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vail

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1. vail - Noun

2. vail - Verb

4. Vail - Proper noun

Meaning

Same as Veil.

Avails; profit; return; proceeds.

An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.

Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.

To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.

To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.

To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.

Submission; decline; descent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. Bede Jarrett

Vail Resorts School of Shred program is a great way to help encourage kids to stay active by getting them outside and on the mountain. Lindsey Vonn

For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look like birds, when they could pass as vultures and no questions asked. P. G. Wodehouse

For top of judgment doth not vail itself, Because the fire of love fulfils at once What he must satisfy who here installs him. Dante Alighieri

Are we silent to Jesus? Think! Have you nothing to ask Him? Nothing to thank Him for? Nothing to praise Him for? Nothing to confess? Oh, poor soul, go back to Bethlehem - to Gethsemane, to Calvary, and remember at what a cost the vail before the Holies was rent in twain that thou mightest enter it. Anna Shipton

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain. Lindsey Vonn

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