Ail vs Vail - What's the difference?
ail | vail |
(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
* Bible, Genesis xxi. 17
* 2011 , "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist :
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
* Richardson
(obsolete) profit; return; proceeds.
* Chapman
(chiefly, in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale .
(obsolete) To yield.
* South
(obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
* Shakespeare
As a noun ail
is .As a proper noun vail is
.ail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
- What aileth thee, Hagar?
- Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?
- When he ails ever so little he is so peevish.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ail")Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Anagrams
* * ----vail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
Aphetic form ofVerb
(en verb)- Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
- France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!
- without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic
- Vail your regard / Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!