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Vacantly
In a vacant manner; inanely.
Vaccine
Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; .
Vacher
A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
Vaginervose
Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.
Vail
Same as .
Vailer
One who vails.
Vairy
Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See .
Valedictory
A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.
Valuer
One who values; an appraiser.
Vanquisher
One who, or that which, vanquishes.
Vansire
An ichneumon () native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also , and .
Vaporizer
One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
Vatful
As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.
Vehiculation
Movement of vehicles.
Velate
Having a veil; veiled.
Veliger
Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the stage when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
Vellum
A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white, -- used as for writing upon, and for binding books.
Velocipedist
One who rides on a velocipede; a cyclist.
Vengement
Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
Ventriculite
Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
Venturous
Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adventurous; .
Veratralbine
A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of .
Veratrum
A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
Verbena
A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
Verberate
To beat; to strike.
Vermicious
Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
Vermiformia
A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See .
Verminate
To breed vermin.
Vers
A verse or verses. See ,
Versor
The turning factor of a quaternion.
Vesica
A bladder.
Vetiver
An East Indian grass (); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called , and .
Viand
An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Viatecture
The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
Vibrate
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.
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.
Vibrograph
An instrument to observe and record vibrations.
Victorine
A woman's fur tippet.
Vie
A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
Vigily
A vigil.
Villagery
Villages; a district of villages.
Villanel
A ballad.
Villanize
To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.
Vincture
A binding.
Violet-tip
A very handsome American butterfly (). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
Virginal
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 .
Virginhood
Virginity; maidenhood.
Virose
Having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous.
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.
Vitalic
Pertaining to life; vital.
vitamin B12
a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia.
Vitelligenous
Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called , or , ) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.
Vitriolation
The act, process, or result of vitriolating.
Vittate
Bearing or containing vitt.
Vituperative
Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
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 .
Vixen
A female fox.
Vocalization
The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.
Vociferate
To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
Volatilization
The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.
Voltage
Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
Voltatype
An electrotype.
Voltigeur
A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
Volumetric
Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume.
Volva
A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.
Vouchee
The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
Voyageur
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.
Vulcanization
The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.