Vailed vs Vailer - What's the difference?
vailed | vailer |
(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 a verb vailed
is (vail).As a noun vailer is
(label) one who vails.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!