Usually means: Yield, submit, or lower (historically).
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. vail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Vail, vail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vail, vail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Vail, vail: Wordnik
  6. Vail, vail: Wiktionary
  7. vail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. vail: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. vail: Dictionary.com
  10. Vail (surname), Vail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Vail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. vail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Vail: Rhymezone
  14. Vail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. vail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Vail: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. vail: Free Dictionary
  18. vail: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -vail: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vail: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vail: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. VAIL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. VAIL: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vail: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (vail)

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 placename
noun:  A census-designated place in Arizona, United States
noun:  A town in Colorado, United States
noun:  A city in Iowa, United States
noun:  Archaic form 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.]
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:  Archaic form of veil. [(transitive) To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.]
verb:  Misspelling of veil. [(transitive) To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.]

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