Vivianite (n.) A hydrous phosphate of iron of a blue to green color, growing darker on exposure. It occurs in monoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy.
Vivid (a.) True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
Vivid (a.) Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
Vividity (n.) The quality or state of being vivid; vividness.
Vivific (a.) Alt. of Vivifical
Vivifical (a.) Giving life; reviving; enlivening.
Vivificate (v. t.) To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.
Vivificate (v. t.) To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce.
Vivification (n.) The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.
Vivification (n.) One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc.
Vivification (n.) The act or process of vivificating.
Vivificative (a.) Able or tending to vivify, animate, or give life; vivifying.
Vivified (imp. & p. p.) of Vivify
Vivifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vivify
Vivify (v. t.) To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.
Vivipara (n. pl.) An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.
Viviparity (n.) The quality or condition of being viviparous.
Viviparous (a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
Viviparously (adv.) In a viviparous manner.
Viviparousness (n.) The quality of being viviparous; viviparity.
Vivisect (v. t.) To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
Vivisection (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
Vivisectional (a.) Of or pertaining to vivisection.
Vivisectionist (n.) One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.
Vivisector (n.) A vivisectionist.
Vixen (n.) A female fox.
Vixen (n.) A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.
Vixenish (a.) Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.
Vixenly (a.) Like a vixen; vixenish.
Viz (adv.) To wit; that is; namely.
Vizard (n.) A mask; a visor.
Vizarded (a.) Wearing a vizard.
Vizcacha (n.) Same as Viscacha.
Vizier (n.) A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.
Vizierate (n.) The office, dignity, or authority of a vizier.
Vizier-azem (n.) A grand vizier. See under Vizier.
Vizierial (a.) Of, pertaining to, or issued by, a vizier.
Vizir (n.) See Vizier.
Vizor (n.) See Visor.
Vlissmaki (n.) The diadem indris. See Indris.
V moth () A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.
Vocable (n.) A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
Vocabularies (pl. ) of Vocabulary
Vocabulary (n.) A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.
Vocabulary (n.) A sum or stock of words employed.
Vocabulist (n.) The writer or maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer.
Vocal (a.) Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
Vocal (a.) Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.
Vocal (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
Vocal (a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.
Vocal (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.
Vocal (n.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
Vocal (n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
Vocalic (a.) Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.
Vocalism (n.) The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.
Vocalism (n.) A vocalic sound.
Vocalist (n.) A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
Vocality (n.) The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.
Vocality (n.) The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
Vocalization (n.) The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.
Vocalization (n.) The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
Vocalized (imp. & p. p.) of Vocalize
Vocalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vocalize
Vocalize (v. t.) To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.
Vocalize (v. t.) To practice singing on the vowel sounds.
Vocally (adv.) In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.
Vocally (adv.) In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
Vocalness (n.) The quality of being vocal; vocality.
Vocation (n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
Vocation (n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.
Vocation (n.) A calling by the will of God.
Vocation (n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.
Vocation (n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
Vocative (a.) Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.
Vocative (n.) The vocative case.
Vociferance (n.) Vociferation; noise; clamor.
Vociferant (a.) Noisy; clamorous.
Vociferate (v. i.) To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim; to bawl; to clamor.
Vociferated (imp. & p. p.) of Vociferate
Vociferating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vociferate
Vociferate (v. t.) To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
Vociferation (n.) The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
Vociferator (n.) One who vociferates, or is clamorous.
Vociferous (a.) Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.
Vocule (n.) A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b.
Vodanium (n.) A supposed element, afterward found to be a mixture of several metals, as copper, iron, lead, nickel, etc.
Vodka (n.) A Russian drink distilled from rye.
Voe (n.) An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
Vogle (n.) Same as Vugg.
Vogue (n.) The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.
Vogue (n.) Influence; power; sway.
Voice (n.) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
Voice (n.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
Voice (n.) The tone or sound emitted by anything.
Voice (n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.
Voice (n.) Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
Voice (n.) Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
Voice (n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
Voice (n.) One who speaks; a speaker.
Voice (n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.