Results for Vail

Definitions of Vail:

part of speech: verb transitive

To let fall.

part of speech: noun

Money given to servants by employers, visitors, or others, as a perquisite or present; customary or stipulated perquisites to servants, as grease and broken meat to a cook, and left- off clothes to a personal servant.

part of speech: noun, transitive verb

Same as Veil.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To yield.

Usage examples for Vail:

• Answer me, Jane Vail "Jane Journeys On", Ruth Comfort Mitchell

• You had begun to pull the vail from my eyes; but nothing tears the whole mask off, like the hand of death, like impending judgment. "Coelebs In Search of a Wife", Hannah More

• Her figure was very slight and diminutive, and at the parties at her own house she always was dressed entirely in white- in some rich white silk, with a white bonnet covered with a rich blonde or lace vail on her head; she looked like a little old witch bride. "Records of a Girlhood", Frances Ann Kemble