3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; — usually in the plural. [Written also vale.] Dryden.
VAIL Vail, v. t. Etym: [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.
VAIL
Vail, v. i.
Defn: 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.
VAIL
Vail, n.
Defn: Submission; decline; descent. [Obs.]
VAILER
Vail"er, n.
Defn: One who vails. [Obs.] Overbury.