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Vibrate

VI'BRATE, v.i. [L. 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, v.t. 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.

Vibrated

VI'BRATED, participle passive Brandished; moved one way and the other.

Vibratility

VIBRATIL'ITY, noun Disposition to preternatural vibration or motion. [Not much used.]

Vibrating

VI'BRATING, participle present tense Brandishing; moving to and fro, as a pendulum or musical chord.

Vibration

VIBRA'TION, noun [Latin vibro.]

1. The act of brandishing; the act of moving or state of being moved one way and the other in quick succession.

2. In mechanics, a regular reciprocal motion of a body suspended; a motion consisting of continual reciprocations or returns; as of the pendulum of a chronometer. This is frequently called oscillation. The number of vibrations in a given time depends on the length of the vibrating body; a pendulum three feet long, makes only ten vibrations while one of nine inches makes twenty. The vibrations of a pendulum are somewhat slower at or near the equator than in remote latitudes. The vibrations of a pendulum are isochronal in the same climate.

3. In physics, alternate or reciprocal motion; as the vibrations of the nervous fluid, by which sensation has been supposed to be produced, by impressions of external objects propagated thus to the brain.

4. In music, the motion of a chord, or the undulation of any body, by which sound is produced. The acuteness, elevation and gravity of sound, depend on the length of the chord and its tension.

Vibratiuncle

VIBRAT'IUNCLE, noun A small vibration.

Vibrative

VI'BRATIVE, adjective That vibrates.

Vibratory

VI'BRATORY, adjective

1. Vibrating; consisting in vibration or oscillation; as a vibratory motion.

2. Causing to vibrate.

Vibrion

VIB'RION, noun [Latin vibrans.] A name given to the ichneumon fly, from the continual vibration of its antennae.

Vicar

VIC'AR, noun [Latin vicarius, from vicis, a turn, or its root.]

1. In a general sense, a person deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office. The pope pretends to be vicar of Jesus Christ on earth. He has under him a grand vicar who is a cardinal, and whose jurisdiction extends over all priests, regular and secular.

2. In the canon law, the priest of a parish, the predial tithes of which are impropriated or appropriated, that is, belong to a chapter or religious house, or to a layman, who receives them, and only allows the vicar the smaller tithes or a salary.

Apostolical vicars, are those who perform the functions of the pope in churches or provinces committed to their direction.

Vicar-General

VICAR-GEN'ERAL, noun A title given by Henry VIII to the earl of Essex, with power to oversee all the clergy, and regulate all church affairs. It is now the title of an office, which, as well as that of official principal, is united in the chancellor of the diocese. The business of the vicar-general is to exercise jurisdiction over matters purely spiritual.

Vicarage

VIC'ARAGE, noun The benefice of a vicar. A vicarage by endowment, becomes a benefice distinct from the parsonage.

Vicarial

VICA'RIAL, adjective [from vicar.] Pertaining to a vicar; small; as vicarial tithes.

Vicariate

VICA'RIATE, adjective Having delegated power, as vicar.

VICA'RIATE, noun A delegated office or power.

Vicarious

VICA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin vicarius.]

1. Deputed; delegated; as vicarious power or authority.

2. Acting for another; filling the place of another; as a vicarious agent or officer.

3. Substituted in the place of another; as a vicarious sacrifice. The doctrine of vicarious punishment has occasioned much controversy.

Vicariously

VICA'RIOUSLY, adverb In the place of another; by substitution.

Vicarship

VIC'ARSHIP, noun The office of a vicar; the ministry of a vicar.

Vice

VICE, noun [Latin vitium.]

1. Properly, a spot or defect; a fault; a blemish; as the vices of a political constitution.

2. In ethics, any voluntary action or course of conduct which deviates from the rules of moral rectitude, or from the plain rules of propriety; any moral unfitness of conduct, either from defect of duty, or from the transgression of known principles of rectitude. vice differs from crime, in being less enormous. We never call murder or robbery a vice; but every act of intemperance, all falsehood, duplicity, deception, lewdness and the like, is a vice The excessive indulgence of passions and appetites which in themselves are innocent, is a vice The smoking of tobacco and the taking of snuff, may in certain cases be innocent and even useful, but these practices may be carried to such an excess as to become vices. This word is also used to denote a habit of transgressing; as a life of vice vice is rarely a solitary invader; it usually brings with it a frightful train of followers.

3. Depravity or corruption of manners; as an age of vice

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway.

The post of honor is a private station.

4. A fault or bad trick in a horse.

5. The fool or punchinello of old shows.

His face made of brass, like a vice in a game.

6. An iron press. [This should be written vise.]

7. A gripe or grasp. [Not in use.]

VICE, verb transitive To draw by a kind of violence. [Not in use. See Vise.]

VICE, Latin vice in the turn or place, is used in composition to denote one qui vicem gerit, who acts in the place of another, or is second in authority.

Vice-Admiral

VICE-AD'MIRAL, noun

1. In the navy, the second officer in command. His flag is displayed at the fore top-gallant-mast head.

2. A civil officer in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty, for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts.

Vice-Admiralty

VICE-AD'MIRALTY, noun The office of a vice-admiralty; a vice-admiralty court.

Vice-Agent

VICE-A'GENT, noun [vice and agent.] One who acts in the place of another.

Vice-Chamberlain

VICE-CH'AMBERLAIN, CHAMBERLAIN, noun An officer in court, next in command to the lord chamberlain.

Vice-Chancellor

VICE-CH'ANCELLOR, noun An officer in a university in England, a distinguished member, who is annually elected to manage the affairs in the absence of the chancellor.

Vice-Consul

VICE-CONSUL, noun One who acts in the place of a consul.

Vice-Doge

VICE-DO'GE, noun A counsellor at Venice, who represents the doge when sick or absent.

Vice-Legate

VICE-LEG'ATE, noun An officer employed by the pope to perform the office of spiritual and temporal governor in certain cities, when there is no legate or cardinal to command there.

Vice-President

VICE-PRES'IDENT, noun s as z. An officer next in rank below a president.

Viced

VI'CED, adjective Vitious; corrupt. [Not in use.]

Vicegerency

VICEGE'RENCY, noun [See Vicegerent.] The office of a vicegerent; agency under another; deputed power; lieutenancy.

Vicegerent

VICEGE'RENT, noun [Latin vicem gereus, acting in the place of another.]

A lieutenant; a vicar; an officer who is deputed by a superior or by proper authority to exercise the powers of another. Kings are sometimes called God's vicegerents. It is to be wished they would always deserve the appellation.

VICEGE'RENT, adjective Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.

Vicenary

VIC'ENARY, adjective [Latin vicenarius.] Belonging to twenty.

Viceroy

VI'CEROY, noun The governor of a kingdom or country, who rules in the name of the king with regal authority, as the king's substitute.

Viceroyalty

VICEROY'ALTY, noun the dignity, office or jurisdiction of a viceroy.

Viceroyship

VI'CEROYSHIP, noun the dignity, office or jurisdiction of a viceroy.

Vicety

VI'CETY, noun Nicety; exactness. [Not in use; probably a mistake.]

Viciate

VI'CIATE, verb transitive [Latin vitio. This veb is usually written vitiate; but as vice, from Latin vitius, is established, it would be well to write the verb viciate as we write appreciate and depreciate, from Latin pretium.]

1. to injure the substance or properties of a thing so as to impair its value, and lessen or destroy its use; to make less pure, or wholly impure; to deprave, in a physical or moral sense; as, to viciate the blood; to viciate taste or style; to viciate morals.

2. To render defective and thus destroy the validity of; to invalidate by defect; as, to viciate a deed or bond.

Viciated

VI'CIATED, participle passive Depraved; impaired in substance or quality; rendered defective and void.

Viciating

VI'CIATING, participle present tense Injuring in subtance or properties; rendering defective; making void.

Viciation

VICIA'TION, noun Depravation; corruption.

Vicinage

VIC'INAGE, noun [from Latin vicinia, neighborhood; vicinus, near.]

Neighborhood; the place or places adjoining or near. A jury must be of the vicinage or body of the country.

In law, common because of vicinage is where the inhabitants of two townships contiguous to each other, have usually intercommoned with one another; the beasts of one straying into the other's fields without molestation from either.

Vicinal

VIC'INAL,

VIC'INE, adjective Near; neighboring. [Little used.]

Vicine

VIC'INE, a. Near; neighboring. [Little used.]

Vicinity

VICIN'ITY, noun [Latin vicinitas.]

1. Nearness in place; as the vicinity of two country seats.

2. Neighborhood; as a seat in the vicinity of the metropolis.

3. Neighboring country. Vegetables produced in the vicinity of the city, are daily brought to market. the vicinity is full of gardens.

Viciosity

VICIOS'ITY, noun Depravity; corruption of manners. [But viciousness is generally used.]

Vicious

VI'CIOUS, adjective [Latin vitiosus.]

1. Defective; imperfect; as a system of government vicious and unsound.

2. Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; habitually transgressing the moral law; as a vicious race of men; vicious parents; vicious children.

3. Corrupt; contrary to moral principles or to rectitude; as vicious examples; vicious conduct.

4. Corrupt, in a physical sense; foul; impure; insalubrious; as vicious air.

5. Corrupt; not genuine or pure; as vicious language; vicious idioms.

6. Unruly; refractory; not well tamed or broken; as a vicious horse.

Viciously

VI'CIOUSLY, adverb

1. Corruptly; in a manner contrary to rectitude, moral principles, propriety or purity.

2. Faultily; not correctly.

Viciousness

VI'CIOUSNESS, noun

1. Addictedness to vice; corruptness of moral principles or practice; habitual violation of the moral law, or of moral duties; depravity in principles or in manners.

What makes a governor justly despised, is viciousness and ill morals.

2. Unruliness; refractoriness; as of a beast.

Vicissitude

VICIS'SITUDE, noun [Latin vicissitudo; from vicis, a turn.]

1. Regular change or succession of one thing to another; as the vicissitudes of day and night, and of winter and summer; the vicissitudes of the seasons.

2. Change; revolution; as in human affairs. We are exposed to continual vicissitudes of fortune.

Vicissitudinary

VICISSITU'DINARY, adjective Changing in succession.

Vicontiel

VICON'TIEL, adjective [vice-comitalia. See Viscount.]

In old law books, pertaining to the sheriff.

Vicontiel rents, are certain rents for which the sheriff pays a rent to the king.

Vicontiel writs, are such as are triable in the county or sheriff court.

Vicontiels

VICON'TIELS, noun Things belonging to the sheriff; particularly, farms for which the sheriff pays rent to the king.

Vicount

VI'COUNT, noun [vice-comes.]

1. In law books, the sheriff.

2. A degree of nobility next below a count or earl. [See Viscount.]

Victim

VIC'TIM noun [Latin victima.]

1. A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; usually, some beast slain in sacrifice; but human beings have been slain by some nations, for the purpose of appeasing the wrath or conciliating the favor of some deity.

2. Something destroyed; something sacrificed in the pursuit of an object. How many persons have fallen victims to jealousy, to lust, to ambition!

Victimate

VIC'TIMATE, verb transitive To sacrifice. [Not in use.]

Victor

VIC'TOR, noun [Latin from vinco, victus, to conquer, or the same root.]

1. One who conquers in war; a vanquisher; one who defeats an enemy in battle. victor differs from conqueror. We apply conqueror to one who subdues countries, kingdoms or nations; as, Alexander was the conqueror of Asia or India, or of many nations, or of the world. In such phrases, we cannot substitute victor But we use victor when we speak of one who overcomes a particular enemy, or in a particular battle; as, Cesar was victor at Pharsalia. The duke of Wellington was victor at Waterloo. victor then is not followed by the possessive case; for we do not say, Alexander was the victor of Darius, though we say, he was victor at Arbela.

2. One who vanquishes another in private combat or contest; as a victor in the Olympic games.

3. One who wins, or gains the advantage.

In love, the victors from the vanquish'd fly;

They fly that wound, and they pursue that die.

4. Master; lord.

These, victor of his health, his fortune, friends. [Not usual nor legitimate.]

Victoress

VIC'TORESS, noun A female who vanquishes.

Victorious

VICTO'RIOUS, adjective

1. Having conquered in battle or contest; having overcome an enemy or antagonist; conquering; vanquishing; as a victorious general; victorious troops; a victorious admiral or navy.

2. That produces conquest; as a victorious day.

3. Emblematic of conquest; indicating victory; as brows bound with victorious wreaths.

Victoriously

VICTO'RIOUSLY, adverb With conquest; with defeat of an enemy or antagonist; triumphantly; as, grace will carry us victoriously through all difficulties.

Victoriousness

VICTO'RIOUSNESS, noun The state of being victorious.

Victory

VIC'TORY, noun [Latin victoria, from vinco, victus, to conquer.]

1. Conquest; the defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in contest; a gaining of the superiority in war or combat. victory supposes the power of an enemy or an antagonist to prove inferior to that of the victor. victory however depends not always on superior skill or valor; it is often gained by the fault or mistake of the vanquished.

Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels of a nation.

2. The advantage or superiority gained over spiritual enemies, over passions and appetites, or over temptations, or in any struggle or competition.

Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:54.

Victress

VIC'TRESS, noun A female that conquers.

Victual

VICTUAL. [See Victuals.]

VICTUAL, verb transitive vit'l. [from victual the noun.]

1. To supply with provisions for subsistence; as, to victual an army; to victual a garrison.

2. To store with provisions; as, to victual a ship.

Victualed

VICTUALED, participle passive vit'ld. Supplied with provisions.

Victualer

VICTUALER, noun vit'ler.

1. One who furnishes provisions.

2. One who keeps a house of entertainment.

3. A provision-ship; a ship employed to carry provisions for other ships, or for supplying troops at a distance.

Victualing

VICTUALING, participle present tense vit'ling. Supplying with provisions.

Victualing-House

VICTUALING-HOUSE, noun A house where provision is made for strangers to eat.

Victuals

VICTUALS, noun vit'lz. [Latin victus, food, from the root of vivo, which was vigo or vico, coinciding with vigeo. Basque, vicia life. This word is now never used in the singular.]

Food for human beings, prepared for eating; that which supports human life; provisions; meat; sustenance. We never apply this word to that on which beasts or birds feed, and we apply it chiefly to food for men when cooked or prepared for the table. We do not now give this name to flesh, corn or flour, in a crude state; but we say, the victuals are well cooked or dressed, and in great abundance. We say, a man eats his victuals with a good relish.

Such phrases as to buy victuals for the army or navy, to lay in victuals for the winter, etc. are now obsolete. We say, to buy provisions; yet we use the verb, to victual an army or ship.

Videlicet

VIDEL'ICET, adverb [Latin for videre licet.] To wit; namely. An abbreviation for this word is viz.

Vidual

VID'UAL, adjective [Latin viduus, deprived. Belonging to the state of a widow. [Not used.]

Viduity

VIDU'ITY, noun [Latin viduitas.] Widowhood. [Not used.]

Vie

VIE, verb intransitive [See Victor.]

To strive for superiority; to contend; to use effort in a race, contest, competition, rivalship or strife. How delightful it is to see children vie with each other in diligence and in duties of obedience.

In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in a way of life to vie with the best of their family.

VIE, verb transitive

1. To show or practice in competition; as, to vie power; to vie charities. [Not legitimate.]

2. To urge; to press.

She hung about my neck, and kiss and kiss she vied so fast. [Not in use.]

Vielleur

VIELLEUR, noun A species of fly in Surinam, less than the lantern fly.

View

VIEW, verb transitive vu. [Latin videre. The primary sense is to reach or extend to.]

1. To survey; to examine with the eye; to look on with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to inspect; to explore. view differs from look, see, and behold, in expressing more particular or continued attention to the thing which is the object of sight. We ascended mount Holyoke, and viewed the charming landscape below. We viewed with delight the rich valleys of the Connecticut about the town of Northhampton.

Go up and view the country. Joshua 7:2.

I viewed the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah 7:1.

2. To see; to perceive by the eye.

3. To survey intellectually; to examine with the mental eye; to consider. view the subject in all its aspects.

VIEW, noun vu.

1. Prospect; sight; reach of the eye.

The walls of Pluto's palace are in view

2. The whole extent seen. Vast or extensive views present themselves to the eye.

3. Sight; power of seeing, or limit of sight.

The mountain was not within our view

4. Intellectual or mental sight. These things give us a just view of the designs of providence.

5. Act of seeing. The facts mentioned were verified by actual view

6. Slight; eye.

Objects near our view are thought greater than those of larger size, that are more remote.

7. Survey; inspection; examination by the eye. The assessors took a view of the premises.

Surveying nature with too nice a view

8. Intellectual survey; mental examination.

On a just view of all the arguments in the case, the law appears to be clear.

9. Appearance; show.

10. Display; exhibition to the sight or mind.

To give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty. -

11. Prospect of interest.

No man sets himself about any thing, but upon some view or other, which serves him for a reason.

12. Intention; purpose; design. With that view he began the expedition. With a view to commerce, he passed through Egypt.

13. Opinion; manner of seeing or understanding. These are my views of the policy which ought to be pursued.

VIEW of frankpledge, in law, a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship or manor, before the stewart of the leet.

Point of view the direction in which a thing is seen.

Viewed

VIEWED, participle passive vu'ed. Surveyed; examined by the eye; inspected; considered.

Viewer

VIEWER, noun vu'er.

1. One who views, surveys or examines.

2. In New England, a town officer whose duty is to inspect something; as a viewer of fences, who inspects them to determine whether they are sufficient in law.

Viewing

VIEWING, participle present tense vu'ing. Surveying; examining by the eye or by the mind; inspecting; exploring.

VIEWING, noun vu'ing. The act of beholding or surveying.

Viewless

VIEWLESS, adjective vu'less. That cannot be seen; not being perceivable by the eye; invisible; as viewless winds.

Swift through the valves the visionary fair repass'd and viewless mix'd with common air.

Vigesimation

VIGESIMA'TION, noun [Latin vigesimus, twentieth.]

The act of putting to death every twentieth man.

Vigil

VIG'IL, noun [Latin vigilia, vigil walking, watchful; vigilo, to watch. This is formed on the root of Eng. wake. The primary sense is to stir or excite, to rouse, to agitate.]

1. Watch; devotion performed in the customary hours of rest or sleep.

So they in heav'n their odes and vigils tun'd.

2. In church affairs, the eve or evening before any feast, the ecclesiastical day beginning at 6:00 in the evening, and continuing till the same hour the following evening; hence, a religious service performed in the evening preceding a holiday.

3. A fast observed on the day preceding a holiday; a wake.

4. Watch; forbearance of sleep; as the vigils of the card table.

Vigils or watchings of flowers, a term used by Linne to express a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants, of opening and closing their petals at certain hours of the day

Vigilance

VIG'ILANCE, noun [Latin vigilans. See Vigil.]

1. Forbearance of sleep; a state of being awake.

2. Watchfulness; circumspection; attention of the mind in discovering and guarding against danger, or providing for safety. vigilance is a virtue of prime importance in a general. The vigilance of the dog is no less remarkable than his fidelity.

3. Guard; watch.

In at this gate none pass the vigilance here plac'd.

Vigilancy

VIG'ILANCY, for vigilance, is not used.

Vigilant

VIG'ILANT, adjective [Latin vigilans.] Watchful; circumspect; attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety.

Take your places and be vigilant Be sober, be vigilant

1 Peter 5:8.

Vigilantly

VIG'ILANTLY, adverb [supra.] Watchfully; with attention to danger and the means of safety; circumspectly.

Vignet

VIGNET', noun An ornament placed at the beginning of a book, preface or dedication; a head piece. Those vignets are of various forms; often they are wreaths of flowers or sprigs.

Vignette

VIGNETTE,

VIG'OR, noun [Latin from vigeo, to be brisk, to grow, to be strong; allied to vivo, vixi, to live.]

1. Active strength or force of body in animals; physical force.

The vigor of this arm was never vain.

2. Strength of mind; intellectual force; energy. We say, a man possesses vigor of mind or intellect.

3. Strength or force in vegetable motion; as, a plant grows with vigor.

4. Strength; energy; efficacy.

In the fruitful earth his beams, unactive else, their vigor find.

VIG'OR, verb transitive To invigorate. [not in use.]

Vigor

VIG'OR, n. [L. from vigeo, to be brisk, to grow, to be strong; allied to vivo, vixi, to live.] 1. Active strength or force of body in animals; physical force.The vigor of this arm was never vain.2. Strength of mind; intellectual force; energy. We say, a man possesses vigor of mind or intellect.3. Strength or force in vegetable motion; as, a plant grows with vigor.4. Strength; energy; efficacy.In the fruitful earth his beams, unactive else, their vigor find. VIG'OR, v.t. To invigorate. [not in use.]

Vigorous

VIG'OROUS, adjective

1. Full of physical strength or active force; strong; lusty; as a vigorous youth; a vigorous body.

2. Powerful; strong; made by strength, either of body or mind; as a vigorous attack; vigorous exertions. The enemy expects a vigorous campaign.

The beginnings of confederacies have been vigorous and successful.

Vigorously

VIG'OROUSLY, adverb With great physical force or strength; forcibly; with active exertions; as, to prosecute an enterprise vigorously

Vigorousness

VIG'OROUSNESS, noun The quality of being vigorous or possessed of active strength.

[Vigor and all its derivatives imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.]

Vild

VILD,

VILE, adjective [Latin vilis. Gr.]

1. Base; mean; worthless; despicable.

The inhabitants account gold a vile thing.

A man in vile raiment. James 2:1.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed as vile in your sight? Job 18:1.

2. Morally base or impure; sinful; depraved by sin; wicked; hateful in the sight of God and of good men. The sons of Eli made themselves vile. 1 Samuel 3:1.

Behold I am vile; what shall I answer? Job 40:4.

VI'LED, adjective Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory. [Not in use.]

Vile

VILE, a. [L. vilis. Gr.] 1. Base; mean; worthless; despicable.The inhabitants account gold a vile thing.A man in vile raiment. James 2.Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed as vile in your sight? Job. 18.2. Morally base or impure; sinful; depraved by sin; wicked; hateful in the sight of God and of good men. The sons of Eli made themselves vile. 1Sam. 3.Behold I am vile; what shall I answer? Job 40.

Viled

VI'LED, adjective Vile. [Not in use.]

Vilely

VI'LELY, adverb

1. Basely; meanly; shamefully; as Hector vilely dragged about the walls of Troy.

2. In a cowardly manner. 2 Samuel 1:21.

The Volscians vilely yielded the town.

Vileness

VI'LENESS, noun

1. Baseness; meanness; despicableness.

His vileness us shall never awe.

2. Moral baseness or depravity; degradation by sin; extreme wickedness; as the vileness of mankind.

Vilified

VIL'IFIED, participle passive [from vilify.] Defamed; traduced; debased.

Vilifier

VIL'IFIER, noun One who defames or traduces.

Vilify

VIL'IFY, verb transitive [from vile.]

1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade.

Their Maker's image forsook them, when themselves they vilified to serve ungovern'd appetite.

2. To defame; to traduce; to attempt to degrade by slander.

Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind.

[This is the most usual sense of the verb.]

Vilifying

VIL'IFYING, participle present tense Debasing; defaming.

Vilipend

VIL'IPEND, verb transitive [Latin vilipendo.] To despise. [Not in use.]

Vilipendency

VILIPEND'ENCY, noun Disesteem; alight. [Not in use.]

Vility

VIL'ITY, noun Vileness; baseness. [Not in use.]

Vill

VILL, noun [Latin villa.] A village; a small collection of houses.

The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I mentions entire-vills, demi-vills, and hamlets.

Villa

VIL'LA, noun [Latin villa ]

A country seat or a farm, furnished with a mansion and convenient out-houses.

Village

VIL'LAGE, noun A small assemblage of houses, less than a town or city, and inhabited chiefly by farmers and other laboring people. In England, it is said that a village is distinguished from a town by the want of a market.

In the United States, no such distinction exists, and any small assemblage of houses in the country is called a village

Villager

VIL'LAGER, noun An inhabitant of a village.

Villagery

VIL'LAGERY, noun a district of villages.

Villain

VIL'LAIN,

VIL'LAINOUS, adjective [from villain ]

1. Base; very vile.

2. Wicked; extremely depraved; as a villanous person or wretch.

3. Proceeding from extreme depravity; as a villanous action.

4. Sorry; vile; mischievous; in a familiar sense; as a villanous trick of the eye.

Villanous judgment, in old law, a judgment that casts reproach on the guilty person.

Villainous

VIL'LAINOUS, a. [from villain.] 1. Base; very vile.2. Wicked; extremely depraved; as a villanous person or wretch.3. Proceeding from extreme depravity; as a villanous action.4. Sorry; vile; mischievous; in a familiar sense; as a villanous trick of the eye.Villanous judgment, in old law, a judgment that casts reproach on the guilty person.

Villainy

VIL'LAINY, noun

1. Extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as the villany of the thief or the robber; the villany of the seducer.

The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany.

2. A crime; an action of deep depravity. In this sense, the word has a plural.

Such villanies roused Horace into wrath.

Villakin

VIL'LAKIN, noun A little village; a word used by Gay.

Villan

VIL'LAN, noun

1. In feudal law, a villain or villein is one who holds lands by a base or servile tenure, or in villenage. Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that is, annexed to the manor, adscriptitii glebae; or villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of their lord, and transferable from one to another.

2. A vile wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes. We call by the name of villain, the thief, the robber, the burglarian, the murderer, the incendiary, the ravisher, the seducer, the cheat, the swindler. etc.

Calm thinking villains, whom no faith could fix.

Villanage

VIL'LANAGE, noun

1. The state of a villain; base servitude.

2. A base tenure of lands; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord; usually written villenage.

3. Baseness; infamy. [See Villany.]

Villanize

VIL'LANIZE, verb transitive to debase; to degrade; to defame; to revile.

Were virtue by descent, a noble name could never villanize his father's fame.

Villanized

VIL'LANIZED, participle passive Defamed; debased. [Little used.

Villanizing

VIL'LANIZING, participle present tense Defaming; debasing. [Little used.]

Villanous

VIL'LANOUS,

VIL'LANOUSLY, adverb Basely; with extreme wickedness or depravity.

Villanousness

VIL'LANOUSNESS, noun Baseness; extreme depravity.

Villany

VIL'LANY,

VILLAT'IC, adjective [Latin villaticus.] Pertaining to a village.

Tame villatic fowl.

Villatic

VILLAT'IC, a. [L. villaticus.] Pertaining to a village. Tame villatic fowl.

Villenage

VIL'LENAGE, noun [from villain.] a tenure of lands and tenements by base services.

Villous

VIL'LOUS, adjective [Latin villosus, from villus, hair, Eng. wool.]

1. Abounding with fine hairs or wooly substance; nappy shaggy; rough; as a villous coat.

The villous coat of the stomach and intentines is the inner mucous membrane, so called from the innumerable villi or fine fibrils with which its internal surface is covered.

2. In botany, pubescent; covered with soft hairs.

Viminal

VIM'INAL, adjective [Latin viminalis.] Pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

Vimineous

VIMIN'EOUS, adjective [Latin vimineus, from vimen, a twig. Made of twigs or shoots.

In the hive's vimineous dome.

Vinaceous

VINA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin vinacceus.] Belonging to wine or grapes.

Vincible

VIN'CIBLE, adjective [from Latin vinco, to conquer. See Victor.

Conquerable; that may be overcome or subdued.

He not vincible in spirit -

Vincibleness

VIN'CIBLENESS, noun the capacity of being conquered; conquerableness.

Vincture

VINC'TURE, noun [Latin vinctura.] a binding. [Not in use.]

Vindemial

VINDE'MIAL, adjective [Latin vindemialis, from vindemia, vintage; vinea and demo.] Belonging to a vintage or grape harvest.

Vindemiate

VINDE'MIATE, verb intransitive [supra.] to gather the vintage.

Vindemiation

VINDEMIA'TION, noun The operation of gathering grapes.

Vindicability

VINDICABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being vindicable, or capable of support or justification.

Vindicable

VIN'DICABLE, adjective [infra.] That may be vindicated, justified or supported.

Vindicate

VIN'DICATE, verb transitive [Latin vindico.]

1. To defend; to justify; to support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure or objections.

When the respondent denies any proposition, the opponent must vindicate it.

Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; but vindicate the ways of God to man.

2. To assert; to defend with success; to maintain; to prove to be just or valid; as, to vindicate a claim or title.

3. To defend with arms, or otherwise; as, to vindicate our rights.

4. to avenge; to punish; as a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.

God is more powerful to exact subjection and to vindicate rebellion.

[This latter use is entirely obsolete.]

Vindicated

VIN'DICATED, participle passive Defended; supported; maintained; proved to be just or true.

Vindicating

VIN'DICATING, participle present tense Defending; supporting against denial, censure, charge or impeachment; proving to be true or just; defending by force.

Vindication

VINDICA'TION, noun [Latin vindico.]

1. The defense of any thing, or a justification against denial or censure, or against objections or accusations; as the vindication of opinions or of a creed; the vindication of the Scriptures against the objections and cavils of infidels.

2. The act of supporting by proof or legal process; the proving of any thing to be just; as the vindication of a title, claim or right.

3. Defense by force or otherwise; as the vindication of the rights of man; the vindication of our liberties or the rights of conscience.

Vindicative

VIN'DICATIVE, adjective

1. Tending to vindicate.

2. Revengeful. [This is now generally vindictive.]

Vindicator

VIN'DICATOR, noun One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains; one who defends.

Vindicatory

VIN'DICATORY, adjective

1. Punitory; inflicting punishment; avenging.

The afflictions of Job were not vindicatory punishments.

2. Tending to vindicate; justificatory.

Vindictive

VINDIC'TIVE, adjective Revengeful; given to revenge.

I am vindictive enough to repel force by force.

Vindictively

VINDIC'TIVELY, adverb By way of revenge; revengefully.

Vindictiveness

VINDIC'TIVENESS, noun

1. A revengeful temper.

2. Revengefulness.

Vine

VINE, noun [Latin vinca. See Wine.]

1. A plant that produces grapes, of the genus Vitis, and of a great number of varieties.

2. The long slender stem of any plant, that trails on the ground, or climbs and supports itself by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers. Thus we speak of the hop vine the bean vine the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other encurbitaceous plants.

Vine-Dresser

VI'NE-DRESSER, noun [vine and dresser.] One who dresses, trims, prunes and cultivates vines.

Vine-Fretter

VI'NE-FRETTER, noun [vine and fret.] A small insect that injures vines, the aphis or puceron.

Vine-Grub

VI'NE-GRUB, noun [vine and grub.] A little insect that infests vines; the vine-fretter or puceron.

Vined

VI'NED, adjective Having leaves like those of the vine.

Vinegar

VIN'EGAR, noun

1. Vegetable acid; an acid liquor obtained from wine, cider, beer or other liquors, by the second or acetous fermentation. vinegar may differ indefinitely in the degree of its acidity. When highly concentrated, it is called radical vinegar

2. Any thing really or metaphorically sour. [Not in use.]

Vinegar of lead, a liquor formed by digesting ceruse or litharge with a sufficient quantity of vinegar to dissolve it.

Vinery

VI'NERY, noun In gardening, an erection for supporting vines and exposing them to artificial heat, consisting of a wall with stoves and flues.

Vineyard

VINEYARD,

VIN'NEWED, adjective Moldy; musty. [Not in use.]

Vinnewed

VIN'NEWED, a. Moldy; musty. [Not in use.]

Vinnewedness

VIN'NEWEDNESS, noun Mustiness; moldiness. [Not in use.]

Vinny

VIN'NY, adjective [supra.] Moldy; musty. [Not in use.]

Vinolency

VIN'OLENCY, noun [Latin vinolentia, from vinum, wine.] Drunkenness. [Not used.]

Vinolent

VIN'OLENT, adjective Given to wine. [Not used.]

Vinosity

VINOS'ITY, noun State or quality of being vinous.

Vinous

VI'NOUS, adjective [Latin vinum, wine.]

Having the qualities of wine; pertaining to wine; as a vinous taste; a vinous flavor; vinous fermentation.

Vintage

VINT'AGE, noun [Latin vindemia.]

1. The produce of the vine for the season. The vintage is abundant.

2. The time of gathering the crop of grapes.

3. The wine produced by the crop of grapes in one season.

Vintager

VINT'AGER, noun One that gathers the vintage.

Vintner

VINT'NER, noun One who deals in wine; a wine-seller.

Vintry

VINT'RY, noun A place where wine is sold.

Viny

VI'NY, adjective

1. Belonging to vines; producing grapes.

2. Abounding in vines.

Vinyard

VIN'YARD, noun

A plantation of vines producing grapes; properly, an inclosure or yard for grape-vines.

Viol

VI'OL, noun A stringed musical instrument, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having formerly six strings, to be struck with a bow. Viols are of different kinds. The largest of all is the base viol whose tones are deep, soft and agreeable. The violin now takes the place of the old viol

Me softer airs befit, and softer strings of lute, or viol still more apt for mournful things.

Violable

VI'OLABLE, adjective [Latin violabilis. See Violate.]

That may be violated, broken or injured.

Violaceous

VIOLA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin viola, a violet.] Resembling violets.

Violate

VI'OLATE, verb transitive [Latin violo.]

1. To injure; to hurt; to interrupt; to disturb; as, to violate sleep.

Kindness for man, and pity for his fate, may mix with bliss and yet not violate

2. To break; to infringe; to transgress; as, to violate the laws of the state, or the rules of good breeding; to violate the divine commands; to violate one's vows or promises. Promises and commands may be violated negatively, by non-observance.

3. To injure; to do violence to.

Forbid to violate the sacred fruit.

4. To treat with irreverence; to profane; as, to violate the sanctity of a holy place.

5. To ravish; to compress by force.

Violated

VI'OLATED, participle passive Injured; broken; transgressed; ravished.

Violating

VI'OLATING, participle present tense Injuring; infringing; ravishing.

Violation

VIOLA'TION, noun

1. The act of violating or injuring; interruption, as of sleep or peace.

2. Infringement; transgression; non-observance; as the violation of law or positive command; a violation of covenants, engagements and promises; a violation of vows.

3. Act of irreverence; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as the violation of a church.

4. Ravishment; rape.

Violator

VI'OLATOR, noun

1. One who violates, injures, interrupts or disturbs; as a violator of repose.

2. One who infringes or transgresses; as a violator of law.

3. One who profanes or treats with irreverence; as a violator of sacred things.

4. A ravisher.

Violence

VI'OLENCE, noun [Latin violentia.]

1. Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.

2. Moral force; vehemence. The critic attacked the work with violence

3. Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds.

The earth was filled with violence Genesis 6:11.

4. Eagerness; vehemence.

You ask with violence

5. Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.

6. Injury; hurt.

Do violence to no man. Luke 3:14.

7. Ravishment; rape.

To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder.

But, as it seems, did violence on herself.

To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure. He does violence to his own opinions.

VI'OLENCE, verb transitive To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence [Little used.]

Violent

VI'OLENT, adjective [Latin violentus.

1. Forcible; moving or acting with physical strength; urged or driven with force; as a violent wind; a violent stream; a violent assault or blow; a violent conflict.

2. Vehement; outrageous; as a violent attack on the minister.

3. Produced or continued by force; not spontaneous or natural.

No violent state can be perpetual.

4. Produced by violence; not natural; as a violent death.

5. Acting by violence; assailant; not authorized.

Some violent hands were laid on Humphry's life.

6. Fierce; vehement; as a violent philippic; a violent remonstrance.

We might be reckoned fierce and violent

7. Severe; extreme; as violent pains.

8. Extorted; not voluntary.

Vows made in pain, are violent and void.

Violent presumption, in law, is presumption that arises from circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. Such circumstances being proved, the mind infers with confidence that the fact has taken place, and this confidence is a violent presumption, which amounts to proof.

VI'OLENT, noun An assailant. [Not in use.]

VI'OLENT, verb transitive To urge with violence. [Not used.]

Violently

VI'OLENTLY, adverb With force; forcibly; vehemently; as, the wind blows violently

Forfeitures must not be exacted violently

Violet

VI'OLET, noun [Latin viola.]

A plant and flower of the genus Viola, of many species.

Violin

VI'OLIN, noun

A musical instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle; one of the most perfect and most powerful instruments that has been invented.

Violinist

VI'OLINIST, noun A person skilled in playing on a violin.

Violist

VI'OLIST, noun A player on the viol.

Violoncello

VIOLONCEL'LO, noun A stringed instrument of music; a base viol of four strings, or a little base violin with long large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the base violin.

Violono

VIOLO'NO, noun A double base, a deep toned instrument.

Viper

VI'PER, noun [Latin vipera.]

1. A serpent, a species of coluber, whose bite is remarkably venomous.

A viper came out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. Acts 28:3.

2. A person or thing mischievous or malignant.

Viperine

VI'PERINE, adjective [Latin viperinus.] Pertaining to a viper or to vipers.

Viperous

VI'PEROUS, adjective [Latin viperus.] Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as a viperous tongue.

VIPER'S BUGLOSS, noun A plant of the genus Echium.

VIPER'S GRASS, noun A plant of the genus Scorzonera.

Virago

VIRA'GO, noun [Latin from vir, a man.]

1. A woman of the extraordinary stature, strength and courage; a female who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.

To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries.

2. In common language, a bold, impudent, turbulent woman; a termagant.

Vire

VIRE, noun An arrow. obsolete

Virelay

VI'RELAY noun

A song or little poem among the Provencal poets in France; a roundelay. It sometimes consisted of two rhymes only, and short verses, with stops.

To which a lady sung a virelay