Search the Dictionary

To remove from a file or record.

Not defiled; pure. [Obs.] Surrey.

Utterly merciless. [Obs.] Joye.

To take the tiles from; to uncover by removing the tiles.

One who removes a veil.

To pile, or heap, up. Southey.

Profitable; useful. [Obs.]

One who vails. [Obs.] Overbury.

Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden. "Words used to convey a veiled meaning." Earle.

A fogged plate.

Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. [R.] The example . . . of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.

Liable to be turned in opinion; changeable; variable; unsteady; inconstant; as versatile disposition.

to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.

Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable. A poor man in vile raiment. James ii. 2. The craft either of fishing, which was Peter's, or of making tents, which was Paul's, were [was] more vile than the science of physic. Ridley. The inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing. Abp. Abbot.

Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile. [Obs.] "Viled speeches." Hayward.

Villainous. [Obs.] "Vileyns sinful deeds make a churl." Chaucer.

l; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.

ed; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper. You are as giddy and volatile as ever. Swift. Volatile alkali. (Old Chem.) See under Alkali. -- Volatile liniment, a liniment composed of sweet oil and ammonia, so called from the readiness with which the latter evapo…

Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness.

Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble.