Vulcan
Vul´can, n. [L. Vulcanus, Volcanus: cf. Skr. ulka a firebrand, meteor. Cf. Volcano.] (Rom. Myth.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; — answering to the Greek Hephaestus.

Vulcan powder
Vul"can pow"der. A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin (30 parts), sodium nitrate (52.5), charcoal (10.5), and sulphur (7), used in mining and blasting. W.

Vulcanian
Vul•ca´ni•an, a. [L. Vulcanius.]
1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals.
"Ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend." Macaulay.
2. (Geol.) Volcanic.

Vulcanic
Vul•can´ic, a.
1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.
2. Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists.

Vulcanicity
Vul•can•ic´i•ty, n. Volcanicity.

Vulcanism
Vul´can•ism, n. Volcanism.

Vulcanist
Vul´can•ist, n. A volcanist.

Vulcanite
Vul´can•ite, n. Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.

Vulcanization
Vul•can•i•za´tion, n. [See Vulcan.] The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta- percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.

Vulcanize
Vul´can•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Vulcanized p. pr. & vb. n. Vulcanizing ] To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization. Vulcanized fiber, paper, paper pulp, or other fiber, chemically treated, as with metallic chlorides, so as to form a substance resembling ebonite in texture, hardness, etc. Knight. — Vulcanized rubber, India rubber, vulcanized.

Vulcanizer
Vul´can•i•zer, n. One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.

Vulcano
Vul•ca´no, n. A volcano. [Obs.]

Vulcanology
Vul•can•ol´o•gy, n. [See Vulcan, and -logy.] The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc. [R.]

Vulgar
Vul´gar, a. [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf. Divulge.]
1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak.
"Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise." Milton.
"It might be more useful to the English reader … to write in our vulgar language." Bp. Fell.
"The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class." Bancroft.
2. Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." Shak.
"Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life." Addison.
"In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter." Rambler.
3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.
"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar." Shak. Vulgar fraction. (Arith.) See under Fraction.

Vulgar
Vul´gar, n. [Cf. F. vulgaire.]
1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.]
"These vile vulgars are extremely proud." Chapman.
2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.]

Vulgarian
Vul•ga´ri•an, n. A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.

Vulgarism
Vul´gar•ism, n. [Cf. F. vulgarisme.]
1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
2. A vulgar phrase or expression.
"A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected." Coleridge.

Vulgarity
Vul•gar´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. vulgarite, L. vulgaritas the multitude.]
1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. Sir T. Browne.
2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
"The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair." B. Jonson.

Vulgarization
Vul•gar•i•za´tion, n. The act or process of making vulgar, or common.

Vulgarize
Vul´gar•ize, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Vulgarized p. pr. & vb. n. Vulgarizing ] [Cf. F. vulgariser, LL. vulgarizare.] To make vulgar, or common.
"Exhortation vulgarized by low wit." V. Knox.

Vulgarly
Vul´gar•ly, adv. In a vulgar manner.

Vulgarness
Vul´gar•ness, n. The quality of being vulgar.

Vulgate
Vul´gate, n. [NL. vulgata, from L. vulgatus usual, common, p. p. of vulgare to make general, or common, fr. vulgus the multitude: cf. F. vulgate. See Vulgar, a. ] 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. The Vulgate was made by Jerome at the close of the 4th century. The Old Testament he translated mostly from the Hebrew and Chaldaic, and the New Testament he revised from an older Latin version. The Douay version, so called, is an English translation from the Vulgate. See Douay Bible.