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A phrase used in English law to describe a body of persons joining in pursuit of a felon or suspected thief. (French, huée, verb huer, to hoot or shout after; Anglo-Saxon, hui, ho!)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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