Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 7

Vat (n.) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.

Vat (n.) A vessel for holding holy water.

Vatted (imp. & p. p.) of Vat

Vatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vat

Vat (v. t.) To put or transfer into a vat.

Vatfuls (pl. ) of Vatful

Vatful (n.) As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.

Vatical (a.) Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical.

Vatican (n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.

Vaticanism (n.) The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; -- a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics.

Vaticanist (n.) One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.

Vaticide (n.) The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.

Vaticinal (a.) Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.

Vaticinate (v. i. & t.) To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.

Vaticination (n.) Prediction; prophecy.

Vaticinator (n.) One who vaticinates; a prophet.

Vaticine (n.) A prediction; a vaticination.

Vaudeville (n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.

Vaudeville (n.) A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs.

Vaudois (n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.

Vaudois (n. sing. & pl.) A modern name of the Waldenses.

Vaudoux (n. & a.) See Voodoo.

Vault (n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

Vault (n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.

Vault (n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.

Vault (n.) A leap or bound.

Vault (n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.

Vault (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.

Vaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Vault

Vaulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vault

Vault (v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.

Vault (v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.

Vault (n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

Vault (n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

Vaultage (n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar.

Vaulted (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.

Vaulted (a.) Covered with an arch, or vault.

Vaulted (a.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.

Vaulter (n.) One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.

Vaulting (n.) The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.

Vaulting (n.) Act of one who vaults or leaps.

Vaulty (a.) Arched; concave.

Vaunce (v. i.) To advance.

Vaunted (imp. & p. p.) of Vaunt

Vaunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaunt

Vaunt (v. i.) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.

Vaunt (v. t.) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

Vaunt (n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.

Vaunt (n.) The first part.

Vaunt (v. t.) To put forward; to display.

Vaunt-courier (n.) See Van-courier.

Vaunter (n.) One who vaunts; a boaster.

Vauntful (a.) Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.

Vauntingly (adv.) In a vaunting manner.

Vauntmure (n.) A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall.

Vauquelinite (n.) Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.

Vaut (v. i.) To vault; to leap.

Vaut (n.) A vault; a leap.

Vauty (a.) Vaulted.

Vavasor (n.) The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron.

Vavasory (n.) The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.

Vaward (n.) The fore part; van.

Vaza parrot () Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis, native of Madagascar; -- called also vasa parrot.

Veadar (n.) The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

Veal (n.) The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.

Vection (n.) Vectitation.

Vectitation (n.) The act of carrying, or state of being carried.

Vector (n.) Same as Radius vector.

Vector (n.) A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.

Vecture (n.) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.

Veda (n.) The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.

Vedanta (n.) A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the "Anta," or end or substance.

Vedantic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Vedas.

Vedantist (n.) One versed in the doctrines of the Vedantas.

Vedette (n.) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.

Vedro (n.) A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U. S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons.

Veered (imp. & p. p.) of Veer

Veering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Veer

Veer (v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.

Veer (v. t.) To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.

Veering (a.) Shifting.

Veery (n.) An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.

Vega (n.) A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.

Vegetability (n.) The quality or state of being vegetable.

Vegetable (v.) Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.

Vegetable (v.) Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.

Vegetable (v.) Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

Vegetable (v.) Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.

Vegetable (n.) A plant. See Plant.

Vegetable (n.) A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.

Vegetal (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.

Vegetal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals.

Vegetal (n.) A vegetable.

Vegetality (n.) The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable.

Vegetality (n.) The quality or state of being vegetal, or exhibiting those physiological phenomena which are common to plants and animals. See Vegetal, a., 2.

Vegetarian (n.) One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.

Vegetarian (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.

Vegetarianism (n.) The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.

Vegetated (imp. & p. p.) of Vegetate

Vegetating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vegetate

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