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Vaccary
A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.
Vafrous
Crafty; cunning; sly; .
Vague
An indefinite expanse.
Vaimure
An outer, or exterior, wall. See .
Valeric
Valerianic; specifically, designating any one of three metameric acids, of which the typical one (called also ), , is obtained from root and other sources, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese.
Validness
The quality or state of being valid.
Valure
Value.
Valvelet
A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
Valvula
A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
Vanfoss
A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water.
Vaporific
Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; .
Vaquero
One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman; a cowboy.
Varices
See .
Varier
A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety.
Variola
The smallpox.
Vase
A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; See of , under .
Vatful
As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.
Vaticide
The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.
Vecture
The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
Veinless
Having no veins; .
Velocipedist
One who rides on a velocipede; a cyclist.
Velvety
Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
Venation
The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.
Venatorial
Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic.
Venereal
Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
Veniality
The quality or state of being venial; venialness.
Ventilate
To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air;
Ventral
Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; ; -- opposed to .
Venturous
Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adventurous; .
Verbenate
To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.
Verd
The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
Vermiformia
A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See .
Verruculose
Minutely verrucose; .
Versed
Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced; knowledgeable; expert.
Vertuous
Virtuous; powerful.
Vespertilio
A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.
Vesuvianite
A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called .
Via
A road or way.
Viand
An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Vibices
More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
Victress
A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.
Vigesimo-quarto
Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; .
Vigilance
The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.
Villenous
Of or pertaining to a villein.
Vinaceous
Belonging to, or like, wine or grapes.
Vinolency
Drunkennes.
Viola
A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
Violent
An assailant.
Virent
Green; not withered.
Visayan
A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.
Viscountess
The wife of a viscount.
vitamin B complex
a mixture of water-soluble vitamins originally thought to be a single vitamin but now known to be a mixture of several compounds with vitaminic activity.
Vitrage
A curtain of light and translucent material intended to be secured directly to the woodwork of a French casement window or a glazed door.
Vitre-o-electic
Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.
Vivacity
The quality or state of being vivacious.
Vive
Lively; animated; forcible.
vivid
True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; .
Viviparousness
The quality of being viviparous; viviparity.
Vivisectional
Of or pertaining to vivisection.
Vocalist
A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an .
Voice
To clamor; to cry out.
Voidable
Capable of being voided, or evacuated.
Volary
See .
Volator
Same as , 1.
Volitation
The act of flying; flight.
Voltameter
An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.
Voluntarily
In a voluntary manner; of one's own will; spontaneously.
Vortex tube
An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all points of a closed curve.
Vortical
Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; .
Vorticella
Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to and many other genera of the family . They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
Vouchsafe
To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
Vulnerability
The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
Vulneration
The act of wounding, or the state of being wounded.