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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.

base or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.] Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson.

A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel. Encyc. Brit.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.

A she-devil. [R.] Sterne.

A little devil. [R.] Barham.

To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [R.]

To render vile. [Obs.] Daniel.

See Ovine.

ption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise. He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman. Kettlewell. The privilege birthright was a double portion. Locke. A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties. Burke.

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law) (a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A com…

abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. "And did not she herself revile me there" Shak. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again. 1 Pet. ii. 23.

The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.

One who reviles. 1. Cor. vi. 10.

eding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile knee. Thomson. Fearing dying pays death servile breath. Shak.

In a servile manner; slavishly.

Quality of being servile; servility.