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Weakly; infirmly.

Frailty.

The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. Locke.

Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger.

A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.

A jailer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. Chaucer.

A lively French and Italian dance.

Merrily; showily. See gaily.

A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

Management; mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

n the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. [Obs.] T. Warton. Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. Strype.

A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers. Knight.

Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [U. S.].

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

re they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones. Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky. Milton.

An intimate companion. Hail-fellow well met. Lyly.

To greet; to salute. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

Small shot which scatter like hailstones. [Obs.] Hayward.