The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vail \Vail\, n. [Aphetic form of avail, n.]
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   1. Avails; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.]
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            My house is as 'twere the cave where the young
            outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
                                                  --Chapman.
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   2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or
      benefit; a windfall. [Obs.]
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   3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; --
      usually in the plural. [Written also vale.] --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vail \Vail\, v. t. [Aphetic form of avale. See Avale, Vale.]
   [Written also vale, and veil.]
   1. To let fall; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.]
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            Vail your regard
            Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence,
      submission, or the like.
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            France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! --Shak.
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            Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any
            reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic.
                                                  --Sir. W.
                                                  Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vail \Vail\ (v[=a]l), v. i.
   To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by
   yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also vale, and
   veil.] [Obs.]
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         Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
                                                  --South.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vale \Vale\ (v[=a]l), n. [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps
   akin to Gr. 'e`los low ground, marsh meadow. Cf. Avalanche,
   Vail to lower, Valley.]
   A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. "
   Make me a cottage in the vale." --Tennyson.
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         Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above.
                                                  --Montgomery.
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         In those fair vales, by nature formed to please.
                                                  --Harte.
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   Note: Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in
         prose and common discourse.
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   Syn: Valley; dingle; dell; dale.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vale \Vale\, n.
   See 2d Vail, 3.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vale
    n 1: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually
         contains a river [syn: valley, vale]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "vale":
   Earth, Gaea, Ge, Tellus, Terra, biosphere, bottom, bottom glade,
   bottoms, combe, dale, dell, dingle, gap, geography, geosphere,
   gill, glen, globe, grove, intervale, lunar rill, mother earth,
   pass, ravine, strath, terra, terrestrial globe, the blue planet,
   this pendent world, trench, trough, vale of tears, valley, wadi,
   whole wide world, world



U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Vale, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
   Population (2000):    1976
   Housing Units (2000): 724
   Land area (2000):     1.082773 sq. miles (2.804369 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.082773 sq. miles (2.804369 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            76600
   Located within:       Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
   Location:             43.982237 N, 117.243483 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     97918
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Vale, OR
    Vale