▪ I. hollo, hollow, int. and n.
(ˈhɒlə)
[Akin to holla and hallo.]
A. int. A call to excite attention, also a shout of encouragement or exultation: = holla 2, 3.
| 1588 Shakes. Tit. A. ii. i. 25 Hollo, what storme is this? 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet C b, Hollow there, giue me the beard I wore yesterday. 1697 W. Cleland Poems, Hollow my Fancie 79 Hollow my Fancie, hollow, Stay thou at home with me. 1710 Acc. Last Distemp. T. Whigg i. 10 Hollow, Hollow Boys, replied the staring Populace. 1761 Sterne Tr. Shandy VII. xiii, Hollo! Ho!—the whole world's asleep!—bring out the horses. 1796 Scott William & Helen i, Hollo! thou felon, follow here. 1815 Savoyard ii. iii, Holo! there! (Enter Servant) Give me a goblet. 1885 Baillie-Hamilton Mr. Montenello I. 176 Hollo! Thornton, is that you? |
B. n. A shout of hollo! a loud shout; esp. a cry in hunting; cf. halloo n., hallow n.2
| 1598 Tofte Alba (1880) 79 But when th' acquainted Hollow he doth heare..He leaues his flight, and backward turnes againe. 1670 Caveat to Conventiclers 4 He was no sooner seated, but he gave a lowd Hollow through the Air. 1697 tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 9 They set forth lowder Hollows than before, and wished me a good Journey. 1798 Coleridge Anc. Mar. i. xviii, The Albatross..every day for food or play, Came to the Marinere's hollo! 1823 Byron Age of Bronze xiii, The hounds will gather to their huntsman's hollo. |
| attrib. 1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. xxii, The deep-mouthed watch-dog, at hollow distance. |
▪ II. hollo, hollow, holla, v.
(ˈhɒlə, ˈhɒlə)
Forms: 6–9 hollow, holla, 7–9 hollo, holloa (6 holow, 7 holo, holloe, 8 holloo.
[Connected with holla int., hollo int.; also with hallo int. and hallow v.2]
1. intr. To cry out loud, to shout, vociferate; to halloo. Cf. holler v.
| 1542 Boorde Dyetary xxxii. (1870) 295 Vocyferacyon, holowynge, cryeng. 1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 65 Why, hollow to me, and I will answere thee. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xix. 122 'Tis madness to holloe in the ears of sleeping temptation. 1647 H. More Song of Soul ii. App. lxvi, If one hollowed from highest Heaven aboven. 1654 H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 19 Houting and ho-lo-ing, not only to the disturbance of that duty, but scorn of our Religion. 1675 Hobbes Odyss. vi. 286 As far as one that Holla's heard can be. 1727 Swift Gulliver ii. i, I was going to holla after them. 1737 Fielding Tumble Down Dick iii. Song, Then to some hollow tree she flies, To hollow, hoot, and howl. 1748 F. Smith Voy. Disc. I. 24 They Holloed at Times, as they approached. 1842 Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. I. 3 The more the boys holla'd [1829 hallooed], and called out ‘Whip behind’. 1865 Kingsley Herew. iii, Dont holla till you are out of the wood. 1885 Bompas Life F. Buckland 244 They all rushed after me shouting and holloing. |
b. To call to the hounds in hunting.
| 1612 Two Noble K. ii. ii, To our Theban hounds..No more now must we hollo. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 432 As we use here in England to hollow, whoope or shout at Houndes. 1674 N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. i. (1677) 75 Blowing and hollowing until the Hounds are come in. 1735 Somerville Chase ii. 63 He levels ev'ry Fence, Joins in the common Cry, and hollows loud. 1884 Punch 18 Oct., They hunted an' they hollo'd and they blew their horns also. |
2. trans. a. with the thing shouted as object.
| 1593 Shakes. Rich. II, iv. i. 54 As many lies As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear. 1596 ― 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 222 And in his eare, Ile holla Mortimer. 1654 Gataker Disc. Apol. 85 The Independents may cry and hollow it up to the Pygmies on the tops of their Towres. 1701 Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. v. ii, I will pursue thee And hollow Vengeance in thy guilty Ears. 1788 V. Knox Winter Even. xli. (R.), The hostlers..hollo to the three footmen..Who is it? who is it? 1855 Browning Transcendentalism 11 Speak prose and hollo it till Europe hears! |
b. To call after (in hunting); to call or shout to.
| 1605 Shakes. Lear iii. i. 55 He that first lights on him, Holla the other. 1607 ― Cor. i. viii. 7 If I flye Martius, hollow me like a Hare. 1633 P. Fletcher Poet. Misc. 59 Th' unlucky Parrat, and death-boding Owl..Hollow their mates. |
3. With adv. hollo away, to drive away by holloing; hollo in, off, to call in or off (dogs, etc.) by shouting; hollo out, to shout out.
| 1602 Narcissus (1893) 478 Hollowe in the hind doggs. a 1621 Beaum. & Fl. Thierry ii. ii, Let's to horse, And hollow in the troop. 1648 Herrick Hesper., Parson Beanes, Six dayes he hollows so much breath away, That on the seaventh, he can nor preach, or pray. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. iv. §20 Such hounds are easier laid on, then either rated or hollowed off. 1683 Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 111 They'l sometimes mutter their words inwardly and then of a sudden hollow them out. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. iii. 328 He hollowed out with great extasy, The ship, the ship. |
Hence ˈholloing vbl. n.; also attrib.
| 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 43 Leaue hollowing man, heere. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 235 No voice, crie, hollaing and houting..affrighted this kind of fish. 1767 Carteret in Phil. Trans. LX. 21 With a great hollowing noise. 1860 Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxix. 61 War, after all, is not settled by hollaing, any more than horse-racing. |