1. hail - Noun
2. hail - Adjective
3. hail - Verb
4. hail - Interjection
5. Hail - Proper noun
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.
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.
An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive, what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive He guides me and the bird. In his good time. Robert Browning
Hail to the chief who in triumph advances. Walter Scott
The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. Dag Hammarskjöld
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, storm and hail. Italian Proverb
The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail every year. Spanish Proverb
Hail to thee, Nicaragua "Salve a ti, Nicaragua” is the Nicaraguan national anthem. (Video) Nicaraguan Proverb