(n.) A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.

(n.) A wand or staff of authority or justice.

(n.) A weasel.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.

(n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.

(n.) The calyx of a plant.

(v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.

(v. t.) To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

(n.) The calyptra of mosses.

(n.) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

(n.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.

(n.) Same as Velum, 3.

(n.) To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.

(n.) Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.

(n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.

(n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.

(n.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.

(n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.

(n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

(n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.

(n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course.

(n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein.

(v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.

(n.) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.

(n.) To cut the turf from, as for burning.

(n.) A word; a vocable.

(n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.

(n.) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.

(n.) The right of pasturing animals in a forest.

(n.) Greenness; freshness.

(v. i.) To fade; hence, to vanish.

(superl.) Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.

(superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.

(superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.

(superl.) Showy; ostentatious.

(n.) Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) To advance; to travel.

(n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.

(n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.

(v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.

(n.) A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.

(n. sing. & pl.) A verse or verses. See Verse.

(n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.

(n.) The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.

(n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.

(v. t.) True; real; actual; veritable.

(adv.) In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.

(n.) Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.

(n.) An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.

(n.) Any outer covering; array; garb.

(n.) Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.

(n.) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.

(n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.

(n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.

(n.) To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.

(n.) To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.

(v. i.) To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.

(n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

(n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.

(n.) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.

(n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.

(v. t.) To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.

() imperative sing. of L. videre, to see; -- used to direct attention to something; as, vide supra, see above.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vie

(n.) The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

(n.) Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.

(n.) Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.

(n.) That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.

(n.) The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of Lake George.

(n.) Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued.

(n.) That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.

(n.) Appearance; show; aspect.

(v. t.) To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.

(v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.

(n.) The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.

(a.) Vile.

(n.) A small collection of houses; a village.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

(n.) An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton.

(n.) See Vis/.

(v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.

(n.) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

(n.) An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities of certain countries on the continent of Europe, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on his journey; a visa.

(v. t.) To examine and indorse, as a passport; to visa.

() Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.

(a.) Lively; animated; forcible.

(a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

(a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.

(a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.

(a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

(a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

(a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.

(n.) An empty space; a vacuum.

(a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.

(a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.

(a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.

(v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.

(n.) A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.

(v. i.) To win all the tricks by a vole.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinae. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.

(n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.

(n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

(n.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C.

(n.) Alt. of Vugh

(n.) A cavity in a lode; -- called also vogle.