Hail
[heɪl] or [hel]
Definition
(noun.) enthusiastic greeting.
(noun.) many objects thrown forcefully through the air; 'a hail of pebbles'; 'a hail of bullets'.
(noun.) precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
(verb.) greet enthusiastically or joyfully.
(verb.) call for; 'hail a cab'.
(verb.) be a native of; 'She hails from Kalamazoo'.
(verb.) precipitate as small ice particles; 'It hailed for an hour'.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
(v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail.
(a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
(v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
(v. t.) To name; to designate; to call.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.
(v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
(n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
Editor: Sharon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Salute, greet, welcome, call to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Accost, address, salute, call, welcome, greet
ANT:Ignore, pass, cut, avoid
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Definition
n. frozen rain or particles of ice falling from the clouds.—v.i. to rain hail.—v.t. to pour down in rapid succession.—ns. Hail′shot small shot which scatters like hail; Hail′stone a single stone or ball of hail; Hail′-storm a storm accompanied with hail.—adj. Hail′y.
v.t. to greet: to call to at a distance: to address one passing.—n. a call: greeting.—interj. or imper. (lit.) may you be in health.—n. Hail′-fell′ow a familiar friend.—adj. on hearty and intimate terms—'Hail fellow! well met ' often used as a kind of descriptive adjective.—Hail from to come from.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream of being in a hail storm, you will meet poor success in any undertaking. If you watch hail-stones fall through sunshine and rain, you will be harassed by cares for a time, but fortune will soon smile upon you. For a young woman, this dream indicates love after many slights. To hear hail beating the house, indicates distressing situations.
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Examples
- He puts his trust in a snow-cloud; the wilderness, the wind, and the hail-storm are his refuge; his allies are the elements--air, fire, water. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A triple cry of Hail, Victorious! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- If you don't--it's a fine, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman within hail. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Our strongest holds are not proof against a storm of hail, and even a dark cloud damps the very stoutest heart. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The coldness of the upper region is manifested by the hail which sometimes falls from it in a hot day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But here have I been stewing and fuming in this jolly old crib till I have had the horrors falling on me as thick as hail. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I sat in the reception hail of the villa, waiting for Catherine Barkley to come down. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The uprising of the star of day was hailed by triumphant strains, while the birds, heard by snatches, filled up the intervals of the music. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering real service in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross hailed it with joy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A substitute for the slow animal, horse, and for the dangerous, noisy steam horse and its lumbering locomotive and train, was hailed with delight. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She hailed it as an earnest of the most serious determination, and was equal even to encounter her father. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He read the bill attentively, considered a moment, and then hailed an empty cab as it passed him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Leaving himself in the dark, it could rise into the light, seeing it shine on others and hailing it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In one of his trips he passed into the country roads and came to a tollgate through which a frightened keeper hastily passed him without toll, hailing him as the devil. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By a latent vein from Alcinous' line, her father hailing from Phaeacia's isle? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When he came back to the towing-path, he found the ferry-boat on the opposite side, and a gentleman hailing it and waiting to be taken over. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Hailing his softened tone and manner, his daughter fell upon her knees before him, with her appealing hands upon his breast. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She uttered a smiling acceptance, hailing in the renewal of the tie an escape from Trenor's importunities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- After hailing the morn with this second salutation, he threw a boot at the woman as a third. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He sometimes hails vessels and requests them to take letters home from him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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