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
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.
ail (plural ails)
(obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.
ail (comparative ailer or more ail, superlative ailest or most ail)
(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
ail (plural ails)
The awn of barley or other types of corn.
• -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
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
