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Definitions of Vail:
  • name:  A surname (common: 1 in 25000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #2913)
  • noun:   (obsolete) Profit; return; proceeds.
  • noun:   (chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale.
  • noun:   (obsolete) Submission.
  • verb:   (transitive, obsolete) To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
  • verb:   (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.
  • verb:   (intransitive, obsolete, nautical) To lower a sail, in salute or otherwise.
  • verb:   (transitive, obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
  • verb:   (intransitive, obsolete) To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).
  • noun:   A surname.
  • noun:   A census-designated place in Arizona
  • noun:   A town in Colorado
  • noun:   A city in Iowa
  • noun:   Misspelling of veil. [Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.]
  • verb:   Misspelling of veil. [(transitive) To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.]

(Definitions from Wiktionary)

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