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Webster 1828 Edition
Ailing
A'ILING
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Definition 2024
ailing
ailing
English
Noun
ailing (plural ailings)
- An ailment.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
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Verb
ailing
- present participle of ail
Adjective
ailing (comparative more ailing, superlative most ailing)
Translations
sick