Hail
Hail (hāl) , noun
[Old English hail, hayel, Anglo-Saxon hagel, hagol; akin to Dutch, German, Danish, & Swedish hagel; Icelandic hagl; compare Greek ka`chlhx pebble.]
Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
Thunder mixed with hail,
Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky.
Hail (hāld) , intransitive verb
[Old English hailen, Anglo-Saxon hagalian.]
To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
Hail , transitive verb
To pour forcibly down, as hail. — Shakespeare
Hail , adjective
Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
Hail , transitive verb
[Old English hailen, heilen, Icelandic heill hale, sound, used in greeting. See Hale sound.]
1.
To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
2.
To name; to designate; to call.
And such a son as all men hailed me happy.
Hail , intransitive verb
1.
To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
2.
To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from. [Colloquial] — C. G. Halpine
Hail , interjection
[See Hail, transitive verb]
An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
Hail, brave friend.
Collocations (2)
All hail , See in the Vocabulary.
Hail Mary , a form of prayer made use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin. See Ave Maria.
Hail , noun
A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
Their puissant hail.
The angel hail bestowed.