Vocabulary : Hall to Hall-mark

Hall : A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. ;; 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. ;; A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. ;; Any corridor or passage in a building. ;; A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. ;; A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college). ;; The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock. ;; Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
Hallage : A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.
Halled : of Hail
Halleluiah : Alt. of Hallelujah
Hallelujah : Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.
Hallelujatic : Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs.
Halliard : See Halyard.
Hallidome : Same as Halidom.
Hallier : A kind of net for catching birds.
Hall-mark : The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.
Next : Halloa, Halloing, Halloo, Hallooed, Hallow, Hallowed, Halloween, Hallowing, Hallowmas, Halloysite
Previous : Halieutics, Haling, Haliographer, Haliography, Haliotis, Haliotoid, Halisauria, Halite, Halituous, Halk
Index : Sanjeev.NET : Vocabulary