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.

Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.

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.

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.

The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.

Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.

An instrument for comparing magnetic forces, esp. in the earth's magnetic field.

Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.

In various or different ways.

An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.

An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and often growing to an unsightly size.

The bush hog, or boshvark.

The rabble; the crowd; the mob.

One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish.

The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.

Colloquial contraction of University.

A kind of Polish dance. Music for such a dance or having its slow triple time characteristic strong accent beginning every second measure.

A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.

The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water.

A deformity in which the foot is turned inward. See Talipes.

In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses.

Having varvels, or rings.

Alteration; change.

a. n. from Vary.

A vessel; a duct.

The quality or state of being vascular.

The process of becoming vascular, or the condition of being vascular; as, the vascularization of cartilege.

One of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in respect to its solubility in certain media.

Same as Ascidium, n., 1.

A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.

Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.

Resection or excision of the vas deferens.

A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum.

Having the form of a vessel, or duct.

See Vasodilator.

A substance which causes constriction of the blood vessels. Such substances are used in medicine to raise abnormally low blood pressure.

A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.

A substance which causes dilation of blood vessels.

Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.

See Vasoconstrictor.

See Vasodilator.

Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels.

To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.

A female vassal.

The body of vassals.

A waste region; boundless space; immensity.

A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation.

See Wastel.

Vastness; immensity.

Vastness; immense extent.