hay

  • 41Hay — This is a Scottish and an English name, with two distinct origins applying to both. The first of these is as a topographic name for someone who lived in or by an enclosure, from the Olde English pre 7th century haeg , Middle English hey(e) .… …

    Surnames reference

  • 42hay — ünl. İyi dilek, azarlama, şaşma ve sevinç bildirmede kullanılan bir söz Hay çok yaşayasınız sizler! R. N. Güntekin Atasözü, Deyim ve Birleşik Fiiller hay Allah! hay hayı gitmek vay vayı kalmak haydan gelen huya gider …

    Çağatay Osmanlı Sözlük

  • 43hay — noun (U) 1 long grass that has been cut and dried, often used as food for cattle 2 hit the hay slang to go to bed 3 make hay while the sun shines do something while the conditions are favourable see also: a roll in the hay roll 2 (10) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 44hay — see if in February there be no rain, ’tis neither good for hay nor grain make hay while the sun shines a swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 45Hay —    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… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 46hay — [OE] Etymologically, hay is ‘that which is cut down’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic verb *khauwan, source also of English hew, which was formed from the Indo European base *kou , *kow . From it was derived the noun *khaujam,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 47hay — noun grass that has been mown and dried for use as fodder. Phrases hit the hay informal go to bed. make hay (while the sun shines) make good use of an opportunity while it lasts. Derivatives haying noun Origin OE hēg, hīeg, hīg, of Gmc origin;… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 48hay — noun soon the barns will be filled with hay make hay while the sun shines Syn: forage, dried grass, silage, fodder, straw, herbage …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 49Hay — I. /heɪ/ (say hay) noun William Gosse, 1875–1945, Australian novelist; author of The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans (1919). II. /heɪ/ (say hay) noun 1. a river rising in the MacDonnell Ranges and flowing east towards the Simpson Desert …

  • 50hay — [OE] Etymologically, hay is ‘that which is cut down’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic verb *khauwan, source also of English hew, which was formed from the Indo European base *kou , *kow . From it was derived the noun *khaujam,… …

    Word origins