faile

present singular third person failes · participle present failing · participle past failed · past failed

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of fail.

   But none can be got, which pleases him the thoughts of, for, if the Exchequer should succeede in this, his office would faile.

   1665 December 6 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 27th, 1665 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 156

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   And lest by her long talke she should be found to trip or faile in her words, she filled their laps with gold, silver, and Jewels, and commanded Zephyrus to carry them away.

   1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse

plural Failes

1. A surname.