One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.

In a usurping manner.

The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.

That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.

Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy.

Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.

The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.

An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.

Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.

Profitable; useful.

One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.

The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.

Capable of being utilized; as, the utilizable products of the gas works.

The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

See Utas.

Outlawry.

The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort; as, he has done his utmost; try your utmost.

An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist.

The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.

An Utopian; an optimist.

Utopian; ideal.

A Utopian.

One who receives the eucharist in both kinds; esp., one of a body of Hussites who in the 15th century fought for the right to do this. Called also Calixtines.

A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,

Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular.

Resembling a bladder; utricular; utriculate.

A little sac, or bag; a utricle; especially, a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear.

Capable of being uttered.

The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.

One who utters.

Uttermost.

Incapable of being uttered.

In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.

Further; outer; utter.

The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest extent.

The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.

A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, as a grape.

The bearberry.

A conserve made of grapes.

The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.

Resembling a grape.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, grapes; specifically, designating an organic acid, C7H8O3 (also called pyrotritartaric acid), obtained as a white crystalline substance by the decomposition of tartaric and pyrotartaric acids.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH3C6H3(CO2H)2, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the partial oxidation of mesitylene; -- called also mesitic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of ammonia on pyrotartaric acid.

See Euphroe.

The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

Of or pertaining to a uvula.

An instrument for removing the uvula.

The operation of removing the uvula.

Inflammation of the uvula.

Ouvarovite.

Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife.

Of or pertaining to uxoricide; tending to uxoricide.

Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband.

A Burman measure of twelve miles.

The dealfish.

In a vacant manner; inanely.

To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.

Vaccinia.

Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows; now, generally, to administer (by injection or otherwise) any vaccine with the objective of rendering the recipient immune to an infectious disease. One who has been thus immunized by vaccination is said to be vaccinated against a particular disease. One may be thus immunized (vaccinated) also by oral ingestion or inhalation of a vaccine.

The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.

One who, or that which, vaccinates.

The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.

See Point, n., 26.

Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

A vaccinator.

A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.

An inclosure for cows.

The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering.

Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.

Inclined to fluctuate; wavering.

The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering.

Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute.

To make void, or empty.

The act of emptying; evacuation.

One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist.

The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.

The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.

Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells.

Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles.

A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm.

An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.

Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.

The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.

A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.

An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.

To fade; hence, to vanish.

A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.

Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.

See Voe.

Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks.

To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

Vagabondage.

To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

Vagabondage.

Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.

A wandering; vagrancy.

A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey.

Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety.

Crying like a child.

Serving to invest, or sheathe; sheathing.

Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.

A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.

Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.

A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.

A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.

Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous lining membrane.

Having elytra; sheath-winged.

A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses. One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.

A vaginula.

To caper or frolic.

Wandering; unsettled.

The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.

One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.