(v. t.) To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

(v. t.) Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.

(n.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.

(n.) The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vapor

(v. i.) To emit vapor; to evaporate.

(a.) Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.

(a.) Full of vapors; vaporous.

(a.) Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.

(v. t.) To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.

(v. i.) To pass off in vapor.

(a.) Full of vapor; vaporous.

(a.) Having the form or nature of vapor.

(a.) Full of vapors or exhalations.

(a.) Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent.

(a.) Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.

(a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.

(a.) Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.

(n.) That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.

(n.) A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables.

(n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.

(n.) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.

(adv.) In a variable manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

(n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.

(n.) A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species.

(n.) A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.

(a.) Having different shapes or forms.

(a.) Variolous.

(a.) Variolous.

(a.) Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.

(n.) The rabble; the crowd; the mob.

(n.) A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.

(n.) Same as Ascidium, n., 1.

(n.) A tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in collecting plants.

(a.) Having the form of a vessel, or duct.

(n.) The body of vassals.

(n.) The quality or state of being vast.

(n.) The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.

(n.) A prediction; a vaticination.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vault

(n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar.

(n.) The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.

(n.) Act of one who vaults or leaps.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaunt

(a.) Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.

(n.) The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.

(v. i.) To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

(v. i.) Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.

(v. i.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.

(a.) Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life.

(n.) A vegetable.

(a.) Vigorous; lively; active; vegete.

(a.) Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.

(a.) Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion.

(a.) Having no veil.

(a.) Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.

(n.) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.

(n.) The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under Speed.

(n.) The fieldfare.

(n.) A kind of velvet having cotton back.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.

(n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.

(a.) Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable.

(n.) Something to be sold, or offered for sale.

(imp. & p. p.) of Veneer

(n.) The act or practice of poisoning.

(a.) Venomous.

(v. t.) To poison; to infect with poison.

(a.) Poisoned.

(a.) Poisonous.

(v. t.) To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders.

(a.) Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.

(a.) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.

(a.) Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines.

(a.) Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac.

(a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus.

(n.) The venereal disease; syphilis.

(a.) Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.

(a.) Venereous.

(a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.

(a.) Venial; pardonable.

(a.) Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.

(a.) Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.

(a.) Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.

(n.) The quality or state of being venous.

(n.) A condition in which the circulation is retarded, and the entire mass of blood is less oxygenated than it normally is.

(imp. & p. p.) of Venture

(n.) One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.

(n.) A strumpet; a prostitute.

(a.) Full of venules, or small veins.

(n.) The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.

(n.) Veratrine.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.

(adv.) In a verbal manner; orally.

(adv.) Word for word; verbatim.

(adv.) Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.

(n.) The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.

(n.) The quality or state of being verdant.

(n.) Alt. of Verderor

(n.) 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.

(adv.) In a vacant manner; inanely.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vacate

(n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.

(n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.

(n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.

(n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.

(n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

(n.) Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

(n.) A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.

(a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

(a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

(a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

(pl. ) of Vagary

(a.) Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing.

(a.) Alt. of Vaginated

(n.) A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

(n.) One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.

(n.) A vaginula.

(n.) The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.

(n.) The quality or state of being vain.

(imp. & p. p.) of Valance

(n.) A salt of valeric acid.

(n.) A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid.

(n.) Alt. of Valiancy

(n.) The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor.

(v. t.) To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title.

(n.) Value.

(n.) A large wig that shades the face.

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid.

(a.) Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.

(a.) Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion.

(n.) A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural.

(adv.) So as to be of value.

(n.) One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.

(n.) A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.

(pl. ) of Valvula

(a.) Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.

(a.) Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

(n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.

(n.) A salt of vanadic acid.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vanish

(pl. ) of Vanity

(n.) Verdigris.

(n.) Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.

(a.) Covered with verdure.

(a.) Rashful; modest.

(n.) See Virgalieu.

(n.) The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.

(n.) The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.

(n.) One who, or that which, verifies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Verify

(pl. ) of Verity

(n.) The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.

(n.) Tartness; sourness, as of disposition.

(n.) Any species of vermetus.

(a. & adv.) Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin.

(n.) See Veronica, 1.

(n.) A Veronica. See Veronica, 1.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Capable of being turned.

(n.) Same as Versemonger.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One of the serial segments of the spinal column.

(n.) One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.

(n.) A vertebra.

(pl. ) of Vertex

(pl. ) of Vertex

(a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.

(a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.

(n.) Vertical position; zenith.

(n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.

(n.) A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.

(n.) A vesicatory.

(v. t.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.

(n.) A vesicle.

(a.) Vesper; evening.

(n.) A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.

(n.) A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.

(a.) Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.

(n.) A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress

(n.) any priestly garment.

(pl. ) of Vestry

(a.) Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped.

(n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

(n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.

(n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit.

() Alt. of Vexillary

(n.) A flag or standard.

(n.) A company of troops serving under one standard.

(n.) A banner.

(n.) The sign of the cross.

(n.) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.

(n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.

(adv.) In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate.

() of Vial

(n.) An odometer; -- called also viatometer.

(n.) An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.

(n.) Provisions for a journey.

(n.) The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.

(n.) The state of being vibrant; resonance.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

(n.) The benefice of a vicar.

(n.) The house or residence of a vicar.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.

(a.) Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.

(n.) A vicar.

(a.) Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.

(n.) 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.

(n.) That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.

(n.) A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.

(n. pl.) Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

(a.) Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.

(a.) Pleasing to the sight; sightly.

(n.) A touchhole; a vent.

(a.) Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.

(n.) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.

(n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.

(v. t.) To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.

(a. & adv.) Vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.

(a.) Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.

(a.) Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.

(n.) One who vilifies or defames.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vilify

(v. t.) To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.

(n.) An inhabitant of a village.

(n.) The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer.

(n.) Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk.

(n.) The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.

(n.) A little villa.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural.

(a.) Capable of being overcome or subdued; conquerable.

(n.) A bond of union; a tie.

(n.) A straight, horizontal mark placed over two or more members of a compound quantity, which are to be subjected to the same operation, as in the expression x2 + y2 - x + y.

(n.) A band or bundle of fibers; a fraenum.

(n.) A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.

(a.) Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.

(n.) An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.

(a.) Given to wine; drunken; intemperate.

(n.) The quality or state of being vinous.

(n.) See Vanquish, n.

(n.) One who gathers the vintage.

(a.) Capable of being violated, broken, or injured.

(imp. & p. p.) of Violate

(n.) One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.

(n.) The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

(n.) Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

(n.) Ravishment; rape; constupration.

(v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper.

(a.) Somewhat like a viper; viperous.

(a.) Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue.

(pl. ) of Virago

(a.) Striped; streaked.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.

(n.) Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.

(n.) Freshness; soundness.

(n.) The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.

(pl. ) of Virtuoso

(n.) One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

(n.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting virtue.

(a.) Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.

(a.) Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.

(a.) Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.

(a.) Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.

(a.) Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.

(a.) Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.

(n.) Alt. of Viz-cacha

(a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.

(a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vision

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vision.

(a.) Having the power of seeing visions; inspired; also, seen in visions.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Visit

(n.) One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

(a.) Visiting.

() a. & vb. n. from Visit.

(n.) The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.

(n.) A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.

(n.) Perisperm in an early condition.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vitiate

(n.) A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.

(n.) One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.

(a.) Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.

(n.) The quality or state of being vivacious.

(n.) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor.

(n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.

(n.) A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

(pl. ) of Vivary

(n.) The quality or state of being vivid; vividness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vivify

(n. pl.) An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.

(v. t.) To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

(a.) Wearing a vizard.

(n.) Same as Viscacha.

(n.) The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

(n.) A vocalic sound.

(n.) A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.

(n.) The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

(n.) The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.

(v. t.) To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

(v. t.) To practice singing on the vowel sounds.

(n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

(n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.

(n.) A calling by the will of God.

(n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.

(n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.

(a.) 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.

(n.) The vocative case.

(a.) Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.

(a.) Capable of being voided, or evacuated.

(a.) Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being either avoided or confirmed.

(n.) The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.

(n.) A ejection from a benefice.

(n.) The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent.

(n.) Evasion; subterfuge.

(n.) The quality or state of being void; /mptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality.

(a.) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.

(a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation.

(a.) Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper.

(n.) A winged animal; wild fowl; game.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.

(a.) Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.

(a.) Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

(n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.

(n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.

(n.) The power of willing or determining; will.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the will; originating in the will; having the power to will.

(a.) Used in expressing a wish or permission as, volitive proposition.

(imp. & p. p.) of Volley

(a.) Discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; as, volleyed thunder.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine.

(n.) One who writes a volume; an author.

(n.) A spiral turn or wreath.

(n.) A whorl of a spiral shell.

(n.) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.

(n.) Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the vomer.

(n.) See Brucine.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vomit

(n.) The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.

(n.) The act or power of vomiting.

(a.) Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

(a.) Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.

(n.) An emetic; a vomit.

(n.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.

(n.) Same as Vansire.

(n.) The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.

(pl. ) of Vortex

(pl. ) of Vortex

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.

(n.) A vorticella.

(n.) A woman who is a votary.

(n.) A votary.

(pl. ) of Votary

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vouch

(n.) One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

(a.) Of the nature of a vowel.

(n.) The use of vowels.

(v. t.) To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Voyage

(n.) 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.

(adv.) In a vulgar manner.

(a.) Alt. of Vulnifical

(a.) Same as Vulpic.

(n.) Inflammation of the vulva.