer.

#### Alternative forms

* halow, alow, a lo (obsolete)
* hallo, hollo

#### Verb

hallow (third-person singular simple present hallows, present participle hallowing, simple past and past participle hallowed)
* To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.
** 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:[…] for the conversation (if it may be called so) was seldom such as could entertain a lady. It consisted chiefly of hallowing, singing, relations of sporting adventures, b—d—y, and abuse of women, and of the government.

#### Noun

hallow (plural hallows)
* A shout, cry; a hulloo.
** 1777, Robin Hood's Chase, reprinted in 2003, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Courier Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 206:
    Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.
** 1772, William Read Staples, The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee, Knowles, Vose, and Anthony, published 1845, page 14:I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.

### Etymology 4
#### Adjective

hallow (comparative more hallow, superlative most hallow)
* Alternative spelling of hollow
** 1902, National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.), The Journal of Geography, National Council for Geographic Education, page 93:If the sun were a hallow sphere of its present size and the earth were placed at the center[...]. Such a hallow sphere would hold more than a million balls the size of the earth.
** 2003, George A. Lyall, To a Different Drummer: A Family's Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 208:But it was not a hallow victory.

## Scots
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Scots hallow, from Middle English holwe.

#### Adjective

hallow
* hollow

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English halwe, from Old English hālga.

#### Noun

hallow
* saint

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English halwen, from Old English hālgian.

#### Verb

hallow
* to consecrate

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

hallow
* A bundle of straw.
* spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)

### References

* “hallow, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 11 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “hallow, adj., n.1, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 11 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
* “hallow, n.1.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 11 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “hallow, n.2.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 11 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
* “hallow, n.3.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 11 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “hallow, n.3.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 11 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
* “hallow, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 11 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.