halloo

1. (intransitive) To shout halloo.Examples: "For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems."; "[…] they set up two or three great Shouts, hollowing with all their might, to try if they could make their Companions hear; but all was to no purpose:"; "As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again."intransitive

2. (transitive) To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.Examples: "There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings."; "1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 2, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: J. Tonson and J. Barber, Volume 2, p. 101, Old JOHN halloo’s his hounds again:"; "“Let us burn or hang up all the Mathematicians in Great Britain, or halloo the mob upon them to tear them to pieces every Mother’s Son of them […]”"transitive

3. (transitive) To chase with shouts or outcries.Examples: "If I fly, Coriolanus, Holloa me like a hare."; "[…] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]"; "Now, if you can keep your brother sportsmen in order, and put any discretion into them, you are in luck; they more frequently do harm than good: if it be possible, persuade those who wish to halloo the fox off, to stand quiet under the cover-side, and on no account to halloo him too soon […]"transitive

4. (transitive) To call or shout to; to hail.Examples: "A lake allows an average father, walking slowly, To circumvent it in an afternoon, And any healthy mother to halloo the children Back to her bedtime from their games across:"; "She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and then hallooed him."transitive

5. (transitive) To shout (something).Examples: "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out ‘Olivia!’"; "[…] the servants halloo'd out their excuses from the kitchen."transitive