Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 19

Villanelle (n.) A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.

Villanette (n.) A small villa.

Villanized (imp. & p. p.) of Villanize

Villanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Villanize

Villanize (v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.

Villanizer (n.) One who villanizes.

Villanous (n.) Alt. of Villanousness

Villanously (n.) Alt. of Villanousness

Villanousness (n.) See Villainous, etc.

Villany (n.) See Villainy.

Villatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural.

Villein (n.) See Villain, 1.

Villenage (n.) Villanage.

Villenous (a.) Of or pertaining to a villein.

Villi (n.) pl. of Villus.

Villiform (a.) Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.

Villose (a.) See Villous.

Villosity (n.) State of being villous.

Villosity (n.) A coating of long, slender hairs.

Villosity (n.) A villus.

Villous (a.) Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.

Villous (a.) Furnished or clothed with villi.

Villi (pl. ) of Villus

Villus (n.) One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.

Villus (n.) Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.

Vim (n.) Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.

Vimen (n.) A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.

Viminal (a.) Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

Vimineous (a.) Of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs.

Vimineous (a.) Producing long, slender twigs or shoots.

Vinaceous (a.) Belonging to, or like, wine or grapes.

Vinaceous (a.) Of the color of wine, especially of red wine.

Vinaigrette (n.) A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, -- used esp. for cold meats.

Vinaigrette (n.) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette.

Vinaigrette (n.) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man.

Vinagrous (a.) Resembling vinegar; sour.

Vinagrous (a.) Fig.: Unamiable; morose.

Vinasse (n.) The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.

Vinatico (n.) Madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the Persea Indica.

Vincentian (a.) Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him.

Vincentian (n.) Same as Lazarist.

Vincentian (n.) A member of certain charitable sisterhoods.

Vincetoxin (n.) A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin.

Vincibility (n.) The quality or state of being vincible, vincibleness.

Vincible (a.) Capable of being overcome or subdued; conquerable.

Vincibleness (n.) The quality or state of being vincible.

Vincture (n.) A binding.

Vincula (pl. ) of Vinculum

Vinculums (pl. ) of Vinculum

Vinculum (n.) A bond of union; a tie.

Vinculum (n.) A straight, horizontal mark placed over two or more members of a compound quantity, which are to be subjected to the same operation, as in the expression x2 + y2 - x + y.

Vinculum (n.) A band or bundle of fibers; a fraenum.

Vinculum (n.) A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.

Vindemial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vintage, or grape harvest.

Vindemiate (v. i.) To gather the vintage.

Vindemiation (n.) The operation of gathering grapes.

Vindicable (a.) Capable of being vindicated.

Vindicated (imp. & p. p.) of Vindicate

Vindicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vindicate

Vindicate (v. t.) To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

Vindicate (v. t.) To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.

Vindicate (v. t.) To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.

Vindicate (v. t.) To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.

Vindicate (v. t.) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.

Vindicate (v. t.) To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.

Vindication (n.) The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete.

Vindication (n.) The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing.

Vindicative (a.) Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.

Vindicative (a.) Revengeful; vindictive.

Vindicator (n.) One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.

Vindicatory (a.) Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.

Vindicatory (a.) Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.

Vindictive (a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.

Vindictive (a.) Punitive.

Vine (n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.

Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

Vineal (a.) Of or pertaining to vines; containing vines.

Vine-clad (a.) Covered with vines.

Vined (a.) Having leaves like those of the vine; ornamented with vine leaves.

Vinedresser (n.) One who cultivates, prunes, or cares for, grapevines; a laborer in a vineyard.

Vinegar (a.) A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.

Vinegar (a.) Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically.

Vinegar (v. t.) To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.

Vinegarette (n.) See Vinaigrette, n., 2.

Vinegary (a.) Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.

Viner (n.) A vinedresser.

Vinery (n.) A vineyard.

Vinery (n.) A structure, usually inclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.

Vinette (n.) A sprig or branch.

Vinewed (a.) Same as Vinnewed.

Vineyard (n.) An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.

Vineyardist (n.) One who cultivates a vineyard.

Vingt et un () A game at cards, played by two or more persons. The fortune of each player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such cards that the sum of their pips, or spots, is twenty-one, or a number near to it.

Vingtun (n.) Contraction for Vingt et un.

Vinic (a.) Of or pertaining to wine; as, vinic alcohol.

Viniculture (n.) The cultivation of the vine, esp. for making wine; viticulture.

Vinnewed (a.) Moldy; musty.

Vinny (a.) Vinnewed.

Vinolency (n.) Drunkennes.

Vinolent (a.) Given to wine; drunken; intemperate.

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