Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Vale"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
--South.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw
hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
--Chapman.

2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or
benefit; a windfall. [Obs.]

3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; --
usually in the plural. [Written also {vale}.] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above.
--Montgomery.

In those fair vales, by nature formed to please.
--Harte.

Note: Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in
prose and common discourse.

Syn: Valley; dingle; dell; dale.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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