AIL

garlic, ail

(noun) aromatic bulb used as seasoning

trouble, ail, pain

(verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

ail

(verb) be ill or unwell

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailing, simple past and past participle ailed)

(transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)

(intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.

Noun

ail (plural ails)

(obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.

Etymology 2

Adjective

ail (comparative ailer or more ail, superlative ailest or most ail)

(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.

Etymology 3

Noun

ail (plural ails)

The awn of barley or other types of corn.

Anagrams

• -ial, Ali, IAL, LIA, Lai, ali-, lai

Source: Wiktionary

Ail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ailing.] Etym: [OE. eilen, ailen, AS. eglan to trouble, pain; akin to Goth. us-agljan to distress, agls troublesome, irksome, aglo, aglitha, pain, and prob. to E. awe.

Definition: 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. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

Note: It is never used to express a specific disease. We do not say, a fever ails him; but, something ails him.

Ail, v. i.

Definition: To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble. When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish. Richardson.

Ail, n.

Definition: Indisposition or morbid affection. Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition