'Vail' definitions:

Definition of 'Vail'

From: GCIDE
  • Vail \Vail\ (v[=a]l), 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]

Definition of 'Vail'

From: GCIDE
  • Vail \Vail\ (v[=a]l), n. & v. t. Same as Veil. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Vail'

From: GCIDE
  • Vail \Vail\, v. t. [Aphetic form of avale. See Avale, Vale.] [Written also vale, and veil.]
  • 1. To let fall; 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]

Definition of 'Vail'

From: GCIDE
  • Vail \Vail\, n. [Aphetic form of avail, n.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. Avails; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • My house is as 'twere 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]

Definition of 'Vail'

From: GCIDE
  • Vail \Vail\, n. Submission; decline; descent. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'vail'

From: GCIDE
  • Veil \Veil\ (v[=a]l), n. [OE. veile, OF. veile, F. voile, L. velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably fr. vehere to bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship on. See Vehicle, and cf. Reveal.] [Written also vail.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. [1913 Webster]
  • The veil of the temple was rent in twain. --Matt. xxvii. 51. [1913 Webster]
  • She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorn['e]d golden tresses wore. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A cover; a disguise; a mask; a pretense. [1913 Webster]
  • [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Bot.) (a) The calyptra of mosses. (b) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) Same as Velum, 3. [1913 Webster]
  • To take the veil (Eccl.), to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'vail'

From: GCIDE
  • Veil \Veil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Veiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Veiling.] [Cf. OF. veler, F. voiler, L. velarc. See Veil, n.] [Written also vail.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. [1913 Webster]
  • Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. [1913 Webster]
  • To keep your great pretenses veiled. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Vail, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Vail, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
Population (2000) :
2484
Housing Units (2000) :
906
Land area (2000) :
18.205051 sq. miles (47.150863 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
18.205051 sq. miles (47.150863 sq. km)
FIPS code :
78540
Located within :
Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location :
32.001939 N, 110.700286 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
85641
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Vail, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Vail, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000) :
4531
Housing Units (2000) :
5389
Land area (2000) :
4.535670 sq. miles (11.747331 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
4.535670 sq. miles (11.747331 sq. km)
FIPS code :
80040
Located within :
Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location :
39.635757 N, 106.362984 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
81657
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Vail, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Vail, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000) :
452
Housing Units (2000) :
196
Land area (2000) :
0.559407 sq. miles (1.448857 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.559407 sq. miles (1.448857 sq. km)
FIPS code :
80130
Located within :
Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location :
42.061061 N, 95.202423 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
51465
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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