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hay
[hey] 
–noun
| 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. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to convert (plant material) into hay. |
| 6. | to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay. |
–verb (used without object)
—Idioms| 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. |
Hay
[hey] –noun
| 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. |
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| 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). |
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Hay
Hay\, n. [AS. hege: cf. F. haie, of German origin. See Haw a hedge, Hedge.]1. A hedge. [Obs.] 2. A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit. --Rowe. To dance the hay, to dance in a ring. --Shak.Hay
Hay\, v. i. To lay snares for rabbits. --Huloet.Hay
Hay\, n. [OE. hei, AS. h?g; akin to D. kooi, OHG. hewi, houwi, G. heu, Dan. & Sw. h["o], Icel. hey, ha, Goth. hawi grass, fr. the root of E. hew. See Hew to cut. ] Grass cut and cured for fodder. Make hay while the sun shines. --Camden. Hay may be dried too much as well as too little. --C. L. Flint. Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock. Hay fever (Med.), nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspn[oe]a, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer seasons. It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the pollen of certain plants. It is also called hay asthma, hay cold, and rose fever. Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow. Hay press, a press for baling loose hay. Hay tea, the juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc. Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning newmown hay. See Tedder.Hay
Hay\, v. i. To cut and cure grass for hay.
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hay
"grass mown," O.E. heg (Anglian), hieg, hig (W.Saxon) "grass cut or mown for fodder," from P.Gmc. *khaujan (cf. O.N. hey, O.Fris. ha, M.Du. hoy, Ger. Heu, Goth. hawi "hay"), lit. "that which is cut," or "that which can be mowed," from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (cf. O.E. heawan "to cut"). Hay-fever is from 1829; earlier it was called summer catarrh. Hayseed is from 1577 in the literal sense of "grass seed shaken out of hay;" in U.S. slang sense of "comical rustic" it dates from 1851. Haymaker in the sense of "very strong blow with the fist" is from 1912, probably in imitation of the wide swinging stroke of a scythe. Slang phrase hit the hay (pre-1880) was originally "to sleep in a barn;" hay in the general fig. sense of "bedding" (e.g. roll in the hay) is from 1903.
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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."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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