AIL, AILED, AILING
ADJECTIVES
1576 — CRAZY ailing, indisposed; diseased, sickly, weakly; frail, infirm → obs.
1585 — SILLY ailing, weakly, feeble, sickly → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1677 — CRAWLY-MAWLY in an ailing and weak state; poorly, sickly; indifferently well → Eng. dial.
1697 — AILDY ailing, poorly → Eng. dial. obs.
1746 — ILL-HEARTY ailing, delicate → Eng. dial.
1766 — PUNY not in good health; ailing, sickly → Amer. dial.
1787 — BADLY ailing, ill; in a state of ill health → Sc.
1787 — CRANKY ailing, sickly, in weak health, infirm in body → Eng. dial.
..19C — HILDING ailing, poorly → Eng. dial.
..19C — KIDLING ailing, physically weak → Eng. dial.
1842 — CREACHY ailing, infirm, ill, sickly → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1845 — AILDED ailed → Amer. dial.
1859 — QUEECHY ailing, sickly, queasy, feeble → Eng. dial.
1862 — PINDLING ailing, puny, sickly, delicate, weak, frail → Amer. dial.
1869 — OORIT ailing-looking or tired-looking, weak, puny, wearied, in poor spirits, miserable, dejected → Sc.
1887 — COMPLAINY ailing, ill, unwell → Amer. dial.
1888 — CAILING ailing, weakly → Eng. dial.
1888 — ON THE LIFT ailing, sick, ill, or exhausted; too weak to stand unaided → Amer. dial.
1891 — PALCHED always ailing, very frail and delicate in constitution, broken down in health → Eng. dial.
1895 — HALISH ailing, weak; pale, sickly in appearance → Eng. dial.
1896 — AHILDING ailing, poorly → Eng. dial.
1897 — PALCHY always ailing, very frail and delicate in constitution, broken down in health → Eng. dial.
1898 — ADDLE ailing, unwell → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MEEKING ailing, lacking energy, drooping → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — OFF (OF) THE HOOKS ailing, shabby, worn out → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — PACHETTY ailing, weak, in bad health → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — UNHEARTSOME slightly ailing, esp. used of the sensation of cold → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — UNHEARTY ailing somewhat, esp. used of the sensation of cold → Sc. (Bk.)
1916 — CROOK ailing, ill, out of sorts; injured, disabled → Aust. & NZ
1929 — OOLIE ailing, ill, out-of-sorts → Sc.
1929 — OOLIE-LIKE ailing, ill, out-of-sorts → Sc.
1932 — BADLINS ailing, out of health, poorly → Sc.
1952 — DOWN ON THE LIFT ailing, sick, ill, or exhausted; too weak to stand unaided → Amer. dial.
1959 — PINDLY ailing, puny, sickly, delicate, weak, frail → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1489 — YEELDE to ail → obs.
1560 — ELD to ail → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1820 — ORP to be constantly ailing and sickly, not to thrive, to complain from ill health, to shrink, to shrivel → Sc.
1821 — TEIL to ail, to be amiss → Eng. dial. obs.
1859 — LINGER to ail, to have a continuing illness → Amer. dial.
1893 — GRUNT to be ailing or ill, to be unwell → Amer. dial.
1917 — LINGER ON to ail, to have a continuing illness → Amer. dial.
1942 — FEEL LIKE THE WALKING DEAD to ail, to feel poorly → US sl. (Bk.)
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