Mailed vs Vailed - What's the difference?
mailed | vailed |
(mail)
Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
(lb) Spotted.
* 1888 , Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies , page 169:
(mail)
(vail)
(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 verbs the difference between mailed and vailed
is that mailed is (mail) or mailed can be (mail) while vailed is (vail).As an adjective mailed
is armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.mailed
English
Etymology 1
From .Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(en adjective)- from blossom of lime to perfumed bloom of acacia — darts the humming-bird, his coat of mailed feathers glowing like a gem.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *vailed
English
Verb
(head)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!
