[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome .", "to acclaim; approve enthusiastically:The crowds hailed the conquerors. They hailed the recent advances in medicine.Synonyms: extol , proclaim , laud , exalt , honor , applaud , acclaim", "to call out to in order to stop, attract attention, ask aid, etc.:to hail a cab."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to call out in order to greet, attract attention, etc.:The people on land hailed as we passed in the night."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a shout or call to attract attention:They answered the hail of the marooned boaters.", "a salutation or greeting:a cheerful hail.", "the act of hailing."]}, {"Bold_text": "interjection", "List Items": ["(used as a salutation, greeting, or acclamation.)"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to have as one's place of birth or residence:Nearly everyone here hails from the Midwest."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 0.2 inch (5 millimeters) in diameter, falling from a cumulonimbus cloud ( sleet ).", "a shower or storm of such precipitation.", "a shower of anything:a hail of bullets."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to pour down hail (often used impersonally withitas subject):It hailed this afternoon.", "to fall or shower as hail:Arrows hailed down on the troops as they advanced."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to pour down on as or like hail:The plane hailed leaflets on the city."]}]