Varnishing – Venulite

Varnishing

V'ARNISHING, participle present tense Laying on varnish; giving a fair external appearance.

Varvels

V'ARVELS,

VA'RY, verb transitive [Latin vario, verto.]

1. To alter in form, appearance, substance or position; to make different by a partial change; as, to vary a thing in dimensions; to vary its properties, proportions or nature; to vary the posture or attitude of a thing; to vary one's dress.

2. To change to something else.

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies.

3. To make of different kinds.

God hath varied the inclinations of men, according to the variety of actions to be performed.

4. To diversify; to variegate.

God hath here varied his bounty so with new delights.

VA'RY, verb intransitive

1. To alter or be altered in any manner; to suffer a partial change. Colors often vary when held in different positions. Customs vary from one age to another, until they are entirely changed.

2. To be changeable; to alter; as the varying hues of the clouds; the varying plumage of a dove.

3. To differ or be different; to be unlike. The laws of different countries vary. The laws of France vary from those of England.

4. To be changed; to become different. The man varies in his opinions; his opinions vary with the times.

5. To become unlike one's self; to alter.

He varies from himself no less.

6. To deviate; to depart; as, to vary from the law; to vary from the rules of justice or reason.

7. To alter or change in succession.

While fear and anger, with alternate grace, pant in her breast, and vary in her face.

8. To disagree; to be at variance; as, men vary in opinion.

VA'RY, noun Alternation; change. [Not in use.]

Vary

VA'RY, v.t. [L. vario, verto.] 1. To alter in form, appearance, substance or position; to make different by a partial change; as, to vary a thing in dimensions; to vary its properties, proportions or nature; to vary the posture or attitude of a thing; to vary one's dress.2. To change to something else.Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies.3. To make of different kinds.God hath varied the inclinations of men, according to the variety of actions to be performed.4. To diversify; to variegate.God hath here varied his bounty so with new delights. VA'RY, v.i. 1. To alter or be altered in any manner; to suffer a partial change. Colors often vary when held in different positions. Customs vary from one age to another, until they are entirely changed.2. To be changeable; to alter; as the varying hues of the clouds; the varying plumage of a dove.3. To differ or be different; to be unlike. The laws of different countries vary. The laws of France vary from those of England.4. To be changed; to become different. The man varies in his opinions; his opinions vary with the times.5. To become unlike one's self; to alter.He varies from himself no less.6. To deviate; to depart; as, to vary from the law; to vary from the rules of justice or reason.7. To alter or change in succession.While fear and anger, with alternate grace, pant in her breast, and vary in her face.8. To disagree; to be at variance; as, men vary in opinion. VA'RY, n. Alternation; change. [Not in use.]

Varying

VA'RYING, participle present tense Altering; changing; deviating.

Vascular

VAS'CULAR, adjective [Latin vasculum, a vessel, from vas, id.]

1. Pertaining to the vessels of animal or vegetable bodies; as the vascular functions.

2. Full of vessels; consisting of animal or vegetable vessels, as arteries, veins, lacteals and the like; as the vascular system. Animal flesh is all vascular none of it parenchymous.

Vascularity

VASCULAR'ITY, noun The state of being vascular.

Vasculiferous

VASCULIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin vasculum and fero, to bear.]

Vasculiferous plants are such as have seed vessels divided into cells.

Vase

VASE, noun [Latin vas, vasa, a vessel.]

1. A vessel for domestic use, or for use in temples; as a vase for sacrifice, an urn, etc.

2. An ancient vessel dug out of the ground or from rubbish, and kept as a curiosity.

3. In architecture, an ornament of sculpture, placed on socles or pedestals, representing the vessels of the ancients, as incensepots, flower-pots, etc. They usually crown or finish facades or frontispieces.

4. The body of the Corinthian and Composite capital; called also the tambor or drum.

5. Among florists, the calyx of a plant, as of a tulip.

6. Among goldsmiths, the middle of a church candlestick.

7. A solid piece of ornamental marble.

Vassal

VAS'SAL, noun

1. A feudatory; a tenant; one who holds land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him. A rear vassal is one who holds of a lord who is himself a vassal

2. A subject; a dependant.

3. A servant.

4. In common language, a bondman; a political slave. We will never be the vassals of a foreign prince.

VAS'SAL, verb transitive To subject to control; to enslave.

Vassalage

VAS'SALAGE,

1. The state of being a vassal or feudatory.

2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery. The Greeks were long held in vassalage by the Turks.

Vassaled

VAS'SALED, participle passive or adjective Enslaved; subjected to absolute power; as a vassaled land.

Vast

V'AST, adjective [Latin vastus. The primary sense of the root must be a part or spread, as this is connected with the verb to waste.]

1. Being of great extent; very spacious or large; as the vast ocean; a vast abyss; the vast empire of Russia; the vast plains of Syria; the vast domains of the Almighty.

2. Huge in bulk and extent; as the vast mountains of Asia; the vast range of the Andes.

3. Very great in numbers or amount; as a vast army; vast numbers or multitudes were slain; vast sums of money have been expended to gratify pride and ambition.

4. Very great in force; mighty; as vast efforts; vast labor.

5. Very great in importance; as a subject of vast concern.

V'AST, noun An empty waste.

Through the vast of heav'n it sounded.

The watery vast

Vastation

VASTA'TION, noun [Latin vastatio, from vasto, to waste.]

A laying waste; waste; depopulation. [Devastation is generally used.]

Vastidity

VASTID'ITY, noun Vastness; immensity. [Not English.]

Vastly

V'ASTLY, adverb Very greatly; to a great extent or degree; as a space vastly extended. Men differ vastly in their opinions and manners.

Vastness

V'ASTNESS, noun

1. Great extent; immensity; as the vastness of the ocean or of space.

2. Immense bulk and extent; as the vastness of a mountain.

3. Immense magnitude or amount; as the vastness of an army, or of the sums of money necessary to support it.

4. Immense importance.

Vasty

V'ASTY, adjective Being of great extent; very spacious.

I can call spirits from the vasty deep. [Little used.]

Vat

VAT, noun

1. A large vessel or cistern for holding liquors in an immature state; as vats for wine.

Let him produce his vats and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards.

2. A square box or cistern in which hides are laid for steeping in tan.

3. An oil measure in Holland; also, a wine measure.

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

Vatican

VAT'ICAN, noun In Rome, the celebrated church of St. Peter; and also, a magnificent palace of the pope; situated at the foot of one of the seven hills on which Rome was built. Hence the phrase, the thunders of the vatican meaning the anathemas or denunciations of the pope.

Vaticide

VAT'ICIDE, noun [Latin vates, a prophet, and caedo, to kill.]

The murderer of a prophet.

Vaticinal

VATIC'INAL, adjective [Latin vaticinor, to prophesy.] Containing prophecy.

Vaticinate

VATIC'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin vaticinor, from vates, a prophet.]

To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction. [Little used.]

Vaticination

VATICINA'TION, noun Prediction; prophecy.

Vault

VAULT, noun [Latin vultus; a derivative of Latin volvo, volutus.]

1. A continued arch, or an arched roof. Vaults are of various kinds, circular, elliptical, single, double, cross, diagonal, Gothic, etc.

2. A cellar.

To banish rats that haunt our vault

3. A cave or cavern.

The silent vaults of death, unknown to light.

4. A repository for the dead.

5. In the manege, the leap or a horse.

VAULT, verb transitive To arch; to form with a vault; or to cover with a vault; as, to vault a passage to a court.

VAULT, verb intransitive

1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

VAULTing ambition, which o'erleaps itself -

Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree.

Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth.

2. To tumble; to exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping.

Vaultage

VAULT'AGE, noun Vaulted work; an arched cellar. [Not in use.]

Vaulted

VAULT'ED, participle passive

1. Arched; concave; as a vaulted roof.

2. Covered with an arch or vault.

3. adjective In botany, arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.

Vaulter

VAULT'ER, noun One that vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.

Vaulting

VAULT'ING, participle present tense

1. Arching; covering with an arch.

2. Leaping; tumbling; exhibiting feats of leaping.

Vaulty

VAULT'Y, adjective Arched; concave. [Not in use.]

Vaunt

V'AUNT, verb intransitive [Latin vanus. This ought to be written vant.]

To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments or decorations; to talk with vain ostentation; to brag.

Pride - prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is.

V'AUNT, verb transitive To boast of; to make a vain display of.

My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil.

Charity vaunteth not itself. 1 Corinthians 13:4.

V'AUNT, noun Boast; a vain display of what one is or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity.

Him I seduc'd with other vaunts and other promises.

V'AUNT, noun The first part. [Not used.]

Vaunt-Courier

VAUNT-COURIER, noun A precursor.

Vaunt-Mure

V'AUNT-MURE, noun A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall.

Vaunted

V'AUNTED, participle passive Vainly boasted of or displayed.

Vaunter

V'AUNTER, noun A vain conceited boaster; a braggart; a man given to vain ostentation.

Vauntful

V'AUNTFUL, adjective Boastful; vainly ostentatious.

Vaunting

V'AUNTING, participle present tense Vainly boasting; ostentatiously setting forth what one is or has.

Vauntingly

V'AUNTINGLY, adverb Boastfully; with vain ostentation.

Vavasor

VAV'ASOR, noun [This word in old books is variously written, valvasor, vavasour, valvasour. It is said to be from vassal. But qu.]

Camden holds that the vavasor was next below a baron. Du Cange maintains that there were two sorts of vavasors; the greater, who held of the king, such as barons and counts; and the lesser, called valvasini, who held of the former. The dignity or rank is no longer in use, and the name is known only in books.

Vavasory

VAV'ASORY, noun The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor.

Vaward

VA'WARD, noun [van and ward.] The fore part. obsolete

Veal

VEAL, noun [Latin vitellus.]

The flesh of a calf killed for the table.

Vection

VEC'TION, noun [Latin vectio, from veho, to carry.]

The act of carrying, or state of being carried. [Not in use.]

Vectitation

VECTITA'TION, noun [Latin vectito.] A carrying. [Not in use.]

Vector

VEC'TOR, noun [Latin from veho, to carry.] In astronomy, a line supposed to be drawn from any planet moving round a center or the focus of an ellipsis, to that center or focus.

Vecture

VEC'TURE, noun [Latin vectura, from veho, supra.]

A carrying; carriage; conveyance by carrying. [Little used.]

Veda

VEDA, noun vedaw'. The name of the collective body of the Hindoo sacred writings. These are divided into four parts or vedas. the word is sometimes written vedam.

Vedet

VEDET',

VEDETTE, noun [Latin video, to see.] a sentinel on horseback.

Vedette

VEDETTE, n. [L. video, to see.] a sentinel on horseback.

Veer

VEER, verb intransitive [Latin vario and verto. See Ware.]

To turn; to change direction; as, the wind veers to the west or north.

And as he leads, the following navy veers.

And turn your veering heart with ev'ry gale.

To veer and haul, as wind, to alter its direction.

VEER, verb transitive To turn; to direct to a different course.

To veer out, to suffer to run or to let out to a greater length; as, to veery out a rope.

To veer away, to let out; to slacken and let run; as, to veer away the cable. this is called also paying out the cable.

To veer and haul, to pull tight and slacken alternately.

Veerable

VEE'RABLE, adjective Changeable; shifting. [Not in use.]

Veered

VEE'RED, participle passive turned; changed in direction; let out.

Veering

VEE'RING, participle present tense turning; letting out to a greater length.

Vegetability

VEGETABIL'ITY, noun [from vegetable.] Vegetable nature; the quality of growth without sensation.

Vegetable

VEG'ETABLE, noun [Latin vigeo, to grow.]

1. A plant; an organized body destitute of sense and voluntary motion, deriving its nourishment through pores or vessels on its outer surface, in most instances adhering to some other body, as the earth, and in general, propagating itself by seeds. some vegetables have spontaneous motion, as the sunflower. Vegetables alone have the power of deriving nourishment from inorganic matter, or organic matter entirely decomposed.

2. In a more limited sense, vegetables are such plants as are used for culinary purposes and cultivated in gardens, or are destined for feeding cattle and sheep. Vegetables for these uses are such as are of a more soft and fleshy substance than trees and shrubs; such as cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, potatoes, peas, beans, etc.

VEG'ETABLE, adjective

1. Belonging to plants; as a vegetable nature; vegetable qualities; vegetable juices.

2. Consisting of plants; as the vegetable kingdom.

3. having the nature of plants; as a vegetable body.

Vegetate

VEG'ETATE, verb intransitive [Latin vegeto, vigeo, to flourish.]

To sprout; to germinate; to grow; as plants; to grow and be enlarged by nutriment imbibed from the earth, air or water, by means of roots and leaves. Plants will not vegetate without a certain degree of heat; but some plants vegetate with less heat than others. Potatoes will vegetate after they are pared.

See dying vegetables life sustain, see life dissolving vegetate again.

Vegetating

VEG'ETATING, participle present tense germinating; sprouting; growing; as plants.

Vegetation

VEGETA'TION, noun

1. The process of growing; as plants, by means of nourishment derived from the earth, or from water and air, and received through roots and leaves. We observe that vegetation depends on heat as the moving principle, and on certain substances which constitute the nutriment of plants. Rapid vegetation is caused by increased heat and a rich soil.

2. Vegetables or plants in general. In June, vegetation in our climate wears a beautiful aspect.

Vegetation of salts, so called, consists in certain concretions formed by salts, after solution in water, when set in the air for evaporation. these concretions appear round the surface of the liquor, affixed to the sides of the vessel.

Vegetative

VEG'ETATIVE, adjective

1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants.

2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as the vegetative properties of soil.

Vegetativeness

VEG'ETATIVENESS, noun the quality of producing growth.

Vegete

VEGE'TE, adjective [Latin vegetus.] Vigorous; active. [Little used.]

Vegetive

VEG'ETIVE, adjective [Latin vegeto, vigeo.] Vegetable; having the nature of plants; as vegetive life. [Little used.]

VEG'ETIVE, noun a vegetable. [Not in use.]

Vegeto-Animal

VEG'ETO-ANIMAL, adjective vegeto-animal matter, is a term formerly applied to vegetable gluten, which is found in the seeds of certain plants, in a state of union with farina or starch. It is remarkably elastic, and when dry, semi-transparent. By distillation it affords, like animal substances, alkaline water, concrete volatile alkali, and an empyreumatic oil.

Vegetous

VEGE'TOUS, adjective Vigorous; lively; vegete. [Not in use.]

Vehemence

VE'HEMENCE,

VE'HEMENCY, noun [Latin vehemens, from veho, to carry, that is, to rush or drive.]

1. Violence; great force; properly, force derived from velocity; as the vehemence of wind. But it is applied to any kind of forcible action; as, to speak with vehemence

2. Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as the vehemence of love or affection; the vehemence of anger or other passion.

I tremble at his vehemence of temper.

Vehemency

VE'HEMENCY, n. [L. vehemens, from veho, to carry, that is, to rush or drive.] 1. Violence; great force; properly, force derived from velocity; as the vehemence of wind. But it is applied to any kind of forcible action; as, to speak with vehemence.2. Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as the vehemence of love or affection; the vehemence of anger or other passion.I tremble at his vehemence of temper.

Vehement

VE'HEMENT, adjective [Latin vehemens.]

1. Violent; acting with great force; furious; very forcible; as a vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.

2. Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; as a vehement affection or passion; vehement desire; vehement eloquence.

Vehemently

VE'HEMENTLY, adverb

1. With great force and violence.

2. Urgently; forcibly; with great zeal or pathos.

Vehicle

VE'HICLE, noun [Latin vehiculum, from veho, to carry.]

1. That in which any thing is or may be carried; any kind of carriage moving on land, either on wheels or runners. This word comprehends coaches, chariots, gigs, sullies, wagons, carts of every kind, sleighs and sleds. These are all vehicles. But the word is more generally applied to wheel carriages, and rarely I believe to water craft.

2. That which is used as the instrument of conveyance. Language is the vehicle which conveys ideas to others. Letters are vehicles of communication.

A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to a popular assembly.

Vehicled

VE'HICLED, adjective Conveyed in a vehicle.

Veil

VEIL, noun [Latin velum.

1. A cover; a curtain; something to intercept the view and lude an object.

2. A cover; a disguise. [See Vail. The latter orthography gives the Latin pronunciation as well as the English, and is to be preferred.

VEIL, verb transitive

1. To cover with a veil; to conceal.

2. To invest; to cover.

3. To hide. [See Vail.]

Vein

VEIN, noun [Latin vena, from the root of venio, to come, to pass. The sense is a passage, a conduit.]

1. A vessel in animal bodies, which receives the blood from the extreme arteries, and returns it to the heart. The veins may be arranged in three divisions. 1. Those that commence from the capillaries all over the body, and return the blood to the heart. 2. The pulmonary veins. 3. The veins connected with the vena portarum, in which the blood that has circulated through the organs of digestion, is conveyed to the liver.

2. In plants, a tube or an assemblage of tubes, through which the sap is transmitted along the leaves. The term is more properly applied to the finer and more complex ramifications, which interbranch with each other like net-work; the larger and more direct assemblages of vessels being called ribs and nerves. Veins are also found in the calyx and corol of flowers.

The vessels which branch or variously divide over the surface of leaves are called veins.

3. In geology, a fissure in rocks or strata, filled with a particular substance. Thus metallic veins intersect rocks or strata of other substances. Metalliferous veins have been traced in the earth for miles; some in South America are said to have been traced eighty miles. Many species of stones, as granite, porphyry, etc. are often found in veins.

4. A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, marble, and other stones; variegation.

5. A cavity or fissure in the earth or in other substance.

6. Tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; as a rich vein of wit or humor; a satirical vein

Invoke the muses, and improve my vein

7. Current.

He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.

8. Humor; particular temper.

9. Strain; quality; as my usual vein

Veined

VEINED, adjective [from vein.]

1. Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as veined marble.

2. In botany, having vessels branching over the surface, as a leaf.

Veinless

VEINLESS, adjective In botany, having no veins; as a veinless leaf.

Veiny

VEINY, adjective Full of veins; as veiny marble.

Veliferous

VELIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin velum, a sail, and fero, to bear.] Bearing or carrying sails.

Velitation

VELITA'TION, noun [Latin velitatio.] A dispute or contest; a slight skirmish. [Not in use.]

Vell

VELL, noun A rennet bag. [Local.]

VELL, verb transitive To cut off the turf or sward of land. [Local.]

Velleity

VELLE'ITY, noun [Latin velle, to will.]

A term by which the schools express the lowest degree of desire.

Vellicate

VEL'LICATE, verb transitive [Latin vellico, from vello, to pull. It may be from the root of pull.]

To twitch; to stimulate; applied to the muscles and fibers of animals; to cause to twitch convulsively.

Vellicated

VEL'LICATED, participle passive Twitched or caused to twitch.

Vellicating

VEL'LICATING, participle present tense Twitching; convulsing.

Vellication

VELLICATION, noun

1. The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.

2. A twitching or convulsive motion of a muscular fiber.

Vellum

VEL'LUM, noun [Latin vello.]

A finer kind of parchment or skin, rendered clear and white for writing.

Velocity

VELOC'ITY, noun [Latin velositas, from velox, swift, allied to volo, to fly.]

1. Swiftness; celerity; rapidity; as the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light. In these phrases, velocity is more generally used than celerity. We apply celerity to animals; as, a horse or an ostrich runs with celerity, and a stream runs with rapidity or velocity; but bodies moving in the air or in etherial space, move with greater or less velocity not celerity. This usage is arbitrary, and perhaps not universal.

2. In philosophy, velocity is that affection of motion by which a body moves over a certain space in a certain time. velocity is in direct proportion to the space over which a body moves. velocity is absolute or relative; absolute, when a body moves over a certain space in a certain time; relative, when it has respect to another moving body. velocity is also uniform or equal; or it is unequal, that is, retarded or accelerated.

Velure

VEL'URE, noun Velvet. obsolete

Velvet

VEL'VET, noun [Latin vellus, hair, nap.]

A rich silk stuff, covered on the outside with a close, short, fine, soft shag or nap. The name is given also to cotton stuffs.

VEL'VET, verb transitive To paint velvet

Velveted

VEL'VETED, adjective Made of velvet; or soft and delicate, like velvet.

Velveteen

VELVETEE'N, noun A kind of cloth made in imitation of velvet.

Velveting

VEL'VETING, noun The fine shag of velvet.

Velvety

VEL'VETY, adjective Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.

Venal

VE'NAL, adjective [Latin vena, a vein.] Pertaining to a vein or to veins; contained in the veins; as venal blood. [See Venous, which is generally used.]

VE'NAL, adjective [Latin venalis, from venco, to be sold.]

1. Mercenary; prostitute; that may be bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; as a venal muse; venal services.

2. That may be sold; set to sale; as, all offices are venal in a corrupt government.

3. Purchased; as a venal vote.

Venality

VENAL'ITY, noun Mercenariness; the state of being influenced by money; prostitution of talents, offices or services for money or reward; as the venality of a corrupt court.

Venary

VEN'ARY, adjective [Latin venor, to hunt.] Relating to hunting.

Venatic

VENAT'IC,

VENAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin venaticus, from venor, to hunt.] Used in hunting.

Venation

VENA'TION, noun [Latin venatio, from venor, to hunt.]

1. The act or practice of hunting.

2. The state of being hunted.

Vend

VEND, verb transitive [Latin vendo.]

To sell; to transfer a thing and the exclusive right of possessing it, to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; as, to vend goods; to vend meat and vegetables in market. Vending differs from barter. We vend for money; we barter for commodities. vend is applicable only to wares, merchandize, or other small articles, not to lands and tenements. We never say, to vend a farm, a lease, or a bond, a right or a horse.

Vended

VEND'ED, participle passive Sold; transferred for money; as goods.

Vendee

VENDEE', noun The person to whom a thing is sold.

Vender

VEND'ER, noun A seller; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent. Auctioneers are the venders of goods for other men.

Vendibility

VENDIBIL'ITY,

VEND'IBLE, adjective [Latin vendibilis.] Salable; that may be sold; that can be sold; as vendible goods. Vendible differs from marketable; the latter signifies proper or fit for market, according to the laws or customs of a place. Vendible has no reference to such legal fitness.

VEND'IBLE, noun Something to be sold or offered for sale.

Vendible

VEND'IBLE, a. [L. vendibilis.] Salable; that may be sold; that can be sold; as vendible goods. Vendible differs from marketable; the latter signifies proper or fit for market, according to the laws or customs of a place. Vendible has no reference to such legal fitness.

VEND'IBLE, n. Something to be sold or offered for sale.

Vendibleness

VEND'IBLENESS, noun The state of being vendible or salable.

Vendibly

VEND'IBLY, adverb In a salable manner.

Venditation

VENDITA'TION, noun [Latin venditatio.] A boastful display. [Not in use.]

Vendition

VENDI'TION, noun [Latin venditio.] The act of selling; sale.

Vendor

VEND'OR, noun A vender; a seller.

Vendue

VENDUE, noun Auction; a public sale of any thing by outcry, to the highest bidder.

Vendue-Master

VENDUE-M'ASTER, noun One who is authorized to make sale of any property to the highest bidder, by notification and public outcry; an auctioneer.

Veneer

VENEE'R, verb transitive

To inlay; to lay thin slices or leaves of fine wood of different kinds on a ground of common wood.

VENEE'R, noun Thin slices of wood for inlaying.

Veneered

VENEE'RED, participle passive Inlaid; ornamented with marquetry.

Veneering

VENEE'RING, participle present tense Inlaying; adorning with inlaid work.

VENEE'RING, noun The act or art of inlaying, of which there are two kinds; one, which is the most common, consists in making compartments of different woods; the other consists in making representations of flowers, birds and other figures. The first is more properly veneering; the last is marquetry.

Venefice

VEN'EFICE, noun [Latin veneficium.] The practice of poisoning. [Not in use.]

Veneficial

VENEFI'CIAL, 'CIOUS, adjective [Latin veneficium.] Acting by poison; bewitching. [Little used.]

Veneficiously

VENEFI'CIOUSLY, adverb By poison or witchcraft. [Little used.]

Venemous

VEN'EMOUS, [See Venomous.]

Venenate

VEN'ENATE, verb transitive [Latin veneno; venenum, poison.]

To poison; to infect with poison. [Not used.]

Venenation

VENENA'TION, noun

1. The act of poisoning.

2. Poison; venom. [Not used.]

Venene

VENE'NE,

VENE'NOSE, adjective Poisonous; venomous. [Not used.]

Venerability

VENERABIL'ITY, noun State or quality of being venerable. [Not used.]

Venerable

VEN'ERABLE, adjective [Latin venerabilis, from veneror, to honor, to worship.]

1. Worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; as a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent.

2. Rendered sacred by religious associations, or being consecrated to God and to his worship; to be regarded with awe and treated with reverence; as the venerable walls of a temple or church.

The places where saints have suffered for the testimony of Christ - rendered venerable by their death.

Venerableness

VEN'ERABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being venerable.

Venerably

VEN'ERABLY, adverb In a manner to excite reverence.

- An awful pile! stands venerably great.

Venerate

VEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin veneror.]

To regard with respect and reverence; to reverence; to revere. We venerate parents and elders; we venerate men consecrated to sacred offices. We venerate old age or gray hairs. We venerate or ought to venerate the gospel and its precepts.

And seem'd to venerate the sacred shade.

Venerated

VEN'ERATED, participle passive Reverenced; treated with honor and respect.

Venerating

VEN'ERATING, participle present tense Regarding with reverence.

Veneration

VENERA'TION, noun [Latin veneratio.]

The highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with some degree of awe; a feeling or sentiment excited by the dignity and superiority of a person, or by the sacredness of his character, and with regard to place, by its consecration to sacred services.

We find a secret awe and veneration for one who moves above us in a regular and illustrious course of virtue.

Venerator

VEN'ERATOR, noun One who venerates and reverences.

Venereal

VENE'REAL, adjective [Latin venereus, from Venus. See Venus.]

1. Pertaining to the pleasures of sexual commerce. A venereal person is one addicted to sexual pleasures or venery.

2. Proceeding from sexual intercourse; as the venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.

3. Adapted to the cure of the lues venerea; as venereal medicines.

4. Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac; provocative.

5. Consisting of copper, called by chimists formerly Venus. obsolete

Venerean

VENE'REAN, adjective Venereal. [Not used.]

Venereous

VENE'REOUS, adjective [Latin venereus.] Lustful; libidinous.

Venerous

VEN'EROUS, for venereous. [Not used.]

Venery

VEN'ERY, noun [from Venus.] The pleasures of the bed.

Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery is continence; of unlawful, chastity.

VEN'ERY, noun [Latin venor, to hunt, that is, to drive or rush.]

The act or exercise of hunting; the sports of the chase.

Beasts of venery and fishes.

Venesection

VENESEC'TION, noun [Latin vena, vein, and sectio, a cutting.]

The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; blood-letting; phlebotomy.

Veney

VEN'EY, noun A bout; a thrust; a hit; a turn at fencing.

Three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes. obsolete

Venge

VENGE, verb transitive venj. To avenge; to punish. [Not in use.] [See Avenge and Revenge.]

Vengeable

VENGEABLE, adjective venj'able. [from venge.] Revengeful; as vengeable despite. [Not in use.]

Vengeance

VENGEANCE, noun venj'ance. [Latin vindico.]

The infliction of pain on another, in return for an injury or offense. Such infliction, when it proceeds from malice or more resentment, and is not necessary for the purposes of justice, is revenge, and a most heinous crime. When such infliction proceeds from a mere love of justice, and the necessity of punishing offenders for the support of the laws, it is vengeance and is warrantable and just. In this case, vengeance is a just retribution, recompense or punishment. In this latter sense the word is used in Scripture, and frequently applied to the punishments inflicted by God on sinners.

To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deuteronomy 32:35.

The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries. Nahum 1.

With a vengeance in familiar language, signifies with great violence or vehemence; as, to strike one with a vengeance

Formerly, what a vengeance was a phrase used for what emphatical.

But what a vengeance makes thee fly?

Vengeful

VENGEFUL, adjective venj'ful.

1. Vindictive; retributive; as God's vengeful ire.

2. Revengeful.

Vengement

VENGEMENT, noun venj'ment. Avengement; penal retribution. [Avengement is generally used.]

Venger

VENG'ER, noun An avenger. [Not in use.]

Veniable

VE'NIABLE, adjective [See Venial.] Venial; pardonable. [Not in use.]

Veniably

VE'NIABLY, adverb Pardonably; excusably. [Not in use.]

Venial

VE'NIAL, adjective [Latin venia, pardon, leave to depart, from the root of venio, and signifying literally a going or passing.]

1. That may be forgiven; pardonable; as a venial fault or transgression. The reformed churches hold all sins to be venial through the merits of the Redeemer; but the most trifling sins not to be venial except through the righteousness and atonement of Christ.

2. In familiar language, excusable; that may be allowed or permitted to pass without censure; as a venial slip or fault.

3. Allowed.

Permitting him the while venial discourse unblam'd.

Venialness

VE'NIALNESS, noun State of being excusable or pardonable.

Venire facias, or venire, in law, a writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to summon twelve men, to try an issue between parties. It is also a writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statue, to appear.

Venison

VENISON, noun ven'izn, or ven'zn. [Latin venactio, a hunting, from venor, to hunt.]

The flesh of beasts of game, or of such wild animals as are taken in the chase. It is however, in the United States, applied exclusively to the flesh of the deer or cervine genus of animals.

Venom

VEN'OM, noun [Latin venenum, venor, to hunt, to drive or chase; venio, to come. See Venus, etc.]

1. Poison; matter fatal or injurious to life. venom is generally used to express noxious matter that is applied externally, or that is discharged from animals, as that of bites and stings of serpents, scorpions, etc.; and poison, to express substances taken into the stomach.

2. Spite; malice.

VEN'OM, verb transitive To poison; to infect with venom [Little used, but envenom is in use and elegant. venom may be elegantly used in poetry.]

Venomous

VEN'OMOUS, adjective

1. Poisonous; noxious to animal life; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous The sack at the base of the rattlesnake's teeth, contains venomous matter.

2. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; as a venomous progeny.

3. Spiteful; as a venomous writer.

Venomously

VEN'OMOUSLY, adverb Poisonously; malignantly; spitefully.

Venomousness

VEN'OMOUSNESS, noun

1. Poisonousness; noxiousness to animal life.

2. Malignity; spitefulness.

Venous

VE'NOUS, adjective [Latin venosus, from vena, a vein.]

1. Pertaining to a vein or to veins; contained in veins; as venous blood, which is distinguishable from arterial blood by its darker color.

2. In botany, veined. A venous leaf, has vessels branching, or variously divided, over its surface.

Vent

VENT, noun [Latin venio, Eng. wind, etc.; properly a passage.]

1. A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or other fluid to escape; as the vent of a cask.

2. The opening in a cannon or other piece of artillery, by which fire is communicated to the charge.

3. Passage from secrecy to notice; publication.

4. The act of opening.

5. Emission; passage; escape from confinement; as, his smothered passions urge for vent

6. Discharge; utterance; means of discharge.

Had like grief been dew'd in tears, without the vent of words -;

7. Sale; as the vent of a thousand copies of a treatise.

8. Opportunity to sell; demand.

There is no vent for any commodity except wool.

9. An inn, a baiting place. [Not in use.]

To give vent to, to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth.

VENT, verb transitive

1. To let out at a small aperture.

2. To let out; to suffer to escape from confinement; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.

The queen of heav'n did thus her fury vent

3. To utter; to report. [Not in use.]

4. To publish.

The sectators did greatly enrich their inventions by venting the stolen treasures of divine letters. [Not used.]

5. To sell.

Therefore did those nations vent such spice. [Not in use.]

[Instead of vent in the latter sense, we use vend.

VENT, verb intransitive To snuff. [Not in use.]

Ventage

VENT'AGE, noun A small hole. [Not in use.]

Ventail

VENT'AIL, noun That part of a helmet made to be lifted up; the part intended for the admission of air, or for breathing.

Ventana

VENTAN'A, noun A window. [Not English.]

Ventanna

VENTAN'NA,

VENT'ER, noun One who utters, reports or publishes.

VEN'TER, noun [Latin]

1. In anatomy, the abdomen, or lower belly; formerly applied to any large cavity containing viscera, as the head, thorax and abdomen, called three venters.

2. The womb; and hence, mother. A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.

3. The belly of a muscle.

Venter

VENT'ER, n. One who utters, reports or publishes.

Ventiduct

VEN'TIDUCT, noun [Latin ventus, wind, and ductus, a canal.]

In building, a passage for wind or air; a subterraneous passage or spiracle for ventilating apartments.

Ventilate

VEN'TILATE, verb transitive [Latin ventilo, from ventus, wind.]

1. To fan with wind; to open and expose to the free passage of air or wind; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar.

2. To cause the air to pass through; as, to ventilate a mine.

3. To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.

4. To examine; to discuss; that is, to agitate; as, to ventilate questions of policy. [Not now in use.]

Ventilated

VEN'TILATED, participle passive Exposed to the action of the air; fanned; winnowed; discussed.

Ventilating

VEN'TILATING, participle present tense Exposing to the action of wind; fanning; discussing.

Ventilation

VENTILA'TION, noun [Latin ventilatio.]

1. The act of ventilating; the act or operation of exposing to the free passage of air, or of causing the air to pass through any place, for the purpose of expelling impure air and dissipating any thing noxious.

2. The act of fanning or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust.

3. Vent; utterance. [Not in use.]

4. Refrigeration. [Not in use.]

Ventilator

VEN'TILATOR, noun An instrument or machine for expelling foul or stagnant air from any close place or apartment, and introducing that which is fresh and pure. Ventilators are of very different constructions and sizes.

Ventiloquous

VENTIL'OQUOUS, adjective Speaking in such a manner as to make the sound appear to come from a place remote from the speaker.

Ventosity

VENTOS'ITY, noun [Latin ventosus.] Windiness; flatulence.

Ventral

VEN'TRAL, adjective [from Latin venter, belly.] Belonging to the belly.

The ventral fins, in fishes, are placed between the anus and the throat.

Ventricle

VEN'TRICLE, noun [Latin ventriculus, from venter, belly.]

In a general sense, a small cavity in an animal body. It is applied to the stomach. It is also applied to two cavities of the heart, which propel the blood into the arteries. The word is also applied to cavities in different parts of the brain.

Ventricous

VEN'TRICOUS, adjective [Latin ventricosus, from venter, belly.]

In botany, bellied; distended; swelling out in the middle; as a ventricous perianth.

Ventriculous

VENTRIC'ULOUS, adjective [supra.] Somewhat distended in the middle.

Ventriloquism

VENTRIL'OQUISM,

VENTRIL'OQUIST, noun One who speaks in such a manner that his voice appears to come from some distant place.

The ancient ventriloquists seems to speak from their bellies.

Ventriloquist

VENTRIL'OQUIST, n. One who speaks in such a manner that his voice appears to come from some distant place. The ancient ventriloquists seems to speak from their bellies.

Ventriloquy

VENTRIL'OQUY, noun [Latin venter, belly, and loquor, to speak.]

The act, art or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come not from the person, but from some distant place, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.

Venture

VEN'TURE, noun [Latin venio, ventus, venturus, to come.]

1. A hazard; an undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which cannot be foreseen with tolerable certainty.

I, in this venture double gains pursue.

2. Chance; hap; contingency; luck; an event that is not or cannot be foreseen.

3. The thing put to hazard; particularly, something sent to sea in trade.

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

At a venture at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; or without foreseeing the issue.

A bargain at a venture made.

A certain man drew a bow at a venture 1 Kings 22:34.

VEN'TURE, verb intransitive

1. To dare; to have courage or presumption to do, undertake or say. A man ventures to mount a ladder; he ventures into battle; he ventures to assert things which he does not know.

2. To run a hazard or risk.

Who freights a ship to venture on the seas.

To venture at,

To venture on or upon, To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. It is rash to venture upon such a project.

And when I venture at the comic style.

VEN'TURE, verb transitive

1. To expose to hazard; to risk; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.

2. To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.

Ventured

VEN'TURED, participle passive Put to the hazard; risked.

Venturer

VEN'TURER, noun One who ventures or puts to hazards.

Venturesome

VEN'TURESOME, adjective Bold; daring; intrepid; as a venturesome boy.

Venturesomely

VEN'TURESOMELY, adverb In a bold, daring manner.

Venturing

VEN'TURING, participle present tense Putting to hazard; daring.

VEN'TURING, noun The act of putting to risk; a hazarding.

Venturous

VEN'TUROUS, adjective Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; intrepid; adventurous; as a venturous soldier.

With vent'rous arm he pluck'd, he tasted.

Venturously

VEN'TUROUSLY, adverb Daringly; fearlessly; boldly.

Venturousness

VEN'TUROUSNESS, noun Boldness; hardiness; fearlessness; intrepidity. The event made then repent of their venturousness

Venue

VEN'UE,

VEN'ULITE, noun A petrified shell of the genus Venus.

Venulite

VEN'ULITE, n. A petrified shell of the genus Venus.