Ails a cock (alzakok)

A local name for the puffin, Fratercula arctic a, from its breeding about Ailsa Craig, in the Frith of Clyde, Scotland. See cut under puffin. Ailuridæ (ā-lūʻri-dē), n. pl. Same as Elurida. aill (al), v. [ aylen , earlier eilen , eylen, ezlen, eglian , eglan , trouble, pain, = Goth. * agljan , only in comp. usagljan , trouble exceedingly, distre ; from the adj.: see aill , a. and n.] 1. trans . To affect with pain or un- Ailuroidea (ā-lu-roi de-a), n . pl . Same as Elu- easine , either of body or of mind; trouble: roidea . used in relation to some uneasine or affection Ailuropus (a-lu'rō-pus), n. Same as Eluropus . whose cause is unknown: as, what ails the man? Ailurus (ā-lū'rus), n. Same as Ælur us . What aileth thee, Hagar? Gen. xxi. 17. What do you ail , my love? why do you weep? Webster, The White Devil, iv. 2. Never rave nor rail, Nor ask questions what I ail . Peele, Edward I. (Dyce ed., 1861), p. 395. [Rarely used with a specific disease as subject, unle colloquially in iterative answer to a question: as, "What ails you? A pleurisy ails me."] II. in trans. To feel pain; be ill (usually in a slight degree); be unwell: now used chiefly in the present participle: as, he is ailing to-day. And much he ails , and yet he is not sick. Daniel , Civil Wars, iii. One day the child began to ail. R. H. Stoddard , Pearl of the Philippines. aill n. [From the verb. Cf. early ME. eile , eil, harm (very rare); from the adj.] Indisposi tion or morbid affection; ailment. Pope.