Virent – Volitation

Virent

VI'RENT, adjective [Latin virens, from vireo, to flourish or be green.]

Green; verdant; fresh.

Virgate

VIR'GATE, adjective nearly vurgate. [Latin virga, a rod.]

In botany, having the shape of a rod or wand; as a virgate stem.

VIR'GATE, noun A yardland.

Virge

VIRGE, [See Verge.]

Virgilian

VIRGIL'IAN, adjective

1. Pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet.

2. Resembling the style of Virgil.

Virgin

VIR'GIN, noun nearly vur'gin. [Latin virgo.]

1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man.

2. A woman not a mother. [Unusual.]

3. The sign Virgo. [See Virgo.]

VIR'GIN, adjective

1. Pure; untouched; as virgin gold.

2. Fresh; new; unused; as virgin soil.

VIR'GIN, verb intransitive To play the virgin; a cant word.

Virginal

VIR'GINAL, adjective Pertaining to a virgin; maidenly; as virginal chastity.

VIR'GINAL, noun A keyed instrument of one string, jack and quill to each note, like a spinet, but in shape resembling the forte piano; out of use.

VIR'GINAL, verb intransitive To pat; to strike as on a virginal [A cant word.]

Virginity

VIRGIN'ITY, noun [Latin virginitas.] Maidenhood; the state of having had no carnal knowledge of man.

VIR'GIN'S BOWER, noun A plant of the genus Clematis.

Virgo

VIR'GO, noun [Latin] A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters in August; a constellation, containing according to the British catalogue, one hundred and ten stars.

Viridity

VIRID'ITY, noun [Latin virditas, from vireo, to be green.]

Greenness; verdure; the color of fresh vegetables.

Virile

VI'RILE, adjective [Latin virilis, from vir, a man, vireo.]

1. Pertaining to a man, in the eminent sense of the word, [not to man, in the sense of the human race; ] belonging to the male sex; as virile age.

2. Masculine; not puerile or feminine; as virile strength or vigor.

Virility

VIRIL'ITY, noun [Latin virilitas.]

1. Manhood; the state of the male sex, which has arrived to the maturity and strength of a man, and to the power of procreation.

2. The power of procreation.

3. Character of man. [Unusual.]

Virtu

VIR'TU, noun A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.

Virtual

VIR'TUAL, adjective [See Virtue.]

1. Potential; having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the material or sensible part.

Every kind that lives, fomented by his virtual power, and warm'd.

Neither an actual nor virtual intention of the mind, but only that which may be gathered from the outward acts.

2. Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.

Virtuality

VIRTUAL'ITY, noun Efficacy.

Virtually

VIR'TUALLY, adverb In efficacy or effect only; by means of some virtue or influence, or the instrumentality of something else. Thus the sun is virtually on earth by its light and heat. The citizens of an elective government are virtually present in the legislature by their representatives. A man may virtually agree to a proposition by silence or withholding objections.

Virtuate

VIR'TUATE, verb transitive To make efficacious. [Not in use.]

Virtue

VIRTUE, noun vur'tu. [Latin virtus, from vireo, or its root. See Worth.] The radical sense is strength, from straining, stretching, extending. This is the primary sense of Latin vir, a man.]

1. Strength; that substance or quality of physical bodies, by which they act and produce effects on other bodies. In this literal and proper sense, we speak of the virtue or virtues of plants in medicine, and the virtues of drugs. In decoctions, the virtues of plants are extracted. By long standing in the open air, the virtues are lost.

2. Bravery valor. This was the predominant signification of virtus among the Romans.

Trust to thy single virtue

[This sense is nearly or quite obsolete.]

3. Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law. In this sense, virtue may be, and in many instances must be, distinguished from religion. The practice of moral duties merely from motives of convenience, or from compulsion, or from regard to reputation, is virtue as distinct from religion. The practice of moral duties from sincere love to God and his laws, is virtue and religion. In this sense it is true,

That virtue only makes our bliss below.

VIRTUE is nothing but voluntary obedience to truth.

4. A particular moral excellence; as the virtue of temperance, of chastity, of charity.

Remember all his virtues.

5. Acting power; something efficacious.

Jesus, knowing that virtue had gone out of him, turned - Mark 3:1.

6. Secret agency; efficacy without visible or material action.

She moves the body which she doth possess,

Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch.

7. Excellence; or that which constitutes value and merit.

- Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable, the sticking in of sentences.

8. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

9. Efficacy; power.

He used to travel through Greece by virtue of this fable, which procured him reception in all the towns.

10. Legal efficacy or power; authority. A man administers the laws by virtue of a commission.

In virtue in consequence; by the efficacy or authority.

This they shall attain, partly in virtue of the promise of God, and partly in virtue of piety.

Virtueless

VIR'TUELESS, adjective

1. Destitute of virtue.

2. Destitute of efficacy or operating qualities.

Virtueless she wish'd all herbs and charms.

Virtuoso

VIRTUO'SO, noun A man skilled in the fine arts, particularly in music; or a man skilled in antiquities, curiosities and the like.

Virtuoso the Italians call a man who loves the nobel arts, and is a critic in them.

Virtuosoship

VIRTUO'SOSHIP, noun The pursuits of a virtuoso.

Virtuous

VIR'TUOUS, adjective

1. Morally good; acting in conformity to the moral law; practicing the moral duties, and abstaining from vice; as a virtuous man.

2. Being in conformity to the moral or divine law; as a virtuous action; a virtuous life.

The mere performance of virtuous actions does not denominate an agent virtuous

3. Chaste; applied to women.

4. Efficacious by inherent qualities; as virtuous herbs; virtuous drugs. [Not in use.]

5. Having great or powerful properties; as virtuous steel; a virtuous staff; a virtuous ring. [Not in use.]

6. Having medicinal qualities. [Not used.]

Virtuously

VIR'TUOUSLY, adverb In a virtuous manner; in conformity with the moral law or with duty; as a life virtuously spent.

A child virtuously educated.

Virtuousness

VIR'TUOUSNESS, noun The state or character of being virtuous.

Virulence

VIR'ULENCE, 'ULENCY, noun [from virulent.]

1. That renders it extremely active in doing injury; acrimony; malignancy; as the virulence of poison.

2. Acrimony of temper; extreme bitterness or malignity; as the virulence of enmity or malice; the virulence of satire; to attack a man with virulence

Virulent

VIR'ULENT, adjective [Latin virulentus, from virus, poison, that is, strength, from the same root as vir, vireo. See Venom.]

1. Extremely active in doing injury; very poisonous or venomous. No poison is more virulent than that of some species of serpents.

2. Very bitter in enmity; malignant; as a virulent invective.

Virulently

VIR'ULENTLY, adverb With malignant activity; with bitter spite or severity.

Virus

VI'RUS, noun [Latin See Virulent.] Foul or contagious matter of an ulcer, postule, etc.; poison.

Vis-A-Vis

VIS-A-VIS, n. A carriage in which two persons sit face to face.

Visage

VIS'AGE, noun s as z. [Latin visus, video.]

The face; the countenance or look of a person, or of other animal; chiefly applied to human beings; as a wolfish visage

Love and beauty still that visage grace.

His visage was so marred, more than any man. Isaiah 52:14.

Visaged

VIS'AGED, adjective Having a visage or countenance.

Viscera

VIS'CERA, noun [Latin] The bowels or intestines; the contents of the abdomen and thorax.

In its most general sense, the organs contained in any cavity of the body, particularly in the three venters, the head, thorax and abdomen.

Visceral

VIS'CERAL, adjective [Latin viscera.]

1. Pertaining to the viscera or intestines.

2. Feeling; having sensibility. [Unusual.]

Viscerate

VIS'CERATE, verb transitive [supra.] To exenterate; to embowel; to deprive of the entrails or viscera. [Eviscerate is generally used.]

Viscid

VIS'CID, adjective [Latin viscidus; viscus, birdlime.] Glutinous; sticky; tenacious; not readily separating; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc. are more or less viscid

Viscidity

VISCID'ITY, noun

1. Glutinousness; tenacity; stickiness.

2. Glutinous concretion.

Viscosity

VISCOS'ITY,

VISCOUNT, noun vi'count. [Latin vice-comes.]

1. An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count or earl; the sheriff of the country.

2. A degree or title of nobility next in rank to an earl.

Viscount

VISCOUNT, n. vi'count. [L. vice-comes.] 1. An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count or earl; the sheriff of the country.2. A degree or title of nobility next in rank to an earl.

Viscountess

VISCOUNTESS, noun vi'countess. The lady of a viscount; a peeress of the fourth order.

Viscountship

VISCOUNTSHIP, noun vi'countship.

Viscounty

VISCOUNTY, noun vi'county. The quality and office of a viscount.

Viscous

VIS'COUS, adjective [Latin viscus, birdlime.]

Glutinous; clammy; sticky; adhesive; tenacious; as a viscous juice.

Viscousness

VIS'COUSNESS, noun Glutinousness; tenacity; viscidity; that quality of soft substances which makes them adhere so as not to be easily parted.

Vise

VISE, noun An engine or instrument for griping and holding things, closed by a screw; used by artificers.

Vishnu

VISH'NU, noun In the Hindoo mythology, the name of one of the chief deities of the trimurti or triad. He is the second person of this unity, and a personification of the preserving powers.

Visibility

VISIBIL'ITY, noun s as z.

1. The state or quality of being perceivable to the eye; as the visibility of minute particles, or of distant objects.

2. The state of being discoverable or apparent; conspicuousness; as the perpetual visibility of the church.

Visible

VIS'IBLE, adjective s as z. [Latin visibilis.]

1. Perceivable by the eye; that can be seen; as a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper; air agitated by heat becomes visible; as the air near a heated stove, or over a dry sandy plain, appears like pellucid waves.

Virtue made visible in outward grace.

2. Discovered to the eye; as visible spirits.

3. Apparent; open; conspicuous. Factions at court became more visible

Visible church, in theology, the apparent church of Christ; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the real or invisible church, consisting of sanctified persons.

Visible horizon, the line that bounds the sight.

Visibleness

VIS'IBLENESS, noun State or quality of being visible; visibility.

Visibly

VIS'IBLY, adverb In a manner perceptible to the eye. The day is visibly governed by the sun; the tides are visibly governed by the moon.

Vision

VI'SION, noun s as z. [Latin visio, from video, visus.]

1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

Faith here is turned into vision there.

2. The faculty of seeing; sight. vision is far more perfect and acute in some animals than in man.

3. Something imagined to be seen, though not real; a phantom; a specter.

No dreams, but visions strange.

4. In Scripture, a revelation from God; an appearance or exhibition of something supernaturally presented to the minds of the prophets, by which they were informed of future events. Such were the visions of Isaiah, of Amos, of Ezekiel, etc.

5. Something imaginary; the production of fancy.

6. Any thing which is the object of sight.

Visional

VI'SIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a vision.

Visionary

VI'SIONARY, adjective

1. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination.

Or lull to rest the visionary maid.

2. Imaginary; existing in imagination only; not real; having no solid foundation; as a visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project.

VI'SIONARY, noun

1. One whose imagination is disturbed.

2. One who forms impracticable schemes; one who is confident of success in a project which others perceive to be idle and fanciful. [Visionist, in a like sense, is not used.]

Visit

VIS'IT, verb transitive [Latin visito, viso, to go to see. We see the sense is to go, to move to.]

1. To go or come to see; to attend. The physician visits his patient and prescribes. One friend visits another from respect or affection. Paul and Barnabas visited the churches they had planted, to know their state and confirm their faith. Men visit England, France or Italy in their travels.

2. To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits those persons or works which are under his care.

3. To salute with a present.

Samson visited his wife with a kid. Judges 15:1.

4. To go to and to use; as, to visit the springs.

To visit in mercy, in Scriptural language, to be propitious; to grant requests; to deliver from trouble; to support and comfort.

It is thus God visits his people. Genesis 21:1. Zechariah 10:3.

Luke 12:1.

To visit with the rod, to punish. Psalms 89:32.

To visit in wrath, or visit iniquity or sings upon, to chastise; to bring judgments on; to afflict. Exodus 20:1.

To visit the fatherless and widow, or the sick and imprisoned, to show them regard and pity, and relieve their wants. Matthew 25:36. James 1:27.

VIS'IT, verb intransitive To keep up the interchange of civilities and salutations; to practice going to see others. We ought not to visit for pleasure or ceremony on the sabbath.

VIS'IT, noun

1. The act of going to see another, or of calling at his house; a waiting on; as a visit of civility or respect; a visit of ceremony; a short visit; a long visit; a pleasant visit

2. The act of going to see; as a visit to Saratoga or to Niagara.

3. A going to see or attending on; as the visit of a physician.

4. The act of going to view or inspect; as the visit of a trustee or inspector.

Visitable

VIS'ITABLE, adjective Liable or subject to be visited. all hospitals built since the reformation are visitable by the king or lord chancellor.

Visitant

VIS'ITANT, noun One that goes or comes to see another; one who is a guest in the house of a friend.

When the visitant comes again he is no more a stranger.

Visitation

VISITA'TION, noun [Latin visito.]

1. The act of visiting.

Nothing but peace and gentle visitation

2. Object of visit.

My early visitation and my last. [Unusual.]

3. In law, the act of a superior or superintending officer, who visits a corporation, college, church or other house, to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed. In England, the visitation of the diocese belongs to the bishop; parochial visitation belongs peculiarly to the archdeacons.

4. In Scripture, and in a religious sense, the sending of afflictions and distresses on men to punish them for their sins, or to prove them. Hence afflictions, calamities and judgments are called visitations.

What will ye do in the day of visitation? Isaiah 10:3.

5. Communication of divine love; exhibition of divine goodness and mercy.

Visited

VIS'ITED, participle passive Waited on; attended; inspected; subjected to sufferings; favored with relief or mercy.

Visiting

VIS'ITING, participle present tense

1. Going or coming to see; attending on, as a physician; inspecting officially; afflicting; showing mercy to.

2. adjective Authorized to visit and inspect; as a visiting committee.

VIS'ITING, noun The act of going to see or of attending; visitation.

Visitor

VIS'ITOR, noun

1. One who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.

2. A superior or person authorized to visit a corporation or any institution, for the purpose of seeing that the laws and regulations are observed, or that the duties and conditions prescribed by the founder or by law, are duly performed and executed.

The king is the visitor of all lay corporations.

Visitorial

VISITO'RIAL, adjective [from visitor; written improperly visitatorial.]

Belonging to a judicial visitor or superintendent.

An archdeacon has visitorial power in parishes.

Visive

VI'SIVE, adjective [from Latin visus.] Pertaining to the power of seeing; formed in the act of seeing. [Not in use.]

VISNE, noun veen. [Latin vicinia.] Neighborhood. [See Venue.]

Visne

VISNE, noun [Latin vicinia.] In law, a neighborhood or near place; the place where an action is laid. In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue.

The twelve men who are to try the cause, must be of the same venue where the demand is made.

VEN'UE, noun A thrust. [See Veney.]

Visnomy

VIS'NOMY, noun [a barbarous contraction of physiognomy.] Face; countenance. [Not in use.]

Visor

VI'SOR, noun s as z. [Latin visus, video; written also visard, visar, vizard.]

1. A head piece or mask used to disfigure and disguise.

My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor

Swarms of knaves the visor quite disgrace.

2. A perforated part of a helmet.

Visored

VI'SORED, adjective Wearing a visor; masked; disguised.

Vista

VIS'TA, noun [Latin visus, video.] A view or prospect through an avenue, as between rows of trees; hence, the trees or other things that form the avenue.

The finish'd garden to the view its vistas opens and its alleys green.

Visual

VIS'UAL, adjective s as z. [Latin visus.]

Pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as the visual nerve.

The air, no where so clear, sharpen'd his visual ray.

Visual point, in perspective, a point in the horizontal line, in which all the ocular rays unite.

Visual rays, lines of light, imagined to come from the object to the eye.

Vital

VI'TAL, adjective [Latin vitalis, from vita, life. This must be a contraction of victa, for vivo forms vixi, victus; Gr. contracted.]

1. Pertaining to life, either animal or vegetable; as vital energies; vital powers.

2. Contributing to life; necessary to life; as vital air; vital blood.

3. Containing life.

Spirits that live throughout, vital in every part - and vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth.

4. Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.

The dart flew on, and pierc'd a vital part.

5. Very necessary; highly important; essential. Religion is a business of vital concern. Peace is of vital importance to our country.

6. So disposed as to live.

Pythagoras and Hippocrates affirm the birth of the seventh month to be vital [Little used.]

Vital air, pure air or oxygen gas, which is essential to animal life.

Vitality

VITAL'ITY, noun [from vital.]

1. Power of subsisting in life; the principle of animation, or of life; as the vitality of vegetable seeds or of eggs.

2. The act of living; animation.

Vitalize

VI'TALIZE, verb transitive To give life.

Vitally

VI'TALLY, adverb

1. In such a manner as to give life.

The organic structure of human bodies, by which they are fitted to live and move, and to be vitally informed by the soul, is the workmanship of a most wise and beneficent maker.

2. Essentially; as vitally important.

Vitals

VI'TALS, noun plural

1. Parts of animal bodies essential to life, such as the viscera.

2. The part essential to life, or to a sound state. Corruption of manners preys upon the vitals of a state.

Vitellary

VIT'ELLARY, noun [Latin vitellus, the yolk of an egg.]

The place where the yolk of an egg swims in the white. [Little used.]

Vitiate

VI'TIATE, verb transitive [Latin vitio. See vice and Viciate.]

1. To injure the substance or qualities of a thing, so as to impair or spoil its use and value. Thus we say, luxury vitiates the humors of the body; evil examples vitiate the morals of youth; language is vitiated by foreign idioms.

This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers.

2. To render defective; to destroy; as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction. Any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict. Fraud vitiates a contract.

Vitiated

VI'TIATED, participle passive Depraved; rendered impure; rendered defective and void.

Vitiating

VI'TIATING, participle present tense Depraving; rendering of no validity.

Vitiation

VITIA'TION, noun

1. The act of vitiating; depravation; corruption; as the vitiation of the blood.

2. A rendering invalid; as the vitiation of a contract.

Vitilitigate

VITILIT'IGATE, verb intransitive [Latin vitiosus and litigo.] To contend in law litigiously or cavilously. [Not in use.]

Vitilitigation

VITILITIGA'TION, noun Cavilous litigation. [Not in use.]

Vitious, vitiously, vitiousness. [See vicious and its derivatives.]

Vitreo-Electric

VITREO-ELEC'TRIC, adjective Containing or exhibiting positive electricity, or that which is excited by rubbing glass.

Vitreous

VIT'REOUS, adjective [Latin vitreus, from vitrum, glass or woad.]

1. Pertaining to glass.

2. Consisting of glass; as a vitreous substance.

3. Resembling glass; as the vitreous humor of the eye, so called from its resembling melted glass. [See Humor.]

Vitreousness

VIT'REOUSNESS, noun The quality or state of being vitreous; resemblance of glass.

Vitrescence

VITRES'CENCE, noun [from Latin vitrum, glass.] Glassiness; or the quality of being capable of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass.

Vitrescent

VITRES'CENT, adjective Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

Vitrescible

VITRES'CIBLE, adjective That can be vitrified.

Vitrifaction

VITRIFAC'TION, noun [See vitrify.] The act, process or operation of converting into glass by heat; as the vitrifaction of sand, flint and pebbles with alkaline salts.

Vitrifiable

VIT'RIFIABLE, adjective [from vitrify.] Capable of being converted into glass by heat and fusion. Flint and alkaline salts are vitrifiable

Vitrificable

VIT'RIFICABLE, for vitrifiable. [Not used.]

Vitrificate

VIT'RIFICATE, for vitrify. [Not used.]

Vitrification

VITRIFICA'TION, for vitrifaction. [See Vitrifaction, which is generally used.]

Vitrified

VIT'RIFIED, participle passive Converted into glass.

Vitriform

VIT'RIFORM, adjective [Latin vitrum, glass, and form.]

Having the form or resemblance of glass.

Vitrify

VIT'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin vitrum, glass, and facio, to make.]

To convert into glass by fusion or the action of heat; as, to vitrify sand and alkaline salts.

VIT'RIFY, verb intransitive To become glass; to be converted into glass.

Chimists make vessels of animal substances calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire.

Vitriol

VIT'RIOL, noun [Latin vitrum, glass; perhaps from its color.]

1. In mineralogy, native vitriol is a substance of a grayish or yellowish white color, apple green, or sky blue, and when decomposed, covered with an ochery crust. It occurs in masses, disseminated, stalactical, or capillary. Externally, it is dull and rough; internally, it is more or less shining, with a vitreous silky structure. It is called by manufacturers copperas, a name derived from the flower or efflorescence of copper. This substance is seem only in cabinets.

2. In chimistry, a combination of the acid of sulphur with any metallic substance; but chiefly green vitriol or sulphate of iron; blue vitriol or sulphate of copper, and white vitriol or sulphate of zink.

All metals may be converted into vitriols, by dissolving them with acid spirits, and suffering them to stand and crystallize.

Vitriolate

VIT'RIOLATE, verb transitive To convert, as sulphur in any compound, into sulphuric acid, formerly called vitriolic acid. Thus the sulphuret of iron vitriolated, becomes sulphate of iron, or green vitriol.

Vitriolated

VIT'RIOLATED, participle passive Converted into sulphuric acid or vitriol.

Vitriolating

VIT'RIOLATING, participle present tense Turning into sulphuric acid or vitrol.

Vitriolation

VITRIOLA'TION, noun The act or process of converting into sulphuric acid or vitriol.

Vitriolic

VITRIOL'IC, adjective Pertaining to vitriol; having the qualities of vitriol, or obtained from vitriol.

Vitriolic acid, in modern chimistry is denominated sulphuric acid, the base of it being sulphur; sulphur completely saturated with oxygen.

Vitriolizable

VIT'RIOLIZABLE, adjective Capable of being converted into sulphuric acid.

Vitriolization

VITRIOLIZA'TION. [See Vitriolation.]

Vitriolize

VIT'RIOLIZE. [See Vitriolate.]

Vitriolized

VIT'RIOLIZED. [See Vitriolated.]

Vitriolizing

VIT'RIOLIZING, [See Vitriolating.]

Vituline

VIT'ULINE, adjective [Latin vitulinus.] Belonging to a calf, or to veal.

Vituperable

VITU'PERABLE, adjective [See Vituperate.]

Blameworthy; censurable. [Not used.]

Vituperate

VITU'PERATE, verb transitive [Latin vitupero.] To blame; to censure. [Little used.]

Vituperation

VITUPERA'TION, noun [Latin vituperatio.] Blame; censure. [Little used.]

Vituperative

VITU'PERATIVE, adjective Uttering or writing censure; containing censure.

Vivacious

VIVA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin vivax, from vivo, to live.]

1. Lively; active; sprightly in temper or conduct.

2. Long lived. [Not in use.]

3. Having vigorous powers of life; as vivacious plants.

Vivaciousness

VIVA'CIOUSNESS, noun

1. Activity; liveliness; sprightliness of temper or behavior; vivacity.

2. Power of living; also, long life. [Not in use.]

Vivacity

VIVAC'ITY, noun [Latin vivacitas.]

1. Liveliness; sprightliness of temper or behavior; as a lady of great vivacity

2. Air of life and activity; as vivacity of countenance.

3. Life; animation; spirits; as the vivacity of a discourse.

4. Power of living. [Not used.]

5. Longevity. [Not in use.]

Vivary

VI'VARY, noun [Latin vivarium, from vivo, to live.]

A warren; a place for keeping living animals, as a pond, a park, etc.

Viva voce, [Latin] by word of mouth; as, to vote viva voce.

Vive

VIVE, adjective [Latin vivus.] Lively; forcible. [Not in use.]

Vively

VI'VELY, adverb In a lively manner. [Not used.]

Vivency

VI'VENCY, noun [Latin vivens, from vivo.] Manner of supporting life or vegetation. [Not in use.]

Vives

VIVES, noun A disease of animals, particularly of horses, seated in the glads under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.

Vivianite

VIV'IANITE, noun A phosphate of iron, of various shades of blue and green.

Vivid

VIV'ID, adjective [Latin vividus, from vivo, to live.]

1. Lively; sprightly; active.

Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly vivid faculties to exert themselves in.

2. Lively; sprightly; forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; as a vivid imagination.

3. Bright; strong; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; as the vivid colors of the rainbow; the vivid green of flourishing vegetables.

Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine.

Vividly

VIV'IDLY, adverb

1. With life; with strength.

Sensitive objects affect a man much more vividly than those which affect only his mind.

2. With brightness; in bright colors.

3. In glowing colors; with animated exhibition to the mind. The orator vividly represented the miseries of his client.

Vividness

VIV'IDNESS, noun

1. Life; strength; sprightliness.

2. Strength of coloring; brightness.

Vivific

VIVIF'IC,

VIVIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin vivificus. See Vivify.] Giving life; reviving; enlivening.

Vivificate

VIV'IFICATE, verb transitive [Latin vivifico, vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]

1. to give life to; to animate. [See Vivify.]

2. In chimistry, to recover from such a change of form as seems to destroy the essential qualities; or to give to natural bodies new luster, force and figor.

Vivification

VIVIFICA'TION, noun

1. The act of giving life; revival.

2. Among chimists, the act of giving new luster, force and vigor; as the vivification of mercury.

Vivificative

VIV'IFICATIVE, adjective Able to animate or give life.

Vivified

VIV'IFIED, participle passive revived; endued with life.

Vivify

VIV'IFY, verb transitive [Latin vivfico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]

To endue with life; to animate; to make to be living.

Sitting on eggs doth vivify not nourish.

Vivifying

VIV'IFYING, participle present tense enduing with life; communicating life to.

Viviparous

VIVIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin vivus, alive, and pario, to bear.]

1. Producing young in a living state, as all mammifers; as distinguished from oviparous, producing eggs, as fowls. If fowls were viviparous it is difficult to how the female would fly during preganancy.

2. In botany, producing its offspring alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instread of falling, as they usually do; as a viviparous plant.

Vixen

VIX'EN, noun [vixen is a she fox, or a fox's cub.

A froward, turbulent, quarrelsome woman.

Vixenly

VIX'ENLY, adjective having the qualities of a vixen.

Viz

VIZ. a contraction of videlicet; to wit, that is, namely.

Vizard

VIZ'ARD, noun a mask. [See Visor.]

VIZ'ARD, verb transitive To mask.

Vizer

VI'ZER, noun The chief minister of the Turkish empire.

Vizier

VIZ'IER,

VO'CABLE, noun [Latin vocabulum. See Voice.]

A word; a term; a name.

Vocabulary

VOCAB'ULARY, noun [Latin vocabulum, a word.]

A list or collection of the words of a language, arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon. We often use vocabulary in a sense somewhat different from that of dictionary, restricting the signification to the list of words; as when we say, the vocabulary of Johnson is more full or extensive than that of Entick. We rarely use the word as synonymous with dictionary, but in the other countries the corresponding word is used and this may be so used in English.

Vocal

VO'CAL, adjective [Latin vocalis. See Voice.]

1. Having a voice.

To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, made vocal by my song.

2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; as vocal melody; vocal prayer; vocal praise.

Vocal music, music made by the voice, in distinction from instrumental music; hence, music or tunes set to words, to be performed by the human voice.

VO'CAL, noun Among the Romanists, a man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

Vocality

VOCAL'ITY, noun [Latin vocalitas.] Quality of being utterable by the voice; as the vocality of the letters.

Vocalize

VO'CALIZE, verb transitive to form into voice; to make vocal.

It is one thing to give impulse to breath alone, and another to vocalize that breath.

Vocalized

VO'CALIZED, participle passive Made vocal; formed into voice.

Vocalizing

VO'CALIZING, participle present tense Forming into voice or sound.

Vocally

VO'CALLY, adverb

1. With voice; with an audible sound.

2. In words; as, to express desires vocally

Vocation

VOCA'TION, noun [Latin vocatio, from voco, to call. See Voice.]

1. Among divines, a calling by the will of God; or the bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.

2. Summons; call; inducement.

What can be urged for them who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous!

3. Designation or destination to a particular state or profession.

None is to enter the ecclesiastic or monastie state, without a particular vocation

4. Employment; calling; occupation; trade; a word that includes professions as well as mechanical occupations. Let every divine, every physician, every lawyer, and every mechanic, be faithful and diligent in his vocation

Vocative

VOC'ATIVE, adjective [Latin vocativus.] Relating to calling; as the vocative case in grammar.

VOC'ATIVE, noun In grammar, the fifth case or state of nouns in the Latin language; or the case in any language, in which a word is placed when the person is addressed: as Domine, O Lord.

Vociferate

VOCIF'ERATE, verb intransitive [Latin vocifero, vex and fero.] To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim.

VOCIF'ERATE, verb transitive To utter with a loud voice.

Vociferating

VOCIF'ERATING, participle present tense Crying out with vehemence; uttering with a loud voice.

Vociferation

VOCIFERA'TION, noun A violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.

Vociferous

VOCIF'EROUS, adjective Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as vociferous heralds.

Vogue

VOGUE, noun vig. [The sense of vogue is way, or the going of the world.]

The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom or practice; popular reception for the time. We say, a particular form of dress is now in vogue; an amusing writer is now in vogue; such opinions are now in vogue The phrase, the vogue of the world, used by good writers formerly, is nearly or quite obsolete.

Use may revive the obsoletest word, and banish those that now are most in vogue

Voice

VOICE, noun [Latin vox; voco. The sense of the verb is to throw, to drive out sound; and voice is that which is driven out.]

1. Sound or audible noise uttered by the mouth, either of human beings or of other animals. We say, the voice of a man is loud or clear; the voice of a woman is soft or musical; the voice of a dog is loud or harsh; the voice of a bird is sweet or melodious. The voice of human beings is articulate; that of beasts, inarticulate. The voices of men are different, and when uttered together, are often dissonant.

2. Any sound made by the breath; as the trumpet's voice

3. A vote; suffrage; opinion or choice expressed. Originally voice was the oral utterance of choice, but it now signifies any vote however given.

Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice of holy senates, and elect by voice

I have no words; my voice is in my sword.

4. Language; words; expression.

Let us call on God in the voice of his church.

5. In Scripture, command; precept.

Ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 8:20.

6. Sound.

After the fire, a still small voice 1 Kings 19:12.

Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Job 40:9.

The floods have lifted up their voice Psalms 93:3.

7. Language; tone; mode of expression.

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice Galatians 4:20.

8. In grammar, a particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs; as the active voice; the passive voice

VOICE, verb transitive

1. To rumor; to report.

It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet. [Little used.]

2. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.

3. To vote.

VOICE, verb intransitive To clamor; to exclaim. obsolete

Voiced

VOIC'ED, participle passive

1. Fitted to produce the proper tones.

2. adjective Furnished with a voice.

Voiceless

VOICELESS, a vois'less. Having no voice or vote.

Void

VOID, adjective [Latin viduus, divido. Gr.]

1. Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as a void space or place. 1 Kings 22:10.

2. Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. Genesis 1:2.

3. Having no legal or binding force; null; not effectual to bind parties, or to convey or support a right; not sufficient to produce its effect. Thus a deed not duly signed and sealed, is void A fraudulent contract is void or may be rendered void

My word shall not return to me void but it shall accomplish that which I please. Isaiah 55:11.

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. Jeremiah 19:7.

4. Free; clear; as a conscience void of offense. Acts 24:16.

5. Destitute; as void of learning; void of reason or common sense.

He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor.

Proverbs 11:12.

6. Unsupplied; vacant; unoccupied; having no incumbent.

Divers offices that had been long void

7. Unsubstantial; vain.

Lifeless idol, void and vain.

VOID space, in physics, a vacuum.

1. To make void; to violate; to transgress.

They have made void thy law. Psalms 119:126.

2. To render useless or of no effect. Romans 4:14.

VOID, noun An empty space; a vacuum.

Pride, where wit falls, steps in to our defense, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Th' illimitable void

VOID, verb transitive

1. To quit; to leave.

Bid them come down, or void the field.

2. To emit; to send out; to evacuate; as, to void excrementitious matter; to void worms.

3. To vacate; to annul; to nullify; to render of no validity or effect.

It had become a practice - to void the security given for money borrowed.

4. To make or leave vacant.

VOID, verb intransitive To be emitted or evacuated.

Voidable

VOID'ABLE, adjective That may be annulled or made void, or that may be adjudged void, invalid or of no force.

- Such administration is not void, but voidable by sentence.

Voidance

VOID'ANCE, noun

1. The act of emptying.

2. The act of ejecting from a benefice; ejection.

3. Vacancy; want of an incumbent.

4. Evasion; subterfuge.

Voided

VOID'ED, participle passive

1. Thrust out; evacuated.

2. adjective In heraldry, having the inner or middle part cut out, as an ordinary.

Voider

VOID'ER, noun

1. A basket in which broken meat is carried from the table.

2. One who evacuates.

3. One who nullifies.

4. In heraldry, one of the ordinaries, whose figure is much like that of the flanch or flasque.

5. In agriculture, a provincial name of a kind of shallow basket of open work.

Voiding

VOID'ING, participle present tense

1. Ejecting; evacuating.

2. Making or declaring void, or of no force.

3. Quitting; leaving.

4. adjective Receiving what is ejected; as a voiding lobby.

Voidness

VOID'NESS, noun

1. Emptiness; vacuity; destitution.

2. Nullify; inefficacy; want of binding force.

3. Want of substantiality.

Voiture

VOI'TURE, noun [Latin vectus, veho.] Carriage. [Not English.]

Volalkali

VOLAL'KALI, noun Volatile alkali; by contraction.

Volant

VO'LANT, adjective [Latin volo, to fly.]

1. Flying; passing through the air; as volant automata.

2. Nimble; active; as volant touch.

3. In heraldry, represented as flying or having the wings spread.

Volatile

VOL'ATILE, adjective [Latin volatilis, from volo, to fly.]

1. Flying; passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere.

2. Having the power to fly; as birds are volatile animals.

3. Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state. Thus substances which affect the smell with pungent or fragrant odors, as musk, hartshorn and essential oils, are called volatile substances, because they waste away on exposure to the atmosphere. Alcohol and ether are called volatile liquids for a similar reason, and because they easily pass into the state of vapor on the application of heat. On the contrary, gold is a fixed substance, because it does not suffer waste even when exposed to the heat of a furnace; and oils are called fixed, when they do not evaporate on simple exposure to the atmosphere.

4. Lively; gay; full of spirit; airy; hence, fickle; apt to change; as a volatile temper.

You are as giddy and volatile as ever.

VOL'ATILE, noun A winged animal. [little used.]

Volatileness

VOL'ATILENESS,

VOLATIL'ITY, noun

1. Disposition to exhale or evaporate; the quality of being capable of evaporation; that property of a substance which disposes it to rise and float in the air, and thus to be dissipated; as the volatility of fluids. Ether is remarkable for its volatility. Many or most solid bodies are susceptible of volatility by the action of intense heat.

By the spirit of a plant we understand that pure elaborated oil, which by reason of its extreme volatility, exhales spontaneously, and in which the odor or smell consists.

2. Great sprightliness; levity; liveliness; whence, mutability of mind; fickleness; as the volatility of youth.

Volatilization

VOLATILIZA'TION, noun [from volatilize.] The act or process of rendering volatile, or rather of causing to rise and float in the air.

Volatilize

VOL'ATILIZE, verb transitive To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor or invisible effluvia, and to rise and float in the air.

The water - dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action.

Volatilized

VOL'ATILIZED, participle passive Rendered volatile; caused to rise and float in air.

Volatilizing

VOL'ATILIZING, participle present tense Rendering volatile; causing to rise and float in air.

Volcanic

VOLCAN'IC, adjective [from volcano.]

1. Pertaining to volcanoes; as volcanic heat.

2. Produced by a volcano; as volcanic tufa.

3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

Volcanist

VOL'CANIST, noun [from volcano.]

1. One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.

2. One who believes in the effects of eruptions of fire in the formation of mountains.

Volcanite

VOL'CANITE, noun A mineral, otherwise called augite.

Volcanity

VOLCAN'ITY, noun The state of being volcanic or of volcanic origin.

Volcanization

VOLCANIZA'TION, noun [from volcanize.] The process of undergoing volcanic heat and being affected by it.

Volcanize

VOL'CANIZE, verb transitive To subject to or cause to undergo volcanic heat and to be affected by its action.

Volcanized

VOL'CANIZED, participle passive Affected by volcanic heat.

Volcano

VOLCA'NO, noun

1. In geology, an opening in the surface of the earth or in a mountain, from which smoke, flames, stones, lava or other substances are ejected. Such are seen in Etna and Vesuvius in Sicily and Italy, and Hecla in Iceland. It is vulgarly called a burning mountain. Herschel has discovered a volcano in the moon.

2. The mountain that ejects fire, smoke, etc.

Vole

VOLE, noun A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.

Volery

VO'LERY, noun

1. A flight of birds.

2. A large bird-cage, in which the birds have room to fly.

Volitation

VOLITA'TION, noun [Latin volito, dim. of volo, to fly.] The act of flying; flight.