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.

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 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.

Vastness.

To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.

The quality or state of being vast.

Vast; immense.

A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.

To put or transfer into a vat.

As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.

Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical.

A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.

The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; -- a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics.

One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.

The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.

Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.

To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.

Prediction; prophecy.

One who vaticinates; a prophet.

A prediction; a vaticination.

An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.

See Voodoo.

Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar.

Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.

One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.

The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.

Arched; concave.

To advance.

To put forward; to display.

See Van-courier.

One who vaunts; a boaster.

Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.

In a vaunting manner.

A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall.

Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.

A vault; a leap.

Vaulted.

The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron.

The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.

The fore part; van.

a videocasette recorder.

The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.

Vectitation.

The act of carrying, or state of being carried.

Same as Radius vector.

The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.

The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.

A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the /Anta,/ or end or substance.

Of or pertaining to the Vedas.