That's the word of the day for June 13th.
Today's word is hail, spelled H-A-L-E.
Hail is an adjective.
Someone described as hail is in good and often exceptional health.
Hail is commonly used in the phrase hail and hearty.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The Telegraph.
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell star in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blonds as two vivacious,
all-American showgirls whose friendship is as fast as their attitudes to men are poles apart.
Whereas Monroe's Lorelei Lee prizes wealth and devotion in a suitor,
Russell's Dorothy Shaw is more inclined towards the hail and hunky.
English has two hail homographs,
the adjective that is frequently paired with hearty to describe those healthy and strong,
and the somewhat uncommon verb that has to do with literal or figurative hauling or pulling.
One can hail a boat onto shore or hail a person into a courtroom with the aid of legal ramifications for resistance.
The verb comes from the Middle English halen, also the root of our word haul,
but the adjective has a bifurcated origin with two Middle English terms identified as sources, hail, h-a-l-e,
and hail, h-a-i-l.
Both of those come from words meaning healthy, the former from the Old English hal,
and the latter from the Old Norse heil.
The Middle English hail is also the source of three modern English words spelled H-A-I-L,