2. All Saints' Day, November 1st. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A claim or demand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There must be no challenge of superiority. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. Blackstone [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. --
Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. --
Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. --
Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause. --
Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true. [ 1913 Webster ]

I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. [ 1913 Webster ]

By this I challenge him to single fight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To claim as due; to demand as a right. [ 1913 Webster ]

Challenge better terms. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To censure; to blame. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mil.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with “Who comes there?” [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To challenge to the
array, favor, polls. See under Challenge, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where nature doth with merit challenge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. handicapped or disabled; -- used as a euphemism, especially in combinations; as, physically challenged; mentally challenged. [ PJC ]

2. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.
Syn. -- insubordinate, resistant, resistive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer.

Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall: (b) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. Hence: (c) Any corridor or passage in a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. [ Obs. ] “A hall! a hall!” B. Jonson.

Syn. -- Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule. [ 1913 Webster ]

So sung they, and the empyrean rung
With Hallelujahs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those days, as St. Jerome tells us, “any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs.” Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, [ figuratively ]: A distinguishing characteristic or characteristics; as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

List! List! I hear
Some far off halloo break the silent air. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Country folks hallooed and hooted after me. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old John hallooes his hounds again. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To chase with shouts or outcries. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To call or shout to; to hail. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [ Gettysburg ]. A. Lincoln. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

--
Hallstatt civilization or
Hallstattian civilization, a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron, possession of domestic animals, agriculture, and artistic skill and sentiment in manufacturing pottery, ornaments, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] The Hallstattian civilization flourished chiefly in Carinthia, southern Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, Silesia, Bosnia, the southeast of France, and southern Italy. J. Deniker. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] --
Hallstattian epoch, the first iron age, represented by the Hallstatt civilization. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Specifically: To perceive a non-existent object or phenomenon; to believe that one is experiencing something which in reality does not exist; to experience a hallucination{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. W. A. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]