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Vaccary
A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.
Vaginule
A vaginula.
Vain
Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
Valedictorian
One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.
Valentia
See .
Valvata
A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
vamp
A woman who seduces men with her charm and wiles, in order to exploit them.
Vanillyl
The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.
Vapor
To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; .
Variscite
An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.
Vascularization
The process of becoming vascular, or the condition of being vascular; as, the of cartilege.
Vastity
Vastness.
Vegetality
The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable.
Vehmgericht
A vehmic court.
Veldt sore
An infective sore mostly on the hands and feet, often contracted in walking on the veldt and apparently due to a specific microrganism.
Veneer
To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; . Used also figuratively.
Venemous
Venomous.
Venetian
Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
Vent
Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
Venter
One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
Veratria
Veratrine.
Verbally
In a verbal manner; orally.
Verbarium
A game in word making. See , 2.
Verberation
The act of verberating; a beating or striking.
Verecund
Bashful; modest.
Veritable
Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
Vernier
A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
Vertebrally
At or within a vertebra or vertebr; -- distinguished from .
Vertebro-
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate , or , , , or ; as in costal.
Vesicouterine
Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.
Vesiculate
Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.
Vesiculation
The state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed.
Vicariate
Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar.
Victrix
A victress.
Vielle
An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
Viennese
Of or pertaining to Vienna, or the people of Vienna.
Viewiness
The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.
Vilayet
One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called .
Vine-clad
Covered with vines.
Vinosity
The quality or state of being vinous.
Virgo
A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [virgo_;] in almanacs.
Viridescence
Quality or state of being viridescent.
Virulented
Made virulent; poisoned.
Viscountcy
The dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount.
Vis
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.
vitamin K1
one of the two K vitamins, (). It is fat-soluble and occurs naturally as the isomer. Chemically it is .
Viticulture
The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.
Vitrified
Converted into glass.
Vitrina
A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name.
Viviparity
The quality or condition of being viviparous.
Vlissmaki
The diadem indris. See .
V moth
A common gray European moth () having a -shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.
Voidance
The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.
Volador
A flying fish of California (): -- called also .
Volante
A two-wheeled carriage formerly much used in Cuba. The body is in front of the axle; the driver rides on the horse.
Volapuuml;kist
One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuuml;k.
Volcanize
To subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action.
Vole
Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to and allied genera of the subfamily . They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.
Volleyed
Discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; .
Voltairism
The theories or practice of Voltaire.
Voltigeur
A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
Volumetrical
Volumetric.
Volva
A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.
Voraginous
Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
Vortex theory
The theory, advanced by Thomson (Lord Kelvin) on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. Various properties of such atoms () can be mathematically deduced. This theory is now (1998) obsolete, and has been superseded by quantum mechanics, which provides more accurate and detailed explanations of atomic behavior.
Vowelish
Of the nature of a vowel.
Voyage
To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
Voyol
See , 2.