A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms.
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Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.
Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.
Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
See Vermeil.
A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name. A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.
To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
Vermeil.
An animal, in general.
To breed vermin.
The generation or breeding of vermin.
Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin.
Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.
In a verminous manner.
Producing or breeding worms.
Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds.
A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.
See Veronica, 1.
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.
A vernacular idiom.
The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular.
In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular.
Vernacular.
A kind of sweet wine from Italy.
Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.
Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
To become young again.
The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
A Veronica. See Veronica, 1.
Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
Suiting a slave; servile; obsequious.
Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility.
An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
Varnish.
A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.
Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy. A native of Verona; collectively, the people of Verona.
A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on the alleged handkerchief of Saint Veronica, preserved at Rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the Savior. Formerly called also Vernacle, and Vernicle.
Very; true.
Verily; truly.
See Ferrule.
Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.
A wart.
Shaped like a wart or warts.
Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.
Verrucose.
Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.
An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
A verse or verses. See Verse, n.
The quality or state of being versable.
Capable of being turned.
Versability.
Universal.
The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect.
Capable of being turned round.
The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.
To make verses; to versify.
Turned.
Same as Versemonger.
A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.
A versifier.
A verse.
A little verse; especially, a short verse or text said or sung in public worship by the priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people.
Having various colors; changeable in color.
Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.
The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.
A versifier.
One who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet.
To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse.
A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.
The turning factor of a quaternion.
A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
Of or pertaining to a verse.
Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.
Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer. The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
A vertebra.
A vertebrate.
At or within a vertebra or vertebrae; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.
Of or pertaining to a vertebra or vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.
One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Leptocardia.
One of the Vertebrata.
Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
A vertebra.
Iliolumbar.
A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
Vertical position; zenith.
The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness.
In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.
Quality or state of being vertical.
A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.
Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.
A whorl; a verticil.
The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
An axis; a hinge; a turning point.
Turned round; giddy.
Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, a vertiginous motion.
Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.
Straight; rectilinear.
Virtue; power. See Virtue.
Virtuous; powerful.
An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
Any plant of the genus Verbena.
Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
See Varvel.
A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus syn. Cercopithecus Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.
In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sun; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.
A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.
A bladder.
Of or pertaining to the bladder.
A vesicatory.
To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.
Tending, or having power, to raise a blister. A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
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