Also 9 -holloo. β. -hollo(w. γ. -holla. δ -hallo(a, -halloa, -hilloh, -hullow. [f. VIEW v. + HALLOO, HOLLO(W, HOLLA, HALLO(A, and HILLO(A.
The earliest form recorded is view-hollow (see β), and early examples of view-halloo have the stress on the penultimate as in the first quot. The various forms are freq. written or printed as two words without hyphen.]
The shout given by a huntsman on seeing a fox break cover. Also fig.
α. 1792. S. Rogers, Pleas. Mem., II. 298. He scour’d the county in his elbow-chair; And, with view-halloo, rous’d the dreaming hound.
1798. Sporting Mag., XI. 3. At the very moment of ‘Who! Whoop!’ a view halloo was given by a third.
1858. Trollope, Dr. Thorne, I. i. 21. He … had a fine voice for a view halloo.
1859. Art of Taming Horses, etc., xii. 202. When a huntsman carries the pack forward … to a view halloo.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, xxv. Lavender in the distance heard a long view-halloo.
β. 1761. G. Colman, Jealous Wife, II. iii. What is become of the Lady all this while?… You told me she was not here, and … I was just drawing off another Way, if I had not heard the View-Hollow.
1806. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 4. A dragoon … gave a view hollow.
1833. in R. E. Warburton, Hunt Songs (1883), ii. 8. Once more a view hollo from old Oulton Lowe!
1846. R. Bell, Canning, vii. 198. Lord Melville … was no sooner condemned, than … Sir Thomas Mostyn is said to have given a view hollo!
γ. 1816. T. L. Peacock, Headlong Hall, viii. Their landing was hailed with a view-holla from the delighted Squire.
1858. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., I. lxv. 250. The dogs that answered to the view-holla that chased them to their end. Ibid. (1861), III. clxii. 179. It is therefore ‘Hark Forward’ again, and the View Holla is not far off.
δ. 1840. J. T. J. Hewlett, P. Priggins, v. Mr. Scrape gave a loud view hilloh! and galloped after me.
1853. Lytton, My Novel, I. ii. The Squire … bellowed out with all the force of lungs accustomed to give a View-hallo!
1886. Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll, 6. I gave a view halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman.
