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Avails; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.] My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation. Chapman.

One who vails. [Obs.] Overbury.

t which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor. Spenser. Her ventail up so high that he descried Her goodly visage and her beauty's pride. Fairfax.

Food; victuals. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

d genera of the family Motacillidæ. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name. Field wagtail, any one of several species of wagtails of the genus Budytes having the tail shorter, the legs longer, and the hind claw longer and straighter, than do the water wagtails. Most of t…

To choose; to select. [Obs.] "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.

One who wails or laments.

A woman who wails. [Obs.]

Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.

In a wailing manner.

Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

ich such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse. "In merry wassail he . . . peals his loud song." Sir W. Scott. The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail. Shak. The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail. Prescott.

One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]

Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.

A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.

y aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail.

See under Wagtail.

Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood. Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle (Aquila audax) which feeds on various small species of kangaroos, and on lam…

The Virginia deer.