χάλαζ-α [χᾰ], ης, ἡ,
hail [[compare (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 59e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 394b1), ὄμβρον.. ἠὲ χάλαζαν ἢ νιφετόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.6, compare 15.170, NT.Rev.8.7, etc.: _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 5.18, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 188b, “R.” 397a; χ. στρογγύλαι ] NT+8th c.BC+]hailstones, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1127 (troch.); ἀπὸ τῶν χαλαζῶν.. ἄπαγε σεαυτόν [prev. author] “Ra.” 852 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, any pelting shower, ὀμβρία χ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1503; χ. αἵματος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 7(6).27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II any small knot like a hailstone,
__II.1 pimple or tubercle in the flesh of swine, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 603b18, “Pr.” 963b34, Androsth. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.93c. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 small cyst, such as grows on the eyelid, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.437, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.198, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3 a knot or hard lump; in an egg, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 560a28; in coal, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 25; in ivory, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 2.13; λίθοι χαλάζης ] Refs 4th c.BC+]crystals, [[ 1 “Enoch” 14.9,10] Refs]. (Cf. Sloven. žled, Little Russian oželeda 'sleet, ice'.)