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Vaccine point
See , , 26.
Vagrancy
The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Valueless
Being of no value; having no worth.
Vamp
The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
Vanadic
Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the compounds; .
Vang
A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.
Vanjas
The Australian pied crow shrike (). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.
Variegate
To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; .
Variolous
Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.
Varnisher
One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish.
Vase-shaped
Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.
Vector
Same as .
Veda
The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called , , , and , constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.
Vedic
Of or pertaining to the Vedas or one of the Vedas.
Veneering
The act or art of one who veneers.
Venerable
Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; .
Vengeful
Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Vent
A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape;
Ventouse
To cup; to use a cupping glass.
Veratrol
A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.
Verbatim
Word for word; in the same words; verbally; .
Verd antique
A mottled-green serpentine marble.
Veritable
Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
Vermiformia
A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See .
Vermilinguia
A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.
Vernate
To become young again.
Verner's law
A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European , , , became first in Teutonic , , , and appear without further change in old Teutonic, if the accent rested on the preceding syllable; but these sounds became voiced and produced , , , if the accent was originally on a different syllable. Similarly either remained unchanged, or it became and later . Example: Skt. sat (accent on ultima), Gr. , Gothic siun (seven). Examples in English are by the side of , to and to .
Vernile
Suiting a slave; servile; obsequious.
Veronese
Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy.
Verso
The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to .
Vertebro-
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate , or , , , or ; as in costal.
Verticality
The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness.
Vesperal
Vesper; evening.
Viability
The quality or state of being viable.
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.
Viary
Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads.
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.
Vibrator
One that vibrates, or causes vibration or oscillation of any kind;
Vice
A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; .
Vicissy duck
A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated.
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 .
Vigesimal
Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.
Vigilant
Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
Vigintivirate
The office of the , a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.
Villa
A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
Villager
An inhabitant of a village.
Villanella
An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.
Villosity
State of being villous.
Vindication
The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; .
Vinery
A vineyard.
Vintaging
The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.
Viole
A vial.
Violent
To be violent; to act violently.
Visitant
Visiting.
Vitaille
Food; victuals.
Vitals
Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
vitamin C
a vitamin that prevents scurvy. Also called .
Vitrescent
Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.
Vitrificate
To convert into glass; to vitrify.
Vituperator
One who vituperates, or censures abusively.
Vlissmaki
The diadem indris. See .
Vocalism
The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.
Vocation
A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
Volost
In the greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities; a canton.
Volvulus
The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
Voucher
One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.
Vower
One who makes a vow.
Vulcanite
Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.
Vulcanizer
One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.
Vulviform
Like a cleft with projecting edges.