hail

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inch) in diameter, usually associated with thunderstorms.
• noun Something that falls with the force and quantity of a shower of ice and hard snow.
• intransitive verb To precipitate in pellets of ice and hard snow.
• intransitive verb To fall like hailstones.
• intransitive verb To pour (something) down or forth.
• intransitive verb To salute or greet.
• intransitive verb To greet or acclaim enthusiastically.
• intransitive verb To call out or yell in order to catch the attention of.
• intransitive verb To signal or call to a passing ship as a greeting or identification.
• noun The act of greeting or acclaiming.
• noun A shout made to catch someone's attention or to greet.
• noun Hailing distance.
• interjection Used to express a greeting or tribute.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Be whole; be safe; be happy: a term of salutation now used without thought of its literal meaning, and merely as an exclamatory expression of well-wishing: used absolutely, or followed by a noun with to.
• noun Pellets of ice falling in showers.
• See hale.
• To pour down hail.
• To pour down or put forth like hail; emit in rapid succession.
• noun A salutation; greeting; call; summons; challenge of attention.
• To salute; welcome; address.
• To call to, as a person, or, by metonymy, a place, house, ship, etc., at a distance; cry out to in order to attract attention.
• To offer or exchange greeting or tidings; report or declare one's self.
• noun The varions responses made by naval officers at night to the sentry, by which the latter may learn the rank of the officer approaching the vessel, are as follows: Flag-officers answer “flag!” the captain gives the name of his ship; the ward-room officers answer, “Aye, aye!” the steerage and warrant officers answer, “No, no!” and petty officers and members of the crew answer, “Hello!” Yachtsmen have adopted this code with a slight modification.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
• transitive verb To pour forcibly down, as hail.
• noun 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.
• adjective Healthy. See hale (the preferable spelling).
• transitive verb To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
• transitive verb To name; to designate; to call.
• intransitive verb To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from.
• intransitive verb colloq. To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.
• interjection An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
• interjection See in the Vocabulary.
• interjection a form of prayer made use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin. See Ave Maria.
• noun A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
• verb impersonal Said of the weather when hail is falling.
• verb transitive to send or release hail
• verb transitive to greet
• verb transitive to praise enthusiastically
• verb transitive to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
• adjective obsolete Healthy, whole, safe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb call for
• verb praise vociferously
• verb precipitate as small ice particles
• verb be a native of
• noun precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
• noun many objects thrown forcefully through the air