Found 1 items, similar to Vail.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vail Vail \Vail\, n. Submission; decline; descent. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Vail \Vail\, n. & v. t. Same as Veil. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Vail \Vail\, n. [Aphetic form of avail, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Avails; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] 2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural. [Written also vale.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Vail \Vail\, v. t. [Aphetic form of avale. See Avale, Vale.] [Written also vale, and veil.] 1. To let fail; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Vail your regard Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like. [1913 Webster] France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! --Shak. [1913 Webster] Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic. --Sir. W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Vail \Vail\, v. i. To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also vale, and veil.] [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. --South. [1913 Webster]