Vail
[veil]
Definition
(n. & v. t.) Same as Veil.
(n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
(n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
(n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
(v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
(v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
(n.) Submission; decline; descent.
Typed by Anatole
Definition
v.i. (poet.) to profit avail.—n.pl. Vails money given to servants by a visitor—also Vales.
v.t. to let fall.—v.i. to yield: to drop move down.—n. (Shak.) submission decline.—n. Vail′er.
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Examples
- Hubbard had advertised Bell’s telephone, Sanders had financed it, and now Vail pushed it on the market. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We have already heard in Morse’s statement of the arrival of Mr. Alfred Vail. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then Mr. Vail admitted that he was satisfied. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Those were hard times for Vail and the partners back of him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Vail, formerly one of the Menlo Park staff. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Vail, and Vail accepted the offer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- That same day he wrote to Alfred Vail that the bill was reached a few minutes before midnight and passed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The patent was obtained on October 3, 1837, and Vail set to work to prepare the new models. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Vail received the message in Baltimore, and the first demonstration was a complete success. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Prior to the summer of 1837, at which time Mr. Alfred Vail’s attention became attracted to my telegraph, I depended upon my pencil for subsistence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then, all but the convention committee being excluded from the telegraph room in Baltimore, message after message was sent over the wire by Vail to Morse and Silas Wright in Washington. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr. Vail had charge of the dynamo-room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To which must be added his adoption of Alfred Vail's improved alphabet, and Vail's practical suggestions in respect to the recording and other instrumentalities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The present instrument is in its mechanical form far more the work of Vail than of Morse. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Moreover, the United States government now seemed to have lost interest in the subject, and his partners, the Vails, were having financial difficulties of their own. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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