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Vacillant
Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.
Vagissate
To caper or frolic.
Vagrancy
The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Vague
An indefinite expanse.
Valerylene
A liquid hydrocarbon, ; -- called also .
Validly
In a valid manner; so as to be valid.
Valved
Having a valve or valves; valvate.
Variety store
a retail store selling a wide variety of items, especially of low price, as in a .
Variolite
A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.
Vary
Alteration; change.
Vasodilator
Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; . These nerves are also called , and nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.
Vaticide
The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.
Vegetable
A plant. See .
Vehiculatory
Vehicular.
Vein quartz
Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.
Veliger
Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the stage when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
Vellet
Velvet.
Velocimeter
An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.
Venality
The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward;
Venary
Of or, pertaining to hunting.
Venenate
To poison; to infect with poison.
Venene
Poisonous; venomous.
Venerable
Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; .
Ventage
A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.
Ventriloquize
To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
Verbally
In a verbal manner; orally.
Verdancy
The quality or state of being verdant.
Verdigris
A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.
Vermicious
Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
Vernation
The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
Vernish
Varnish.
Versant
Familiar; conversant.
Vertebral
A vertebrate.
Vertical
Vertical position; zenith.
Vertiginous
Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; .
Verumontanum
An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
Vestlet
Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus . These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
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.
Vicount
See .
Victim
A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
Victrix
A victress.
View
The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
Vigilantly
In a vigilant manner.
Villager
An inhabitant of a village.
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.
Viridite
A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
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.
Vision
To see in a vision; to dream.
Visionist
A visionary.
Vison
The mink.
Vitality
The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; .
vitamin B3
See .
Viticulose
Having long and slender trailing stems.
Vitilitigation
Cavilous litigation; cavillation.
Vitrella
One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.
Vitreousness
The quality or state of being vitreous.
Vivificative
Able or tending to vivify, animate, or give life; vivifying.
Voided
Emptied; evacuated.
Volitable
Volatilizable.
Volt ampre
A unit of electric measurement equal to the product of a volt and an ampere. For direct current it is a measure of power and is the same as a watt; for alternating current it is a measure of apparent power.
Volumed
Having the form of a volume, or roil; .
Vote
To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either , or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
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.
Vulgarian
A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.