Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 25

Voiced (imp. & p. p.) of Voice

Voicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Voice

Voice (v. t.) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.

Voice (v. t.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.

Voice (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.

Voice (v. t.) To vote; to elect; to appoint.

Voice (v. i.) To clamor; to cry out.

Voiced (a.) Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice.

Voiced (a.) Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed.

Voiceful (a.) Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.

Voiceless (a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.

Voiceless (a.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.

Void (a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

Void (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.

Void (a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.

Void (a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

Void (a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

Void (a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.

Void (n.) An empty space; a vacuum.

Voided (imp. & p. p.) of Void

Voiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Void

Void (a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.

Void (a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.

Void (a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.

Void (v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.

Voidable (a.) Capable of being voided, or evacuated.

Voidable (a.) Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being either avoided or confirmed.

Voidance (n.) The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.

Voidance (n.) A ejection from a benefice.

Voidance (n.) The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent.

Voidance (n.) Evasion; subterfuge.

Voided (a.) Emptied; evacuated.

Voided (a.) Annulled; invalidated.

Voided (a.) Having the inner part cut away, or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; -- said of a charge.

Voider (n.) One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls.

Voider (n.) A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.

Voider (n.) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.

Voider (n.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.

Voiding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, v/ids.

Voiding (n.) That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment.

Voiding (a.) Receiving what is ejected or voided.

Voidness (n.) The quality or state of being void; /mptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality.

Voir dire () An oath administered to a witness, usually before being sworn in chief, requiring him to speak the truth, or make true answers in reference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to give evidence.

Voiture (n.) A carriage.

Voivode (n.) See Waywode.

Volacious (a.) Apt or fit to fly.

Volador (n.) A flying fish of California (Exoc/tus Californicus): -- called also volator.

Volador (n.) The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying.

Volage (a.) Light; giddy.

Volant (a.) Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current.

Volant (a.) Nimble; light and quick; active; rapid.

Volant (a.) Represented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant.

Volante (n.) A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba.

Volapuk (n.) Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879.

Volapukist (n.) One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk.

Volar (a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.

Volary (n.) See Volery.

Volatile (a.) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.

Volatile (a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation.

Volatile (a.) Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper.

Volatile (n.) A winged animal; wild fowl; game.

Volatileness (n.) Alt. of Volatility

Volatility (n.) Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness.

Volatilizable (a.) Capable of being volatilized.

Volatilization (n.) The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.

Volatilized (imp. & p. p.) of Volatilize

Volatilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Volatilize

Volatilize (v. t.) To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.

Volator (n.) Same as Volador, 1.

Vol-au-vent (n.) A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish.

Volborthite (n.) A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.

Volcanian (a.) Volcanic.

Volcanic (a.) Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.

Volcanic (a.) Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.

Volcanic (a.) Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

Volcanically (adv.) Like a volcano.

Volcanicity (n.) Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.

Volcanism (n.) Volcanic power or action; volcanicity.

Volcanist (n.) One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.

Volcanist (n.) One who believes in the igneous, as opposed to the aqueous, origin of the rocks of the earth's crust; a vulcanist. Cf. Neptunist.

Volcanity (n.) The quality or state of being volcanic, or volcanic origin; volcanicity.

Volcanization (n.) The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.

Volcanized (imp. & p. p.) of Volcanize

Volcanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Volcanize

Volcanize (v. t.) To subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action.

Volcanoes (pl. ) of Volcano

Volcano (n.) A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.

Vole (n.) A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.

Vole (v. i.) To win all the tricks by a vole.

Vole (n.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinae. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.

Volery (n.) A flight of birds.

Volery (n.) A large bird cage; an aviary.

Volge (n.) The common sort of people; the crowd; the mob.

Volitable (a.) Volatilizable.

Volitation (n.) The act of flying; flight.

Volitient (a.) Exercising the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will.

Volition (n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.

Volition (n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.

Volition (n.) The power of willing or determining; will.

Volitional (a.) Belonging or relating to volition.

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