χ5Χάλαζα
hail, hailstorm
[Meaning] cloud, frozen and tossed through the air by the wind and carried down to earth. But snow [is] moisture, frozen out of a cloud. Hailstorms: they are freezings of the moisture overhead in the air, above the…
Χάλαζα· νέφος πεπηγὸς καὶ ὑπὸ πνεύματος διρρυφθὲν καὶ κατενεχθέν. χιὼν δὲ ὑγρόν, ἐκ νέφους πεπηγός. Χάλαζαι· δʹ εἰσὶ πήξεις τῆς ἐν τῷ ἀέρι ὑδατώδους ὑγρότητος ὑπὲρ γῆν μὲν ἄνω,…