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ition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

Profit; advantage. [Obs.]

The action of bailing a person accused. Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.

The act of bewailing.

The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. Bancroft.

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C.

A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of retailing.

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

stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]

An ailment or disease of the body. One in a complaint of his bowels. Arbuthnot.

A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.

To free from entailment.

Sickness; ailment; sorrow. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith.

A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. Story.

rises; -- distinguished from transitory actions. -- Local affection (Med.), a disease or ailment confined to a particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the system. -- Local attraction (Magnetism), an attraction near a compass, causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction, especially on shipboar…