英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Vail
(n.)
Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
Vail
(n.)
An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or
benefit; a windfall.
Vail
(n.)
Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually
in the plural.
Vail
(v. t.)
To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
Vail
(v. t.)
To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence,
submission, or the like.
Vail
(v. i.)
To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by
yielding, uncovering, or the like.
Vail
(n.)
Submission; decline; descent.
Vailer
(n.)
One who vails.
Vaimure
(n.)
An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure.
Vain
(superl.)
Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty;
void; worthless; unsatisfying.
Vain
(superl.)
Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose;
fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
Vain
(superl.)
Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments;
having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason;
conceited; puffed up; inflated.
Vain
(superl.)
Showy; ostentatious.
Vain
(n.)
Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
Vainglorious
(a.)
Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity;
boastful.
Vainglory
(n.)
Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances;
empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
Vainly
(adv.)
In a vain manner; in vain.
Vainness
(n.)
The quality or state of being vain.
Vair
(n.)
The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century
as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period
in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is
represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close
together, and alternately white and blue.
Vairy
(n.)
Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures.
See Vair.