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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.

. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.

A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.

See Jurel.

A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. Hare's-tail grass (Bot.), a species of grass (Lagurus ovatus) whose head resembles a hare's tail.

Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten.

A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

See with hobnails, as a shoe.

Any one of family (Uroceridæ) of large hyminopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvæ bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.

A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.

A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.

Wearing mail or armor; clad of armor. W. Browne.

To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails. Hooker.

See Entail, v. t.

offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.] This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] - - Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. -- Jail delivery commission. See…

The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also jailor, gaoler.]

An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.

A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. [Scot.] Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]