Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 14

Vert (n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.

Vert (n.) The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.

Vert (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.

Verteber (n.) A vertebra.

Vertebrae (pl. ) of Vertebra

Vertebra (n.) One of the serial segments of the spinal column.

Vertebra (n.) One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.

Vertebral (a.) Of or pertaining to a vertebrae, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian.

Vertebral (a.) Vertebrate.

Vertebral (n.) A vertebrate.

Vertebrally (adv.) At or within a vertebra or vertebrae; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.

Vertebrarterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.

Vertebrata (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Leptocardia.

Vertebrate (n.) One of the Vertebrata.

Vertebrate (a.) Alt. of Vertebrated

Vertebrated (a.) Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.

Vertebrated (a.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.

Vertebrated (a.) Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; -- said of the arms ophiurans.

Vertebrated (a.) Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.

Vertebre (n.) A vertebra.

Vertebro- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebrae, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.

Vertebro-iliac (a.) Iliolumbar.

Vertexes (pl. ) of Vertex

Vertices (pl. ) of Vertex

Vertex (n.) A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.

Vertex (n.) The top, or crown, of the head.

Vertex (n.) The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.

Vertex (n.) The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.

Vertical (a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.

Vertical (a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.

Vertical (n.) Vertical position; zenith.

Vertical (n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.

Verticality (n.) The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness.

Vertically (adv.) In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.

Verticalness (n.) Quality or state of being vertical.

Verticil (n.) A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.

Verticillaster (a.) A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.

Verticillate (a.) Alt. of Verticillated

Verticillated (a.) Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.

Verticillus (n.) A whorl; a verticil.

Verticity (n.) The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.

Verticle (n.) An axis; hinge; a turning point.

Vertiginate (a.) Turned round; giddy.

Vertiginous (a.) Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion.

Vertiginous (a.) Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.

Vertigoes (pl. ) of Vertigo

Vertigines (pl. ) of Vertigo

Vertigo (n.) Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.

Vertigo (n.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.

Vertilinear (a.) Straight; rectilinear.

Vertu (n.) Virtue; power. See Virtue.

Vertu (n.) See Virtu.

Vertuous (a.) Virtuous; powerful.

Verumontanum (n.) An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.

Vervain (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbena.

Verve (n.) Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.

Vervel (n.) See Varvel.

Vervet (n.) A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, / Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.

Very (v. t.) True; real; actual; veritable.

Very (adv.) In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.

Vesbium (n.) A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.

Vese (n.) Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.

Vesica (n.) A bladder.

Vesical (a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder.

Vesicant (n.) A vesicatory.

Vesicated (imp. & p. p.) of Vesicate

Vesicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vesicate

Vesicate (v. t.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.

Vesication (n.) The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.

Vesicatory (a.) Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.

Vesicatory (n.) A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.

Vesicle (n.) A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.

Vesicle (n.) A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf.

Vesicle (n.) A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.

Vesicle (n.) A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the umbilical vesicle.

Vesicle (n.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.

Vesicle (n.) A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the molten mass.

Vesico- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the bladder; as in vesicoprostatic, vesicovaginal.

Vesicoprostatic (a.) Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.

Vesicouterine (a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.

Vesicovaginal (a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

Vesiculae (pl. ) of Vesicula

Vesicula (n.) A vesicle.

Vesicular (a.) Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.

Vesicular (a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.

Vesicular (a.) Having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a vesicular body.

Vesicularia (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.

Vesiculata (n. pl.) The campanularian medusae.

Vesiculate (a.) Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.

Vesiculate (v. t.) To form vesicles in, as lava.

Vesiculation (n.) The state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed.

Vesiculose (a.) Alt. of Vesiculous

Vesiculous (a.) Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell.

Vespa (n.) A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.

Vesper (n.) The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.

Vesper (a.) Of or pertaining to the evening, or to the service of vespers; as, a vesper hymn; vesper bells.

Vesperal (a.) Vesper; evening.

Vespers (n.) One of the little hours of the Breviary.

Vespers (n.) The evening song or service.

Vespertilio (n.) A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.

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