hail, fall thick as hail
hail, Luc. Bis Acc. 2: metaph., fall thick as hail, Com.Adesp. 314.
II to have pimples, tubercles
(χάλαζα II.1) to have pimples or tubercles, Ar. Eq. 381; χαλαζῶσαι [ὕες] Arist. HA 603b21.
The corpus record
χαλαζ-άω
chalazao
hail, fall thick as hail, to have pimples
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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