[hey] 
| 1. | grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage. |
| 2. | grass mowed or intended for mowing. |
| 3. | Slang.
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| 4. | Slang. marijuana. |
| 5. | to convert (plant material) into hay. |
| 6. | to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay. |
| 7. | to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage. |
| 8. | a roll in the hay, Slang. sexual intercourse. |
| 9. | hit the hay, Informal. to go to bed: It got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay. |
| 10. | in the hay, in bed; retired, esp. for the night: By ten o'clock he's in the hay. |
| 11. | make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual: The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor. |
| 12. | make hay while the sun shines, to seize an opportunity when it presents itself: If you want to be a millionaire, you have to make hay while the sun shines. Also, make hay. |
[hey] | 1. | John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author. |
| 2. | a river in NW Canada, flowing NE to the Great Slave Lake. 530 mi. (853 km) long. |
| hay (hā) n.
v. intr. To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay. v. tr.
[Middle English, from Old English hīeg; see kau- in Indo-European roots.] hay'er n. |
| Hay (hā) American public official and writer who served as ambassador to Great Britain (1897-1898) and U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905). His literary works include poetry and a life of Abraham Lincoln (1890). |
Hay
properly so called, was not in use among the Hebrews; straw was used instead. They cut the grass green as it was needed. The word rendered "hay" in Prov. 27:25 means the first shoots of the grass. In Isa. 15:6 the Revised Version has correctly "grass," where the Authorized Version has "hay."
hay
see hit the hay; make hay while the sun shines; roll in the hay; that ain't hay.
