[f. prec.]
1. trans. To salute or make known the presence of (a fox) by the cry of ‘tally-ho.’
1809. Sporting Mag., XXXV. Oct., 24/1. They obliged him [their game] to break cover, and tally-ho’d him over Broughton’s-hill, in high style. Ibid. (1812) XXXIX. 230. A fox was tallyho’d breaking covert, and the dogs laid on him. Ibid. (1825), XV. 363. The servant … tallyho’d the fox.
2. intr. To cry or utter ‘tally-ho’ or a similar call.
1785. Mackenzie, Lounger, No. 36, 8 Oct., ¶ 5. He had tallyho’d old Squaretoes, as he slunk from his kennel.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 137. A troop o’ … tallyhoin’ ‘wild and wayward humourists.’
1829. Hood, Epping Hunt, lxxiv. And milkmen tally-ho’d!
1904. H. Sutcliffe, in Westm. Gaz., 1 Dec., 2/3. Oh, up to the saddle, the horn tally-ho-ing, Up to the tops of the hills o’ Craven!
