Venus – Vibrant

Venus

VE'NUS, noun [Latin ventus, venenum; Eng. venom to poison, to fret or irritate. These affinities lead to the true origin of these words. The primary sense of the root is to shoot or rush, as light or wind. From light is derived the sense of white, fair, venus or it is from opening, parting; and from rushing, moving, comes wind, and the sense of raging, fury, whence Latin venenum, poison, that which frets or causes to rage. These words all coincide with Latin venio, which signifies to rush, to fall, to happen; venor, to hunt, etc. The Greeks had the same idea of the goddess of love, viz. that her name signified fairness, whiteness, and hence the fable that she sprung from froth, whence her Green name.]

1. In mythology, the goddess of beauty and love; that is, beauty or love deified; just as the Gaelic and Irish diana, swiftness, impetuosity, is denominated the goddess of hunting.

2. In astronomy, one of the inferior planets, whose orbit is between the earth and Mercury; a star of brilliant splendor.

3. In the old chimistry, a name given to copper.

VENUS'S COMB, noun A plant of the genus Scandix; shepherd's needle.

VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS, noun A plant of the genus Campanula.

VENUS'S NAVELWORT, noun A plant of the genus Cynoglossum.

Venust

VENUST', adjective [Latin venustus.] Beautiful. [Not used.]

Veracious

VERA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin verax, from verus, true.]

1. Observant of truth; habitually disposed to speak truth.

2. True. [Little used.]

Veracity

VERAC'ITY, noun [Latin verax, from verus, true.]

1. Habitual observance of truth, or habitual truth; as a man of veracity His veracity is not called in question. The question of the court is, whether you know the witness to be a man of veracity We rely on history, when we have confidence in the veracity and industry of the historian.

'The veracity of facts.' is not correct language. Truth is applicable to men and to facts; veracity to men only, or to sentient beings.

2. Invariable expression of truth; as the veracity of our senses.

Veranda

VERAN'DA, noun An oriental word denoting a kind of open portico, formed by extending a sloping roof beyond the main building.

Veratria

VERA'TRIA, noun [Latin veratrum, hellebore.] A newly discovered vegetable alkali, extracted from the white hellebore.

Verb

VERB, noun [Latin verbum, fero.]

1. In grammar, a part of speech that expresses action, motion, being, suffering, or a request or command to do or forbear any thing. The verb affirms, declares, asks or commands; as, I write; he runs; the river flows; they sleep; we see; they are deceived; depart; go; come; write; does he improve?

When the action expressed by a verb is exerted on an object, or terminates upon it, the act is considered as passing to that object, and the verb is called transitive; as, I read Livy. When the act expressed by the verb terminates in the agent or subject, the verb is called intransitive; as, I run; I walk, I sleep.

When the agent and object change places, and the agent is considered as the instrument by which the object is affected, the verb is called passive; as, Goliath was slain by David.

2. A word.

Verbal

VERB'AL, adjective [Latin verbalis.]

1. Spoken; expressed to the ear in words; not written; as a verbal message; a verbal contract; verbal testimony.

2. Oral; uttered by the mouth.

3. Consisting in mere words; as a verbal reward.

4. Respecting words only; as a verbal dispute.

5. Minutely exact in words, or attending to words only; as a verbal critic.

6. Literal; having word answering to word; as a verbal translation.

7. In grammar, derived from a verb; as a verbal noun.

8. Verbose; abounding with words. [Not in use.]

Verbality

VERBAL'ITY, noun Mere words; bare literal expressions.

Verbalize

VERB'ALIZE, verb transitive To convert into a verb.

Verbally

VER'BALLY, adverb

1. In words spoken; by words uttered; orally.

2. Word for word; as, to translate verbally

Verbatim

VERBA'TIM adverb [Latin] Word for word; in the same words; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.

Verberate

VERB'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin verbero.] To beat; to strike. [Not in use.]

Verberation

VERBERA'TION, n

1. A beating or striking; blows.

2. The impulse of a body, which causes sound.

Verbiage

VERB'IAGE, noun Verbosity; use of many words without necessity; superabundance of words.

Verbose

VERBO'SE, adjective [Latin verbosus.] Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; prolix; tedious by a multiplicity of words; as a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.

Verboseness

VERBO'SENESS, noun

1. Employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; as the verbosity of a speaker.

2. Superabundance of words; prolixity; as the verbosity of a discourse or argument.

Verbosity

VERBOS'ITY,

VER'DANCY, noun [See Verdant.] Greenness.

Verdant

VER'DANT, adjective [Latin vividans, from viridis, from vireo, to be green.] The radical sense of the verb is to grow or advance with strength.]

1. Green; fresh; covered with growing plants or grass; as verdant fields; a verdant lawn.

2. Flourishing.

Verderer

VER'DERER,

VER'DEROR, noun [Low Latin viridarius.]

An officer in England, who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses.

Verderor

VER'DEROR, n. [Low L. viridarius.] An officer in England, who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses.

Verdict

VER'DICT, noun [Latin verum dictum, true declaration.]

1. The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of face in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their trial and examination. In criminal causes, the jury decide the law as well as the fact. Verdicts are general or special; general, when they decide in general terms, or in the terms of the general issue, as no wrong, no disseisin; special, when the jury find and state the facts at large, and as to the law, pray the judgment of the court.

2. Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.

These enormities were condemned by the verdict of common humanity.

Verdigris

VER'DIGRIS, noun

Rust of copper, or an acetate of copper, formed by the combination of an acid with copper.

Verditer

VER'DITER, noun [verde-terre, green earth; terre-verde.]

A preparation of copper sometimes used by painters, etc. for a blue, but more generally mixed with a yellow for a green color. It is a factitious substance of blue pigment, obtained by adding chalk or whiting to a solution of copper in nitric acid or aqua fortis.

Verdure

VER'DURE, noun [Latin vireo.] Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as the verdure of the meadows in June; the verdure of spring.

Verdurous

VER'DUROUS, adjective Covered with green; clothed with the fresh color of vegetables; as verdurous pastures.

Verecund

VER'ECUND, adjective [Latin vrcundus.] Bashful; modest. [Not much used.]

Verecundity

VERECUND'ITY, noun Bashfulness; modesty; blushing. [Not in much use.]

Verge

VERGE, noun verj. [Latin virga, a rod, that is, a shoot.]

1. A rod, or something in the form of a rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; the mace of a dean.

2. The stick or wand with which persons are admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. On this account, such tenants are called tenants by the verge

3. In law, the compass or extent of the king's court, within which is bounded the jurisdiction of the lord steward of the king's household; so called from the verge or staff which the marshal bears.

4. The extreme side or end of any thing which has some extent of length; the brink; edge; border; margin. [This seems to be immediately connected with the Latin vergo.]

5. Among gardeners, the edge or outside of a border; also, a slip of grass adjoining to gravel-walks, and dividing them from the borders in the parterre-garden.

6. A part of a time piece.

VERGE, verb intransitive [Latin vergo.]

1. To tend downwards; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.

2. To tend; to incline; to approach.

I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow.

Verger

VERG'ER, noun

1. He that carries the mace before the bishop, dean, etc.

2. An officer who carries a white wand before the justices of either bend in England.

Verging

VERG'ING, participle present tense Bending or inclining; tending.

Vergouleuse

VER'GOULEUSE, noun A species of pear; contracted to vergaloo.

Veridical

VERID'ICAL, adjective [Latin veridicus; verus and dico.] Telling truth. [Not used.]

Verifiable

VER'IFIABLE, adjective [from verify.] That may be verified; that may be proved or confirmed by incontestable evidence.

Verification

VERIFICA'TION, noun [See Verify.] The act of verifying or proving to be true; the act of confirming or establishing the authenticity of any powers granted, or of any transaction, by legal or competent evidence.

Verified

VER'IFIED, participle passive Proved; confirmed by competent evidence.

Verifier

VER'IFIER, noun One that proves or makes appear to be true.

Verify

VER'IFY, verb transitive [Latin verus, true, and facio, to make.]

1. To prove to be true; to confirm.

This is verified by a number of examples.

2. To fulfill, as a promise; to confirm the truth of a prediction; to show to be true. The predictions of this venerable patriot have been verified. Genesis 42:1. 1 Kings 8:1.

3. To confirm or establish the authenticity of any thing by examination or competent evidence. The first act of the house of representatives is to verify their powers, by exhibiting their credentials to a committee of the house, or other proper authority.

Verifying

VER'IFYING, participle present tense Proving to be true; confirming; establishing as authentic.

Verily

VER'ILY, adverb [from very.]

1. In truth; in fact; certainly.

2. Really; truly; with great confidence. It was verily thought the enterprise would succeed.

Vering

'VERING, noun A silver coin. Isaiah 7:1.

Verisimilar

VERISIM'ILAR, adjective [Latin verisimilis; verus, true, and similis, like.] having the appearance of truth; probable; likely.

Verisimilitude

VERISIMIL'ITUDE, noun [Latin verisimilitudo.] the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.

Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult.

Verisimility

VERISIMIL'ITY, for verisimilitude, is not in use.

Veritable

VER'ITABLE, adjective True; agreeable to fact. [Little used.]

Veritably

VER'ITABLY, adverb In a true manner. [Not in use.]

Verity

VER'ITY, noun [Latin veritas, from verus, true.]

1. Truth; consonance of a statement, proposition or other thing to fact. 1 Timothy 2:7.

It is a proposition of eternal verity that none can govern while he is despised.

2. A true assertion or tenet.

By this it seems to be a verity

3. Moral truth; agreement of the words with the thoughts.

Verjuice

VER'JUICE, noun

A liquor expressed from wild apples, sour grapes, etc. used in sauces, ragouts and the like. it is used also in the purification of wax for candles, in poultices, etc.

Vermeil

VERMEIL. [See Vermilion.]

Vermeologist

VERMEOL'OGIST, noun [infra.] One who treats of vermes.

Vermeology

VERMEOL'OGY, noun [Latin vermes, worms, and Gr. discourse.]

A discourse or treatise on vermes, or that part of natural history which treats of vermes. [Little used.]

Vermicelli

VERMICEL'LI, noun [Latin vermiculus, from vermis, a worm.]

A cookery, little rolls or threads of paste, or a composition of flour, eggs, sugar and saffron, used in soups and pottages.

Vermicular

VERMIC'ULAR, adjective [Latin vermiculus, a little worm, from vermis, a worm.]

Pertaining to a worm; resembling a worm; particularly, resembling the motion of a worm; as the vermicular motion of the intestines, called also peristaltic.

Vermicular or vermiculated work, in sculpture, a sort of ornament consisting of frets or knobs, in Mosaic pavements, winding and representing the tracks of worms.

Vermiculate

VERMIC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin vermiculatus.] To inlay; to form work by inlaying, resembling the motion or the tracks of worms.

Vermiculated

VERMIC'ULATED, participle passive Formed in the likeness of the motion of a worm.

Vermiculating

VERMIC'ULATING, participle present tense Forming so as to resemble the motion of a worm.

Vermiculation

VERMICULA'TION, noun

1. The act or operation of moving in the form of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another, as in the peristaltic motion of the intestines.

2. The act of forming so as to resemble the motion of a worm.

Vermicule

VERM'ICULE, noun [Latin vermiculus.] A little worm or grub.

Vermiculous

VERMIC'ULOUS, adjective [Latin vermiculosus.]

1. Full of worms or grubs.

2. Resembling worms.

Vermiform

VERM'IFORM, adjective [Latin vermis, a worm, and forma, form.]

Having the form or shape of a worm; as the vermiform process of the cerebellum.

Vermifuge

VERM'IFUGE, noun [Latin vermis, a worm, and fugo, to expel.]

A medicine or substance that destroys or expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

Vermil

VER'MIL, '

VERMILION, adjective vermil'yon. [Latin vermiculus, vermes; a name sometimes improperly given to the kermes. See Crimson.]

1. The cochineal, a small insect found on a particular plant. [Improper or obsolete.]

2. Red sulphuret of mercury; a bright, beautiful red color of two sorts, natural and artificial. The natural is found in silver mines, in the form of a ruddy sand, which is to be prepared by purification or washing, and then levigated with water on a stone. The factitious or common vermilion is made of artificial cinnabar, ground with white wine, and afterwards with the white of an egg.

3. Any beautiful red color. In blushing, the delicate cheek is covered with vermilion.

VERMILION, verb transitive vermil'yon. To dye red; to cover with a delicate red.

Vermilion

VERMILION, a. vermil'yon. [L. vermiculus, vermes; a name sometimes improperly given to the kermes. See Crimson.] 1. The cochineal, a small insect found on a particular plant. [Improper or obsolete.]2. Red sulphuret of mercury; a bright, beautiful red color of two sorts, natural and artificial. The natural is found in silver mines, in the form of a ruddy sand, which is to be prepared by purification or washing, and then levigated with water on a stone. The factitious or common vermilion is made of artificial cinnabar, ground with white wine, and afterwards with the white of an egg.3. Any beautiful red color. In blushing, the delicate cheek is covered with vermilion. VERMILION, v.t. vermil'yon. To dye red; to cover with a delicate red.

Vermilioned

VERMIL'IONED, participle passive or adjective Dyed or tinged with a bright red.

Vermin

VERM'IN, noun sing, and plu; used chiefly in the plural. [Latin vermes, worms.]

1. All sorts of small animals which are destructive to grain or other produce; all noxious little animals or insects, as squirrels, rats, mice, worms, grubs, flies, etc.

These vermin do great injuries in the field.

2. Used of noxious human beings in contempt; as base vermin

Verminate

VERM'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin vermino.] To breed vermin.

Vermination

VERMINA'TION, noun

1. The breeding of vermin.

2. A griping of the bowels.

Verminous

VERM'INOUS, adjective Tending to breed vermin.

The verminous disposition of the body.

Vermiparous

VERMIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin vermes, worms, and pario, to bear.]

Producing worms.

Vermivorous

VERMIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin vermes, worms, and voro, to devour.]

Devouring worms; feeding on worms. vermivorous birds are very useful to the farmer.

Vernacular

VERNAC'ULAR, adjective [Latin vernaculus, born in one's house, from verns, a servant.]

1. Native; belonging to the country of one's birth. English is our vernacular language. The vernacular idiom is seldom perfectly acquired by foreigners.

2. Native; belonging to the person by birth or nature.

A vernacular disease, is one which prevails in a particular country or district; more generally called endemic.

Vernaculous

VERNAC'ULOUS, adjective [supra.] Vernacular; also, scoffing. obsolete

Vernal

VER'NAL, adjective [Latin vernalis, from ver, spring.]

1. Belonging to the spring; appearing in spring; as vernal bloom.

Vernal flowers are preparatives to autumnal fruits.

2. Belonging to youth, the spring of life.

Vernal signs, the signs in which the sun appears in the spring.

Vernal equinox, the equinox in spring or March; opposed to the autumnal equnox, in September.

Vernant

VER'NANT, adjective [Latin vernans; verno, to flourish.] Flourishing, as in spring; as vernant flowers.

Vernate

VER'NATE, verb intransitive to become young again. [Not in use.]

Vernation

VERNA'TION, noun [Latin verno.] In botany, the disposition of the nascent leaves within the bud. it is called also foliation or leafing.

Vernier

VER'NIER, noun [from the inventor.] A graduated index which subdivides the smallest divisions on a straight or circular scale.

Vernility

VERNIL'ITY, noun [Latin vernilis, from verna, a slave.] Servility; fawning behavior, like that of a slave. [Not in use.]

Veronica

VERON'ICA, noun [vera-icon, true image.]

1. A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on handkerchiefs.

2. In botany, a genus of plants, Speedwell.

Verrucous

VER'RUCOUS, adjective [Latin verruca, a wart; verrucosus, full of warts.]

Warty; having little knobs or warts on the surface; as a verrucous capsule.

Versability

VERSABIL'ITY,

VERS'ABLE, adjective [supra.] That may be turned. [Not used.]

Versable

VERS'ABLE, a. [supra.] That may be turned. [Not used.]

Versableness

VERS'ABLENESS, noun [Latin versabilis, from versor, to turn.]

Aptness to be turned round. [Not used.]

Versal

VERSAL, for universal. [Not used or very vulgar.]

Versatile

VERS'ATILE, adjective [Latin versatilis, from versor, to turn.]

1. That may be turned round; as a versatile boat or spindle.

2. Liable to be turned in opinion; changeable; variable; unsteady; as a man of versatile disposition.

3. Turning with ease from one thing to another; readily applied to a new task, or to various subjects; as a man of versatile genius.

4. In botany, a versatile anther is one fixed by the middle on the point of the filament, and so poised as to turn like the needle of a compass; fixed by its side, but freely movable.

Versatility

VERSATIL'ITY, noun

1. The quality of being versatile; aptness to change; readiness to be turned; variableness.

2. The faculty of easily turning one's mind to new tasks or subjects; as the versatility of genus.

Verse

VERSE, noun vers. [Latin versus; verto, to turn.]

1. In poetry, a line, consisting of a certain number of long and short syllables, disposed according to the rules of the species of poetry which the author intends to compose. Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter, and tetrameter, etc. according to the number of feet in each. A verse of twelve syllables is called an Alexandrian or Alexandrine. Two or more verses form a stanza or strophe.

2. Poetry; metrical language.

Virtue was taught in verse

VERSE embalms virtue.

3. A short division of any composition, particularly of the chapters in the Scriptures. The author of the division of the Old Testament into verses, is not ascertained. The New Testament was divided into verses by Robert Stephens.

4. A piece of poetry.

5. A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

6. In a song or ballad, a stanza is called a verse

Blank verse poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes.

Heroic verse usually consists of ten syllables, or in English, of five accented syllables, constituting five feet.

VERSE, verb transitive To tell in verse; to relate poetically.

Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love.

To be versed, [Latin vesor.] to be well skilled; to be acquainted with; as, to be versed in history or in geometry.

Verse-Man

VERSE-MAN, noun [verse and man.] A writer of verses; in ludicrous language.

Verser

VERS'ER, noun A maker of verses; a versifier.

Versicle

VERS'ICLE, noun [Latin versiculus.] A little verse. [Not used.]

Versicolor

VERS'ICOLOR,

VERS'ICOLORED, adjective [Latin versicolor ] Having various colors; changeable in color.

Versicolored

VERS'ICOLORED, a. [L. versicolor.] Having various colors; changeable in color.

Versicular

VERSIC'ULAR, adjective Pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.

Versification

VERSIFICA'TION, noun The act, art or practice of composing poetic verse. versification is the result of art, labor and rule, rather than of invention or the fire of genius. It consists in adjusting the long and short syllables, and forming feet into harmonious measure.

Versificator

VERS'IFICATOR, noun A versifier. [Little used. See Versifier.]

Versified

VERS'IFIED, participle passive [from versify.] Formed into verse.

Versifier

VERS'IFIER, noun

1. One who makes verses. Not every versifier is a poet.

2. One who converts into verse; or one who expresses the ideas of another, written in prose; as, Dr. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.

Versify

VERS'IFY, verb intransitive To make verses.

I'll versify in spite, and do my best.

VERS'IFY, verb transitive

1. To relate or describe in verse.

I'll versify the truth.

2. To turn into verse; as, to versify the Psalms.

Version

VER'SION, noun [Latin versio.]

1. A turning; a change or transformation; as the version of air into water. [Unusual.]

2. Change of direction; as the version of the beams of light. [Unusual.]

3. The act of translating; the rendering of thoughts or ideas expressed in one language, into words of like signification in another language. How long was Pope engaged in the version of Homer?

4. Translation; that which is rendered from another language. We have a good version of the Scriptures. There is a good version of Pentateuch in Samaritan. The Septuagint version of the Old Testament was made for the benefit of the Jews in Alexandria.

Verst

VERST, noun A Russian measure of length, containing 1166 2/3 yards, or 3500 feet; about three quarters of an English mile.

Vert

VERT, noun [Latin viridis.]

1. In the forest laws, every thing that grows and bears a green leaf within the forest. To preserve vert and venison, is the duty of the verderer.

2. In heraldry, a green color.

Verteber

VERT'EBER,

VERT'EBRA, noun [Latin vertebra, from verto, to turn.] A joint of the spine or backbone of an animal.

Vertebra

VERT'EBRA, n. [L. vertebra, from verto, to turn.] A joint of the spine or backbone of an animal.

Vertebral

VERT'EBRAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to the joints of the spine or backbone.

2. Having a backbone or spinal joints; as vertebral animals.

VERT'EBRAL, noun An animal of the class which have a backbone.

Vertebrated

VERT'EBRATED, adjective [Latin vertebratus.] Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as an animal; as man, quadrupeds, fowls, amphibia, and fishes.

Vertex

VERT'EX, noun [Latin from veto, to turn; primarily a round point.]

1. The crown or top of the head.

2. The top of a hill or other thing; the point of a cone, pyramid, angle or figure; the pole of a glass, in optics. The vertex of a curve, is the point from which the diameter is drawn, or the intersection of the diameter and the curve.

3. In astronomy, the zenith; the point of the heavens perpendicularly over the head.

Vertical

VERT'ICAL, adjective [Latin vertex.]

1. Placed or being in the zenith, or perpendicularly over the head. The sun is vertical to the inhabitants within the tropics at certain times every year.

2. Being in a position perpendicular to the plane of the horizon.

Vertical leaves, in botany, are such as stand so erect, that neither of the surfaces can be called the upper or under.

Vertical anthers, are such as terminate the filaments, and being inserted by their base, stand no less upright than the filaments themselves.

Vertical circle, in astronomy, a great circle passing through the zenith and the nadir. The meridian of any place is a vertical circle. The vertical circles are called azimuths.

Vertical line, in conics, is a right line drawn on the vertical plane, and passing through the vertex of the cone.

Vertical plane, in conics, is a plane passing through the vertex of a cone, and through its axis.

Prime vertical a great circle of the sphere, perpendicular to the horizon, and passing through the zenith and the east and west points.

Vertically

VERT'ICALLY, adverb In the zenith.

Verticalness

VERT'ICALNESS, noun The state of being in the zenith or perpendicularly over the head. [Verticality is not used.]

Verticil

VERT'ICIL, noun [Latin verticillus, from vertex, supra.]

In botany, a little whirl; a mode of inflorescence, in which the flowers surround the stem in a kind of ring.

Verticillate

VERTIC'ILLATE, adjective [supra.] In botany, verticillate flowers are such as grow in a whirl, or round the stem in rings, one above another, at each joint. The term is also applied in this sense to leaves and branches. verticillate plants are such as bear whirled flowers.

Verticity

VERTIC'ITY, noun [from vertex, supra.]

1. The power of turning; revolution; rotation.

2. That property of the lodestone by which it turns to some particular point.

The attraction of the magnet was known long before its verticity

Vertiginous

VERTIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin vertiginousus.]

1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; as a vertiginous motion.

2. Giddy; affected with vertigo.

Vertiginousness

VERTIG'INOUSNESS, noun Giddiness; a whirling, or sense of whirling; unsteadiness.

Vertigo

VERT'IGO, noun [Latin from verto, to turn.] Giddiness; dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head, in which objects appear to move in various directions, though stationary, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture.

Vervain

VER'VAIN, noun A plant of the genus Verbena, or rather the genus so called.

Vervain-Mallow

VERVAIN-MALLOW, noun A species of mallow, the Malva alcea.

VER'VELS, noun Labels tied to a hawk.

Vervels

VER'VELS, noun Silver rings about the legs of a hawk, on which the owner's name is engraved.

Very

VER'Y, adjective [Latin verus.] True; real.

Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. Genesis 27:21.

He that repeateth a matter, separateth very friends.

Proverbs 17:9.

VER'Y, adverb As an adverb, or modifier of adjectives and adverbs, very denotes in a great degree, an eminent or high degree, but not generally the highest; as a very great mountain; a very bright sun; a very cold day; a very pernicious war; a very benevolent disposition; the river flows very rapidly.

Vesation

VESA'TION, noun [Latin vesatio.]

1. The act of irritating, or of troubling, disquieting and harassing.

2. State of being irritated or disturbed in mind.

3. Disquiet; agitation; great uneasiness.

Passions too violent - afford us vexation and pain.

4. The cause of trouble or disquiet.

Your children were vexation to your youth.

5. Afflictions; great troubles; severe judgments.

The Lord shall send on thee cursing, vexation and rebuke. Deuteronomy 28:1.

6. A harassing by law.

7. A slight teasing trouble.

Vesicant

VES'ICANT, noun [infra.] A blistering application; an epispastic.

Vesicate

VES'ICATE, verb transitive [Latin vesica, a little bladder. Gr. from to inflate.]

To blister; to raise little bladders, or separate the cuticle by inflaming the skin. Celsus recommends to vesicate the external parts of wounds.

Vesicated

VES'ICATED, participle passive Blistered.

Vesicating

VES'ICATING, participle present tense Blistering.

Vesication

VESICA'TION, noun The process of raising blisters or little cuticular bladders on the skin.

Vesicatory

VES'ICATORY, noun A blistering application or plaster; an epispastic. Vesicatories made of cantharides, are more powerful than sinapisms, or preparations of mustard.

Vesicle

VES'ICLE, noun [. vesicula. See Vesicate.]

1. A little bladder, or a portion of the cuticle separated from the skin and filled with some humor.

2. Any small membranous cavity in animals or vegetables. The lungs consist of vesicles admitting air.

Vesicular

VESIC'ULAR,

VESIC'ULATE, adjective Bladdery; full of bladders.

Vesiculous

VESIC'ULOUS, adjective

1. Pertaining to vesicles; consisting of vesicles.

2. Hollow; full of interstices.

3. Having little bladders or glands on the surface, as the leaf of a plant.

Vesper

VES'PER, noun [Latin This word and Hesperus are probably of one origin, and both from the root of west.]

1. The evening star; Venus; also, the evening.

2. Vespers, in the plural, the evening song or evening service in the Romish church.

Sicilian vespers, the era of the general massacre of the French in Sicily, or Easter evening, 1282, at the toll of the bell for vespers.

Vespertine

VES'PERTINE, adjective [Latin vespertinus. See Vesper.]

Pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening.

Vessel

VES'SEL, noun [Latin vas, vasis. This word is probably the English vat.]

1. A cask or utensil proper for holding liquors and other things, as a tun, a pipe, a puncheon, a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a dish, etc.

2. In anatomy, any tube or canal, in which the blood and other humors are contained, secreted or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, spermatics, etc.

3. In the physiology of plants, a canal or tube of very small bore, in which the sap is contained and conveyed; also, a bag or utricle, filled with pulp, and serving as a reservoir for sap; also, a spiral canal, usually of a larger bore, for receiving and distributing air.

4. Any building used in navigation, which carries masts and sails, from the largest ship of war down to a fishing sloop. In general however, vessel is used for the smaller ships, brigs, sloops, schooners, luggers, scows, etc.

5. Something containing.

Vessels of wrath, in Scripture, are such persons as are to receive the full effects of God's wrath and indignation, as a punishment for their sins.

Vessels of mercy, are persons who are to receive the effects of God's mercy, or future happiness and glory.

Chosen vessels, ministers of the gospel, as appointed to bear the glad news of salvation to others; called also earthen vessels, on account of their weakness and frailty.

VES'SEL, verb transitive To put into a vessel [Not in use.]

Vessets

VES'SETS, noun A kind of cloth.

Vessicon

VES'SICON,

VES'SIGON, noun [Latin vesica.] A soft swelling on a horse's leg, called a windgall.

Vessigon

VES'SIGON, n. [L. vesica.] A soft swelling on a horse's leg, called a windgall.

Vest

VEST, noun [Latin vestis, a coat or garment; vestio, to cover or clothe.]

1. An outer garment.

Over his lucid arms a military vest of purple flow'd.

2. In common speech, a man's under garment; a short garment covering the body, but without sleeves, worn under the coat; called also waistcoat.

VEST, verb transitive

1. To clothe; to cover, surround or encompass closely.

With ether vested and a purple sky.

2. To dress; to clothe with a long garment; as the vested priest.

To vest with, to clothe; to furnish with; to invest with; as, to vest a man with authority; to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death; to vest one with the right of seizing slave ships.

Had I been vested with the monarch's pow'r.

To vest in, to put in possession of; to furnish with; to clothe with. The supreme executive power in England is vested in the king; in the United States, it is vested in the president.

2. To clothe with another form; to convert into another substance or species of property; as, to vest money in goods; to vest money in land or houses; to vest money in bank stock, or in six per cent stock; to vest all one's property in the public funds.

VEST, verb intransitive To come or descend to; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right. Upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.

Vestal

VEST'AL, adjective [Latin vestalis, from Vesta, the goddess of fire, Gr.]

1. Pertaining to Vesta, the goddess of fire among the Romans, and a virgin.

2. Pure; chaste.

VEST'AL, noun A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar. The Vestals were six in number, and they made a vow of perpetual virginity.

Vested

VEST'ED, participle passive

1. Clothed; covered; closely encompassed.

2. adjective Fixed; not in a state of contingency or suspension; as vested rights.

Vested legacy, in law, a legacy the right to which commences in presenti, and does not depend on a contingency, as a legacy to one, to be paid when he attains to twenty one years of age. This is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it.

Vested remainder, is where the estate is invariably fixed, to remain to a determinate person, after the particular estate is spent. This is called a remainder executed, by which a present interest passes to the party, though to be enjoyed in future.

Vestibule

VES'TIBULE, noun [Latin vestibulum.]

1. The porch or entrance into a house, or a large open space before the door, but covered. Vestibules for magnificence are usually between the court and garden.

2. A little antechamber before the entrance of an ordinary apartment.

3. An apartment in large buildings, which presents itself into a hall or suit of rooms or offices. An area in which a magnificent staircase is carried up is sometimes called a vestibule

4. In anatomy, a cavity belonging to the labyrinth of the ear.

Vestige

VES'TIGE, noun [Latin vestigium. This word and vestibule, show that some verb signifying to tread, from which they are derived, is lost.]

A track or footstep; the mark of the foot left on the earth; but mostly used for the mark or remains of something else; as the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.

Vesting

VEST'ING, participle present tense [from vest.] Clothing; covering; closely encompassing; descending to and becoming permanent, as a right or title; converting into other species of property, as money.

VEST'ING, noun Cloth for vests; vest patterns.

Vestment

VEST'MENT, noun [Latin vestimentum, from vestio, to clothe.]

A garment; some part of clothing or dress; especially some part of outer clothing; but it is not restricted to any particular garment.

The sculptor could not give vestments suitable to the quality of the persons represented.

Vestry

VEST'RY, noun [Latin vestiarium.]

1. A room appendant to a church, in which the sacerdotal vestments, in which the sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are kept, and where parochial meetings are held.

2. A parochial assembly, so called because held in the vestry

The council are chosen by the vestry

Vestry-Clerk

VEST'RY-CLERK, noun [vestry and clerk.] An officer chosen by the vestry, who keeps the parish accounts and books.

Vestry-Man

VEST'RY-MAN, noun [vestry and man.] In London, vestry-men are a select number of principal persons of every parish, who choose parish officers and take care of its concerns.

Vesture

VEST'URE, noun [See Vest.]

1. A garment; a robe.

There polish'd chests embroider'd vesture grac'd.

2. Dress; garments in general; habit; clothing; vestment; as the vesture of priests.

3. Clothing; covering.

Rocks, precipices and gulfs appareled with a vesture of plants.

- And gild the humble vestures of the plain.

4. In old law books, the corn with which land was covered; as the vesture of an acre.

5. In old books, seisin; possession. obsolete

Vesuvian

VESU'VIAN, adjective Pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.

VESU'VIAN, noun In mineralogy, a subspecies of pyramidical garnet, a mineral found in the vicinity of Vesuvius, classed with the family of garnets; called by Hauy idocrase. It is generally crystallized in four sided prisms, the edges of which are truncated, forming prisms of eight, fourteen or sixteen sides. it sometimes occurs massive. It is composed chiefly of silex, lime and alumin, with a portion of oxyd of iron, and oxyd of manganese.

Vetch

VETCH, noun [Latin vicia. We see vetch if from the root of weigh, wag, wiggle, and signifies a little roller.]

A plant of the leguminous kind, with papilionaceous flowers, of the genus Vicia. It is a common name of most species of the genus. The name is also applied, with various epithets, to many other leguminous plants of different genera; as the chichling vetch of the genus Lathyrus; the horseshoe vetch of the genus Hippocrepis; the milk vetch of the genus Astragalus, etc.

Vetchling

VETCH'LING, noun [from vetch.] In botany, a name of the Lathyrus aphaca, expressive of its diminutive size. The meadow vetchling is a wild plant common in meadows, which makes good hay.

Vetchy

VETCH'Y, adjective

1. Consisting of vetches or of pea straw; as a vetchy bed.

2. Abounding with vetches.

Veteran

VET'ERAN, adjective [Latin veteranus, from vetero, to grow old, from vetus, old.]

Having been long exercised in any thing; long practiced or experienced; as a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.

VET'ERAN, noun One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has grown old in service and has had much experience.

Ensigns that pierc'd the foe's remotest lines, the hardy veteran with tears resigns.

Veterinarian

VETERINA'RIAN, noun [Latin veterinarius.] One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals.

Veterinary

VET'ERINARY, adjective [supra.] Pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc. A veterinary college was established in England in 1792, at St. Pancras, in the vicinity of London. The improvement of the vetrinary art is of great importance to the agricultural interest.

Veto

VE'TO, noun [Latin veto I forbid.] A forbidding; prohibition; or the right of forbidding; applied to the right of a king or other magistrate or officer to withhold his assent to the enactment of a law, or the passing of a decree. Thus the king of Great Britain has a veto upon every act of parliament; he sometimes prevents the passing of a law by his vet.

Vex

VEX, verb transitive [Latin vexo.]

1. To irritate; to make angry by little provocations; a popular use of the word.

2. To plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict.

Ten thousand torments vex my heart.

3. To disturb; to disquiet; to agitate.

White curl the waves, and the vex'd ocean roars.

4. To trouble; to distress.

I will also vex the hearts of many people. Ezekiel 32:9.

5. To persecute. Acts 12:1.

6. To stretch, as by hooks. [Not in use.]

VEX, verb intransitive To fret; to be teased or irritated.

Vexatious

VEXA'TIOUS, adjective

1. Irritating; disturbing or agitating to the mind; causing disquiet; afflictive; as a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.

2. Distressing; harassing; as vexatious wars.

3. Full of trouble and disquiet.

He leads a vexatious life.

4. Teasing; slightly troublesome; provoking.

A vexatious suit, in law, is one commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, or without cause.

Vexatiously

VEXA'TIOUSLY, adverb In a manner to give great trouble or disquiet.

Vexatiousness

VEXA'TIOUSNESS, noun The quality of giving great trouble and disquiet, or of teasing and provoking.

Vexed

VEX'ED, participle passive Teased; provoked; irritated; troubled; agitated; disquieted; afflicted.

Vexer

VEX'ER, noun One who vexes, irritates or troubles.

Vexil

VEX'IL, noun [Latin vexillum, a standard.] A flag or standard. In botany, the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower.

Vexillary

VEX'ILLARY, noun A standard bearer.

VEX'ILLARY, adjective Pertaining to an ensign or standard.

Vexillation

VEXILLA'TION, noun [Latin vexillatio.] A company of troops under one ensign.

Vexing

VEX'ING, participle present tense Provoking; irritating; afflicting.

Vexingly

VEX'INGLY, adverb So as to vex, tease or irritate.

Vial

VI'AL, noun [Latin phiala.] A phial; a small bottle of thin glass, used particularly by apothecaries and druggists.

Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head.

1 Samuel 10:1.

Vials of God's wrath, in Scripture, are the execution of his wrath upon the wicked for their sins. Revelation 16:2.

VI'AL, verb transitive To put in a vial

Viand

VI'AND, noun [Latin vivendus, vivo, to live.] Meat dressed; food.

Viands of various kinds allure the taste.

[It is used chiefly in the plural.]

Viatic

VIAT'IC, adjective [Latin viaticum, from via, way.]

Pertaining to a journey or to traveling.

Viaticum

VIAT'ICUM, noun [Latin supra.]

1. Provisions for a journey.

2. Among the ancient Romans, an allowance to officers who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service, also to the officers and soldiers of the army.

3. In the Romish church, the communion or eucharist given to persons in their last moment.

Vibrant

VI'BRANT,

VI'BRATE, verb intransitive [Latin vibro; Eng. wabble.]

1. To swing; to oscillate; to move one way and the other; to play to and fro; as, the pendulum of a clock vibrates more or less rapidly, as it is shorter or longer. The chords of an instrument vibrate when touched.

2. To quiver; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.

3. To pass from one state to another; as, a man vibrates from one opinion to another.

VI'BRATE, verb transitive

1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or staff. The pendulum of a clock vibrates seconds.

2. To cause to quiver.

Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may differently affect the lips, and impress a swift tremulous motion.