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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Vail \Vail\ (v[=a]l), n. & v. t. Same as {Veil}. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Vail \Vail\, n. Submission; decline; descent. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]