HALL

(Sax. heal.) In Architecture, properly a large room for the transaction of public busine ; also a manor house where courts are held for the admi ion of tenants and other manorial busine . It i.s perhaps a term Improperly applied, Bl now, to the entrnnce of a dwelling house, though not so to a servants' hall. At Oxford an unendowed college is styled a hall; but at Cambridge the term is used indiscriminately for college, whether endowed or not. [s. 557]