What is the meaning of HAIL. Phrases containing HAIL
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Hail and rain was old London Cockney rhyming slang for a train.
Used to hail a ship or a person or to attract attention.
Hail Mary is American football slang for a very long high pass into the end zone, made in the final seconds of a half or of a game.
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A cry to draw attention. Term used to hail a boat or a ship, as "Boat Ahoy!"
1. Reply to an order or command to indicate that it, firstly, is heard; and, secondly, is understood and will be carried out. 2. Technically the correct reply from a boat to a challenging ship on being hailed when there is an officer onboard. If the captain of a ship is in the boat the reply is the ship's name.
Hail is American slang for ice.
Bucket of hail is American slang for a glass of ice.
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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.
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A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.
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Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
v. t.
To pour forcibly down, as hail.
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A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.
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An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
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That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.
n. pl.
Small shot which scatter like hailstones.
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A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
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A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.
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v. i.
To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
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Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.
v. t.
To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
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Of hail.
v. t.
To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
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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.
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A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.
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To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
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A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
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