haily

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Etymology

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From hail +‎ -y.

Adjective

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haily (comparative more haily, superlative most haily)

  1. Containing hail; involving hail falling.
    • c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: [] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, [], published 1717, →OCLC:
      [T]he rolling clouds; / From whose dark womb a rattling tempest pours, / Which the cold north congeals to haily showers.

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