Definitions for the word "hail" from multiple English dictionaries.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To pour forcibly down, as hail.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To name; to designate; to call.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
1 pellets of frozen rain. 2 (foll. By of) barrage or onslaught. v. 1 a (prec. By it as subject) hail falls. B come down forcefully. 2 pour down (blows, words, etc.). [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. v.
1 signal to (a taxi etc.) To stop. 2 greet enthusiastically. 3 acclaim (hailed him king). 4 (foll. By from) originate or come (hails from leeds). int. Archaic or joc. Expressing greeting. n. Act of hailing. [old norse heill: related to *wassail]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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