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Hail
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
(3):
(v. t.) To name; to designate; to call.
(4):
(n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
(5):
(v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
(6):
(v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; - with from.
(7):
(v. i.) 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.
(8):
(a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
(9):
(v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail.
(10):
(v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hail'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/h/hail.html. 1828.
