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.
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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.
One versed in the doctrines of the Vedantas.
A primitive people of Ceylon.
A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.
Of or pertaining to the Vedas or one of the Vedas.
A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U. S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons.
To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.
Changeable; shifting; as, winds veerable to southwest.
Shifting.
An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.
An open tract of ground; a plain, esp. one which is moist and fertile, as those used for tobacco fields.
A vegetarian who does not eat any animal products, not even fish, eggs, or milk.
The quality or state of being vegetable.
A plant. See Plant.
A vegetable.
The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable.
Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.
The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.
Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.
Vegetal state or characteristic.
A vegetable.
Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.
Vigorous; lively; active; vegete.
Vehemence.
In a vehement manner.
Conveyed in a vehicle; furnished with a vehicle.
Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.
Vehicular.
To convey by means of a vehicle; to ride in a vehicle.
Movement of vehicles.
Vehicular.
A vehmic court.
A vehmic court.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 16th, usurping many of the functions of the governments which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction.
Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden.
A veil; a thin covering; also, material for making veils.
Having no veil.
To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Pertaining to veins; venous.
Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble.
Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.
A small vein.
Marked with veins; veined; veiny.
The valueless nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which surrounds the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; gangue; matrix; -- called also veinstuff.
Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.
The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
Having a veil; veiled.
A region or tract of land; esp., the open field, thinly forested or with bushes and shrubs; grass country.
A veil.
Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella.
Carrying or bearing sails.
Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the stage when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish.
Flying with sails; passing under full sail.
To cut the turf from, as for burning.
The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.
Velvet.
To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.
Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication.
A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under 1st Real.
A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white, -- used as for writing upon, and for binding books.
Resembling vellum.
An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.
A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.
One who rides on a velocipede; a cyclist.
One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.
The fieldfare.
Velvet.
Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to Velutina and allied genera.
Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf.
The veltfare.
A kind of velvet having cotton back.
To make like, or cover with, velvet.
The goosander.
A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.
A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.
Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
A vein.
The pudu.
Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services.
The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official.
In a venal manner.
The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.
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