Words that rhyme with mayle

n 1: aromatic bulb used as seasoning [syn: garlic, ail] v 1: be ill or unwell 2: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed [syn: trouble, ail, pain]

n 1: a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume

v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack] 2: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend] 3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]

n 1: a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it" [syn: avail, help, service] v 1: use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources" 2: be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty" 3: take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies" [syn: avail, help]

n 1: (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial; "the judge set bail at $10,000"; "a $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman" [syn: bail, bail bond, bond] 2: the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial); "he is out on bail" v 1: release after a security has been paid 2: deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period 3: secure the release of (someone) by providing security 4: empty (a vessel) by bailing 5: remove (water) from a vessel with a container

n 1: a large bundle bound for storage or transport 2: a city in northwestern Switzerland [syn: Basel, Basle, Bale] v 1: make into a bale; "bale hay"

v 1: regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan]

n 1: a small net used to draw fish into a boat 2: a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in v 1: take in a sail with a brail 2: haul fish aboard with brails

n 1: French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852) [syn: Braille, Louis Braille] 2: a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals v 1: transcribe in braille

n 1: an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling

n 1: a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed)

v 1: place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school" [syn: restrict, curtail, curb, cut back] 2: terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries" [syn: clip, curtail, cut short]

adv 1: every day; without missing a day; "he stops by daily" 2: gradually and progressively; "his health weakened day by day" [syn: day by day, daily] adj 1: of or belonging to or occurring every day; "daily routine"; "a daily paper" [syn: daily, day-to-day, day-by-day, day-after-day] 2: appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes" [syn: casual, everyday, daily] n 1: a newspaper that is published every day

n 1: an open river valley (in a hilly area)

adv 1: in a manner lacking interest or vitality; "a palely entertaining show" [syn: pallidly, palely, dimly] 2: in a pale manner; without physical or emotional color; "his wife, always palely appealing"

v 1: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail] 2: be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds" [syn: prevail, hold, obtain] 3: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure] 4: prove superior; "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight" [syn: prevail, triumph] 5: use persuasion successfully; "He prevailed upon her to visit his parents"

n 1: flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised 2: small gallinaceous game birds v 1: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail]

n 1: an ordered reference standard; "judging on a scale of 1 to 10" [syn: scale, scale of measurement, graduated table, ordered series] 2: relative magnitude; "they entertained on a grand scale" 3: the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; "the scale of the map"; "the scale of the model" 4: a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin [syn: scale, scale leaf] 5: a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin [syn: scale, scurf, exfoliation] 6: (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) [syn: scale, musical scale] 7: a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass [syn: scale, weighing machine] 8: an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks 9: a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) [syn: plate, scale, shell] 10: a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals v 1: measure by or as if by a scale; "This bike scales only 25 pounds" 2: pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard 3: take by attacking with scaling ladders; "The troops scaled the walls of the fort" 4: reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc" [syn: scale, surmount] 5: climb up by means of a ladder 6: remove the scales from; "scale fish" [syn: scale, descale] 7: measure with or as if with scales; "scale the gold" 8: size or measure according to a scale; "This model must be scaled down"

adj 1: rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf [syn: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy] 2: having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles [syn: scaly, scaley, scaled]

n 1: freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell 2: edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic [syn: escargot, snail] v 1: gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"

adj 1: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" [ant: fresh] 2: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth- eaten theories about race"; "stale news" [syn: cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten] v 1: urinate, of cattle and horses

n 1: a track or mark left by something that has passed; "there as a trail of blood"; "a tear left its trail on her cheek" 2: a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country 3: evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" [syn: lead, track, trail] v 1: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" [syn: drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back] 2: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track] 3: move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly; "John trailed behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart" [syn: trail, shack] 4: hang down so as to drag along the ground; "The bride's veiled trailed along the ground" 5: drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her" [syn: trail, train]

n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed] 2: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat] v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]

n 1: a small guitar having four strings [syn: uke, ukulele]

v 1: remove the veil from; "Women must not unveil themselves in public in Islamic societies" [ant: veil] 2: make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her" [syn: uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal] 3: remove the cover from; "unveil a painting"

adv 1: as a verb; "he had a habit of using nouns verbally" 2: by means of language; "verbally expressive"

n 1: a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid

n 1: United States singer (1918-1990) [syn: Bailey, Pearl Bailey, Pearl Mae Bailey] 2: English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742) [syn: Bailey, Nathan Bailey, Nathaniel Bailey] 3: the outer courtyard of a castle 4: the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle

n 1: the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Republic [syn: Dail Eireann, Dail]

n 1: small individual study area in a library [syn: carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall]

v 1: keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing" [syn: surveil, follow, survey]

n 1: a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries [syn: Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale]

n 1: United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931) [syn: Ailey, Alvin Ailey]

n 1: United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981) [syn: Haley, Bill Haley, William John Clifton Haley Jr.] 2: United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992) [syn: Haley, Alex Haley]

n 1: British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881) [syn: Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people n 1: a native or inhabitant of Israel

adj 1: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)]