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Webster 1913 Edition

Hail

Hail

(hāl)
,
Noun.
[OE.
hail
,
haȝel
, AS.
hægel
,
hagol
; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw.
hagel
; Icel.
hagl
; cf. Gr.
κάχληξ
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.
Milton.

Hail

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hailed
(hāld)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hailing
.]
[OE.
hailen
, AS.
hagalian
.]
To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.

Hail

,
Verb.
T.
To pour forcibly down, as hail.
Shak.

Hail

,
Adj.
Healthy. See
Hale
(the preferable spelling).

Hail

,
Verb.
T.
[OE.
hailen
,
heilen
, Icel.
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.
Milton.

Hail

,
Verb.
I.
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
.
[Colloq.]
C. G. Halpine.

Hail

,
int
erj.
[See
Hail
,
Verb.
T.
]
An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
“Hail, brave friend.”
Shak.
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.”
M. Arnold.
The angel
hail
bestowed.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hail

HAIL

,
Noun.
Masses of ice or frozen vapor, falling from the clouds in showers or storms. These masses consist of little spherules united, but not all of the same consistence; some being as hard and solid as perfect ice; others soft, like frozen snow. Hailstones assume various figures; some are round, others angular, others pyramidical, others flat, and sometimes they are stellated with six radii, like crystals of snow.

HAIL

,
Verb.
I.
To pour down masses of ice or frozen vapors.

HAIL

,
Verb.
T.
To pour.

HAIL

,
Adj.
[Gr. whole.] Sound; whole; healthy; not impaired by disease; as a hail body; hail corn. [In this sense, it is usually written hale.]

HAIL

, an exclamation, or rather a verb in the imperative mode, being the adjective hail, used as a verb. Hail, be well; be in health; health to you; a term of salutation, equivalent to L. salve, salvete.
Hail, hail, brave friend.

HAIL

,
Noun.
A wish of health; a salutation. This word is sometimes used as a noun; as, the angel hail bestowed.

HAIL

,
Verb.
T.
[L. calo. See Call and Heal.] To call; to call to a person at a distance, to arrest his attention. It is properly used in any case where the person accosted is distant, but is appropriately used by seamen. Hoa or hoi, the ship ahoay, is the usual manner of hailing; to which the answer is holloa, or hollo. Then follow the usual questions, whence came ye? where are you bound? &c.

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