(hāl) noun
1. Frozen rain or congealed vapor, often falling in pellets during thunderstorms.
2. Figuratively, anything falling thickly and with violence: a hail of blows.
3. A hailstorm.
—v.i. To pour down hail: used impersonally.
—v.t. To hurl or pour down like hail: to hail curses on someone. ♦ Homophone: hale. [OE hægel]
—hail′y adjective
HAIK

(hāl) v.t.
1. To call loudly to in greeting; salute.
2. To call to so as to attract attention: to hail a cab.
3. To name as; designate: They hailed him captain.
—v.i.
4. To call out so as to attract attention or give greeting.
—to hail from To come from; have as one's original home or residence. See synonyms under ADDRESS.
—noun
1. A call to attract attention; greeting.
2. The distance a shout can be heard: within hail.
—interj. An exclamation of greeting. ♦Homophone: hale. [ME hailen, heilen <ON heilla <heill whole, hale. Akin to HALE².]
—hail′er noun

(hāl) adjective Scot.
Healthy; hale; whole.