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Vail

Part of Speech: noun

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1. Avails; profit; return; proceeds.

2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.

3. Submission; decline; descent.

4. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; - usually in the plural.

Part of Speech: noun, transitive verb

1. Same as Veil.

Part of Speech: verb

1. To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

1. To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.

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

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The men were violently opposed types Turner, tall, heavy- shouldered, morose by habit, with a prominent nose and rapidly thinning hair, and with strong, pale blue eyes, congested from hard drinking; Vail, shorter by three inches, dark, good- looking, with that dusky flush under the skin which shows good red blood, and as temperate as Turner was dissipated. - "The After House", Mary Roberts Rinehart.
12. And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: 13. And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy- seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: 14. And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy- seat eastward; and before the mercy- seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. - "Expositions of Holy Scripture Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers", Alexander Maclaren.
This lady is Jane Vail, a good friend come to see us. - "Jane Journeys On", Ruth Comfort Mitchell.

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