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Dell vs Vail - What's the difference?

dell | vail |

In obsolete terms the difference between dell and vail

is that dell is a young woman; a wench while vail is submission.

As nouns the difference between dell and vail

is that dell is valley while vail is profit; return; proceeds.

As proper nouns the difference between dell and vail

is that dell is {{surname} while Vail is {{surname}.

As a verb vail is

to yield.

dell

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • valley
  • * 1794, , lines 49-50
    • To this day they dwell
    In a lonely dell .
  • * Tickell
    • In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.
  • (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Sweet doxies and dells .

    Synonyms

    * dale * dingle * vale * valley * See also

    vail

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) profit; return; proceeds.
  • * Chapman
    • My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
  • (chiefly, in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale .
    • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

    Aphetic form of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) submission

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To yield.
  • * South
    • Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
  • (obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
  • * Shakespeare
    • France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic
  • To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Vail your regard / Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)

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