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A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.

Of hail. "Haily showers." Pope.

To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass. "A ground . . . hained in." Holland.

. A contraction of have not or has not; as, I hain't, he hain't, we hain't. [Colloq. or illiterate speech.] [Written also han't.]

d flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. Chaucer. And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. Spenser.

ry slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.

Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

See Harebell.

The chipping sparrow.

See Harebrained.

Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.

The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.

Having hair. "A beast haired like a bear." Purchas.

Hairy. [Obc.] His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. J. Taylor.

The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. Johnson.