Vail

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Submission; decline; descent.

II. Vail ·noun Avails; profit; return; proceeds.

III. Vail ·vt To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.

IV. Vail ·noun & ·vt ·same·as Veil.

V. Vail ·noun Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity;

— usually in the plural.

VI. Vail ·noun An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.

VII. Vail ·vt To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.

VIII. Vail ·vi To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.

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