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.

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.

Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.

A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.

The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend/miaire.

Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride.

To cup; to use a cupping glass.

Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.

Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.

A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See Heart.

Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla.

Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.

Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.

Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.

One of the stomachs of certain insects. The body cavity of a sponge.

Ventriloquism.

Ventriloquous.

The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from a dummy held by the ventriloquist, from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.

One who practices, or is skilled in, ventriloquism.

To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.

Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.

Same as Ventriloquism.

See Meson.

Pertaining both to the abdomen and groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal; as, ventro-inguinal hernia.

To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.

One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.

Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act.

Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces.

Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adventurous; as, a venturous soldier.

See Ventouse.

A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.

A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.

Full of venules, or small veins.

The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.

Beautiful.

Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.

In a veracious manner.

The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.

An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.

A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.

A salt of veratric acid.

Veratrine.

Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.