Vailed vs Wailed - What's the difference?
vailed | wailed |
(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
(wail)
A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.
A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
To make a noise like mourning or crying.
To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.
(slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.
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(obsolete) To choose; to select.
* Henryson
As verbs the difference between vailed and wailed
is that vailed is (vail) while wailed is (wail).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!
Etymology 3
Anagrams
* * *wailed
English
Verb
(head)wail
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl)Etymology inWebster's Dictionary
Noun
(en noun)- She let out a loud, doleful wail .
- The wail of snow-dark winter winds.
- A bird's wail in the night.
Verb
(en verb)- The wind wailed and the rain streamed down.
- to wail one's death
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* wailer * wailinglyReferences
Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic word for "choice".Verb
(en verb)- Wailed wine and meats
