Hail

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.
2. v. i. To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
3. v. t. To pour forcibly down, as hail.
4. a. Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
5. v. t. To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
6. v. t. To name; to designate; to call.
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.
8. v. i. To report as one’s home or the place from whence one comes; to come; — with from.
9. v. t. An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.