An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.
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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.
In a vagrant manner.
State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
A wandering; a vagary.
In a vague manner.
The quality or state of being vague.
Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve. The vagus, or pneumogastric, nerve.
Submission; decline; descent.
One who vails.
An outer, or exterior, wall. See Vauntmure.
Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
In a vain manner; in vain.
The quality or state of being vain.
The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.
Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.
A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.
The worship of Vishnu.
The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.
See Waywode.
A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador.
To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.
See 2d Vail, 3.
A farewell; a bidding farewell.
One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.
A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.
The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four.
A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.
See Valence. A unit of combining power; a so-called bond of affinity.
See Valencia.
A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.
One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.
The acid amide derivative of valeric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
A salt of valeric acid.
Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (Valeriana officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaceae) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard.
A valerate.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, valerian root; specifically, designating an acid which is usually called valeric acid.
Valerianic; specifically, designating any one of three metameric acids, of which the typical one (called also inactive valeric acid), C4H9CO2H, is obtained from valerian root and other sources, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese.
A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.
A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil, etc., and forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor.
A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles.
A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid.
The hypothetical radical C5H9O, regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives.
A liquid hydrocarbon, C5H8; -- called also pentine.
A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person; a body servant.
A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.
A valetudinarian.
Valetudinarian.
The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor.
To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
The act of giving validity.
In a valid manner; so as to be valid.
The quality or state of being valid.
A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.
A small sack or case, usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau.
One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla. Now commonly written Valkyrie.
Of or pertaining to the Valkyries; hence, relating to battle.
A large wig that shades the face.
A vallar crown.
Same as Vallar.
A rampart or intrenchment.
Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a vallation; as, vallatory reeds.
A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil.
Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid.
Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural.
The quality of being valuable.
So as to be of value.
The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.
One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.
The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.
Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend.
Being of no value; having no worth.
One who values; an appraiser.
Value.
Valvular.
See Vavasor.
A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
Having a valve or valves; valvate.
A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
A volatile liquid hydrocarbon, C5H6, related to ethylene and acetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the third degree. It is the only known member of a distinct series of compounds. It has a garlic odor.
The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
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