1. to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
2. to acclaim; approve enthusiastically: The crowds hailed the conquerors. They hailed the recent advances in medicine.
3. to call out to in order to stop, attract attention, ask aid, etc.: to hail a cab.

4. to call out in order to greet, attract attention, etc.: The people on land hailed as we passed in the night.

5. a shout or call to attract attention: They answered the hail of the marooned boaters.
6. a salutation or greeting: a cheerful hail.
7. the act of hailing.

8. (used as a salutation, greeting, or acclamation.)

9. to have as one's place of birth or residence: Nearly everyone here hails from the Midwest.

10. within range of hearing; audible: The mother kept her children within hail of her voice.

1. showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 0.2 inch (5 millimeters) in diameter, falling from a cumulonimbus cloud (distinguished from sleet).
2. a shower or storm of such precipitation.
3. a shower of anything: a hail of bullets.

4. to pour down hail (often used impersonally with it as subject): It hailed this afternoon.
5. to fall or shower as hail: Arrows hailed down on the troops as they advanced.

6. to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.

1. small pellets of ice falling from cumulonimbus clouds when there are very strong rising air currents
2. a shower or storm of such pellets
3. words, ideas, etc, directed with force and in great quantity
4. a collection of objects, esp bullets, spears, etc, directed at someone with violent force

5. to be the case that hail is falling
6. to fall or cause to fall as or like hail

1. to greet, esp enthusiastically
2. to acclaim or acknowledge
3. to attract the attention of by shouting or gesturing
4. to be a native (of); originate (in)

5. the act or an instance of hailing
6. a shout or greeting
7. distance across which one can attract attention (esp in the phrase within hail)

8. an exclamation of greeting

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