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hal⋅low

1  [hal-oh]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
2. to honor as holy; consider sacred; venerate: to hallow a battlefield.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME hal(o)wen, OE hālgian (c. G heiligen, ON helga), deriv. of hālig holy

Related forms:
hal⋅low⋅er, noun

hal⋅low

2  [huh-loh]
–interjection, noun, verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
hallo.

hal⋅lo

  [huh-loh] interjection, noun, plural -los, verb, -loed, -lo⋅ing.
–interjection
1. (used to call or answer someone, or to incite dogs in hunting.)
–noun
2. the cry “hallo!”
3. a shout of exultation.
–verb (used without object)
4. to call with a loud voice; shout; cry, as after hunting dogs.
–verb (used with object)
5. to incite or chase (something) with shouts and cries of “hallo!”
6. to cry “hallo” to (someone).
7. to shout (something).
Also, halloa, halloo, hallow, hillo, hilloa, hullo, hulloo.

Origin:
1560–70; var. of hollo, itself var. of earlier holla < MF hola, equiv. to ho ahoy + la there
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hal·low   (hāl'ō)   
tr.v.   hal·lowed, hal·low·ing, hal·lows
  1. To make or set apart as holy.
  2. To respect or honor greatly; revere.

[Middle English halwen, from Old English hālgian; see kailo- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Hallow

Hal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hallowing.] [OE. halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. h[=a]lgian, fr. h[=a]lig holy. See Holy.] To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." --Matt. vi. 9.

Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. --Jer. xvii. 24.

His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. --Milton.

In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [Gettysburg]. --A. Lincoln.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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hallow 
O.E. halgian "to make holy, to honor as holy," related to halig "holy," from P.Gmc. *khailig (cf. O.S. helagon, M.Du. heligen, O.N. helga; see health). Used in Christian translations to render L. sanctificare.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Hallow

to render sacred, to consecrate (Ex. 28:38; 29:1). This word is from the Saxon, and properly means "to make holy." The name of God is "hallowed", i.e., is reverenced as holy (Matt. 6:9).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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