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| 7 results for vale | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Vail \Vail\, v. i. To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also {vale}, and {veil}.] [Obs.] Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. --South. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Vail \Vail\, n. [Aphetic form of avail, n.] 1. Avails; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.] My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation. --Chapman. 2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall. [Obs.] 3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural. [Written also {vale}.] --Dryden. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Vail \Vail\, v. t. [Aphetic form of avale. See {Avale}, {Vale}.] [Written also {vale}, and {veil}.] 1. To let fail; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.] Vail your regard Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid! --Shak. 2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like. France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! --Shak. Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic. --Sir. W. Scott. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Vale \Vale\, n. See 2d {Vail}, 3. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Vale \Vale\, n. [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr. [?] low ground, marsh meadow. Cf. {Avalanche}, {Vail} to lower, {Valley}.] A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. [bd] Make me a cottage in the vale.[b8] --Tennyson. Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. --Montgomery. In those fair vales, by nature formed to please. --Harte. Note: Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse. Syn: Valley; dingle; dell; dale. | |
| From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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Vale, NC Zip code(s): 28168 Vale, OR (city, FIPS 76600) Location: 43.98311 N, 117.24053 W Population (1990): 1491 (627 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97918 Vale, SD Zip code(s): 57788 | |
