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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hail(l, interj. ¹ Also: haile, hayle, hale. [ME. heyl, hail (c 1200), ellipt. or interj. use of hail a. (see Hale a.); cf. ON. heill, and OE. hál, similarly used.] Hail! Also all hail (ME. alhayle, c 1400).(1) (a) c1420 Wynt. i. 915.
Hayle [W. haill, Mary,] full of grace, and God with thé c1450-2 Howlat 727.
Haile, blissit mot thow be Ib. 732, etc. a1500 Henr. Fab. 289 (A).
Thus maid thai mery … And ‘Haile, ȝule, haile’ thai cryit apon hie c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 104.
Haill, souerane senȝeour! Id. v. 11.
‘Ourtane fallow, haill’ 1551 Hamilton Cat. 273.
Hail, Marie, ful of grace a1568 Bann. MS. 134 a/35.
‘Haill or haill, quhat do ȝe now?’ a1570-86 Maitl. F. xlv. 24.
It is eith to cry hailȝule one ane vtheris mannis cost(b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. lix. 4.
Hale, ros intact Ib. 37.
Hale, qwene serene, hale, most amene 1531 Bell. Boece II. 259.
‘Hale, Thane of Glammis’ 1560 Rolland Seven S. 8088.
‘Hale, Father deir’(2) a1400 Leg. S. iii. 665.
‘Alhale, thu blissit croice’ 15.. Clar. iv. 2150.
‘All hail! the eard awcht ȝow to honoure’