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Where some chichi ski
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vail
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"advantage, profit," early 15c., from vail (v.) "to be of use or service" (c.1300), from Old French vail , from valoir "to be of value or worth" (see value (n.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (surname) 2 A CDP in Arizona 3 A town in Colorado 4 A city in Iowa
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2484 Housing Units (2000): 906 Land area (2000): 18.205051 sq. miles (47.150863 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 18.205051 sq. miles (47.150863 sq. km) FIPS code: 78540 Located within: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veil \Veil\ (v[=a]l), n. [OE. veile, OF. veile, F. voile, L. velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably fr. vehere to bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship on. See Vehicle , and cf. Reveal .] [Written also vail .] Something hung ...
Usage examples of vail.
Sometimes Tortha Karf or Verkan Vail would punch one of these, and read, on an adjoining screen, the explanatory matter referred to.
Fifth-Level North America, it had been taken to the First Level and placed in the Dhergabar Zoological Gardens, and then, requisitioned on the authority of Tortha Karf, it had been brought to the Fourth Level by Verkan Vail.
First Level city of Dhergarbar, Tortha Karf, Chief of Paratime Police, leaned forward in his chair to hold his lighter for his special assistant, Verkan Vail, then lit his own cigarette.
Tortha Karf was explaining to Vail just where and on what paratemporal sector Kharanda was spoken.
Vail and Tortha Karf were talking cop talk about method of operation and possible size of the gang involved, and why the slaves had been shipped all the way from India to the west coast of North America.
As Vail and Tortha Karf and Dalla walked over, the car which had brought them lifted out.
Tortha Karf, who had been looking at the man in Proletarian dress whom Vail had killed first, turned, looked in another direction, and then cursed.
Vail and Dalla and Tortha Karf and four or five others looked across the desk and to the end of the room as the telecast screen broke into a shifting light-pattern and then cleared.
Western Union at Loma Blanca, to the south and hence closer to where Billy Vail had ordered him to go in the first damned place.
Once El Paso had been known as Franklin, and Billy Vail had served with the Ranger company that had been headquartered here in those days.
She dropped him a courtesy with an uplook and again a vailing of her wicked eyes.
Jane Venable before him, Vail had little respect for Yancey as a litigator but liked him personally.
It is the story of great men--Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others--and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the technical and commercial fields, they succeeded in flashing both messages and speech around the world, with wires and without wires.
Vail since he entered the big room, watching the minglers part like water before him, congratulate him, pat him on the back, then swirl back to continue their conversations in his wake.
At first, Vail thought that Salgath Trod had been brought in disguised as a Prole prisoner, and then he saw that the prisoner was short and stocky, not at all like the slender and elegant politician.