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.

To depart quickly; to depart from.

To vamoose; -- an older spelling and pronunciation variant.

To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.

To seduce (a man) sexually for purpose of exploitation.

To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.

A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat, as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897, which has inspired several movies.

A round plate of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.

See Vauntmure.

To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.

One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.

A salt of vanadic acid.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadous compounds; as, vanadic oxide.

A mineral occurring in yellowish, brownish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consists of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.

Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid. Usually written vanadous.

A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.

A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 50.94 (C12=12.000).

Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadous acid

The hypothetical radical VO, regarded as a characteristic residue of certain vanadium compounds.

Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.

The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of any object of beauty or value.

To fit or furnish with a Vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a Vandyke.

Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.

A vanessa.

A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water.

A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.

Benne (Sesamum orientale); also, its seeds; -- so called in the West Indies.

The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.

A salt of vanillic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.

A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.

An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona.

The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

Vain or foolish talk.

Talking foolishly.

The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.

a. n. from Vanish, v.

A vanishing.

The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.

A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.

A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.

A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.

That may be vanquished.

One who, or that which, vanquishes.

The act of vanquishing, or the state of being vanquished.

An ichneumon (Herpestes galera) native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon.

See Vaunt.

An avant-courier. See Van-courier.

To profit; to aid.

The first game after the set is deuce. See Set, n., 9.

Armor for the arm; vambrace.

Being on, or towards, the van, or front.

That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.

Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.

The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.

To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.

The quality or state of being vaporable.

To emit vapor; to evaporate.

The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.

Wet with vapors; moist.

One who vapors; a braggart.

Conveying or producing vapor.

Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.

Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.

An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.

Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.

Full of vapors; vaporous.

Capable of being vaporized, or converted into vapor.

The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.

To pass off in vapor.

One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.

Full of vapor; vaporous.

The quality of being vaporous.

Full of vapors; vaporous.

The act of beating or whipping.

One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman; a cowboy.

A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.

The monitor. See Monitor, 3.

One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.

A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.

A weasel.

The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.

A decorative cabinet, of a form originating in Spain, the body being rectangular and supported on legs or an ornamental framework and the front opening downwards on hinges to serve as a writing desk.

The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.

The quality or state of being variable; variableness.

That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.

The quality or state of being variable; variability.

In a variable manner.

The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.

To alter; to make different; to vary.

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alteration; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.

Chicken pox.

See Varix.

Resembling a varix.

A varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; also, a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum.

Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.

The formation of varices; varicosity.

The quality or state of being varicose.

Excision of a varicosity.

Varicose.

Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery.

To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.

Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers.

The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.

A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety.

Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species.

A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.

Having different shapes or forms.

Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform.

To make different; to vary; to variegate.

The smallpox.

Variolous.

Inoculation with smallpox.

A foveola.

Variolous.

A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.