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.
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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.
Of or, pertaining to hunting.
See Vinatico.
Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.
The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.
Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic.
The act of vending or selling; a sale.
A European lake whitefish (Coregonus Willughbii, or Coregonus Vandesius) native of certain lakes in Scotland and England. It is regarded as a delicate food fish. Called also vendis.
The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.
The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.
One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.
A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
The quality or state of being vendible, or salable.
Something to be sold, or offered for sale.
To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon.
The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display.
The act of vending, or selling; sale.
A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
See Wends.
A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction.
A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.
The act or art of one who veneers.
Veneficial.
The act or practice of poisoning.
Acting by poison; used in poisoning or in sorcery.
Venomous.
Poisoned.
The act of poisoning.
Poisonous; venomous.
Poisonous.
The quality or state of being venerable; venerableness.
Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; as, a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent.
An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.
To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders.
The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentiment excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations.
One who venerates.
The venereal disease; syphilis.
Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.
Venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac.
Venereous.
The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase.
The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
A native or inhabitant of Venice.
A bout, or turn, as at fencing; a thrust; a hit; a veney.
A bout; a thrust; a venew.
To avenge; to punish; to revenge.
Revengeful; deserving revenge.
Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
Extremely; excessively.
Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
An avenger.
Venial; pardonable.
Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
The quality or state of being venial; venialness.
A toxic substance contained in the venom of poisonous snakes; also, a (supposedly identical) toxic substance obtained by the cleavage of an albumose.
Beasts of the chase.
The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm.
To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.
The quality or state of being venous.
Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.
To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.
That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor.
The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera. The uterus, or womb. A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.
A touchhole; a vent.
A passage for wind or air; a passage or pipe for ventilating apartments.
To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.
The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air.
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