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Hail   /heɪl/   Listen
Hail

noun
1.
Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
2.
Many objects thrown forcefully through the air.  "A hail of bullets"
3.
Enthusiastic greeting.
verb
(past & past part. hailed; pres. part. hailing)
1.
Praise vociferously.  Synonyms: acclaim, herald.
2.
Be a native of.  Synonym: come.
3.
Call for.
4.
Greet enthusiastically or joyfully.  Synonym: herald.
5.
Precipitate as small ice particles.



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"Hail" Quotes from Famous Books



... words are better than bad strokes, Octavius. Antony: In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words: Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart, Crying, "Long live! hail, Caesar!" ...
— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson
... Vardon know of this? If he does a five hole in four he blames himself that he did not do it in three; if he does it in five he is miserable. He will never experience that happy surprise with which we hail our best strokes. Only his bad strokes surprise him, and then we may suppose that he is not happy. His length and accuracy are mechanical; they are not the result, as so often in our case, of some suddenly ...
— Not that it Matters • A. A. Milne
... second wish be hearing? The majesty of Fatherland— Destroyed be those who still are sneering! Hail them who with it fall and stand! By virtue winning admiration, Beloved for honesty and might, Long live through centuries our nation As strong in honor and ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various
... after his father). Now fare they all forth to fight, and I must stay behind; it is hard to be the youngest of the house.—Dagny! all hail and greetings to thee, ...
— The Vikings of Helgeland - The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. • Henrik Ibsen
... a spin in the country," said Sheridan, when at last they came out to the car again. "We'll take a breezer." But, with his foot on the step, he paused to hail a neat young man who came out of the office smiling a greeting. "Hello, young fellow!" Sheridan said, heartily. "On the job, are you, Jimmie? Ha! They don't catch you OFF of it very often, I guess, though I do hear you go automobile-ridin' in the country sometimes with a mighty fine-lookin' ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington


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