Dictionary Entry
An ailment; trouble; illness.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “ail”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;
All thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:
Read full poem →Not a child? alack the year!
What should ail an undefiled
Heart, that he would fain appear
Read full poem →ple at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the
meantime, exposed to ail the dangers of invasions from
without. and convulsions within.
Read full poem →Spring will not ail nor autumn falter;
Nothing will know that you are gone,
Read full poem →Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes
My heart. I know that Beauty must ail and die,
And will be born again,--but ah, to see
Read full poem →Of It owne kinde, all foyzen, ail abundance
Read full poem →My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked "what could I ail?"
My life and all seemed turned to clay.
Read full poem →And aye she sighs wi’ care and pain;
Yet wist na what her ail might be,
Or what wad make her weel again.
