Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
- Vail on
sanan veil yleinen väärin kirjoitettu muoto.
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (obsolete) Profit; return; proceeds.
- (obsolete) Submission.
- Archaic form of veil.
- (chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale.
Verbi
- (transitive, obsolete) To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
- Archaic form of veil.
- (transitive, vexillology) To lower or “dip” a carried flag or banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the banner and the finial of the pike are allowed to rest upon the ground.
- (intransitive, obsolete, nautical) To lower a sail, in salute or otherwise.
- (transitive, obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).
Esimerkit
- My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
- 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!
Taivutusmuodot