haill

Verb (1)

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

1. (impersonal) To have hailstones fall from the sky.
   • They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
2. (intransitive) To send or release hail.
   • The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
3. To pour down in rapid succession.

Verb (2)

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

1. (transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.
   • […] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: […]1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
2. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
   • Such a Son as all men hail'd me happy;1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 28
3. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
   • Hail a taxi.

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