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Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Vail
VAIL, noun [Latin velum, from velo, to cover, to spread over. It is correctly written vailfor e, in Latin, is our adjective ]
1. Any kind of cloth which is used for intercepting the view and hiding something; as the vail of the temple among the Israelites.
2. A piece of thin cloth or silk stuff, used by females to hide their faces. In some eastern countries, certain classes of females never appear abroad without vails.
3. A cover; that which conceals; as the vail of oblivion.
4. In botany, the membranous covering of the germen in the Musci and Hepaticae; the calypter.
5. Vails, money given to servants. [Not used in America.]
VAIL, verb transitive [Latin velo.] To cover; to hide from the sight; as, to vail the face.
VAIL, verb transitive
1. To let fall.
They stiffly refused to vail their bonnets.
[I believe wholly obsolete.]
2. To let fall; to lower; as, to vail the topsail. obsolete
3. To let fall; to sink. obsolete
VAIL, verb intransitive To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding.
Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor’s necessity. obsolete
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Vex
VEX, verb transitive [Latin vexo.]
1. To irritate; to make angry by little provocations; a popular use of the word.
2. To plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict.
Ten thousand torments vex my heart.
3. To disturb; to disquiet; to agitate.
White curl the waves, and the vex’d ocean roars.
4. To trouble; to distress.
I will also vex the hearts of many people. Ezekiel 32:9.
5. To persecute. Acts 12:1.
6. To stretch, as by hooks. [Not in use.]
VEX, verb intransitive To fret; to be teased or irritated.
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Vinegar
VIN’EGAR, noun
1. Vegetable acid; an acid liquor obtained from wine, cider, beer or other liquors, by the second or acetous fermentation. vinegar may differ indefinitely in the degree of its acidity. When highly concentrated, it is called radical vinegar
2. Any thing really or metaphorically sour. [Not in use.]
Vinegar of lead, a liquor formed by digesting ceruse or litharge with a sufficient quantity of vinegar to dissolve it.