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Hays

  [heyz]
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–noun
1. Will (Harrison), 1879–1954, U.S. lawyer, politician, and official of the motion-picture industry.
2. a city in central Kansas. 16,301.
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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.
a. a small sum of money: Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay.
b. money: A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!
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)
7. to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
—Idioms
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.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hēg; c. G Heu, ON hey, Goth hawi. See hew

Related forms:
hayey, adjective

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.  

  1. Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and dried for fodder.

  2. Slang A trifling amount of money: gets $100 an hour, which isn't hay.

v.   hayed, hay·ing, hays

v.   intr.
To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay.
v.   tr.

  1. To make (grass) into hay.

  2. To feed with hay.


[Middle English, from Old English hīeg; see kau- in Indo-European roots.]
hay'er n.
Hays   (hāz)   
American politician and motion-picture executive who as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (1922-1945) established the Production Code (1930), which prescribed the moral content of American films from 1930 to 1966.
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Word Origin & History

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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Hays

city, seat (1867) of Ellis county, central Kansas, U.S. It lies on Big Creek. The city was founded in 1867 after the establishment of Fort Hays (a frontier post built as Fort Fletcher in 1865). In 1876 Volga Germans settled the area on land ceded by the Kansas Pacific Railroad. The fort was abandoned in 1889; its blockhouse and guardhouse are preserved in the city's Frontier Historical Park. Oil fields in the vicinity began to be developed in 1936. The city is a trading centre and shipping point for an extensive wheat-growing and oil-producing area. It contains a large dryland agricultural experiment station and is the seat of Fort Hays State University (1902); the university's museum of natural history was founded in 1914. The Cathedral of the Plains (1909-11) is at nearby Victoria, and Cedar Bluff State Park is southwest of the city. Inc. 1885. Pop. (1990) 17,767; (2000) 20,013.

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