| V: | V the twentysecond letter of the English alphabet is a vocal consonant V and U are only varieties of the same character U being the cursive form while V is better adapted for engraving as in stone The two letters were formerly used indiscriminately and till a comparatively recent date words containing them were often classed together in dictionaries and other books of reference see U The letter V is from the Latin alphabet where it was used both as a consonant about like English w and as a vowel The Latin derives it from a form V of the Greek vowel Y this Greek letter being either from the same Semitic letter as the digamma F see F or else added by the Greeks to the alphabet which they took from the Semitic Etymologically v is most nearly related to u w f b p as in vine wine avoirdupois habit have safe save trover troubadour trope See U F etc |
| Vaagmer: | The dealfish |
| Vacantly: | In a vacant manner inanely |
| Vacate: | 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 |
| Vacatur: | An order of court by which a proceeding is set aside or annulled |
| Vaccary: | A cow house dairy house or cow pasture |
| Vaccina: | Vaccinia |
| Vaccinal: | Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination |
| Vaccinate: | To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus called vaccine taken either directly or indirectly from cows now generally to administer by injection or otherwise any vaccine with the objective of rendering the recipient immune to an infectious disease One who has been thus immunized by vaccination is said to be vaccinated against a particular disease One may be thus immunized vaccinated also by oral ingestion or inhalation of a vaccine |
| Vaccination: | 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: | One who or that which vaccinates |
| Vaccine: | Of or pertaining to cows pertaining to derived from or caused by vaccinia as vaccine virus the vaccine disease |
| Vaccine: | The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination |
| Vaccinepoint: | See Point n 26 |
| Vaccinia: | Cowpox vaccina See Cowpox |
| Vaccinist: | A vaccinator |
| Vaccinium: | A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries |
| Vacher: | A keeper of stock or cattle a herdsman |
| Vachery: | An inclosure for cows |
| Vachetteclasp: | A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion It is clasped into two notches one on each side of the crack burned into the wall with a cautery iron |
| Vacillancy: | The quality or state of being vacillant or wavering |
| Vacillant: | Vacillating wavering fluctuating irresolute |
| Vacillating: | Inclined to fluctuate wavering |
| Vacillation: | The act of vacillating a moving one way and the other a wavering |
| Vacillatory: | Inclined to vacillate wavering irresolute |
| Vacuate: | To make void or empty |
| Vacuation: | The act of emptying evacuation |
| Vacuist: | 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: | The quality or state of being vacuous or not filled emptiness vacancy as vacuity of mind vacuity of countenance |
| Vacuna: | The goddess of rural leisure to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest She was especially honored by the Sabines |
| Vacuolated: | Full of vacuoles or small air cavities as vacuolated cells |
| Vacuolation: | Formation into or multiplication of vacuoles |
| Vacuole: | 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 |
| Vacuometer: | An instrument for the comparison of barometers |
| Vacuous: | Empty unfilled void vacant |
| Vacuousness: | The quality or state of being vacuous emptiness vacuity |
| Vacuum: | 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 |
| Vacuumcleaner: | A machine for cleaning carpets tapestry upholstered work etc by suction sometimes called a vacuum |
| Vadantes: | An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading swimming and cursorial birds |
| Vade: | To fade hence to vanish |
| Vademecum: | A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion a manual a handbook |
| Vadimony: | A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day |
| Vadium: | Pledge security bail See Mortgage |
| Vae: | See Voe |
| Vafrous: | Crafty cunning sly as vafrous tricks |
| Vagabond: | Moving from place to place without a settled habitation wandering |
| Vagabond: | One who wanders from place to place having no fixed dwelling or not abiding in it and usually without the means of honest livelihood a vagrant a tramp hence a worthless person a rascal |
| Vagabond: | To play the vagabond to wander like a vagabond to stroll |
| Vagabondage: | The condition of a vagabond a state or habit of wandering about in idleness vagrancy |
| Vagabondism: | Vagabondage |
| Vagabondize: | To play the vagabond to wander about in idleness |
| Vagabondry: | Vagabondage |
| Vagal: | Of or pertaining to the vagus or pneumogastric nerves pneumogastric |
| Vagancy: | A wandering vagrancy |
| Vagantes: | 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: | Given to or characterized by vagaries capricious whimsical crochety |
| Vagient: | Crying like a child |
| Vaginant: | Serving to invest or sheathe sheathing |
| Vaginate: | Invested with or as if with a sheath as a vaginate stem or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf |
| Vaginati: | A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills |
| Vaginervose: | Having the nerves or veins placed in apparent disorder |
| Vaginicola: | A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell |
| Vaginismus: | A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina often rendering copulation impossible |
| Vaginitis: | Inflammation of the vagina or the genital canal usually of its mucous lining membrane |
| Vaginopennous: | Having elytra sheathwinged |
| Vaginula: | A little sheath as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses |
| Vaginule: | A vaginula |
| Vagissate: | To caper or frolic |
| Vagous: | Wandering unsettled |
| Vagrancy: | The quality or state of being a vagrant a wandering without a settled home an unsettled condition vagabondism |
| Vagrant: | One who strolls from place to place one who has no settled habitation an idle wanderer a sturdy beggar an incorrigible rogue a vagabond |
| Vagrantly: | In a vagrant manner |
| Vagrantness: | State of being vagrant vagrancy |
| Vague: | An indefinite expanse |
| Vague: | To wander to roam to stray |
| Vague: | A wandering a vagary |
| Vaguely: | In a vague manner |
| Vagueness: | The quality or state of being vague |
| Vagus: | Wandering applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve |
| Vail: | Same as Veil |
| Vail: | To let fall to allow or cause to sink |
| Vail: | To yield or recede to give place to show respect by yielding uncovering or the like |
| Vail: | Submission decline descent |
| Vailer: | One who vails |
| Vaimure: | An outer or exterior wall See Vauntmure |
| Vain: | Having no real substance value or importance empty void worthless unsatisfying |
| Vain: | Vanity emptiness now used only in the phrase in vain |
| Vainglorious: | Feeling or indicating vainglory elated by vanity boastful |
| Vainglory: | Excessive vanity excited by ones own performances empty pride undue elation of mind vain show boastfulness |
| Vainly: | In a vain manner in vain |
| Vainness: | The quality or state of being vain |
| Vair: | 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: | Charged with vair variegated with shieldshaped figures See Vair |
| Vaishnava: | A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations |
| Vaishnavism: | The worship of Vishnu |
| Vaisya: | 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: | See Waywode |
| Vakeel: | A native attorney or agent also an ambassador |
| Valance: | To furnish with a valance to decorate with hangings or drapery |
| Vale: | A tract of low ground or of land between hills a valley |
| Vale: | See 2d Vail 3 |
| Valediction: | A farewell a bidding farewell |
| Valedictorian: | 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: | Bidding farewell suitable or designed for an occasion of leavetaking as a valedictory oration |
| Valedictory: | A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class usually by the leading scholar |
| Valence: | 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: | A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton |
| Valencienneslace: | 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 |
| Valency: | See Valence |
| Valentia: | See Valencia |
| Valentine: | A sweetheart chosen on St Valentines Day |
| Valentinian: | One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century so called from Valentinus the founder |
| Valeramide: | The acid amide derivative of valeric acid obtained as a white crystalline substance |
| Valerate: | A salt of valeric acid |
| Valerian: | Any plant of the genus Valeriana The root of the officinal valerian Valeriana officinalis has a strong smell and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic |
| Valerianaceous: | Of pertaining to or resembling plants of a natural order Valerianace of which the valerian is the type The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard |
| Valerianate: | A valerate |
| Valerianic: | Pertaining to or obtained from valerian root specifically designating an acid which is usually called valeric acid |
| Valeric: | 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: | A base C10H19N produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia It is probably related to the conine alkaloids |
| Valerin: | A salt of valeric acid with glycerin occurring in butter dolphin oil etc and forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor |
| Valeritrine: | A base C15H27N produced together with valeridine which it resembles |
| Valero: | 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: | A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid |
| Valeryl: | The hypothetical radical C5H9O regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives |
| Valerylene: | A liquid hydrocarbon C5H8 called also pentine |
| Valet: | A male waiting servant a servant who attends on a gentlemans person a body servant |
| Valetudinarian: | Of infirm health seeking to recover health sickly weakly infirm |
| Valetudinarian: | A person of a weak or sickly constitution one who is seeking to recover health |
| Valetudinarianism: | The condition of a valetudinarian a state of feeble health infirmity |
| Valetudinary: | Infirm sickly valetudinarian |
| Valetudinary: | A valetudinarian |
| Valetudinous: | Valetudinarian |
| Valiance: | The quality or state of being valiant bravery valor |
| Validate: | To confirm to render valid to give legal force to |
| Validation: | The act of giving validity |
| Validly: | In a valid manner so as to be valid |
| Validness: | The quality or state of being valid |
| Valinch: | A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole |
| Valise: | 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: | 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 Now commonly written Valkyrie |
| Valkyrian: | Of or pertaining to the Valkyries hence relating to battle |
| Vallancy: | A large wig that shades the face |
| Vallar: | Of or pertaining to a rampart |
| Vallar: | A vallar crown |
| Vallary: | Same as Vallar |
| Vallation: | A rampart or intrenchment |
| Vallatory: | Of or pertaining to a vallation used for a vallation as vallatory reeds |
| Valletspills: | Pills containing sulphate of iron and carbonate of sodium mixed with saccharine matter called also Vallets mass |
| Vallum: | A rampart a wall as in a fortification |
| Valorization: | Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference as by maintaining a purchasing fund making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products etc used chiefly of such action by Brazil |
| Valorous: | Possessing or exhibiting valor brave courageous valiant intrepid |
| Valsalvian: | Of or pertaining to Valsalva an Italian anatomist of the 17th century |
| Valuable: | Having value or worth possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed precious costly as a valuable horse valuable land a valuable cargo |
| Valuable: | A precious possession a thing of value especially a small thing as an article of jewelry used mostly in the plural |
| Valuableness: | The quality of being valuable |
| Valuably: | So as to be of value |
| Valuation: | 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: | One who assesses or sets a value on anything an appraiser |
| Value: | 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: | Highly regarded esteemed prized as a valued contributor a valued friend |
| Valuedpolicy: | A policy in which the value of the goods property or interest insured is specified opposed to open policy |
| Valuedpolicylaw: | A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured in case of total loss the full amount of the insurance regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss |
| Valueless: | Being of no value having no worth |
| Valuer: | One who values an appraiser |
| Valure: | Value |
| Valval: | Valvular |
| Valvasor: | See Vavasor |
| Valvata: | A genus of small spiral freshwater gastropods having an operculum |
| Valved: | Having a valve or valves valvate |
| Valvelet: | A little valve a valvule especially one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp |
| Valveshell: | Any freshwater gastropod of the genus Valvata |
| Valvula: | A little valve or fold a valvelet a valvule |
| Valylene: | 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: | The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist |
| vamoose: | To depart quickly to depart from |
| vamose: | To vamoose an older spelling and pronunciation variant |
| Vamp: | To advance to travel |
| Vamp: | The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam an upper |
| vamp: | A woman who seduces men with her charm and wiles in order to exploit them |
| Vamp: | To provide as a shoe with new upper leather hence to to piece as any old thing with a new part to repair to patch often followed by up |
| vamp: | To seduce a man sexually for purpose of exploitation |
| Vamper: | One who vamps one who pieces an old thing with something new a cobbler |
| Vamper: | To swagger to make an ostentatious show |
| Vampire: | A bloodsucking 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 was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730 The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897 which has inspired several movies |
| Vamplate: | A round plate of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear to protect the hand |
| Vamure: | See Vauntmure |
| Van: | 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 |
| Van: | A shovel used in cleansing ore |
| Van: | To wash or cleanse as a small portion of ore on a shovel |
| Van: | To fan or to cleanse by fanning to winnow |
| Vanadate: | A salt of vanadic acid |
| Vanadic: | Pertaining to or obtained from vanadium containing vanadium specifically designating those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadous compounds as vanadic oxide |
| Vanadinite: | A mineral occurring in yellowish brownish and rubyred hexagonal crystals It consists of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride |
| Vanadious: | 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 Usually written vanadous |
| Vanadite: | A salt of vanadious acid analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite |
| Vanadium: | A rare element of the nitrogenphosphorus group found combined in vanadates in certain minerals and reduced as an infusible grayishwhite metallic powder It is intermediate between the metals and the nonmetals having both basic and acid properties Symbol V or Vd rarely Atomic weight 5094 C1212000 |
| Vanadiumbronze: | A yellow pigment consisting of a compound of vanadium |
| Vanadous: | Of or pertaining to vanadium obtained from vanadium said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen specifically designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds as vanadous acid |
| Vanadyl: | The hypothetical radical VO regarded as a characteristic residue of certain vanadium compounds |
| Vancourier: | One sent in advance an avantcourier a precursor |
| Vandal: | Of or pertaining to the Vandals resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness |
| Vandalism: | The spirit or conduct of the Vandals ferocious cruelty hostility to the arts and literature or willful destruction or defacement of any object of beauty or value |
| Vandyke: | Of or pertaining to the style of Vandyke the painter used or represented by Vandyke |
| Vandyke: | A picture by Vandyke Also a Vandyke collar or a Vandyke edge |
| Vandyke: | To fit or furnish with a Vandyke to form with points or scallops like a Vandyke |
| Vandykebeard: | A trim pointed beard such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke |
| Vanessa: | 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: | A vanessa |
| Vanfoss: | A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp usually full of water |
| Vang: | A rope to steady the peak of a gaff |
| Vanglo: | Benne Sesamum orientale also its seeds so called in the West Indies |
| Vanguard: | The troops who march in front of an army the advance guard the van |
| Vanillate: | A salt of vanillic acid |
| Vanillic: | Pertaining to or derived from vanilla or vanillin resembling vanillin specifically designating an alcohol and an acid respectively vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde |
| Vanillin: | 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: | An inferior kind of vanilla the pods of Vanilla Pompona |
| Vanillyl: | The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol |
| Vaniloquence: | Vain or foolish talk |
| Vaniloquent: | Talking foolishly |
| Vanish: | The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element differing more or less in quality from the main part as a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot |
| Vanishing: | a n from Vanish v |
| Vanishment: | A vanishing |
| Vanitybox: | A small box usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain containing a mirror powder puff and other small toilet articles for a woman |
| Vanjas: | 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: | A machine for concentrating ore See Frue vanner |
| Vannerhawk: | The kestrel |
| Vanning: | A process by which ores are washed on a shovel or in a vanner |
| Vanquish: | To conquer overcome or subdue in battle as an enemy |
| Vanquish: | A disease in sheep in which they pine away |
| Vanquishable: | That may be vanquished |
| Vanquisher: | One who or that which vanquishes |
| Vanquishment: | The act of vanquishing or the state of being vanquished |
| Vansire: | 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: | See Vaunt |
| Vantage: | Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity gain profit advantage |
| Vantage: | To profit to aid |
| Vantagegame: | The first game after the set is deuce See Set n 9 |
| Vantagepoint: | A point giving advantage vantage ground |
| Vantbrace: | Armor for the arm vambrace |
| Vantcourier: | An avantcourier See Vancourier |
| VantHoffslaw: | The generalization that when a system is in equilibrium of the two opposed interactions the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature the exothermic by lowering it |
| Vanward: | Being on or towards the van or front |
| Vap: | That which is vapid insipid or lifeless especially the lifeless part of liquor or wine |
| Vapid: | 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: | The quality or state of being vapid vapidness |
| Vapor: | To send off in vapor or as if in vapor as to vapor away a heated fluid |
| Vaporability: | The quality or state of being vaporable |
| Vaporable: | Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat vaporizable |
| Vaporate: | To emit vapor to evaporate |
| Vaporation: | The act or process of converting into vapor or of passing off in vapor evaporation |
| Vapored: | Wet with vapors moist |
| Vaporer: | One who vapors a braggart |
| Vaporgalvanizing: | A process for coating metal usually iron or steel surfaces with zinc by exposing them to the vapor of zinc instead of as in ordinary galvanizing to molten zinc called also Sherardizing Vapor galvanizing is accomplished by heating the articles to be galvanized together with zinc dust in an air tight receptacle to a temperature of about 600f8 F which is 188f8 below the melting point of zinc or by exposing the articles to vapor from molten zinc in a separate receptacle using hydrogen or other reducing gas to prevent oxidation |
| Vaporiferous: | Conveying or producing vapor |
| Vaporific: | Producing vapor tending to pass or to cause to pass into vapor thus volatile fluids are vaporific heat is a vaporific agent |
| Vaporiform: | Existing in a vaporous form or state as steam is a vaporiform substance |
| Vaporimeter: | 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 |
| Vaporing: | Talking idly boasting vaunting |
| Vaporish: | Full of vapors vaporous |
| Vaporizable: | Capable of being vaporized or converted into vapor |
| Vaporization: | 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 |
| Vaporize: | To convert into vapor as by the application of heat whether naturally or artificially |
| Vaporize: | To pass off in vapor |
| Vaporizer: | One who or that which vaporizes or converts into vapor |
| Vaporose: | Full of vapor vaporous |
| Vaporousness: | The quality of being vaporous |
| Vaporpressure: | The pressure or tension of a confined body of vapor of a chemical substance in equilibrium with the solid or liquid form of the substance The pressure of a given saturated vapor is a function of the temperature only and may be measured by introducing a small quantity of the substance into a barometer and noting the depression of the column of mercury |
| Vapory: | Full of vapors vaporous |
| Vapulation: | The act of beating or whipping |
| Vaquero: | One who has charge of cattle horses etc a herdsman a cowboy |
| Vara: | A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard The vara now in use equals 33385 inches |
| Varan: | The monitor See Monitor 3 |
| Varangian: | 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: | A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa It includes the monitors See Monitor 3 |
| Vare: | A wand or staff of authority or justice |
| Vare: | A weasel |
| Varec: | The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine also the seaweed itself fucus wrack |
| Vargueno: | A decorative cabinet of a form originating in Spain the body being rectangular and supported on legs or an ornamental framework and the front opening downwards on hinges to serve as a writing desk |
| Vari: | The ringtailed lemur Lemur catta of Madagascar Its long tail is annulated with black and white |
| Variability: | The quality or state of being variable variableness |
| Variable: | Having the capacity of varying or changing capable of alternation in any manner changeable as variable winds or seasons a variable quantity |
| Variable: | That which is variable that which varies or is subject to change |
| Variableness: | The quality or state of being variable variability |
| Variably: | In a variable manner |
| Variance: | The quality or state of being variant change of condition variation |
| Variant: | Varying in form character or the like variable different diverse |
| Variant: | Something which differs in form from another thing though really the same as a variant from a type in natural history a variant of a story or a word |
| Variate: | To alter to make different to vary |
| Variation: | The act of varying a partial change in the form position state or qualities of a thing modification alteration mutation diversity deviation as a variation of color in different lights a variation in size variation of language |
| Varicella: | Chicken pox |
| Varices: | See Varix |
| Variciform: | Resembling a varix |
| Varicocele: | A varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord also a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum |
| Varicose: | 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 |
| Varicosis: | The formation of varices varicosity |
| Varicosity: | The quality or state of being varicose |
| Varicotomy: | Excision of a varicosity |
| Varicous: | Varicose |
| Varied: | Changed altered various diversified as a varied experience varied interests varied scenery |
| Variegate: | To diversify in external appearance to mark with different colors to dapple to streak as to variegate a floor with marble of different colors |
| Variegated: | Having marks or patches of different colors as variegated leaves or flowers |
| Variegation: | The act of variegating or diversifying or the state of being diversified by different colors diversity of colors |
| Varier: | A wanderer one who strays in search of variety |
| Varietal: | Of or pertaining to a variety characterizing a variety constituting a variety in distinction from an individual or species |
| Varietas: | A variety used in giving scientific names and often abbreviated to var |
| Varietyshow: | A stage entertainment live or televised of successive separate performances usually songs dances acrobatic feats dramatic sketches exhibitions of trained animals or any specialties When performed live in a theater it was often called a vaudeville show but when television became a dominant form of entertainment live vaudeville performances almost completely ceased |
| Varietystore: | a retail store selling a wide variety of items especially of low price as in a five and ten |
| Variform: | Having different shapes or forms |
| Variformed: | Formed with different shapes having various forms variform |
| Varify: | To make different to vary to variegate |
| Variola: | The smallpox |
| Variolar: | Variolous |
| Variolation: | Inoculation with smallpox |
| Variole: | A foveola |
| Variolic: | Variolous |
| Variolite: | A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules which give the rock a spotted appearance |
| Varioloid: | Resembling smallpox pertaining to the disease called varioloid |
| Varioloid: | The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination |
| Variolous: | Of or pertaining to the smallpox having pits or sunken impressions like those of the smallpox variolar variolic |
| Variometer: | An instrument for comparing magnetic forces esp in the earths magnetic field |
| Variorum: | Containing notes by different persons applied to a publication as a variorum edition of a book |
| Variously: | In various or different ways |
| Variscite: | An applegreen mineral occurring in reniform masses It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina |
| Varisse: | An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses different from a curb but at the same height and often growing to an unsightly size |
| Vark: | The bush hog or boshvark |
| Varletry: | The rabble the crowd the mob |
| Varnisher: | One who varnishes one whose occupation is to varnish |
| Varnishing: | The act of laying on varnish also materials for varnish |
| Varsity: | Colloquial contraction of University |
| Varsovienne: | A kind of Polish dance |
| Vartabed: | A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses with episcopal functions |
| Varuna: | 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 |
| Varus: | A deformity in which the foot is turned inward See Talipes |
| Varvel: | In falconry one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses |
| Varveled: | Having varvels or rings |
| Vary: | To alter or be altered in any manner to suffer a partial change to become different to be modified as colors vary in different lights |
| Vary: | Alteration change |
| Varying: | a n from Vary |
| Vas: | A vessel a duct |
| Vascularity: | The quality or state of being vascular |
| Vascularization: | The process of becoming vascular or the condition of being vascular as the vascularization of cartilege |
| Vasculose: | One of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed differing from cellulose in respect to its solubility in certain media |
| Vasculum: | Same as Ascidium n 1 |
| Vase: | 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 |
| Vaseclock: | A clock whose decorative case has the general form of a vase esp one in which there is no ordinary dial but in which a part of a vase revolves while a single stationary indicator serves as a hand |
| Vasectomy: | Resection or excision of the vas deferens |
| Vaseline: | 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 |
| Vaseshaped: | Formed like a vase or like a common flowerpot |
| Vasiform: | Having the form of a vessel or duct |
| Vasoconstrictor: | 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 |
| Vasoconstrictor: | A substance which causes constriction of the blood vessels Such substances are used in medicine to raise abnormally low blood pressure |
| Vasodentine: | A modified form of dentine which is permeated by blood capillaries vascular dentine |
| Vasodilator: | 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 vasoinhibitory and vasohypotonic nerves since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest |
| Vasodilator: | A substance which causes dilation of blood vessels |
| Vasoformative: | Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles as the vasoformative cells |
| Vasohypertonic: | See Vasoconstrictor |
| Vasohypotonic: | See Vasodilator |
| Vasoinhibitory: | See Vasodilator |
| Vasomotor: | 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: | Resembling a vassal slavish servile |
| Vassal: | To treat as a vassal to subject to control to enslave |
| Vassaless: | A female vassal |
| Vassalry: | The body of vassals |
| Vast: | A waste region boundless space immensity |
| Vastation: | A laying waste waste depopulation devastation |
| Vastel: | See Wastel |
| Vastidity: | Vastness immensity |
| Vastitude: | Vastness immense extent |
| Vastity: | Vastness |
| Vastly: | To a vast extent or degree very greatly immensely |
| Vastness: | The quality or state of being vast |
| Vasty: | Vast immense |
| Vasum: | A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells with conspicuous folds on the columella |
| Vat: | To put or transfer into a vat |
| Vatful: | As much as a vat will hold enough to fill a vat |
| Vatical: | Of or pertaining to a prophet prophetical |
| Vatican: | A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome near the church of St Peter including the popes palace a museum a library a famous chapel etc |
| VaticanCouncil: | The council held under Pope Pius IX in Vatican at Rome in 1870 which promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility |
| Vaticanism: | 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: | One who strongly adheres to the papal authority an ultramontanist |
| Vaticide: | The murder or the murderer of a prophet |
| Vaticinal: | Of or pertaining to prophecy prophetic |
| Vaticinate: | To prophesy to foretell to practice prediction to utter prophecies |
| Vaticination: | Prediction prophecy |
| Vaticinator: | One who vaticinates a prophet |
| Vaticine: | A prediction a vaticination |
| Vaudois: | An inhabitant or the inhabitants of the Swiss canton of Vaud |
| Vaudoux: | See Voodoo |
| Vaultage: | Vaulted work also a vaulted place an arched cellar |
| Vaulted: | Arched concave as a vaulted roof |
| Vaulter: | One who vaults a leaper a tumbler |
| Vaulting: | The act of constructing vaults a vaulted construction |
| Vaulty: | Arched concave |
| Vaunce: | To advance |
| Vaunt: | To boast to make a vain display of ones own worth attainments decorations or the like to talk ostentatiously to brag |
| Vaunt: | To boast of to make a vain display of to display with ostentation In the latter sense the term usually used is flaunt |
| Vaunt: | A vain display of what one is or has or has done ostentation from vanity a boast a brag |
| Vaunt: | The first part |
| Vaunt: | To put forward to display |
| Vauntcourier: | See Vancourier |
| Vaunter: | One who vaunts a boaster |
| Vauntful: | Given to vaunting or boasting vainly ostentatious boastful vainglorious |
| Vauntingly: | In a vaunting manner |
| Vauntmure: | A false wall a work raised in front of the main wall |
| Vauquelinite: | Chromate of copper and lead of various shades of green |
| Vaut: | To vault to leap |
| Vaut: | A vault a leap |
| Vauty: | Vaulted |
| Vavasor: | 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: | The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor also the lands held by a vavasor |
| Vaward: | The fore part van |
| Vazaparrot: | Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis native of Madagascar called also vasa parrot |
| VCR: | a videocasette recorder |
| Veadar: | The thirteenth or intercalary month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar which is added about every third year |
| Veal: | The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food |
| Vection: | Vectitation |
| Vectitation: | The act of carrying or state of being carried |
| Vector: | Same as Radius vector |
| Vecture: | The act of carrying conveyance carriage |
| Veda: | The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus also one of the four collections called RigVeda YajurVeda SamaVeda and AtharvaVeda constituting the most ancient portions of that literature |
| Vedanta: | A system of philosophy among the Hindus founded on scattered texts of the Vedas and thence termed the bdAntab8 or end or substance |
| Vedantic: | Of or pertaining to the Vedas |
| Vedantist: | One versed in the doctrines of the Vedantas |
| Veddahs: | A primitive people of Ceylon |
| Vedette: | A sentinel usually on horseback stationed on the outpost of an army to watch an enemy and give notice of danger a vidette |
| Vedic: | Of or pertaining to the Vedas or one of the Vedas |
| Vedro: | A Russian liquid measure equal to 3249 gallons of U S standard measure or 2706 imperial gallons |
| Veer: | To change direction to turn to shift as wind veers to the west or north |
| Veer: | To direct to a different course to turn to wear as to veer or wear a vessel |
| Veerable: | Changeable shifting as winds veerable to southwest |
| Veering: | Shifting |
| Veery: | 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 Wilsons thrush |
| Vega: | A brilliant star of the first magnitude the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra |
| Vega: | An open tract of ground a plain esp one which is moist and fertile as those used for tobacco fields |
| vegan: | A vegetarian who does not eat any animal products not even fish eggs or milk |
| Vegetability: | The quality or state of being vegetable |
| Vegetable: | A plant See Plant |
| Vegetal: | A vegetable |
| Vegetality: | The quality or state of being vegetal or vegetable |
| Vegetarian: | One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man Strict vegetarians eat no meat eggs or milk and are sometimes referred tro as vegans |
| Vegetarian: | Of or pertaining to vegetarianism as a vegetarian diet |
| Vegetarianism: | The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits |
| Vegete: | Lively active sprightly vigorous |
| Vegetism: | Vegetal state or characteristic |
| Vegetive: | Having the nature of a plant vegetable as vegetive life |
| Vegetive: | A vegetable |
| Vegetoanimal: | 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: | Vigorous lively active vegete |
| Vehemency: | Vehemence |
| Vehemently: | In a vehement manner |
| Vehicled: | Conveyed in a vehicle furnished with a vehicle |
| Vehicular: | Of or pertaining to a vehicle serving as a vehicle as a vehicular contrivance |
| Vehiculary: | Vehicular |
| Vehiculate: | To convey by means of a vehicle to ride in a vehicle |
| Vehiculation: | Movement of vehicles |
| Vehiculatory: | Vehicular |
| Vehm: | A vehmic court |
| Vehmgericht: | A vehmic court |
| Vehmic: | 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 governments which were too weak to maintain law and order and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction |
| Veiled: | Covered by or as by a veil hidden |
| Veiledplate: | A fogged plate |
| Veiling: | A veil a thin covering also material for making veils |
| Veilless: | Having no veil |
| Vein: | One of the vessels which carry blood either venous or arterial to the heart See Artery 2 |
| Vein: | To form or mark with veins to fill or cover with veins |
| Veinal: | Pertaining to veins venous |
| Veined: | Full of veins streaked variegated as veined marble |
| Veinless: | Having no veins as a veinless leaf |
| Veinlet: | A small vein |
| Veinous: | Marked with veins veined veiny |
| Veinquartz: | Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein |
| Veinstone: | The valueless nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which surrounds the ores in a vein as quartz calcite barite fluor spar etc gangue matrix called also veinstuff |
| Veiny: | Full of veins veinous veined as veiny marble |
| Velarium: | The marginal membrane of certain medus belonging to the Discophora |
| Velate: | Having a veil veiled |
| Veldt: | A region or tract of land esp the open field thinly forested or with bushes and shrubs grass country |
| Veldtsore: | An infective sore mostly on the hands and feet often contracted in walking on the veldt and apparently due to a specific micro94rganism |
| Vele: | A veil |
| Velella: | Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella |
| Veliferous: | Carrying or bearing sails |
| Veliger: | Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the stage when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming |
| Velitation: | A dispute or contest a slight contest a skirmish |
| Velivolant: | Flying with sails passing under full sail |
| Vell: | The salted stomach of a calf used in making cheese a rennet bag |
| Vell: | To cut the turf from as for burning |
| Velleity: | The lowest degree of desire imperfect or incomplete volition |
| Vellet: | Velvet |
| Vellicate: | To twitch to cause to twitch convulsively |
| Vellicate: | To move spasmodically to twitch as a nerve vellicates |
| Vellication: | The act of twitching or of causing to twitch |
| Vellicative: | Having the power of vellicating plucking or twitching causing vellication |
| Vellon: | A word occurring in the phrase real vellon See the Note under 1st Real |
| Vellum: | A fine kind of parchment usually made from calfskin and rendered clear and white used as for writing upon and for binding books |
| Vellumy: | Resembling vellum |
| Velocimeter: | An apparatus for measuring speed as of machinery or vessels but especially of projectiles |
| Velocipede: | 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 |
| Velocipedist: | One who rides on a velocipede a cyclist |
| Velours: | One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet |
| Velout: | A white sauce or stock made by boiling down ham veal beef fowl bouillon etc then adding soup stock seasoning vegetables and thickening and again boiling and straining |
| Veltfare: | The fieldfare |
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