Definition of ail

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Ail (v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him..

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Miscognize :: Miscognize (v. t.) To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
Uptails All :: Uptails all () An old game at cards.
Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..
Fragility :: Fragility (n.) Liability to error and sin; frailty.
Induce :: Induce (v. t.) To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.
Unfalcated :: Unfalcated (a.) Having no deductions; not curtailed, or shortened; undiminished..
Outrigger :: Outrigger (n.) Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle..
Graille :: Graille (n.) A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers..
Umbles :: Umbles (n. pl.) The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general..
Car Wheel :: Car wheel () A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.
Orthodromy :: Orthodromy (n.) The act or art of sailing on a great circle.
Pentail :: Pentail (n.) A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip..
Water Wagtail :: Water wagtail () See under Wagtail.
Fungivorous :: Fungivorous (a.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
Drainage :: Drainage (n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works..
Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour..
Apteryx :: Apteryx (n.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known..
Swinger :: Swingel (n.) The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
Graduation :: Graduation (n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc..
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