An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
VAILS
Noun
vails
plural of vail
Verb
vails
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vail
Anagrams
• Alvis, Salvi, Silva, Slavi, Sliva, Vasil, Vials, Vilas, silva, valis, vials, vilas
Source: Wiktionary
VAIL
Vail, n. & v. t.
Definition: Same as Veil.
Vail, n. Etym: [Aphetic form of avail, n.]
1. Avails; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.] My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation. Chapman.
2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall. [Obs.]
3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural. [Written also vale.] Dryden.
Vail, v. t. Etym: [Aphetic form of avale. See Avale, Vale.] [Written also vale, and veil.]
1. To let fail; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.] Vail your regard Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid! Shak.
2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like. France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! Shak. Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic. Sir. W. Scott.
Vail, v. i.
Definition: To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also vale, and veil.] [Obs.] Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. South.
Vail, n.
Definition: Submission; decline; descent. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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