ˈHallow-day dial.
[In 1, short for All-Hallow-day, q.v.; in 2, from hallow n.1]
1. All Saints' day, the first of November.
| 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. ix. 200 Jn Ed{supr} vpon a [= a'] Halow day, rais sik a wind and wethir. 1711 C.M. Lett. to Curat 10 In any time of K. Edward the 6th's Reign, preceeding Hallow-day 1552. 1854 H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 292 We had completed all our work ere Hallowday. |
2. A saint's day; a holy day, a holiday.
| a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Hallowday, a holiday. a 1829 Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford xvi. in Child Ballads iii. lxxii. (1885) 175/2 Till the hallow days o Yule. |