<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (hail 2).</li><li>Glaze (def 17).</li><li>Chiefly British: a mixture of rain and snow.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) To send down sleet.</li><li>To fall as or like sleet.</li></ul>