VIII
"Ekyannus VIII" Shriah of the Thousand Temples, author of 111 Aphorisms.

Vindauga
"River Vindauga" The River Vindauga is the westernmost of the three major river systems draining into Lake Huösi , and the primary geographical boundary between Galeoth and Cepalor .

Vippol
"Vippol Elder" Dispossessed Son of Siöl and most gifted surviving Qûya by 4132.

Vippol Elder
Dispossessed Son of Siöl and most gifted surviving Qûya by 4132.

Viramsata
Viramsata , "many-breaths", is a game played in southern Nilnamesh . Viramsata is a game of truth. The players tell lies about who said what to whom, about who makes love to whomever, and so on. They do this continually, and what is more, they are at pains to act out the lies told by others, especially when they are elegant, so they might make them true. And so it goes from tongue to lip to tongue, until no distinction remains between what is a lie and what is true. In the end, at a great ceremony, it is the most compelling tale that is declare Pirvirsut , a word that means 'this breath is ground' in ancient Vaparsi. The weak, the inelegant, have died, while others grow strong, yielding only to the Pirvirsut, the Breath-that-is-Ground. The viramsata become living things, and humans are their battleground.

Viri
Viri was one of the Nine High Mansions of Eärwa . It was located in the Urokka Mountains north of the Sea of Neleöst . According to the Isûphiryas , the Incû-Holoinas , plunged to earth to the west of the Sea of Neleöst in land ruled by Nin’janjin , the Nonman King of Viri. The fall of the Ark-of-the-Skies caused a natural disaster and sent up ash-clouds that darkened the skies, resulting in a famine. Nin’janjin begged Cû’jara-Cinmoi , the King of Siöl for help. Rather than send aid to Nin’janjin, Cû’jara-Cinmoi assembled an army and invaded the lands of Viri. Nin’janjin and his Ishroi capitulated without battle; Viri became a bloodless tributary of Siöl. Many years later embassy of Inchoroi reached Nin’janjin at Viri. They reminded Nin’janjin of Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s treachery in his time of need, and offered an alliance to break the yoke of Siöl over Viri. Despite the warnings of his Ishroi, Nin’janjin accepted the Inchoroi terms. Viri revolted. The Siölan Ishroi within its halls were slain; the rest were enslaved. Sil , the Inchoroi King, and Nin’janjin assembled their hosts to meet Cû’jara-Cinmoi on the Fields of Pir Pahal , which Men would call Eleneöt in a later age. According to the Isûphiryas, the Nonmen of Viri were dismayed by the sight of their allies, who wore fierce and festering bodies as garments of war. Gin’gûrima , the greatest hero among them, pointed to Nin’janjin and declared, “Hate has blinded him.” This treason within a treason was repeated by others, until it became a thundering chorus. Nin’janjin fled, seeking protection from Sil. The Inchoroi then turned upon their allies, hoping to destroy the host of Viri before Cû’jara-Cinmoi and the great host of Siöl could close with them. Overmatched by the Inchoroi and their weapons of light, the Nonmen of Viri were driven back with horrendous losses. Only Cû’jara-Cinmoi and his Ishroi Chariots saved them from utter destruction. In later epochs, the great fortress of Dagliash was built atop the ruins of Viri.

Virimlû
Arcane Siölan smith, forged Imir­si­öl, the legendary blade of Oirûnas.

Virtue
"Virtue of Sin" The Virtue of Sin is a work by Merotokas .

Excerpts

"This one thing every tyrant will tell you: nothing saves more lives than murder."

Virtue of Sin
The Virtue of Sin is a work by Merotokas .

Excerpts

"This one thing every tyrant will tell you: nothing saves more lives than murder."

vi
-apple
-see otaheite apple.

via
-a road way.
-by the way of; as, to send a letter via queenstown to london.

viability
-the quality or state of being viable.
-the capacity of living after birth.
-the capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.

viable
-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
-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
-a voyage; a journey.

vial
-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.
-to put in a vial or vials.

vialed
-of vial

vialing
-of vial

vialled
-of vial

vialling
-of vial

viameter
-an odometer;
-- called also viatometer.

viand
-an article of food; provisions; food; victuals;
-- used chiefly in the plural.

viander
-a feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host.

viary
-of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads.

viatecture
-the art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.

viatic
-of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.

viaticum
-an allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
-provisions for a journey.
-the communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.

viatometer
-a viameter.

vibices
-more or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.

vibracula
-of vibraculum

vibraculum
-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
-the state of being vibrant; resonance.

vibrant
-vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums.

vibrate
-of vibrate
-to brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
-to mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
-to affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
-to move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
-to have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
-to produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.
-to pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.

vibratile
-adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.

vibratility
-the quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.

vibrating
-of vibrate

vibration
-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.
-a limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. the path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.

vibratiuncle
-a small vibration.

vibrative
-; vibratory.

vibratory
-consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.

vibrio
-a genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.

vibriones
-of vibrio

vibrios
-of vibrio

vibrissa
-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.
-the bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

vibrissae
-of vibrissa

vibroscope
-an instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.
-an instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.

viburnum
-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
-one deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
-the incumbent of an appropriated benefice.

vicarage
-the benefice of a vicar.
-the house or residence of a vicar.

vicarial
-of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.
-delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.

vicarian
-a vicar.

vicariate
-having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.
-delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar.

vicarious
-of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
-acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
-performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.
-acting as a substitute;
-- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.

vicariously
-in a vicarious manner.

vicarship
-the office or dignity of a vicar.

vicary
-a vicar.

vice
-a defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
-a moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
-the buffoon of the old english moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of vice itself;
-- called also iniquity.
-a kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. same as vise.
-a tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
-a gripe or grasp.
-to hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
-in the place of; in the stead; as, a. b. was appointed postmaster vice c. d. resigned.
-denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.

vice
-regal
-of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty.

viced
-of vice
-vicious; corrupt.

vicegerency
-the office of a vicegerent.

vicegerent
-having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.
-having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.
-an officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar.

viceman
-a smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.

vicemen
-of viceman

vicenary
-of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.

vicennial
-lasting or comprising twenty years.
-happening once in twenty years; as, a vicennial celebration.

viceroy
-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.
-a large and handsome american butterfly (basilarchia, / limenitis, archippus). its wings are orange
-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. the larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.

viceroyalty
-the dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.

viceroyship
-viceroyalty.

vicety
-fault; defect; coarseness.

vichy water
-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
-see vitiate.

vicinal
-near; vicine.

vicine
-near; neighboring; vicinal.
-an alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.

vicing
-of vice

vicinity
-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.
-that which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.

viciosity
-vitiosity.

vicious
-characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
-addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.
-wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.
-not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.
-not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.
-bitter; spiteful; malignant.

vicissitude
-regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
-irregular change; revolution; mutation.

vicissitudinary
-subject to vicissitudes.

vicissitudinous
-full of, or subject to, changes.

vicissy duck
-a west indian duck, sometimes domesticated.

vicontiel
-of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country.

vicontiels
-things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.

vicount
-see viscount.

victim
-a living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
-a person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
-a person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.
-hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.

victimate
-to make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.

victimize
-to make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.

victimized
-of victimize

victimizing
-of victimize

victor
-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.
-a destroyer.
-victorious.

victoress
-a victress.

victoria
-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.
-a kind of low four
-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
-an asteroid discovered by hind in 1850;
-- called also clio.

victorian
-of or pertaining to the reign of queen victoria of england; as, the victorian poets.

victories
-of victory

victorine
-a woman's fur tippet.

victorious
-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.

victory
-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
-a woman who wins a victory; a female victor.

victrice
-a victress.

victrix
-victress.

victual
-food;
-- now used chiefly in the plural. see victuals.
-grain of any kind.
-to supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.

victualage
-victuals; food.

victualed
-of victual

victualer
-one who furnishes victuals.
-one who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper.
-a vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision use; a provision ship.
-one who deals in grain; a corn factor.

victualing
-of victual
-of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship.

victualled
-of victual

victualling
-of victual

victuals
-food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

victus
-food; diet.

vicugna
-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.

vicu–a
-alt. of vicugna

vida finch
-the whidah bird.

vidame
-one of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.

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

videlicet
-to wit; namely;
-- often abbreviated to viz.

vidette
-same vedette.

vidonia
-a dry white wine, of a tart flavor, produced in teneriffe;
-- called also teneriffe.

viduage
-the state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.

vidual
-of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.

viduation
-the state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.

viduity
-widowhood.

vie
-to stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. see revie.
-to strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.
-to stake; to wager.
-to do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
-a contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.

vied
-of vie

vielle
-an old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy
-gurdy.

vienna paste
-a caustic application made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime;
-- called also vienna caustic.

viennese
-of or pertaining to vienna, or people of vienna.
-an inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of vienna.

view
-the act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
-mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.
-power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.
-that which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.
-the pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of lake george.
-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.
-that which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.
-appearance; show; aspect.
-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.
-to survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.

viewed
-of view

viewer
-one who views or examines.
-a person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
-the superintendent of a coal mine.

viewiness
-the quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.

viewing
-of view

viewless
-not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.

viewly
-alt. of viewsome

viewsome
-pleasing to the sight; sightly.

viewy
-having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.
-spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination.

vifda
-in the orkney and shetland islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.

vigesimal
-twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.

vigesimation
-the act of putting to death every twentieth man.

vigesimo
-quarto
-having twenty
-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo
-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.
-a book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty
-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made;
-- usually written 24mo, or 24¡.

vigil
-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.
-hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
-originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
-later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
-a religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

vigilance
-the quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.
-watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection.
-guard; watch.

vigilancy
-vigilance.

vigilant
-attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.

vigilantly
-in a vigilant manner.

vigily
-a vigil.

vigintivirate
-the office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.

vignette
-a running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in gothic architecture.
-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.
-to make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.

vigonia
-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
-active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
-strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
-strength; efficacy; potency.
-to invigorate.

vigorite
-an explosive containing nitroglycerin. it is used in blasting.

vigoroso
-vigorous; energetic; with energy;
-- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.

vigorous
-possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.
-exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.

viinage
-the place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage.

viking
-one belonging to the pirate crews from among the northmen, who plundered the coasts of europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.

vilany
-villainy.

vilayet
-one of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the ottoman empire;
-- formerly called eyalet.

vild
-vile.

vile
-low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
-morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of god and men; sinful; wicked; bad.

viled
-abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile.

vileyns
-villainous.

vilification
-the act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.

vilified
-of vilify

vilifier
-one who vilifies or defames.

vilify
-to make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
-to degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
-to treat as vile; to despise.

vilifying
-of vilify

vilipend
-to value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.

vilipendency
-disesteem; slight; disparagement.

vility
-vileness; baseness.

vill
-a small collection of houses; a village.

villa
-a country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.

village
-a small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.

villager
-an inhabitant of a village.

villagery
-villages; a district of villages.

villain
-one who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
-a baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
-a vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
-villainous.
-to debase; to degrade.

villainies
-of villainy

villainous
-base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.
-proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action.
-sorry; mean; mischievous;
-- in a familiar sense.

villainy
-the quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer.
-abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk.
-the act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.

villakin
-a little villa.

villan
-a villain.

villanage
-the state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.
-baseness; infamy; villainy.

villanel
-a ballad.

villanella
-an old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.

villanelle
-of villanella
-a poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.

villanette
-a small villa.

villanize
-to make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.

villanized
-of villanize

villanizer
-one who villanizes.

villanizing
-of villanize

villanous
-alt. of villanousness

villanously
-alt. of villanousness

villanousness
-see villainous, etc.

villany
-see villainy.

villas
-of villa

villatic
-of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural.

villein
-see villain, 1.

villenage
-villanage.

villenous
-of or pertaining to a villein.

villi
-pl. of villus.
-of villus

villiform
-having the form or appearance of villi; like close
-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.

villose
-see villous.

villosity
-state of being villous.
-a coating of long, slender hairs.
-a villus.

villous
-abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.
-furnished or clothed with villi.

villus
-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.
-fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.

vim
-power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.

vimen
-a long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.

viminal
-of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

vimineous
-of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs.
-producing long, slender twigs or shoots.

vin ordinaire
-a cheap claret, used as a table wine in france.

vinaceous
-belonging to, or like, wine or grapes.
-of the color of wine, especially of red wine.

vinagrous
-resembling vinegar; sour.
-fig.: unamiable; morose.

vinaigrette
-a sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients,
-- used esp. for cold meats.
-a small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts;
-- called also vinegarette.
-a small, two
-wheeled vehicle, like a bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man.

vinasse
-the waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar,
-- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.

vinatico
-madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark
-colored wood of the persea indica.

vincentian
-of or pertaining to saint vincent de paul, or founded by him.
-same as lazarist.
-a member of certain charitable sisterhoods.

vincetoxin
-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
-the quality or state of being vincible, vincibleness.

vincible
-capable of being overcome or subdued; conquerable.

vincibleness
-the quality or state of being vincible.

vincture
-a binding.

vincula
-of vinculum

vinculum
-a bond of union; a tie.
-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.
-a band or bundle of fibers; a fraenum.
-a commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.

vinculums
-of vinculum

vindemial
-of or pertaining to a vintage, or grape harvest.

vindemiate
-to gather the vintage.

vindemiation
-the operation of gathering grapes.

vindicable
-capable of being vindicated.

vindicate
-to lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
-to maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.
-to support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.
-to maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.
-to liberate; to set free; to deliver.
-to avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.

vindicated
-of vindicate

vindicating
-of vindicate

vindication
-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.
-the claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing.

vindicative
-tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.
-revengeful; vindictive.

vindicator
-one who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.

vindicatory
-tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.
-inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.

vindictive
-disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
-punitive.

vine
-any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
-hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

vine
-clad
-covered with vines.

vineal
-of or pertaining to vines; containing vines.

vined
-having leaves like those of the vine; ornamented with vine leaves.

vinedresser
-one who cultivates, prunes, or cares for, grapevines; a laborer in a vineyard.

vinegar
-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.
-hence, anything sour;
-- used also metaphorically.
-to convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.

vinegarette
-see vinaigrette, n., 2.

vinegary
-having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.

viner
-a vinedresser.

vinery
-a vineyard.
-a structure, usually inclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.

vinette
-a sprig or branch.

vinewed
-same as vinnewed.

vineyard
-an inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.

vineyardist
-one who cultivates a vineyard.

vingt et un
-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
-contraction for vingt et un.

vinic
-of or pertaining to wine; as, vinic alcohol.

viniculture
-the cultivation of the vine, esp. for making wine; viticulture.

vinnewed
-moldy; musty.

vinny
-vinnewed.

vinolency
-drunkennes.

vinolent
-given to wine; drunken; intemperate.

vinometer
-an instrument for determining the strength or purity of wine by measuring its density.

vinose
-vinous.

vinosity
-the quality or state of being vinous.

vinous
-of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous taste.

vinquish
-see vanquish, n.

vintage
-the produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
-the act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.

vintager
-one who gathers the vintage.

vintaging
-the act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.

vintner
-one who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant.

vintry
-a place where wine is sold.

viny
-of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines.

vinyl
-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
-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.
-a large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

viola
-a genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
-an instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.

violable
-capable of being violated, broken, or injured.

violaceous
-resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
-of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. it contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.

violaniline
-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
-a complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid.

violaquercitrin
-a yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin.

violascent
-violescent.

violate
-to treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
-to do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
-to disturb; to interrupt.
-to commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.

violates
-of violate

violating
-of violate

violation
-the act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
-infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc.
-an act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.
-interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.
-ravishment; rape; outrage.

violative
-violating, or tending to violate.

violator
-one who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.

viole
-a vial.

violence
-the quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
-injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
-ravishment; rape; constupration.
-to assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

violent
-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.
-acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
-produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
-an assailant.
-to urge with violence.
-to be violent; to act violently.

violently
-in a violent manner.

violescent
-tending to a violet color; violascent.

violet
-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).
-the color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. it is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
-in art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
-any one of numerous species of small violet
-colored butterflies belonging to lycaena, or rusticus, and allied genera.
-dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

violet
-tip
-a very handsome american butterfly (polygonia interrogationis). its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.

violin
-a small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.

violine
-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).
-mauve aniline. see under mauve.

violinist
-a player on the violin.

violist
-a player on the viol.

violoncellist
-a player on the violoncello.

violoncello
-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
-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
-violent.

violuric
-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
-any one of numerous species of old world venomous makes belonging to vipera, clotho, daboia, and other genera of the family viperidae.
-a dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.

viperina
-see viperoidea.

viperine
-of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper.

viperish
-somewhat like a viper; viperous.

viperoidea
-alt. of viperoides

viperoides
-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
-having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue.

viraginian
-of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago.

viraginity
-the qualities or characteristics of a virago.

virago
-a woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
-hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.

viragoes
-of virago

vire
-an arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. cf. vireton.

virelay
-an ancient french song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.

virent
-green; not withered.

vireo
-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
-the act or state of becoming green through the formation of chlorophyll.

virescent
-beginning to be green; slightly green; greenish.

vireton
-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
-a valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor;
-- more properly called white doyenne.

virgate
-having the form of a straight rod; wand
-shaped; straight and slender.
-a yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres.

virgated
-striped; streaked.

virge
-a wand. see verge.

virger
-see verger.

virgilian
-of or pertaining to virgil, the roman poet; resembling the style of virgil.

virgin
-a woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
-a person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.
-see virgo.
-any one of several species of gossamer
-winged butterflies of the family lycaenidae.
-a female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
-being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush.
-pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold.
-not yet pregnant; impregnant.
-to act the virgin; to be or keep chaste;
-- followed by it. see it, 5.

virginal
-of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
-an instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. it had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. the instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. it was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
-to play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.

virginhood
-virginity; maidenhood.

virginia
-one of the states of the united states of america.
-of or pertaining to the state of virginia.

virginity
-the quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.
-the unmarried life; celibacy.

virgo
-a sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of august, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
-a constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign libra, and containing the bright star spica.

virgouleuse
-an old french variety of pear, of little value.

virgularian
-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
-shaped like a little twig or rod.

virgule
-a comma.

virial
-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
-green.

viridescence
-quality or state of being viridescent.

viridescent
-slightly green; greenish.

viridine
-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
-a greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.

viridity
-greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.
-freshness; soundness.

viridness
-viridity; greenness.

virile
-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
-the quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.

viripotent
-developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable.

virmilion
-see vermilion.

virole
-a ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.

viroled
-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
-having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous.

virtu
-a love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.

virtual
-having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
-being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.

virtuality
-the quality or state of being virtual.
-potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.

virtually
-in a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.

virtuate
-to make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.

virtue
-manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
-active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
-energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
-excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
-specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
-a particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
-specifically: chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
-one of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

virtueless
-destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.

virtuosi
-of virtuoso

virtuosity
-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, collectively.
-an art or study affected by virtuosos.

virtuoso
-one devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.
-a performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.

virtuosos
-of virtuoso

virtuosoship
-the condition, pursuits, or occupation of a virtuoso.

virtuous
-possessing or exhibiting virtue.
-exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.
-having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.
-having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.
-chaste; pure;
-- applied especially to women.

virulence
-alt. of virulency

virulency
-the quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.
-extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.

virulent
-extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.
-very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.

virulented
-made virulent; poisoned.

virulently
-in a virulent manner.

virus
-contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.;
-- applied to organic poisons.
-the special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.
-fig.: any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.

vis
-force; power.
-physical force.
-moral power.

vis
-a
-vis
-one who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.
-a carriage in which two persons sit face to face. also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
-face to face.

visa
-see vis/.
-to indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.

visaed
-of visa

visage
-the face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal;
-- chiefly applied to the human face.
-to face.

visaged
-having a visage.

visaing
-of visa

visard
-a mask. see visor.
-to mask.

viscacha
-alt. of viz
-cacha

viscera
-pl. of viscus.
-of viscus

visceral
-of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
-fig.: having deep sensibility.

viscerate
-to deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

viscerated
-of viscerate

viscerating
-of viscerate

visceroskeletal
-of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles.

viscid
-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
-the quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.

viscin
-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
-somewhat viscous. cf. mobile, a., 2.

viscosimeter
-an instrument for measuring the degree of viscosity of liquids, as solutions of gum.

viscosity
-the quality or state of being viscous.
-a quality analogous to that of a viscous fluid, supposed to be caused by internal friction, especially in the case of gases.

viscount
-an officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
-a nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. see peer, n., 3.

viscountcy
-the dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount.

viscountess
-the wife of a viscount.

viscountship
-alt. of viscounty

viscounty
-the quality, rank, or office of a viscount.

viscous
-adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice.

viscum
-a genus of parasitic shrubs, including the mistletoe of europe.
-birdlime, which is often made from the berries of the european mistletoe.

viscus
-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
-an instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
-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.
-to examine and indorse, as a passport; to visa.

viseed
-of vise

viseing
-of vise

vishnu
-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
-the quality or state of being visible.

visible
-perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper.
-noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous.

visigoth
-one of the west goths. see the note under goth.

vision
-the act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
-the faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
-that which is seen; an object of sight.
-especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of isaiah.
-hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
-to see in a vision; to dream.

visional
-of or pertaining to a vision.

visionaries
-of visionary

visionariness
-the quality or state of being visionary.

visionary
-of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.
-affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities.
-existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful; imaginary; having no solid foundation; as, visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project.
-one whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms.
-one whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.

visioned
-of vision
-having the power of seeing visions; inspired; also, seen in visions.

visioning
-of vision

visionist
-a visionary.

visionless
-destitute of vision; sightless.

visit
-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.
-to go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.
-to come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.
-to make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others.
-the act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to saratoga; the visit of a physician.
-the act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector.

visitable
-liable or subject to be visited or inspected.

visitant
-one who visits; a guest; a visitor.
-visiting.

visitation
-the act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
-specifically: the act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop.
-the object of a visit.
-the act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. it is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under search), visitation being used for the purpose of search.
-special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
-a festival in honor of the visit of the virgin mary to elisabeth, mother of john the baptist, celebrated on the second of july.

visitatorial
-of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial.

visite
-a light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer.

visited
-of visit

visiter
-a visitor.

visiting
-of visit
-a. & vb. n. from visit.

visitor
-one who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.
-a superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution. see visit, v. t., 2, and visitation, n., 2.

visitorial
-same as visitatorial.

visive
-of or pertaining to the sight; visual.

visne
-neighborhood; vicinity; venue. see venue.

visnomy
-face; countenance.

vison
-the mink.

visor
-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.
-a mask used to disfigure or disguise.
-the fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

visored
-wearing a visor; masked.

vista
-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.

vistas
-of vista

visto
-a vista; a prospect.

visual
-of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.
-that can be seen; visible.

visualize
-to make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

vitaille
-food; victuals.

vital
-belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.
-contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood.
-containing life; living.
-being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal.
-very necessary; highly important; essential.
-capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
-a vital part; one of the vitals.

vitalic
-pertaining to life; vital.

vitalism
-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
-a believer in the theory of vitalism;
-- opposed to physicist.

vitalistic
-pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.

vitality
-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
-the act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.

vitalize
-to endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.

vitalized
-of vitalize

vitalizing
-of vitalize

vitally
-in a vital manner.

vitals
-organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
-fig.: the part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state.

vitellary
-vitelline.

vitelligenous
-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
-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
-of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.

vitellogene
-a gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.

vitellus
-the contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. see illust. of ovum.
-perisperm in an early condition.

vitiate
-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.
-to cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.

vitiated
-of vitiate

vitiating
-of vitiate

vitiation
-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
-having long and slender trailing stems.

viticultural
-of or pertaining to viticulture.

viticulture
-the cultivation of the vine; grape growing.

viticulturist
-one engaged in viticulture.

vitiligo
-a rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk
-white spots upon various parts of the body.

vitilitigate
-to contend in law litigiously or cavilously.

vitilitigation
-cavilous litigation; cavillation.

vitiosity
-viciousness; depravity.

vitious
-alt. of vitiousness

vitiously
-alt. of vitiousness

vitiousness
-see vicious, viciously, viciousness.

vitis
-a genus of plants including all true grapevines.

vitoe
-see durukuli.

vitre
-o
-electic
-containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.

vitrella
-one of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.

vitreous
-consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.
-of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.

vitreousness
-the quality or state of being vitreous.

vitrescence
-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
-capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

vitrescible
-that may be vitrified; vitrifiable.

vitric
-having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike;
-- distinguished from ceramic.

vitrifaction
-the act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.

vitrifacture
-the manufacture of glass and glassware.

vitrifiable
-capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

vitrificable
-vitrifiable.

vitrificate
-to convert into glass; to vitrify.

vitrification
-same as vitrifaction.

vitrified
-converted into glass.
-of vitrify

vitriform
-having the form or appearance of glass; resembling glass; glasslike.

vitrify
-to convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
-to become glass; to be converted into glass.

vitrifying
-of vitrify

vitrina
-a genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells,
-- whence the name.

vitriol
-a sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. so called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
-sulphuric acid;
-- called also oil of vitriol. so called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. see sulphuric acid, under sulphuric.

vitriolate
-to convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate.
-to subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
-vitriolated.
-a sulphate.

vitriolated
-of vitriolate
-changed into a vitriol or a sulphate, or subjected to the action of sulphuric acid or of a sulphate; as, vitriolated potash, i. e., potassium sulphate.

vitriolating
-of vitriolate

vitriolation
-the act, process, or result of vitriolating.

vitriolic
-of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. cf. vitriol.

vitriolizable
-capable of being converted into a vitriol.

vitriolization
-the act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.

vitriolize
-to convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.

vitriolous
-see vitriolic.

vitrite
-a kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.

vitruvian
-of or pertaining to vitruvius, an ancient roman architect.

vitta
-one of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
-a band, or stripe, of color.

vittae
-of vitta

vittate
-bearing or containing vittae.
-striped longitudinally.

vituline
-of or pertaining to a calf or veal.

vituperable
-liable to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.

vituperate
-to find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

vituperation
-the act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.

vituperative
-uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.

vituperator
-one who vituperates, or censures abusively.

vituperrious
-worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful.

viva voce
-by word of mouth; orally.

vivace
-brisk; vivacious; with spirit;
-- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.

vivacious
-having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long
-lived.
-sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
-living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.

vivacity
-the quality or state of being vivacious.
-tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor.
-life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.

vivandiere
-in continental armies, especially in the french army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.

vivaria
-of vivarium

vivaries
-of vivary

vivarium
-a place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

vivariums
-of vivarium

vivary
-a vivarium.

vivda
-see vifda.

vive
-long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.
-lively; animated; forcible.

vively
-in a lively manner.

vivency
-manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation.

viverra
-a genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.

viverrine
-of or pertaining to the viverridae, or civet family.

vivers
-provisions; victuals.

vives
-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
-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
-true to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
-forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.

vividity
-the quality or state of being vivid; vividness.

vivific
-alt. of vivifical

vivifical
-giving life; reviving; enlivening.

vivificate
-to give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.
-to bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce.

vivification
-the act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.
-one of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc.
-the act or process of vivificating.

vivificative
-able or tending to vivify, animate, or give life; vivifying.

vivified
-of vivify

vivify
-to endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

vivifying
-of vivify

vivipara
-an artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive;
-- opposed to ovipara.

viviparity
-the quality or condition of being viviparous.

viviparous
-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
-in a viviparous manner.

viviparousness
-the quality of being viviparous; viviparity.

vivisect
-to perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.

vivisection
-the dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

vivisectional
-of or pertaining to vivisection.

vivisectionist
-one who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.

vivisector
-a vivisectionist.

vixen
-a female fox.
-a cross, ill
-tempered person;
-- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.

vixenish
-of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

vixenly
-like a vixen; vixenish.

viz
-to wit; that is; namely.

viz
-cacha
-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.

vizard
-a mask; a visor.

vizarded
-wearing a vizard.

vizcacha
-same as viscacha.

vizier
-a councilor of state; a high executive officer in turkey and other oriental countries.

vizier
-azem
-a grand vizier. see under vizier.

vizierate
-the office, dignity, or authority of a vizier.

vizierial
-of, pertaining to, or issued by, a vizier.

vizir
-see vizier.

vizor
-see visor.