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enthusiastic greeting

precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo"

call for; "hail a cab"

enthusiastic greeting

precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

call for, as of cabs

be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo"

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.

To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.

To pour forcibly down, as hail.

Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).

To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.

To name; to designate; to call.

An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.

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.

To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; - with from.

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.

To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.

To pour forcibly down, as hail.

Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).

To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.

To name; to designate; to call.

An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.

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.

To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; - with from.

Frozen raindrops; a call or salutation.

To pour down or out like hail; call to or salute.

An exclamation of respectful and friendly greeting; as, Hail, my friend.

Or imp. (lit.) may you be in health.

To greet: to call to, at a distance: to address one passing.

Frozen rain or particles of ice falling from the clouds.

To rain hail.

A call.

Frozen drops of rain.

Of salutation.

To call to; salute.

To fall, as hail.

To pour out like hail; pour down hail.

Frozen rain or congealed vapor, falling in pellets.

To salute; call to; give a loud call.

A call to attract attention; greeting.

An exclamation of greeting.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] Frozen rain or lumps of ice precipitated from the clouds.

interj. An exclamation usually of respectful and sometimes of reverent, salutation.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] A wish of health; a salutation.

Drops of rain frozen in their falling.

A term of salutation