hailelss.html - {v.}, {informal} To have your home in; come from; be from; especially, to have been born and raised in. * /Mrs. Gardner hails from Mississippi./ * /Mr. Brown and Mr. White are old friends because they both hail from the same town./

hailelss.html - {adj. phr.} Talking easily and in a friendly way to everyone you meet. * /John won the election as class president because he was hail-fellow-well-met./

hailelss.html - {n. phr.} A good friend and companion; buddy; pal. * /John just moved to town but he and the boys in the neighborhood are already hail-fellows-well-met./

hailelss.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 pellets of frozen rain falling in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
2 (foll. by of) a barrage or onslaught (of missiles, curses, questions, etc.).

--v.

1 intr. (prec. by it as subject) hail falls (it is hailing; if it hails).
2 a tr. pour down (blows, words, etc.). b intr. come down forcefully. [OE hagol, hógl, hagalian f. Gmc]

hailelss.html - v., int., & n.
--v.

1 tr. greet enthusiastically.
2 tr. signal to or attract the attention of (hailed a taxi).
3 tr. acclaim (hailed him king).
4 intr. (foll. by from) have one's home or origins in (a place) (hails from Mauritius).

--int.

expressing greeting.

--n.

1 a greeting or act of hailing.
2 distance as affecting the possibility of hailing (was within hail).

hail-fellow-well-met intimate, esp. too intimate. Hail Mary the Ave Maria (see AVE ).

hailer n. [ellipt. use of obs. hail (adj.) f. ON heill sound, WHOLE]

hailelss.html - n.
a pellet of hail.