AVAIL | • avail v. (Transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of. • avail v. (Transitive) To be of service to. • avail v. (Transitive) To promote; to assist. |
BRAIL | • brail n. (Nautical) A small rope used to truss up sails. • brail n. (Falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk’s wing. • brail n. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. |
DRAIL | • drail n. (Fishing) A hook with a lead shank. • drail n. (Fishing) The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook. • drail n. The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw. |
EMAIL | • email n. (Uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network. • email n. (Uncountable) A quantity of messages sent through an email system. • email n. (Countable) A message sent through an email system. |
FLAIL | • flail n. A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece… • flail n. A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain. • flail v. (Transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement. |
FRAIL | • frail adj. Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish. • frail adj. Weak; infirm. • frail adj. Mentally fragile. |
GRAIL | • grail n. The Holy Grail. • grail n. Something eagerly sought or quested for. • grail n. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. |
QUAIL | • quail v. (Intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither. • quail v. (Transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone). • quail v. (Intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. |
SCAIL | • SCAIL v. (Scots) to scatter, disperse, also SKAIL. |
SKAIL | • skail n. (Obsolete, Scotland) scale. • SKAIL v. (Scots) to disperse, scatter, also SCAIL. |
SNAIL | • snail n. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. • snail n. (Informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard. • snail n. (Engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion… |
SPAIL | • SPAIL n. a splinter or chip, also SPALE, SPALL, SPALT. |
SWAIL | • SWAIL n. a tract of low, marshy ground, also SWALE. |
TRAIL | • trail v. (Transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something). • trail v. (Transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground. • trail v. (Transitive) To leave (a trail of). |