VAIL
\vˈe͡ɪl], \vˈeɪl], \v_ˈeɪ_l]\
Definitions of VAIL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
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An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
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To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
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To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
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Submission; decline; descent.
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Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; - usually in the plural.
By Oddity Software
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Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
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An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
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To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
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To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
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Submission; decline; descent.
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Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; - usually in the plural.
By Noah Webster.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Money given to servants by employers, visitors, or others, as a perquisite or present; customary or stipulated perquisites to servants, as grease and broken meat to a cook, and left-off clothes to a personal servant.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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