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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Vail

Vail (vail)
n. *** v. t.(?)
Vail
  1. Same as Veil.

Vail

Vail (vail)
n.
Vail
  1. Avails] profit; return; proceeds.
    [Obs.]

    My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation. Chapman.

  2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
    [Obs.]
  3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
    [Written also vale.] Dryden.

Vail

Vail (vail)
v. t.
Vail
  1. To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
    [Obs.]

    Vail your regard
    Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!     Shak.

  2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.

    France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! Shak.

    Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic. Sir. W. Scott.

Vail

Vail (vail)
v. i.(?)
Vail
  1. To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
    [Written also vale, and veil.] [Obs.]

    Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. South.

Vail

Vail (vail)
n.
Vail
  1. Submission; decline; descent.
    [Obs.]












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