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Tailing vs Ailing - What's the difference?

tailing | ailing |

As verbs the difference between tailing and ailing

is that tailing is while ailing is .

As nouns the difference between tailing and ailing

is that tailing is the act of following someone while ailing is an ailment.

As an adjective ailing is

sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

tailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of following someone.
  • (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (obsolete) sexual intercourse
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * tailings

    ailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ailment.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

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