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haily

haily adjective: containing hail; involving hail falling.

Adjective

haily (comparative more haily, superlative most haily)

  1. Containing hail; involving hail falling.
    • [T]he rolling clouds; / From whose dark womb a rattling tempest pours, / Which the cold north congeals to haily showers.c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC

Forms of haily

comparativemore haily
superlativemost haily

Origin of haily

From hail + -y (adjectival suffix).

Questions about haily

What does haily mean?
Haily means containing hail; involving hail falling.
What part of speech is haily?
Haily is an adjective.

Words near haily in the dictionary

  1. hailstorms
  2. Hailu
  3. Hailufeng
  4. Hailus
  5. hailweed
  6. haily
  7. Haim
  8. Haim-Munk syndrome
  9. Haiman
  10. Haimans
  11. Haimen

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