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V Dictionary V - As a numeral, V stands for five, in English and Latin.
Vaagmer Dictionary V - noun The dealfish.
Vacancies Dictionary V - pleural of Vacancy.
Vacancy Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
Vacant Dictionary V - adjective Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.
Vacantly Dictionary V - adverb In a vacant manner; inanely.
Vacated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vacate.
Vacating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vacate.
Vacate Dictionary V - verb transitive To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.
Vacation Dictionary V - noun The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
Vaccary Dictionary V - noun A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.
Vaccina Dictionary V - noun Vaccinia.
Vaccinal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.
Vaccinated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vaccinate.
Vaccinating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vaccinate.
Vaccinate Dictionary V - verb transitive To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.
Vaccination Dictionary V - noun The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.
Vaccinator Dictionary V - noun One who, or that which, vaccinates.
Vaccine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.
Vaccinia Dictionary V - noun Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.
Vaccinist Dictionary V - noun A vaccinator.
Vaccinium Dictionary V - noun A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
Vacher Dictionary V - noun A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
Vachery Dictionary V - noun An inclosure for cows.
Vacillancy Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering.
Vacillant Dictionary V - adjective Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.
Vacillated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vacillate.
Vacillating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vacillate.
Vacillate Dictionary V - verb transitive To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Vacillation Dictionary V - noun The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering.
Vacillatory Dictionary V - adjective Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute.
Vacuate Dictionary V - verb transitive To make void, or empty.
Vacuation Dictionary V - noun The act of emptying; evacuation.
Vacuist Dictionary V - noun One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; - opposed to plenist.
Vacuity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.
Vacuna Dictionary V - noun The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.
Vacuolated Dictionary V - adjective Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells.
Vacuolation Dictionary V - noun Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles.
Vacuole Dictionary V - noun A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm.
Vacuous Dictionary V - adjective Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
Vacuousness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.
Vacuums Dictionary V - pleural of Vacuum.
Vacua Dictionary V - pleural of Vacuum.
Vacuum Dictionary V - noun A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
Vadantes Dictionary V - noun plural An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.
Vade Dictionary V - intransitive verb To fade; hence, to vanish.
Vade mecum Dictionary V - A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook.
Vadimony Dictionary V - noun A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.
Vadium Dictionary V - noun Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
Vae Dictionary V - noun See Voe.
Vafrous Dictionary V - adjective Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks.
Vagabond Dictionary V - adjective Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
Vagabondage Dictionary V - noun The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
Vagabondism Dictionary V - noun Vagabondage.
Vagabondize Dictionary V - intransitive verb To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
Vagabondry Dictionary V - noun Vagabondage.
Vagal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.
Vagancy Dictionary V - noun A wandering; vagrancy.
Vagantes Dictionary V - particle plural A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey.
Vagarious Dictionary V - adjective Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety.
Vagaries Dictionary V - pleural of Vagary.
Vagary Dictionary V - noun A wandering or strolling.
Vagient Dictionary V - adjective Crying like a child.
Vaginae Dictionary V - pleural of Vagina.
Vagina Dictionary V - noun A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.
Vaginal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.
Vaginant Dictionary V - adjective Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing.
Vaginate Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Vaginated.
Vaginated Dictionary V - adjective Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.
Vaginati Dictionary V - noun plural A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.
Vaginervose Dictionary V - adjective Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.
Vaginicola Dictionary V - noun A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.
Vaginismus Dictionary V - noun A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.
Vaginitis Dictionary V - noun Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.
Vaginopennous Dictionary V - adjective Having elytra; sheath-winged.
Vaginula Dictionary V - noun A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
Vaginule Dictionary V - noun A vaginula.
Vagissate Dictionary V - intransitive verb To caper or frolic.
Vagous Dictionary V - adjective Wandering; unsettled.
Vagrancy Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Vagrant Dictionary V - adjective Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
Vagrantly Dictionary V - adverb In a vagrant manner.
Vagrantness Dictionary V - noun State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
Vague Dictionary V - intransitive verb Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
Vaguely Dictionary V - adverb In a vague manner.
Vagueness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vague.
Vagus Dictionary V - adjective Wandering; - applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.
Vail Dictionary V - noun & transitive verb Same as Veil.
Vailer Dictionary V - noun One who vails.
Vaimure Dictionary V - noun An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure.
Vain Dictionary V - superlative Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
Vainglorious Dictionary V - adjective Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
Vainglory Dictionary V - noun Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
Vainly Dictionary V - adverb In a vain manner; in vain.
Vainness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vain.
Vair Dictionary V - noun The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.
Vairy Dictionary V - noun Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.
Vaishnava Dictionary V - noun A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.
Vaishnavism Dictionary V - noun The worship of Vishnu.
Vaisya Dictionary V - noun The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.
Vaivode Dictionary V - noun See Waywode.
Vakeel Dictionary V - noun A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador.
Valance Dictionary V - noun Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor.
Valanced Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Valance.
Valancing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Valance.
Vale Dictionary V - noun A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
Valediction Dictionary V - noun A farewell; a bidding farewell.
Valedictorian Dictionary V - noun One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.
Valedictory Dictionary V - adjective Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.
Valedictories Dictionary V - pleural of Valedictory.
Valence Dictionary V - noun The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four.
Valencia Dictionary V - noun A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.
Valenciennes lace Dictionary V - A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net.
Valencies Dictionary V - pleural of Valency.
Valency Dictionary V - noun See Valence.
Valentia Dictionary V - noun See Valencia.
Valentine Dictionary V - noun A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.
Valentinian Dictionary V - noun One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; - so called from Valentinus, the founder.
Valeramide Dictionary V - noun The acid amide derivative of valeric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Valerate Dictionary V - noun A salt of valeric acid.
Valerian Dictionary V - noun Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic.
Valerianaceous Dictionary V - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaccae) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard.
Valerianate Dictionary V - noun A valerate.
Valerianic Dictionary V - adjective Performance to, or obtained from, valerian root; specifically, designating an acid which is usually called valeric acid.
Valeric Dictionary V - adjective Valerianic; specifically, designating any one of three metameric acids, of which the typical one (called also inactive valeric acid), C4H9CO2H, is obtained from valerian root and other sources, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese.
Valeridine Dictionary V - noun A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.
Valerin Dictionary V - noun A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor.
Valeritrine Dictionary V - noun A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles.
Valero- Dictionary V - A combining form (also used adjectively) indicating derivation from, or relation to, valerian or some of its products, as valeric acid; as in valerolactone, a colorless oily liquid produced as the anhydride of an hydroxy valeric acid.
Valerone Dictionary V - noun A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid.
Valeryl Dictionary V - noun The hypothetical radical C5H9O, regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives.
Valerylene Dictionary V - noun A liquid hydrocarbon, C5H8; - called also pentine.
Valet Dictionary V - noun A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.
Valetudinarian Dictionary V - adjective Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
Valetudinarianism Dictionary V - noun The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.
Valetudinary Dictionary V - adjective Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian.
Valetudinous Dictionary V - adjective Valetudinarian.
Valhalla Dictionary V - noun The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.
Valiance Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Valiancy.
Valiancy Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor.
Valiant Dictionary V - adjective Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.
Valid Dictionary V - adjective Strong; powerful; efficient.
Validate Dictionary V - verb transitive To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
Validation Dictionary V - noun The act of giving validity.
Validity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.
Validly Dictionary V - adverb In a valid manner; so as to be valid.
Validness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being valid.
Valinch Dictionary V - noun A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.
Valise Dictionary V - noun A small sack or case, usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau.
Valkyria Dictionary V - noun One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla.
Valkyrian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle.
Vallancy Dictionary V - noun A large wig that shades the face.
Vallar Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a rampart.
Vallary Dictionary V - adjective Same as Vallar.
Vallation Dictionary V - noun A rampart or intrenchment.
Vallatory Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a vallation; as, vallatory reads.
Valleculae Dictionary V - pleural of Vallecula.
Vallecula Dictionary V - noun A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.
Vallet's pills Dictionary V - Pills containing sulphate of iron and carbonate of sodium, mixed with saccharine matter; - called also Vallet's mass.
Valleys Dictionary V - pleural of Valley.
Valley Dictionary V - noun The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
Valla Dictionary V - pleural of Vallum.
Vallums Dictionary V - pleural of Vallum.
Vallum Dictionary V - noun A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
Valonia Dictionary V - noun The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.
Valor Dictionary V - noun Value; worth.
Valorous Dictionary V - adjective Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid.
Valsalvian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
Valuable Dictionary V - adjective Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
Valuableness Dictionary V - noun The quality of being valuable.
Valuably Dictionary V - adverb So as to be of value.
Valuation Dictionary V - noun The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.
Valuator Dictionary V - noun One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.
Value Dictionary V - noun The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.
Valued Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Value.
Valuing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Value.
Valueless Dictionary V - adjective Being of no value; having no worth.
Valuer Dictionary V - noun One who values; an appraiser.
Valure Dictionary V - noun Value.
Valvasor Dictionary V - noun See Vavasor.
Valvata Dictionary V - noun A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
Valvate Dictionary V - adjective Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.
Valve Dictionary V - noun A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
Valved Dictionary V - adjective Having a valve or valve; valvate.
Valvelet Dictionary V - noun A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
Valve-shell Dictionary V - noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
Valvulae Dictionary V - pleural of Valvula.
Valvula Dictionary V - noun A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
Valvular Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
Valvule Dictionary V - noun A little valve; a valvelet.
Valylene Dictionary V - noun A volatile liquid hydrocarbon, C5H6, related to ethylene and acetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the third degree. It is the only known member of a distinct series of compounds. It has a garlic odor.
Vambrace Dictionary V - noun The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
Vamose Dictionary V - verb intransitive & transitive To depart quickly; to depart from.
Vamp Dictionary V - intransitive verb To advance; to travel.
Vamped Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vamp.
Vamping Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vamp.
Vamper Dictionary V - noun One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.
Vampire Dictionary V - noun A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
Vampirism Dictionary V - noun Belief in the existence of vampires.
Vamplate Dictionary V - noun A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.
Vamure Dictionary V - noun See Vauntmure.
Van Dictionary V - noun The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
Vanadate Dictionary V - noun A salt of vanadic acid.
Vanadic Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds; as, vanadic oxide.
Vanadinite Dictionary V - noun A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.
Vanadious Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid.
Vanadite Dictionary V - noun A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.
Vanadium Dictionary V - noun A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.
Vanadous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; - said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen.
Vanadyl Dictionary V - noun The hypothetical radical VO, regarded as a characterized residue of certain vanadium compounds.
Van-courier Dictionary V - noun One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.
Vandal Dictionary V - noun One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
Vandalic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.
Vandalism Dictionary V - noun The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.
Vandyke Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the style of Vandyke the painter; used or represented by Vandyke.
Vane Dictionary V - noun A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
Vanessa Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.
Vanessian Dictionary V - noun A vanessa.
Vanfess Dictionary V - noun A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water.
Vang Dictionary V - noun A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.
Vanglo Dictionary V - noun Benne (Sesamum orientale); also, its seeds; - so called in the West Indies.
Vanguard Dictionary V - noun The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
Vanilla Dictionary V - noun A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.
Vanillate Dictionary V - noun A salt of vanillic acid.
Vanillic Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.
Vanillin Dictionary V - noun A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.
Vanilloes Dictionary V - noun plural An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona.
Vanillyl Dictionary V - noun The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.
Vaniloquence Dictionary V - noun Vain or foolish talk.
Vanished Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vanish.
Vanishing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vanish.
Vanish Dictionary V - intransitive verb To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
Vanishment Dictionary V - noun A vanishing.
Vanities Dictionary V - pleural of Vanity.
Vanity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.
Vanjas Dictionary V - noun The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.
Vanner Dictionary V - noun A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.
Vanner hawk Dictionary V - The kestrel.
Vanning Dictionary V - noun A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
Vanquished Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vanquish.
Vanquishing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vanquish.
Vanquish Dictionary V - verb transitive To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
Vanquishable Dictionary V - adjective That may be vanquished.
Vanquisher Dictionary V - noun One who, or that which, vanquishes.
Vanquishment Dictionary V - noun The act of vanquishing, or the state of being vanquished.
Vansire Dictionary V - noun An ichneumon (Herpestes galera) native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon.
Vant Dictionary V - intransitive verb See Vaunt.
Vantage Dictionary V - noun superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
Vantbrace Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Vantbrass.
Vantbrass Dictionary V - noun Armor for the arm; vambrace.
Vant-courier Dictionary V - noun An avant-courier. See Van-courier.
Vanward Dictionary V - adjective Being on, or towards, the van, or front.
Vap Dictionary V - noun That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
Vapid Dictionary V - adjective Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.
Vapidity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.
Vapor Dictionary V - noun Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
Vapored Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vapor.
Vaporing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vapor.
Vaporability Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vaporable.
Vaporable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.
Vaporate Dictionary V - intransitive verb To emit vapor; to evaporate.
Vaporation Dictionary V - noun The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
Vaporer Dictionary V - noun One who vapors; a braggart.
Vaporiferous Dictionary V - adjective Conveying or producing vapor.
Vaporific Dictionary V - adjective Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
Vaporiform Dictionary V - adjective Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
Vaporimeter Dictionary V - noun An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
Vaporish Dictionary V - adjective Full of vapors; vaporous.
Vaporizable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being vaporized into vapor.
Vaporization Dictionary V - noun The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.
Vaporized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vaporize.
Vaporizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vaporize.
Vaporize Dictionary V - verb transitive To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
Vaporizer Dictionary V - noun One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
Vaporose Dictionary V - adjective Full of vapor; vaporous.
Vaporous Dictionary V - adjective Having the form or nature of vapor.
Vaporousness Dictionary V - noun The quality of being vaporous.
Vapory Dictionary V - adjective Full of vapors; vaporous.
Vapulation Dictionary V - noun The act of beating or whipping.
Vaquero Dictionary V - noun One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman.
Vara Dictionary V - noun A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
Varan Dictionary V - noun The monitor. See Monitor, 3.
Varangian Dictionary V - noun One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.
Varanus Dictionary V - noun A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.
Vare Dictionary V - noun A wand or staff of authority or justice.
Varec Dictionary V - noun The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
Vari Dictionary V - noun The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.
Variability Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being variable; variableness.
Variable Dictionary V - adjective Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
Variableness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being variable; variability.
Variably Dictionary V - adverb In a variable manner.
Variance Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
Variant Dictionary V - adjective Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.
Variate Dictionary V - verb transitive & intransitive To alter; to make different; to vary.
Variation Dictionary V - noun The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.
Varicella Dictionary V - noun Chicken pox.
Varices Dictionary V - noun plural See Varix.
Variciform Dictionary V - adjective Resembling a varix.
Varicocele Dictionary V - noun A varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; also, a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum.
Varicose Dictionary V - adjective Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.
Varicosity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being varicose.
Varicous Dictionary V - adjective Varicose.
Varied Dictionary V - adjective Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery.
Variegated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Variegate.
Variegating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Variegate.
Variegate Dictionary V - verb transitive To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.
Variegation Dictionary V - noun The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.
Varier Dictionary V - noun A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety.
Varietal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species.
Varietas Dictionary V - noun A variety; - used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.
Varieties Dictionary V - pleural of Variety.
Variety Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
Variform Dictionary V - adjective Having different shapes or forms.
Variformed Dictionary V - adjective Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform.
Varify Dictionary V - verb transitive To make different; to vary; to variegate.
Variola Dictionary V - noun The smallpox.
Variolar Dictionary V - adjective Variolous.
Variolation Dictionary V - noun Inoculation with smallpox.
Variolic Dictionary V - adjective Variolous.
Variolite Dictionary V - noun A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.
Variolitic Dictionary V - adjective Thickly marked with small, round specks; spotted.
Varioloid Dictionary V - adjective Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.
Variolous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.
Variorum Dictionary V - adjective Containing notes by different persons; - applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.
Various Dictionary V - adjective Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.
Variously Dictionary V - adverb In various or different ways.
Variscite Dictionary V - noun An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.
Varisse Dictionary V - noun An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequently injuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly size.
Varix Dictionary V - noun A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.
Vark Dictionary V - noun The bush hog, or boshvark.
Varlet Dictionary V - noun A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman.
Varletry Dictionary V - noun The rabble; the crowd; the mob.
Varnish Dictionary V - noun A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.
Varnished Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Varnish.
Varnishing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Varnish.
Varnisher Dictionary V - noun One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish.
Vartabed Dictionary V - noun A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.
Varuna Dictionary V - noun The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water.
Varvel Dictionary V - noun In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses.
Varveled Dictionary V - adjective Having varvels, or rings.
Varying Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vary.
Vary Dictionary V - verb transitive To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature of a thing; to vary a posture or an attitude; to vary one's dress or opinions.
Vasa Dictionary V - pleural of Vas.
Vas Dictionary V - noun A vessel; a duct.
Vasa deferentia Dictionary V - pleural of Vas.
Vascular Dictionary V - adjective Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
Vascularities Dictionary V - pleural of Vascularity.
Vascularity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vascular.
Vasculose Dictionary V - noun One of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in its solubility in certain media.
Vascula Dictionary V - pleural of Vasculum.
Vasculum Dictionary V - noun Same as Ascidium, n., 1.
Vase Dictionary V - noun A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
Vaseline Dictionary V - noun A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum.
Vase-shaped Dictionary V - adjective Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.
Vasiform Dictionary V - adjective Having the form of a vessel, or duct.
Vasoconstrictor Dictionary V - adjective Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic.
Vasodentine Dictionary V - noun A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.
Vasodilator Dictionary V - adjective Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso-inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.
Vasoformative Dictionary V - adjective Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.
Vaso-inhibitory Dictionary V - adjective See Vasodilator.
Vasomotor Dictionary V - adjective Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels.
Vassal Dictionary V - noun The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
Vassalage Dictionary V - noun The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
Vassaless Dictionary V - noun A female vassal.
Vassalry Dictionary V - noun The body of vassals.
Vast Dictionary V - superlative Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Vastation Dictionary V - noun A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation.
Vastel Dictionary V - noun See Wastel.
Vastidity Dictionary V - noun Vastness; immensity.
Vastitude Dictionary V - noun Vastness; immense extent.
Vastity Dictionary V - noun Vastness.
Vastly Dictionary V - adverb To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.
Vastness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vast.
Vasty Dictionary V - adjective Vast; immense.
Vasum Dictionary V - noun A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.
Vat Dictionary V - noun A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.
Vatted Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vat.
Vatting Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vat.
Vatfuls Dictionary V - pleural of Vatful.
Vatful Dictionary V - noun As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.
Vatical Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical.
Vatican Dictionary V - noun A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.
Vaticanism Dictionary V - noun The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; - a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics.
Vaticanist Dictionary V - noun One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.
Vaticide Dictionary V - noun The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.
Vaticinal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.
Vaticinate Dictionary V - verb intransitive & transitive To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.
Vaticination Dictionary V - noun Prediction; prophecy.
Vaticinator Dictionary V - noun One who vaticinates; a prophet.
Vaticine Dictionary V - noun A prediction; a vaticination.
Vaudeville Dictionary V - noun A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
Vaudois Dictionary V - noun singular & plural An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.
Vaudoux Dictionary V - noun & adjective See Voodoo.
Vault Dictionary V - noun An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
Vaulted Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vault.
Vaulting Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vault.
Vaultage Dictionary V - noun Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar.
Vaulter Dictionary V - noun One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.
Vaulty Dictionary V - adjective Arched; concave.
Vaunce Dictionary V - intransitive verb To advance.
Vaunted Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vaunt.
Vaunting Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vaunt.
Vaunt Dictionary V - intransitive verb To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
Vaunt-courier Dictionary V - noun See Van-courier.
Vaunter Dictionary V - noun One who vaunts; a boaster.
Vauntful Dictionary V - adjective Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
Vauntingly Dictionary V - adverb In a vaunting manner.
Vauntmure Dictionary V - noun A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall.
Vauquelinite Dictionary V - noun Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.
Vaut Dictionary V - intransitive verb To vault; to leap.
Vauty Dictionary V - adjective Vaulted.
Vavasor Dictionary V - noun The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron.
Vavasory Dictionary V - noun The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.
Vaward Dictionary V - noun The fore part; van.
Vaza parrot Dictionary V - Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis, native of Madagascar; - called also vasa parrot.
Veadar Dictionary V - noun The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.
Veal Dictionary V - noun The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.
Vection Dictionary V - noun Vectitation.
Vectitation Dictionary V - noun The act of carrying, or state of being carried.
Vector Dictionary V - noun Same as Radius vector.
Vecture Dictionary V - noun The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
Veda Dictionary V - noun The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.
Vedanta Dictionary V - noun A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the "Anta," or end or substance.
Vedantic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the Vedas.
Vedantist Dictionary V - noun One versed in the doctrines of the Vedantas.
Vedette Dictionary V - noun A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.
Vedro Dictionary V - noun A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U. S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons.
Veered Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Veer.
Veering Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Veer.
Veer Dictionary V - intransitive verb To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.
Veery Dictionary V - noun An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.
Vega Dictionary V - noun A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.
Vegetability Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vegetable.
Vegetable Dictionary V - verb Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
Vegetal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.
Vegetality Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable.
Vegetarian Dictionary V - noun One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.
Vegetarianism Dictionary V - noun The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.
Vegetated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vegetate.
Vegetating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vegetate.
Vegetate Dictionary V - intransitive verb To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
Vegetation Dictionary V - noun The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
Vegetative Dictionary V - adjective Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
Vegete Dictionary V - adjective Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.
Vegetive Dictionary V - adjective Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life.
Vegeto-animal Dictionary V - adjective Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; - a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.
Vegetous Dictionary V - adjective Vigorous; lively; active; vegete.
Vehemence Dictionary V - noun The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.
Vehemency Dictionary V - noun Vehemence.
Vehement Dictionary V - adjective Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.
Vehemently Dictionary V - adverb In a vehement manner.
Vehicle Dictionary V - noun That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.
Vehicled Dictionary V - adjective Conveyed in a vehicle; furnished with a vehicle.
Vehicular Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.
Vehiculary Dictionary V - adjective Vehicular.
Vehiculate Dictionary V - verb transitive & intransitive To convey by means of a vehicle; to ride in a vehicle.
Vehiculation Dictionary V - noun Movement of vehicles.
Vehiculatory Dictionary V - adjective Vehicular.
Vehmic Dictionary V - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 16th, usurping many of the functions of the government which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction.
Veil Dictionary V - noun Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
Veiled Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Veil.
Veiling Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Veil.
Veilless Dictionary V - adjective Having no veil.
Vein Dictionary V - noun One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
Veined Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vein.
Veining Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vein.
Veinal Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to veins; venous.
Veinless Dictionary V - adjective Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.
Veinlet Dictionary V - noun A small vein.
Veinous Dictionary V - adjective Marked with veins; veined; veiny.
Veinstone Dictionary V - noun The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; - called also veinstuff.
Veiny Dictionary V - adjective Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.
Velar Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.
Velaria Dictionary V - pleural of Velarium.
Velarium Dictionary V - noun The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
Velate Dictionary V - adjective Having a veil; veiled.
Vele Dictionary V - noun A veil.
Velella Dictionary V - noun Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella.
Veliferous Dictionary V - adjective Carrying or bearing sails.
Veliger Dictionary V - noun Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
Velitation Dictionary V - noun A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish.
Velivolant Dictionary V - adjective Flying with sails; passing under full sail.
Vell Dictionary V - noun The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.
Velleity Dictionary V - noun The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.
Vellet Dictionary V - noun Velvet.
Vellicated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vellicate.
Vellicating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vellicate.
Vellicate Dictionary V - verb transitive To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively.
Vellication Dictionary V - The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.
Vellicative Dictionary V - adjective Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication.
Vellon Dictionary V - noun A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real.
Vellum Dictionary V - noun A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white, - used as for writing upon, and for binding books.
Vellumy Dictionary V - adjective Resembling vellum.
Velocimeter Dictionary V - noun An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.
Velocipede Dictionary V - noun A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.
Velecipedist Dictionary V - noun One who rides on a velocipede.
Velocities Dictionary V - pleural of Velocity.
Velocity Dictionary V - noun Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.
Velours Dictionary V - noun One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.
Veltfare Dictionary V - noun The fieldfare.
Vela Dictionary V - pleural of Velum.
Velum Dictionary V - noun Curtain or covering; - applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.
Velure Dictionary V - noun Velvet.
Velutina Dictionary V - noun Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to Velutina and allied genera.
Velutinous Dictionary V - adjective Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf.
Velverd Dictionary V - noun The veltfare.
Velveret Dictionary V - noun A kind of velvet having cotton back.
Velvet Dictionary V - noun A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
Velvetbreast Dictionary V - noun The goosander.
Velveteen Dictionary V - noun A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
Velveting Dictionary V - noun The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.
Velvetleaf Dictionary V - noun A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.
Velvety Dictionary V - adjective Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
Venae Dictionary V - pleural of Vena.
Vena Dictionary V - noun A vein.
Venae cavae Dictionary V - pleural of Vena.
VenAe portae Dictionary V - pleural of Vena.
Venada Dictionary V - N. The pudu.
Venal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.
Venality Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official.
Venally Dictionary V - adverb In a venal manner.
Venantes Dictionary V - noun plural The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.
Venary Dictionary V - adjective Of or, pertaining to hunting.
Venatic Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Venatical.
Venatical Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.
Venatica Dictionary V - noun See Vinatico.
Venation Dictionary V - noun The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.
Venatorial Dictionary V - adjective Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic.
Vended Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vend.
Vending Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vend.
Vend Dictionary V - verb transitive To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
Vendace Dictionary V - noun A European lake whitefish (Coregonus Willughbii, or C. Vandesius) native of certain lakes in Scotland and England. It is regarded as a delicate food fish. Called also vendis.
Vendee Dictionary V - noun The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; - the correlative of vendor.
Vendemiaire Dictionary V - noun The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.
Vender Dictionary V - noun One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.
Vendetta Dictionary V - noun A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Vendibility Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vendible, or salable.
Vendible Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable.
Venditate Dictionary V - verb transitive To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon.
Venditation Dictionary V - noun The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display.
Vendition Dictionary V - noun The act of vending, or selling; sale.
Vendor Dictionary V - noun A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
Vends Dictionary V - noun plural See Wends.
Vendue Dictionary V - noun A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction.
Veneered Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Veneer.
Veneering Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Veneer.
Veneer Dictionary V - verb transitive To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
Venefical Dictionary V - adjective Veneficial.
Venefice Dictionary V - noun The act or practice of poisoning.
Veneficial Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Veneficious.
Veneficious Dictionary V - adjective Acting by poison; used in poisoning or in sorcery.
Venemous Dictionary V - adjective Venomous.
Venenate Dictionary V - verb transitive To poison; to infect with poison.
Vennation Dictionary V - noun The act of poisoning.
Venene Dictionary V - adjective Poisonous; venomous.
Venenose Dictionary V - adjective Poisonous.
Venerability Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being venerable; venerableness.
Venerable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; - generally implying an advanced age; as, a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent.
Veneracea Dictionary V - noun plural An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.
Venerated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Venerate.
Venerating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Venerate.
Venerate Dictionary V - verb transitive To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders.
Veneration Dictionary V - noun The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations.
Venerator Dictionary V - noun One who venerates.
Venereal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
Venerean Dictionary V - adjective Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.
Venereous Dictionary V - adjective Venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac.
Venerous Dictionary V - adjective Venereous.
Venery Dictionary V - noun Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition.
Venesection Dictionary V - noun The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
Venetian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
Venew Dictionary V - noun A bout, or turn, as at fencing; a thrust; a hit; a veney.
Veney Dictionary V - noun A bout; a thrust; a venew.
Venge Dictionary V - verb transitive To avenge; to punish; to revenge.
Vengeable Dictionary V - adjective Revengeful; deserving revenge.
Vengeance Dictionary V - noun Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; - often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
Vengeancely Dictionary V - adverb Extremely; excessively.
Vengeful Dictionary V - adjective Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Vengement Dictionary V - noun Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
Venger Dictionary V - noun An avenger.
Veniable Dictionary V - adjective Venial; pardonable.
Venial Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
Veniality Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being venial; venialness.
Venire facias Dictionary V - A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve as jurors in said court.
Venison Dictionary V - noun Beasts of the chase.
Venite Dictionary V - noun The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm.
Venom Dictionary V - noun Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
Venomous Dictionary V - adjective Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
Venose Dictionary V - adjective Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.
Venosity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being venous.
Venous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.
Vent Dictionary V - noun Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
Vented Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vent.
Venting Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vent.
Ventage Dictionary V - noun A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.
Ventail Dictionary V - noun That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, - sometimes in the visor.
Venter Dictionary V - noun One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
Venthole Dictionary V - noun A touchhole; a vent.
Ventiduct Dictionary V - noun A passage for wind or air; a passage or pipe for ventilating apartments.
Ventilated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Ventilate.
Ventilating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Ventilate.
Ventilate Dictionary V - verb transitive To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.
Ventilation Dictionary V - noun The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air.
Ventilative Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.
Ventilator Dictionary V - noun A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.
Ventose Dictionary V - noun A ventouse.
Ventosity Dictionary V - noun Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride.
Ventouse Dictionary V - noun A cupping glass.
Ventrad Dictionary V - adverb Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; - opposed to dorsad.
Ventral Dictionary V - adjective Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; - opposed to dorsal.
Ventricle Dictionary V - noun A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See Heart.
Ventricose Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Ventricous.
Ventricous Dictionary V - adjective Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla.
Ventricular Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.
Ventriculite Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
Ventriculous Dictionary V - adjective Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.
Ventriculi Dictionary V - pleural of Ventriculus.
Ventriculus Dictionary V - noun One of the stomachs of certain insects.
Ventrilocution Dictionary V - noun Ventriloquism.
Ventriloquial Dictionary V - adjective Ventriloquous.
Ventriloquism Dictionary V - noun The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.
Ventriloquist Dictionary V - noun One who practices, or is skilled in, ventriloquism.
Ventriloquized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Ventriloquize.
Ventriloquizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Ventriloquize.
Ventriloquize Dictionary V - intransitive verb To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
Ventriloquous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
Ventriloquy Dictionary V - noun Same as Ventriloquism.
Ventrimeson Dictionary V - noun See Meson.
Ventro- Dictionary V - A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the abdomen; also, connection with, relation to, or direction toward, the ventral side; as, ventrolateral; ventro-inguinal.
Ventro-inguinal Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining both to the abdomen and groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal; as, ventro-inguinal hernia.
Venture Dictionary V - noun An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
Ventured Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Venture.
Venturing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Venture.
Venturer Dictionary V - noun One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.
Venturesome Dictionary V - adjective Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act.
Venturine Dictionary V - noun Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces.
Venturous Dictionary V - noun Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adveturous; as, a venturous soldier.
Ventuse Dictionary V - verb transitive & intransitive See Ventouse.
Venue Dictionary V - noun A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
Venule Dictionary V - noun A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.
Venulose Dictionary V - adjective Full of venules, or small veins.
Venus Dictionary V - noun The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
Venust Dictionary V - adjective Beautiful.
Veracious Dictionary V - adjective Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.
Veraciously Dictionary V - adverb In a veracious manner.
Veracity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.
Veranda Dictionary V - noun An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
Veratralbine Dictionary V - noun A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.
Veratrate Dictionary V - noun A salt of veratric acid.
Veratria Dictionary V - noun Veratrine.
Veratric Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.
Veratrina Dictionary V - noun Same as Veratrine.
Veratrine Dictionary V - noun A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.
Veratrol Dictionary V - noun A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.
Veratrum Dictionary V - noun A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
Verb Dictionary V - noun A word; a vocable.
Verbal Dictionary V - adjective Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
Verbalism Dictionary V - noun Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.
Verbalist Dictionary V - noun A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.
Verbality Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression.
Verbalization Dictionary V - noun The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.
Verbalized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Verbalize.
Verbalizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Verbalize.
Verbalize Dictionary V - verb transitive To convert into a verb; to verbify.
Verbally Dictionary V - adverb In a verbal manner; orally.
Verbarian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to words; verbal.
Verbarium Dictionary V - noun A game in word making. See Logomachy, 2.
Verbatim Dictionary V - adverb Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.
Verbena Dictionary V - noun A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
Verbenaceous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceae) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.
Verbenated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Verbenate.
Verbenating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Verbenate.
Verbenate Dictionary V - verb transitive To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.
Verberate Dictionary V - verb transitive To beat; to strike.
Verberation Dictionary V - noun The act of verberating; a beating or striking.
Verbiage Dictionary V - noun The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Verify Dictionary V - verb transitive To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.
Verbose Dictionary V - adjective Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
Verbosities Dictionary V - pleural of Verbosity.
Verbosity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
Verd Dictionary V - noun The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
Verdancy Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being verdant.
Verdant Dictionary V - adjective Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
Verd antique Dictionary V - A mottled-green serpentine marble.
Verdantly Dictionary V - adverb In a verdant manner.
Verderer Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Verderor.
Verderor Dictionary V - noun An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses.
Verdict Dictionary V - noun The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
Verdigris Dictionary V - noun A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.
Verdin Dictionary V - noun A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; - called also goldtit.
Verdine Dictionary V - noun A commercial name for green aniline dye.
Verdingale Dictionary V - noun See Farthingale.
Verdit Dictionary V - noun Verdict.
Verditer Dictionary V - noun Verdigris.
Verditure Dictionary V - noun The faintest and palest green.
Verdoy Dictionary V - adjective Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; - said of a border.
Verdure Dictionary V - noun Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.
Verdured Dictionary V - adjective Covered with verdure.
Verdureless Dictionary V - adjective Destitute of verdure.
Verdurous Dictionary V - adjective Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures.
Verecund Dictionary V - adjective Rashful; modest.
Verecundious Dictionary V - adjective Verecund.
Verecundity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being verecund; modesty.
Veretillum Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal.
Vergalien Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Vergaloo.
Vergaloo Dictionary V - noun See Virgalieu.
Verge Dictionary V - noun A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
Verged Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Verge.
Verging Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Verge.
Vergeboard Dictionary V - noun The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
Vergency Dictionary V - noun The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
Verger Dictionary V - noun One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
Vergette Dictionary V - adjective Divided by pallets, or pales; paly.
Veridical Dictionary V - adjective Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.
Verifiable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being verified; confirmable.
Verfication Dictionary V - noun The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.
Verificative Dictionary V - adjective Serving to verify; verifying; authenciating; confirming.
Verifier Dictionary V - noun One who, or that which, verifies.
Verified Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Verify.
Verifying Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Verify.
Veriloquent Dictionary V - adjective Speaking truth; truthful.
Verily Dictionary V - adverb In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly.
Verine Dictionary V - noun An alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.
Verisimilar Dictionary V - adjective Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely.
Verisimilitude Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.
Verisimility Dictionary V - noun Verisimilitude.
Versimilous Dictionary V - adjective Verisimilar.
Veritable Dictionary V - adjective Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
Veritas Dictionary V - noun The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.
Verities Dictionary V - pleural of Verity.
Verity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
Verjuice Dictionary V - noun The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.
Vermeil Dictionary V - noun Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red.
Vermeologist Dictionary V - noun One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.
Vermeology Dictionary V - noun A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.
Vermes Dictionary V - noun plural An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnaeus and his followers.
Vermetid Dictionary V - noun Any species of vermetus.
Vermetus Dictionary V - noun Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
Vermicelli Dictionary V - noun The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
Vermicide Dictionary V - noun A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
Vermicious Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
Vermicular Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic.
Vermiculated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vermiculate.
Vermiculating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vermiculate.
Vermiculate Dictionary V - verb transitive To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.
Vermiculation Dictionary V - noun The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines.
Vermicule Dictionary V - noun A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.
Vermiculite Dictionary V - noun A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms.
Vermiculose Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Vermiculous.
Vermiculous Dictionary V - adjective Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.
Vermiform Dictionary V - adjective Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
Vermiformia Dictionary V - noun plural A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.
Vermifugal Dictionary V - adjective Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
Vermifuge Dictionary V - noun A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
Vermil Dictionary V - noun See Vermeil.
Vermilinguia Dictionary V - noun plural A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.
Vermilion Dictionary V - noun A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.
Vermily Dictionary V - noun Vermeil.
Vermin Dictionary V - noun singular & plural An animal, in general.
Verminate Dictionary V - intransitive verb To breed vermin.
Vermination Dictionary V - noun The generation or breeding of vermin.
Verminly Dictionary V - adjective & adverb Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin.
Verminous Dictionary V - adjective Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.
Verminously Dictionary V - adverb In a verminous manner.
Vermiparous Dictionary V - adjective Producing or breeding worms.
Vermivorous Dictionary V - adjective Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds.
Vermuth Dictionary V - noun A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.
Vernacle Dictionary V - noun See Veronica, 1.
Vernacular Dictionary V - adjective Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; - now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
Vernacularism Dictionary V - noun A vernacular idiom.
Vernacularization Dictionary V - noun The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular.
Vernacularly Dictionary V - adverb In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular.
Vernaculous Dictionary V - adjective Vernacular.
Vernage Dictionary V - noun A kind of sweet wine from Italy.
Vernal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.
Vernant Dictionary V - adjective Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
Vernate Dictionary V - intransitive verb To become young again.
Vernation Dictionary V - noun The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
Vernicle Dictionary V - noun A Veronica. See Veronica, 1.
Vernicose Dictionary V - adjective Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
Vernier Dictionary V - noun A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
Vernile Dictionary V - adjective Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious.
Vernility Dictionary V - noun Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility.
Vernine Dictionary V - noun An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
Vernish Dictionary V - noun & verb Varnish.
Vernonin Dictionary V - noun A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.
Veronese Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy.
Veronica Dictionary V - noun A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on the alleged handkerchief of Saint Veronica, preserved at Rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the Savior. Formerly called also Vernacle, and Vernicle.
Verray Dictionary V - adjective Very; true.
Verrayment Dictionary V - adverb Verily; truly.
Verrel Dictionary V - noun See Ferrule.
Verriculate Dictionary V - adjective Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.
Verruciform Dictionary V - adjective Shaped like a wart or warts.
Verrucose Dictionary V - adjective Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.
Verrucous Dictionary V - adjective Verrucose.
Verruculose Dictionary V - adjective Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.
Vers Dictionary V - noun singular & plural A verse or verses. See Verse.
Versability Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being versable.
Versable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being turned.
Versableness Dictionary V - noun Versability.
Versal Dictionary V - adjective Universal.
Versant Dictionary V - adjective Familiar; conversant.
Versatile Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being turned round.
Versatility Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.
Vers de societe Dictionary V - See Society verses, under Society.
Verse Dictionary V - noun A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
Versed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Verse.
Versing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Verse.
Verseman Dictionary V - noun Same as Versemonger.
Versemonger Dictionary V - noun A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; - used humorously or in contempt.
Verser Dictionary V - noun A versifier.
Verset Dictionary V - noun A verse.
Versicle Dictionary V - noun A little verse; especially, a short verse or text said or sung in public worship by the priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people.
Versicolor Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Versicolored.
Versicolored Dictionary V - adjective Having various colors; changeable in color.
Versicular Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.
Versification Dictionary V - noun The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.
Versificator Dictionary V - noun A versifier.
Versifier Dictionary V - noun One who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet.
Versified Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Versify.
Versifying Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Versify.
Versify Dictionary V - intransitive verb To make verses.
Version Dictionary V - noun A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
Versionist Dictionary V - noun One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
Verso Dictionary V - noun The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; - opposed to recto.
Versor Dictionary V - noun The turning factor of a quaternion.
Verst Dictionary V - noun A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
Versual Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a verse.
Versus Dictionary V - preposition Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; - chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
Versute Dictionary V - adjective Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.
Vert Dictionary V - noun Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.
Verteber Dictionary V - noun A vertebra.
Vertebrae Dictionary V - pleural of Vertebra.
Vertebra Dictionary V - noun One of the serial segments of the spinal column.
Vertebral Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vertebrae, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian.
Vertebrally Dictionary V - adverb At or within a vertebra or vertebrae; - distinguished from interverterbrally.
Vertebrarterial Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; - said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.
Vertebrata Dictionary V - noun plural One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Leptocardia.
Vertebrate Dictionary V - noun One of the Vertebrata.
Vertebrated Dictionary V - adjective Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
Vertebre Dictionary V - noun A vertebra.
Vertebro- Dictionary V - A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebrae, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.
Vertebro-iliac Dictionary V - adjective Iliolumbar.
Vertexes Dictionary V - pleural of Vertex.
Vertices Dictionary V - pleural of Vertex.
Vertex Dictionary V - noun A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
Vertical Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
Verticality Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness.
Vertically Dictionary V - adverb In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.
Verticalness Dictionary V - noun Quality or state of being vertical.
Verticil Dictionary V - noun A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
Verticillaster Dictionary V - adjective A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.
Verticillate Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Verticillated.
Verticillated Dictionary V - adjective Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.
Verticillus Dictionary V - noun A whorl; a verticil.
Verticity Dictionary V - noun The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
Verticle Dictionary V - noun An axis; hinge; a turning point.
Vertiginate Dictionary V - adjective Turned round; giddy.
Vertiginous Dictionary V - adjective Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion.
Vertigoes Dictionary V - pleural of Vertigo.
Vertigines Dictionary V - pleural of Vertigo.
Vertigo Dictionary V - noun Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.
Vertilinear Dictionary V - adjective Straight; rectilinear.
Vertu Dictionary V - noun Virtue; power. See Virtue.
Vertuous Dictionary V - adjective Virtuous; powerful.
Verumontanum Dictionary V - noun An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
Vervain Dictionary V - noun Any plant of the genus Verbena.
Verve Dictionary V - noun Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
Vervel Dictionary V - noun See Varvel.
Vervet Dictionary V - noun A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, / Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.
Very Dictionary V - verb transitive True; real; actual; veritable.
Vesbium Dictionary V - noun A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
Vese Dictionary V - noun Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.
Vesica Dictionary V - noun A bladder.
Vesical Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the bladder.
Vesicant Dictionary V - noun A vesicatory.
Vesicated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vesicate.
Vesicating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vesicate.
Vesicate Dictionary V - verb transitive To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
Vesication Dictionary V - noun The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.
Vesicatory Dictionary V - adjective Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.
Vesicle Dictionary V - noun A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
Vesico- Dictionary V - A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the bladder; as in vesicoprostatic, vesicovaginal.
Vesicoprostatic Dictionary V - adjective Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.
Vesicouterine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.
Vesicovaginal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
Vesiculae Dictionary V - pleural of Vesicula.
Vesicula Dictionary V - noun A vesicle.
Vesicular Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.
Vesicularia Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.
Vesiculata Dictionary V - noun plural The campanularian medusae.
Vesiculate Dictionary V - adjective Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.
Vesiculation Dictionary V - noun The state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed.
Vesiculose Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Vesiculous.
Vesiculous Dictionary V - adjective Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell.
Vespa Dictionary V - noun A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.
Vesper Dictionary V - noun The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.
Vesperal Dictionary V - adjective Vesper; evening.
Vespers Dictionary V - noun One of the little hours of the Breviary.
Vespertilio Dictionary V - noun A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.
Vespertiliones Dictionary V - noun plural A tribe of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.
Vespertilionine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the Vespertiliones.
Vespertinal Dictionary V - adjective Vespertine.
Vespertine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening.
Vespiary Dictionary V - noun A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.
Vespilloes Dictionary V - pleural of Vespillo.
Vespillo Dictionary V - noun One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
Vessel Dictionary V - noun A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
Vesselfuls Dictionary V - pleural of Vesselful.
Vesselful Dictionary V - noun As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
Vesses Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Vessets.
Vessets Dictionary V - noun A kind of worsted; also, a worsted cloth.
Vessicnon Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Vessignon.
Vessignon Dictionary V - noun A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.
Vest Dictionary V - noun An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
Vested Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vest.
Vesting Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vest.
Vesta Dictionary V - noun One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
Vestal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
Vestales Dictionary V - noun plural A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
Vestiarian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments.
Vestiary Dictionary V - noun A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.
Vestibular Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
Vestibule Dictionary V - noun The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.
Vestibula Dictionary V - pleural of Vestibulum.
Vestibulum Dictionary V - noun A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
Vestigate Dictionary V - verb transitive To investigate.
Vestige Dictionary V - noun The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.
Vestigial Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
Vestiture Dictionary V - noun In vestiture.
Vestlet Dictionary V - noun Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
Vestment Dictionary V - noun A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress.
Vestries Dictionary V - pleural of Vestry.
Vestry Dictionary V - noun A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; - formerly called revestiary.
Vestrymen Dictionary V - pleural of Vestryman.
Vestryman Dictionary V - noun A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry.
Vesture Dictionary V - verb transitive A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.
Vestured Dictionary V - adjective Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped.
Vesuvian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.
Vesuvianite Dictionary V - noun A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase.
Vesuvine Dictionary V - noun A trade name for a brown dyestuff obtained from certain basic azo compounds of benzene; - called also Bismarck brown, Manchester brown, etc.
Vetch Dictionary V - noun Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa.
Vetchling Dictionary V - noun Any small leguminous plant of the genus Lathyrus, especially L. Nissolia.
Vetchy Dictionary V - adjective Consisting of vetches or of pea straw.
Veteran Dictionary V - adjective Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.
Veteranize Dictionary V - intransitive verb To reenlist for service as a soldier.
Veterinarian Dictionary V - noun One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon.
Veterinary Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school.
Vetiver Dictionary V - noun An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus.
Vetoes Dictionary V - pleural of Veto.
Veto Dictionary V - noun An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
Vetoed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Veto.
Vetoing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Veto.
Vetoist Dictionary V - noun One who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto.
Vetture Dictionary V - pleural of Vettura.
Vettura Dictionary V - noun An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach.
Vetturini Dictionary V - pleural of Vetturino.
Vetturino Dictionary V - noun One who lets or drives a vettura.
Vetust Dictionary V - adjective Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.
Vexed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vex.
Vexing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vex.
Vex Dictionary V - verb transitive To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
Vexation Dictionary V - noun The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.
Vexatious Dictionary V - adjective Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.
Vexer Dictionary V - noun One who vexes or troubles.
Vexil Dictionary V - noun A vexillum.
Vexillar Dictionary V - Alt. of Vexillary.
Vexillary Dictionary V - Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard.
Vexillation Dictionary V - noun A company of troops under one vexillum.
Vexilla Dictionary V - pleural of Vexillum.
Vexillum Dictionary V - noun A flag or standard.
Vexingly Dictionary V - adverb In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate.
V hook Dictionary V - A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.
Via Dictionary V - noun A road way.
Viability Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being viable.
Viable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; - said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
Viaduct Dictionary V - noun A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.
Viage Dictionary V - noun A voyage; a journey.
Vial Dictionary V - noun A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
Vialed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vial.
Vialled Dictionary V - of Vial.
Vialing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vial.
Vialling Dictionary V - of Vial.
Viameter Dictionary V - noun An odometer; - called also viatometer.
Viand Dictionary V - noun An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; - used chiefly in the plural.
Viander Dictionary V - noun A feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host.
Vi-apple Dictionary V - noun See Otaheite apple.
Viary Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads.
Viatecture Dictionary V - noun The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
Viatic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.
Viaticum Dictionary V - noun An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
Viatometer Dictionary V - noun A viameter.
Vibices Dictionary V - noun plural More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
Vibracula Dictionary V - pleural of Vibraculum.
Vibraculum Dictionary V - noun One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.
Vibrancy Dictionary V - noun The state of being vibrant; resonance.
Vibrant Dictionary V - adjective Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums.
Vibrate Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vibrate.
Vibrating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vibrate.
Vibratile Dictionary V - adjective Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.
Vibratility Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.
Vibration Dictionary V - noun The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.
Vibratiuncle Dictionary V - adjective A small vibration.
Vibrative Dictionary V - adjective Vibrating; vibratory.
Vibratory Dictionary V - adjective Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.
Vibrios Dictionary V - pleural of Vibrio.
Vibriones Dictionary V - pleural of Vibrio.
Vibrio Dictionary V - noun A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.
Vibrissae Dictionary V - pleural of Vibrissa.
Vibrissa Dictionary V - noun One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.
Vibroscope Dictionary V - noun An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.
Viburnum Dictionary V - noun A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.
Vicar Dictionary V - noun One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
Vicarage Dictionary V - noun The benefice of a vicar.
Vicarial Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.
Vicarian Dictionary V - noun A vicar.
Vicariate Dictionary V - adjective Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.
Vicarious Dictionary V - preposition Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
Vicariously Dictionary V - adverb In a vicarious manner.
Vicarship Dictionary V - noun The office or dignity of a vicar.
Vicary Dictionary V - noun A vicar.
Vice Dictionary V - noun A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
Viced Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vice.
Vicing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vice.
Vicegerency Dictionary V - noun The office of a vicegerent.
Vicegerent Dictionary V - adjective Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.
Vicemen Dictionary V - pleural of Viceman.
Viceman Dictionary V - noun A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.
Vicenary Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.
Vicennial Dictionary V - adjective Lasting or comprising twenty years.
Vice-regal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty.
Viceroy Dictionary V - preposition The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.
Viceroyalty Dictionary V - noun The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.
Viceroyship Dictionary V - noun Viceroyalty.
Vicety Dictionary V - noun Fault; defect; coarseness.
Vichy water Dictionary V - A mineral water found at Vichy, France. It is essentially an effervescent solution of sodium, calcium, and magnetism carbonates, with sodium and potassium chlorides; also, by extension, any artificial or natural water resembling in composition the Vichy water proper. Called also, colloquially, Vichy.
Viciate Dictionary V - verb transitive See Vitiate.
Viinage Dictionary V - noun The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage.
Vicinal Dictionary V - adjective Near; vicine.
Vicine Dictionary V - adjective Near; neighboring; vicinal.
Vicinity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.
Viciosity Dictionary V - noun Vitiosity.
Vicious Dictionary V - adjective Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
Vicissitude Dictionary V - noun Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
Vicissitudinary Dictionary V - adjective Subject to vicissitudes.
Vicissitudinous Dictionary V - adjective Full of, or subject to, changes.
Vicissy duck Dictionary V - A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated.
Vicontiel Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country.
Vicontiels Dictionary V - noun plural Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.
Vicount Dictionary V - noun See Viscount.
Victim Dictionary V - noun A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
Victimate Dictionary V - verb transitive To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.
Victimized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Victimize.
Victimizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Victimize.
Victimize Dictionary V - verb transitive To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
Victor Dictionary V - noun The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; - often followed by art, rarely by of.
Victoress Dictionary V - noun A victress.
Victoria Dictionary V - noun A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
Victorian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.
Victorine Dictionary V - noun A woman's fur tippet.
Victorious Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to victory, or a victor' being a victor; bringing or causing a victory; conquering; winning; triumphant; as, a victorious general; victorious troops; a victorious day.
Victories Dictionary V - pleural of Victory.
Victory Dictionary V - noun The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; - the opposite of defeat.
Victress Dictionary V - noun A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.
Victrice Dictionary V - noun A victress.
Victrix Dictionary V - noun Victress.
Victual Dictionary V - noun Food; - now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
Victualed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Victual.
Victualled Dictionary V - of Victual.
Victualing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Victual.
Victualling Dictionary V - of Victual.
Victualage Dictionary V - noun Victuals; food.
Victualer Dictionary V - noun One who furnishes victuals.
Victuals Dictionary V - noun plural Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.
Victus Dictionary V - noun Food; diet.
Vicu?a Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Vicugna.
Vicugna Dictionary V - noun A South American mammal (Auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.
Vida finch Dictionary V - The whidah bird.
Vidame Dictionary V - noun One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
Vide Dictionary V - imperative sing. of L. videre, to see; - used to direct attention to something; as, vide supra, see above.
Videlicet Dictionary V - adverb To wit; namely; - often abbreviated to viz.
Vidette Dictionary V - noun Same Vedette.
Vidonia Dictionary V - noun A dry white wine, of a tart flavor, produced in Teneriffe; - called also Teneriffe.
Viduage Dictionary V - noun The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.
Vidual Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.
Viduation Dictionary V - noun The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.
Viduity Dictionary V - noun Widowhood.
Vied Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vie.
Vying Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vie.
Vie Dictionary V - intransitive verb To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
Vielle Dictionary V - noun An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
Vienna paste Dictionary V - A caustic application made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime; - called also Vienna caustic.
Viennese Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Vienna, or people of Vienna.
View Dictionary V - noun The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
Viewed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of View.
Viewing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of View.
Viewer Dictionary V - noun One who views or examines.
Viewiness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.
Viewless Dictionary V - adjective Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.
Viewly Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Viewsome.
Viewsome Dictionary V - adjective Pleasing to the sight; sightly.
Viewy Dictionary V - adjective Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.
Vifda Dictionary V - noun In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.
Vigesimal Dictionary V - adjective Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.
Vigesimation Dictionary V - noun The act of putting to death every twentieth man.
Vigesimo-quarto Dictionary V - adjective Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.
-tos Dictionary V - pleural of Vigesimo-quarto.
Vigil Dictionary V - intransitive verb Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
Vigilance Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.
Vigilancy Dictionary V - noun Vigilance.
Vigilant Dictionary V - adjective Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
Vigilantly Dictionary V - adverb In a vigilant manner.
Vigily Dictionary V - noun A vigil.
Vigintivirate Dictionary V - noun The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.
Vignette Dictionary V - noun A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
Vigonia Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the vicu/a; characterizing the vicu/a; - said of the wool of that animal, used in felting hats, and for other purposes.
Vigor Dictionary V - noun Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
Vigorite Dictionary V - noun An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.
Vigoroso Dictionary V - adjective & adverb Vigorous; energetic; with energy; - a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.
Vigorous Dictionary V - adjective Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.
Viking Dictionary V - noun One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Vilany Dictionary V - noun Villainy.
Vilayet Dictionary V - noun One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; - formerly called eyalet.
Vild Dictionary V - adjective Vile.
Vile Dictionary V - superlative Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
Viled Dictionary V - adjective Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile.
Vileyns Dictionary V - adjective Villainous.
Vilification Dictionary V - noun The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Vilifier Dictionary V - noun One who vilifies or defames.
Vilified Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vilify.
Vilifying Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vilify.
Vilify Dictionary V - verb transitive To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Vilipend Dictionary V - verb transitive To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.
Vilipendency Dictionary V - noun Disesteem; slight; disparagement.
Vility Dictionary V - noun Vileness; baseness.
Vill Dictionary V - noun A small collection of houses; a village.
Villas Dictionary V - pleural of Villa.
Villa Dictionary V - noun A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
Village Dictionary V - noun A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Villager Dictionary V - noun An inhabitant of a village.
Villagery Dictionary V - noun Villages; a district of villages.
Villain Dictionary V - noun One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
Villainous Dictionary V - adjective Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.
Villainies Dictionary V - pleural of Villainy.
Villainy Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer.
Villakin Dictionary V - noun A little villa.
Villan Dictionary V - noun A villain.
Villanage Dictionary V - noun The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.
Villanel Dictionary V - noun A ballad.
Villanelle Dictionary V - pleural of Villanella.
Villanella Dictionary V - noun An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.
Villanette Dictionary V - noun A small villa.
Villanized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Villanize.
Villanizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Villanize.
Villanize Dictionary V - verb transitive To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.
Villanizer Dictionary V - noun One who villanizes.
Villanous Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Villanousness.
Villanously Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Villanousness.
Villanousness Dictionary V - noun See Villainous, etc.
Villany Dictionary V - noun See Villainy.
Villatic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural.
Villein Dictionary V - noun See Villain, 1.
Villenage Dictionary V - noun Villanage.
Villenous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a villein.
Villi Dictionary V - noun plural of Villus.
Villiform Dictionary V - adjective Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
Villose Dictionary V - adjective See Villous.
Villosity Dictionary V - noun State of being villous.
Villous Dictionary V - adjective Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.
Villus Dictionary V - noun One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.
Vim Dictionary V - noun Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.
Vimen Dictionary V - noun A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.
Viminal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.
Vimineous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs.
Vinaceous Dictionary V - adjective Belonging to, or like, wine or grapes.
Vinaigrette Dictionary V - noun A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, - used esp. for cold meats.
Vinagrous Dictionary V - adjective Resembling vinegar; sour.
Vinasse Dictionary V - noun The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, - used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.
Vinatico Dictionary V - noun Madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the Persea Indica.
Vincentian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him.
Vincetoxin Dictionary V - noun A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; - called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin.
Vincibility Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vincible, vincibleness.
Vincible Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being overcome or subdued; conquerable.
Vincibleness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vincible.
Vincture Dictionary V - noun A binding.
Vincula Dictionary V - pleural of Vinculum.
Vinculums Dictionary V - pleural of Vinculum.
Vinculum Dictionary V - noun A bond of union; a tie.
Vindemial Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vintage, or grape harvest.
Vindemiate Dictionary V - intransitive verb To gather the vintage.
Vindemiation Dictionary V - noun The operation of gathering grapes.
Vindicable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being vindicated.
Vindicated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vindicate.
Vindicating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vindicate.
Vindicate Dictionary V - verb transitive To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
Vindication Dictionary V - noun The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete.
Vindicative Dictionary V - adjective Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.
Vindicator Dictionary V - noun One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.
Vindicatory Dictionary V - adjective Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.
Vindictive Dictionary V - adjective Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
Vine Dictionary V - noun Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
Vineal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vines; containing vines.
Vine-clad Dictionary V - adjective Covered with vines.
Vined Dictionary V - adjective Having leaves like those of the vine; ornamented with vine leaves.
Vinedresser Dictionary V - noun One who cultivates, prunes, or cares for, grapevines; a laborer in a vineyard.
Vinegar Dictionary V - adjective A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.
Vinegarette Dictionary V - noun See Vinaigrette, n., 2.
Vinegary Dictionary V - adjective Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.
Viner Dictionary V - noun A vinedresser.
Vinery Dictionary V - noun A vineyard.
Vinette Dictionary V - noun A sprig or branch.
Vinewed Dictionary V - adjective Same as Vinnewed.
Vineyard Dictionary V - noun An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.
Vineyardist Dictionary V - noun One who cultivates a vineyard.
Vingt et un Dictionary V - A game at cards, played by two or more persons. The fortune of each player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such cards that the sum of their pips, or spots, is twenty-one, or a number near to it.
Vingtun Dictionary V - noun Contraction for Vingt et un.
Vinic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to wine; as, vinic alcohol.
Viniculture Dictionary V - noun The cultivation of the vine, esp. for making wine; viticulture.
Vinnewed Dictionary V - adjective Moldy; musty.
Vinny Dictionary V - adjective Vinnewed.
Vinolency Dictionary V - noun Drunkennes.
Vinolent Dictionary V - adjective Given to wine; drunken; intemperate.
Vinometer Dictionary V - noun An instrument for determining the strength or purity of wine by measuring its density.
Vin ordinaire Dictionary V - A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.
Vinose Dictionary V - adjective Vinous.
Vinosity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vinous.
Vinous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous taste.
Vinquish Dictionary V - noun See Vanquish, n.
Vintage Dictionary V - noun The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
Vintager Dictionary V - noun One who gathers the vintage.
Vintaging Dictionary V - noun The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.
Vintner Dictionary V - noun One who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant.
Vintry Dictionary V - noun A place where wine is sold.
Viny Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines.
Vinyl Dictionary V - noun The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.
Viol Dictionary V - noun A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
Viola Dictionary V - noun A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
Violable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being violated, broken, or injured.
Violaceous Dictionary V - adjective Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
Violaniline Dictionary V - noun A dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.
Violantin Dictionary V - noun A complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid.
Violaquercitrin Dictionary V - noun A yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin.
Violascent Dictionary V - adjective Violescent.
Violates Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Violate.
Violating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Violate.
Violate Dictionary V - verb transitive To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
Violation Dictionary V - noun The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
Violative Dictionary V - adjective Violating, or tending to violate.
Violator Dictionary V - noun One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.
Viole Dictionary V - noun A vial.
Violence Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
Violent Dictionary V - adjective Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
Violently Dictionary V - adverb In a violent manner.
Violescent Dictionary V - adjective Tending to a violet color; violascent.
Violet Dictionary V - noun Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
Violet-tip Dictionary V - noun A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
Violin Dictionary V - noun A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.
Violine Dictionary V - noun A pale yellow amorphous substance of alkaloidal nature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (Viola).
Violinist Dictionary V - noun A player on the violin.
Violist Dictionary V - noun A player on the viol.
Violoncellist Dictionary V - noun A player on the violoncello.
Violoncello Dictionary V - noun A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.
Violone Dictionary V - noun The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; - called also double bass.
Violous Dictionary V - adjective Violent.
Violuric Dictionary V - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid. It is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.
Viper Dictionary V - adjective Any one of numerous species of Old World venomous makes belonging to Vipera, Clotho, Daboia, and other genera of the family Viperidae.
Viperina Dictionary V - noun plural See Viperoidea.
Viperine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper.
Viperish Dictionary V - adjective Somewhat like a viper; viperous.
Viperoidea Dictionary V - noun plural Alt. of Viperoides.
Viperoides Dictionary V - noun plural A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; - called also Viperina.
Viperous Dictionary V - adjective Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue.
Viraginian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago.
Viraginity Dictionary V - noun The qualities or characteristics of a virago.
Viragoes Dictionary V - pleural of Virago.
Virago Dictionary V - noun A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
Vire Dictionary V - noun An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton.
Virelay Dictionary V - noun An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
Virent Dictionary V - adjective Green; not withered.
Vireo Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonidae. In many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored. Called also greenlet.
Virescence Dictionary V - The act or state of becoming green through the formation of chlorophyll.
Virescent Dictionary V - adjective Beginning to be green; slightly green; greenish.
Vireton Dictionary V - noun An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.
Virgalieu Dictionary V - noun A valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor; - more properly called White Doyenne.
Virgate Dictionary V - adjective Having the form of a straight rod; wand-shaped; straight and slender.
Virgated Dictionary V - adjective Striped; streaked.
Virge Dictionary V - noun A wand. See Verge.
Virger Dictionary V - noun See Verger.
Virgilian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil.
Virgin Dictionary V - noun A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
Virginal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
Virginhood Dictionary V - noun Virginity; maidenhood.
Virginia Dictionary V - noun One of the States of the United States of America.
Virginity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.
Virgo Dictionary V - noun A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus / in almanacs.
Virgouleuse Dictionary V - noun An old French variety of pear, of little value.
Virgularian Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
Virgulate Dictionary V - adjective Shaped like a little twig or rod.
Virgule Dictionary V - noun A comma.
Virial Dictionary V - noun A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, - first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
Virid Dictionary V - adjective Green.
Viridescence Dictionary V - noun Quality or state of being viridescent.
Viridescent Dictionary V - adjective Slightly green; greenish.
Viridine Dictionary V - noun A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.
Viridite Dictionary V - noun A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
Viridity Dictionary V - noun Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.
Viridness Dictionary V - noun Viridity; greenness.
Virile Dictionary V - adjective Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; - opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
Virility Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.
Viripotent Dictionary V - adjective Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable.
Virmilion Dictionary V - noun See Vermilion.
Virole Dictionary V - noun A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
Viroled Dictionary V - adjective Furnished with a virole or viroles; - said of a horn or a bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the horn.
Virose Dictionary V - adjective Having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous.
Virtu Dictionary V - noun A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.
Virtual Dictionary V - adjective Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
Virtuality Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being virtual.
Virtually Dictionary V - adverb In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
Virtuate Dictionary V - verb transitive To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
Virtue Dictionary V - noun Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
Virtueless Dictionary V - adjective Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.
Virtuosity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism.
Virtuosos Dictionary V - pleural of Virtuoso.
Virtuosi Dictionary V - pleural of Virtuoso.
Virtuoso Dictionary V - noun One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.
Virtuosoship Dictionary V - noun The condition, pursuits, or occupation of a virtuoso.
Virtuous Dictionary V - adjective Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
Virulence Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Virulency.
Virulency Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.
Virulent Dictionary V - adjective Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.
Virulented Dictionary V - adjective Made virulent; poisoned.
Virulently Dictionary V - adverb In a virulent manner.
Virus Dictionary V - intransitive verb Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; - applied to organic poisons.
Vis Dictionary V - noun Force; power.
Visa Dictionary V - noun See Vis/.
Visaed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Visa.
Visaing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Visa.
Visage Dictionary V - noun The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; - chiefly applied to the human face.
Visaged Dictionary V - adjective Having a visage.
Visard Dictionary V - noun A mask. See Visor.
Vis-a-vis Dictionary V - noun One who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.
Viscacha Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Viz-cacha.
Viz-cacha Dictionary V - noun A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.
Viscera Dictionary V - noun plural of Viscus.
Visceral Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
Viscerated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Viscerate.
Viscerating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Viscerate.
Viscerate Dictionary V - verb transitive To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
Visceroskeletal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles.
Viscid Dictionary V - adjective Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.
Viscidity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.
Viscin Dictionary V - noun A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.
Viscoidal Dictionary V - adjective Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2.
Viscosimeter Dictionary V - noun An instrument for measuring the degree of viscosity of liquids, as solutions of gum.
Viscosity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being viscous.
Viscount Dictionary V - adjective An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
Viscountcy Dictionary V - noun The dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount.
Viscountess Dictionary V - noun The wife of a viscount.
Viscountship Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Viscounty.
Viscounty Dictionary V - noun The quality, rank, or office of a viscount.
Viscous Dictionary V - adjective Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice.
Viscum Dictionary V - noun A genus of parasitic shrubs, including the mistletoe of Europe.
Viscus Dictionary V - noun One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; - especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
Vise Dictionary V - noun An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
Viseed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vise.
Viseing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vise.
Vishnu Dictionary V - noun A divinity of the modern Hindu trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.
Visibility Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being visible.
Visible Dictionary V - adjective Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper.
Visigoth Dictionary V - noun One of the West Goths. See the Note under Goth.
Vision Dictionary V - verb The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
Visioned Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vision.
Visioning Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vision.
Visional Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vision.
Visionariness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being visionary.
Visionary Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.
Visionaries Dictionary V - pleural of Visionary.
Visionist Dictionary V - noun A visionary.
Visionless Dictionary V - adjective Destitute of vision; sightless.
Visited Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Visit.
Visiting Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Visit.
Visit Dictionary V - verb transitive To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.
Visitable Dictionary V - adjective Liable or subject to be visited or inspected.
Visitant Dictionary V - noun One who visits; a guest; a visitor.
Visitation Dictionary V - noun The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
Visitatorial Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial.
Visite Dictionary V - noun A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer.
Visiter Dictionary V - noun A visitor.
Visitor Dictionary V - One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.
Visitorial Dictionary V - adjective Same as Visitatorial.
Visive Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the sight; visual.
Visne Dictionary V - noun Neighborhood; vicinity; venue. See Venue.
Visnomy Dictionary V - noun Face; countenance.
Vison Dictionary V - noun The mink.
Visor Dictionary V - noun A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
Visored Dictionary V - adjective Wearing a visor; masked.
Vistas Dictionary V - pleural of Vista.
Vista Dictionary V - noun A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.
Visto Dictionary V - noun A vista; a prospect.
Visual Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.
Visualize Dictionary V - verb transitive To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.
Vitaille Dictionary V - noun Food; victuals.
Vital Dictionary V - adjective Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.
Vitalic Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to life; vital.
Vitalism Dictionary V - noun The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.
Vitalist Dictionary V - noun A believer in the theory of vitalism; - opposed to physicist.
Vitalistic Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
Vitality Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.
Vitalization Dictionary V - noun The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.
Vitalized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vitalize.
Vitalizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vitalize.
Vitalize Dictionary V - verb transitive To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
Vitally Dictionary V - adverb In a vital manner.
Vitals Dictionary V - noun plural Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
Vitellary Dictionary V - adjective Vitelline.
Vitelligenous Dictionary V - adjective Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; - applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.
Vitellin Dictionary V - noun An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.
Vitelline Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.
Vitellogene Dictionary V - noun A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.
Vitellus Dictionary V - noun The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.
Vitiated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vitiate.
Vitiating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vitiate.
Vitiate Dictionary V - verb transitive To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
Vitiation Dictionary V - noun The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract.
Viticulose Dictionary V - adjective Having long and slender trailing stems.
Viticultural Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to viticulture.
Viticulture Dictionary V - noun The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.
Viticulturist Dictionary V - noun One engaged in viticulture.
Vitiligo Dictionary V - noun A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.
Vitilitigate Dictionary V - intransitive verb To contend in law litigiously or cavilously.
Vitilitigation Dictionary V - noun Cavilous litigation; cavillation.
Vitiosity Dictionary V - noun Viciousness; depravity.
Vitious Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Vitiousness.
Vitiously Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Vitiousness.
Vitiousness Dictionary V - noun See Vicious, Viciously, Viciousness.
Vitis Dictionary V - noun A genus of plants including all true grapevines.
Vitoe Dictionary V - adjective See Durukuli.
Vitrella Dictionary V - noun One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.
Vitre-o-electic Dictionary V - adjective Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.
Vitreous Dictionary V - adjective Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.
Vitreousness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vitreous.
Vitrescence Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass.
Vitrescent Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.
Vitrescible Dictionary V - adjective That may be vitrified; vitrifiable.
Vitric Dictionary V - adjective Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; - distinguished from ceramic.
Vitrifaction Dictionary V - noun The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.
Vitrifacture Dictionary V - noun The manufacture of glass and glassware.
Vitrifiable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.
Vitrificable Dictionary V - adjective Vitrifiable.
Vitrificate Dictionary V - verb transitive To convert into glass; to vitrify.
Vitrification Dictionary V - noun Same as Vitrifaction.
Vitrified Dictionary V - adjective Converted into glass.
Vitriform Dictionary V - adjective Having the form or appearance of glass; resembling glass; glasslike.
Vitrifying Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vitrify.
Vitrify Dictionary V - verb transitive To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
Vitrina Dictionary V - noun A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, - whence the name.
Vitriol Dictionary V - noun A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
Vitriolated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vitriolate.
Vitriolating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vitriolate.
Vitriolate Dictionary V - verb transitive To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate.
Vitriolation Dictionary V - noun The act, process, or result of vitriolating.
Vitriolic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol.
Vitriolizable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being converted into a vitriol.
Vitriolization Dictionary V - noun The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.
Vitriolize Dictionary V - verb transitive To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.
Vitriolous Dictionary V - adjective See Vitriolic.
Vitrite Dictionary V - noun A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.
Vitruvian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect.
Vittae Dictionary V - pleural of Vitta.
Vitta Dictionary V - noun One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
Vittate Dictionary V - adjective Bearing or containing vittae.
Vituline Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.
Vituperable Dictionary V - adjective Liable to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.
Vituperate Dictionary V - verb transitive To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Vituperation Dictionary V - noun The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.
Vituperative Dictionary V - adjective Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
Vituperator Dictionary V - noun One who vituperates, or censures abusively.
Vituperrious Dictionary V - adjective Worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful.
Vivace Dictionary V - adjective & adverb Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; - a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.
Vivacious Dictionary V - adjective Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
Vivacity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vivacious.
Vivandiere Dictionary V - noun In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.
Vivariums Dictionary V - pleural of Vivarium.
Vivaria Dictionary V - pleural of Vivarium.
Vivarium Dictionary V - noun A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
Vivaries Dictionary V - pleural of Vivary.
Vivary Dictionary V - noun A vivarium.
Viva voce Dictionary V - By word of mouth; orally.
Vivda Dictionary V - noun See Vifda.
Vive Dictionary V - Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.
Vively Dictionary V - adverb In a lively manner.
Vivency Dictionary V - noun Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation.
Viverra Dictionary V - noun A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.
Viverrine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the Viverridae, or Civet family.
Vivers Dictionary V - noun plural Provisions; victuals.
Vives Dictionary V - noun A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
Vivianite Dictionary V - noun A hydrous phosphate of iron of a blue to green color, growing darker on exposure. It occurs in monoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy.
Vivid Dictionary V - adjective True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
Vividity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vivid; vividness.
Vivific Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Vivifical.
Vivifical Dictionary V - adjective Giving life; reviving; enlivening.
Vivificate Dictionary V - verb transitive To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.
Vivification Dictionary V - noun The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.
Vivificative Dictionary V - adjective Able or tending to vivify, animate, or give life; vivifying.
Vivified Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vivify.
Vivifying Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vivify.
Vivify Dictionary V - verb transitive To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.
Vivipara Dictionary V - noun plural An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; - opposed to Ovipara.
Viviparity Dictionary V - noun The quality or condition of being viviparous.
Viviparous Dictionary V - adjective Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; - opposed to oviparous.
Viviparously Dictionary V - adverb In a viviparous manner.
Viviparousness Dictionary V - noun The quality of being viviparous; viviparity.
Vivisect Dictionary V - verb transitive To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
Vivisection Dictionary V - noun The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
Vivisectional Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vivisection.
Vivisectionist Dictionary V - noun One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.
Vivisector Dictionary V - noun A vivisectionist.
Vixen Dictionary V - noun A female fox.
Vixenish Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.
Vixenly Dictionary V - adjective Like a vixen; vixenish.
Viz Dictionary V - adverb To wit; that is; namely.
Vizard Dictionary V - noun A mask; a visor.
Vizarded Dictionary V - adjective Wearing a vizard.
Vizcacha Dictionary V - noun Same as Viscacha.
Vizier Dictionary V - noun A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.
Vizierate Dictionary V - noun The office, dignity, or authority of a vizier.
Vizier-azem Dictionary V - noun A grand vizier. See under Vizier.
Vizierial Dictionary V - adjective Of, pertaining to, or issued by, a vizier.
Vizir Dictionary V - noun See Vizier.
Vizor Dictionary V - noun See Visor.
Vlissmaki Dictionary V - noun The diadem indris. See Indris.
V moth Dictionary V - A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.
Vocable Dictionary V - noun A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
Vocabularies Dictionary V - pleural of Vocabulary.
Vocabulary Dictionary V - noun A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.
Vocabulist Dictionary V - noun The writer or maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer.
Vocal Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
Vocalic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.
Vocalism Dictionary V - noun The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.
Vocalist Dictionary V - noun A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
Vocality Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.
Vocalization Dictionary V - noun The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.
Vocalized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vocalize.
Vocalizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vocalize.
Vocalize Dictionary V - verb transitive To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.
Vocally Dictionary V - adverb In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.
Vocalness Dictionary V - noun The quality of being vocal; vocality.
Vocation Dictionary V - noun A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
Vocative Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; - said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.
Vociferance Dictionary V - noun Vociferation; noise; clamor.
Vociferant Dictionary V - adjective Noisy; clamorous.
Vociferate Dictionary V - intransitive verb To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim; to bawl; to clamor.
Vociferated Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vociferate.
Vociferating Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vociferate.
Vociferation Dictionary V - noun The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
Vociferator Dictionary V - noun One who vociferates, or is clamorous.
Vociferous Dictionary V - adjective Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.
Vocule Dictionary V - noun A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b.
Vodanium Dictionary V - noun A supposed element, afterward found to be a mixture of several metals, as copper, iron, lead, nickel, etc.
Vodka Dictionary V - noun A Russian drink distilled from rye.
Voe Dictionary V - noun An inlet, bay, or creek; - so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
Vogle Dictionary V - noun Same as Vugg.
Vogue Dictionary V - noun The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; - used now generally in the phrase in vogue.
Voice Dictionary V - noun Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
Voiced Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Voice.
Voicing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Voice.
Voiceful Dictionary V - adjective Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.
Voiceless Dictionary V - adjective Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
Void Dictionary V - adjective Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
Voided Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Void.
Voiding Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Void.
Voidable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being voided, or evacuated.
Voidance Dictionary V - noun The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.
Voider Dictionary V - noun One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls.
Voidness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being void; /mptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality.
Voir dire Dictionary V - An oath administered to a witness, usually before being sworn in chief, requiring him to speak the truth, or make true answers in reference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to give evidence.
Voiture Dictionary V - noun A carriage.
Voivode Dictionary V - noun See Waywode.
Volacious Dictionary V - adjective Apt or fit to fly.
Volador Dictionary V - noun A flying fish of California (Exoc/tus Californicus): - called also volator.
Volage Dictionary V - adjective Light; giddy.
Volant Dictionary V - adjective Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current.
Volante Dictionary V - noun A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba.
Volapuk Dictionary V - noun Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879.
Volapukist Dictionary V - noun One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk.
Volar Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
Volary Dictionary V - noun See Volery.
Volatile Dictionary V - adjective Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
Volatileness Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Volatility.
Volatility Dictionary V - noun Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness.
Volatilizable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being volatilized.
Volatilization Dictionary V - noun The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.
Volatilized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Volatilize.
Volatilizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Volatilize.
Volatilize Dictionary V - verb transitive To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
Volator Dictionary V - noun Same as Volador, 1.
Vol-au-vent Dictionary V - noun A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish.
Volborthite Dictionary V - noun A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.
Volcanian Dictionary V - adjective Volcanic.
Volcanic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
Volcanically Dictionary V - adverb Like a volcano.
Volcanicity Dictionary V - noun Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.
Volcanism Dictionary V - noun Volcanic power or action; volcanicity.
Volcanist Dictionary V - noun One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.
Volcanity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being volcanic, or volcanic origin; volcanicity.
Volcanization Dictionary V - noun The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.
Volcanized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Volcanize.
Volcanizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Volcanize.
Volcanize Dictionary V - verb transitive To subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action.
Volcanoes Dictionary V - pleural of Volcano.
Volcano Dictionary V - noun A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; - often popularly called a burning mountain.
Vole Dictionary V - noun A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.
Volery Dictionary V - noun A flight of birds.
Volge Dictionary V - noun The common sort of people; the crowd; the mob.
Volitable Dictionary V - adjective Volatilizable.
Volitation Dictionary V - noun The act of flying; flight.
Volitient Dictionary V - adjective Exercising the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will.
Volition Dictionary V - noun The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
Volitional Dictionary V - adjective Belonging or relating to volition.
Volitive Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the will; originating in the will; having the power to will.
Volkslieder Dictionary V - pleural of Volkslied.
Volkslied Dictionary V - noun A popular song, or national air.
Volleys Dictionary V - pleural of Volley.
Volley Dictionary V - noun A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
Volleyed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Volley.
Volleying Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Volley.
Volow Dictionary V - verb transitive To baptize; - used in contempt by the Reformers.
Volt Dictionary V - noun A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
Volte Dictionary V - pleural of Volta.
Volta Dictionary V - noun A turning; a time; - chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
Volta-electric Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.
Volta-electrometer Dictionary V - noun An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.
Voltage Dictionary V - noun Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
Voltagraphy Dictionary V - noun In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode.
Voltaic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
Voltairean Dictionary V - adjective Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author.
Voltairism Dictionary V - noun The theories or practice of Voltaire.
Voltaism Dictionary V - noun That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; - called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.
Voltameter Dictionary V - noun An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.
Voltaplast Dictionary V - noun A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping.
Voltatype Dictionary V - noun An electrotype.
Volti Dictionary V - imperative. Turn, that is, turn over the leaf.
Voltigeur Dictionary V - noun A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
Voltmeter Dictionary V - noun An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit.
Voltzite Dictionary V - noun An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; - called also voltzine.
Volubilate Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Volubile.
Volubile Dictionary V - adjective Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble.
Volubility Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Voluble Dictionary V - adjective Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
Volume Dictionary V - noun A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
Volumed Dictionary V - adjective Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist.
Volumenometer Dictionary V - noun An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
Volumenometry Dictionary V - noun The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
Volumescope Dictionary V - noun An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.
Volumeter Dictionary V - noun An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
Volumetric Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume.
Volumetrical Dictionary V - adjective Volumetric.
Voluminous Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
Volumist Dictionary V - noun One who writes a volume; an author.
Voluntarily Dictionary V - adverb In a voluntary manner; of one's own will; spontaneously.
Voluntariness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.
Voluntary Dictionary V - verb transitive Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
Voluntaries Dictionary V - pleural of Voluntary.
Voluntaryism Dictionary V - noun The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.
Volunteer Dictionary V - adjective One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
Volunteered Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Volunteer.
Volunteering Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Volunteer.
Volupere Dictionary V - noun A woman's cap.
Voluptuaries Dictionary V - pleural of Voluptuary.
Voluptuary Dictionary V - noun A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
Voluptuous Dictionary V - adjective Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
Volupty Dictionary V - noun Voluptuousness.
Volutas Dictionary V - pleural of Voluta.
Volutae Dictionary V - pleural of Voluta.
Voluta Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.
Volutation Dictionary V - noun A rolling of a body; a wallowing.
Volute Dictionary V - noun A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale.
Voluted Dictionary V - adjective Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
Volution Dictionary V - noun A spiral turn or wreath.
Volva Dictionary V - noun A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.
Volvox Dictionary V - noun A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
Volvulus Dictionary V - noun The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
Volyer Dictionary V - noun A lurcher.
Vomer Dictionary V - noun A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
Vomerine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the vomer.
Vomica Dictionary V - noun An abscess cavity in the lungs.
Vomicine Dictionary V - noun See Brucine.
Vomic nut Dictionary V - Same as Nux vomica.
Vomited Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vomit.
Vomiting Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vomit.
Vomit Dictionary V - noun To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
Vomition Dictionary V - noun The act or power of vomiting.
Vomitive Dictionary V - adjective Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
Vomito Dictionary V - noun The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.
Vomitory Dictionary V - adjective Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
Vomitories Dictionary V - pleural of Vomitory.
Vomiturition Dictionary V - noun An ineffectual attempt to vomit.
Vondsira Dictionary V - noun Same as Vansire.
Voodoo Dictionary V - noun See Voodooism.
Voodooism Dictionary V - noun A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
Voracious Dictionary V - adjective Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
Voracity Dictionary V - noun The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
Voraginous Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
Vortexes Dictionary V - pleural of Vortex.
Vortices Dictionary V - pleural of Vortex.
Vortex Dictionary V - noun A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
Vortical Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.
Vorticel Dictionary V - noun A vorticella.
Vorticellas Dictionary V - pleural of Vorticella.
Vorticellae Dictionary V - pleural of Vorticella.
Vorticella Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
Vorticose Dictionary V - adjective Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion.
Vortiginous Dictionary V - adjective Moving rapidly round a center; vortical.
Votaress Dictionary V - noun A woman who is a votary.
Votarist Dictionary V - noun A votary.
Votary Dictionary V - adjective Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
Votaries Dictionary V - pleural of Votary.
Vote Dictionary V - noun An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
Voted Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vote.
Voting Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vote.
Voter Dictionary V - noun One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter.
Votist Dictionary V - noun One who makes a vow.
Votive Dictionary V - adjective Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet.
Votress Dictionary V - noun A votaress.
Vouched Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vouch.
Vouching Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vouch.
Vouch Dictionary V - verb transitive To call; to summon.
Vouchee Dictionary V - noun The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
Voucher Dictionary V - noun One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.
Vouchment Dictionary V - noun A solemn assertion.
Vouch/or Dictionary V - noun Same as Voucher, 3 (b).
Vouchsafed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vouchsafe.
Vouchsafing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vouchsafe.
Vouchsafe Dictionary V - verb transitive To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.
Vouchsafement Dictionary V - noun The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension.
Voussoir Dictionary V - noun One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
Vow Dictionary V - noun A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or condition; a devotion of one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow of poverty.
Vowed Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vow.
Vowing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vow.
Vowel Dictionary V - noun A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; - distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 146-149.
Voweled Dictionary V - adjective Furnished with vowels.
Vowelish Dictionary V - adjective Of the nature of a vowel.
Vowelism Dictionary V - noun The use of vowels.
Vowelize Dictionary V - verb transitive To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
Vower Dictionary V - noun One who makes a vow.
Vow-fellow Dictionary V - noun One bound by the same vow as another.
Vox Dictionary V - noun A voice.
Voyage Dictionary V - noun Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.
Voyaged Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Voyage.
Voyaging Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Voyage.
Voyageable Dictionary V - adjective That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable.
Voyager Dictionary V - noun One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water.
Voyageur Dictionary V - noun A traveler; - applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.
Voyol Dictionary V - noun See Viol, 2.
Vraisemblance Dictionary V - noun The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
Vugg Dictionary V - noun Alt. of Vugh.
Vugh Dictionary V - noun A cavity in a lode; - called also vogle.
Vulcan Dictionary V - noun The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; - answering to the Greek Hephaestus.
Vulcanian Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals.
Vulcanic Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.
Vulcanicity Dictionary V - noun Volcanicity.
Vulcanism Dictionary V - noun Volcanism.
Vulcanist Dictionary V - noun A volcanist.
Vulcanite Dictionary V - noun Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.
Vulcanization Dictionary V - noun The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.
Vulcanized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vulcanize.
Vulcanizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vulcanize.
Vulcanize Dictionary V - verb transitive To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization.
Vulcanizer Dictionary V - noun One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.
Vulcano Dictionary V - noun A volcano.
Vulcanology Dictionary V - noun The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc.
Vulgar Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
Vulgarian Dictionary V - noun A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.
Vulgarism Dictionary V - noun Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
Vulgarity Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society.
Vulgarization Dictionary V - noun The act or process of making vulgar, or common.
Vulgarized Dictionary V - imperative & past particle of Vulgarize.
Vulgarizing Dictionary V - past particle & verb noun of Vulgarize.
Vulgarize Dictionary V - verb transitive & intransitive To make vulgar, or common.
Vulgarly Dictionary V - adverb In a vulgar manner.
Vulgarness Dictionary V - noun The quality of being vulgar.
Vulgate Dictionary V - adjective An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic; - so called from its common use in the Latin Church.
Vulnerability Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
Vulnerable Dictionary V - adjective Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.
Vulnerableness Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerability.
Vulnerary Dictionary V - adjective Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions.
Vulnerate Dictionary V - verb transitive To wound; to hurt.
Vulneration Dictionary V - noun The act of wounding, or the state of being wounded.
Vulnerose Dictionary V - adjective Full of wounds; wounded.
Vulnific Dictionary V - adjective Alt. of Vulnifical.
Vulnifical Dictionary V - adjective Causing wounds; inflicting wounds; wounding.
Vulnose Dictionary V - adjective Having wounds; vulnerose.
Vulpes Dictionary V - noun A genus of Carnivora including the foxes.
Vulpic Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained from a lichen (Cetraria vulpina) as a yellow or red crystalline substance which on decomposition yields pulvinic acid.
Vulpicide Dictionary V - noun One who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox.
Vulpine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy; cunning; crafty; artful.
Vulpinic Dictionary V - adjective Same as Vulpic.
Vulpinism Dictionary V - noun The quality of being cunning like the fox; craft; artfulness.
Vulpinite Dictionary V - noun A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.
Vultern Dictionary V - noun The brush turkey (Talegallus Lathami) of Australia. See Brush turkey.
Vulture Dictionary V - noun Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
Vulturine Dictionary V - adjective Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.
Vulturish Dictionary V - adjective Vulturous.
Vulturism Dictionary V - noun The quality or state of being like a vulture; rapaciousness.
Vulturous Dictionary V - adjective Like a vulture; rapacious.
Vulva Dictionary V - noun The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.
Vulviform Dictionary V - adjective Like a cleft with projecting edges.
Vulvitis Dictionary V - noun Inflammation of the vulva.
Vulvo-uterine Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining both to the vulva and the uterus.
Vulvovaginal Dictionary V - adjective Pertaining both to the vulva and the vagina.
Vyce Dictionary V - noun A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

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