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.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the prostate gland.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

A vesicle.

Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.

Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.

The campanularian medusae.

To form vesicles in, as lava.

The state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed.

Inflammation of a vesicle.

Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell.

A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.

Of or pertaining to the evening, or to the service of vespers; as, a vesper hymn; vesper bells.

Vesper; evening.

One of the little hours of the Breviary. The evening song or service.

A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.

A tribe of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.

Of or pertaining to the Vespertiliones.

Vespertine.

Of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening.

A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.

One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

To put into a vessel.

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

A kind of worsted; also, a worsted cloth.

A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.

To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.

One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.

A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.

Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.

Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments.

Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.

Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.

To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.

A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.

To investigate.

The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.

Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.

Cloth for vests; a vest pattern.

Investiture.

Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.

A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress any priestly garment.

A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.

A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry.

A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.

Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped.

Vesuvianite.

A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase.

A trade name for a brown dyestuff obtained from certain basic azo compounds of benzene; -- called also Bismarck brown, Manchester brown, etc.

Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is Vicia sativa.

Any small leguminous plant of the genus Lathyrus, especially Lathyrus Nissolia.

Consisting of vetches or of pea straw.

One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had much experience, or has grown old or decrepit in service.

To reenlist for service as a soldier.

One skilled in the treatment of diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon. Often abbreviated to vet.

Of or pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, various pets, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school.

An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus.

To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.

One who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto.

An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach.

One who lets or drives a vettura.

Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.

To be irritated; to fret.

The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.

Annoyed; harassed; troubled.

One who vexes or troubles.

A vexillum.

A standard bearer.

A company of troops under one vexillum.

A flag or standard. A company of troops serving under one standard.

In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate.

See Otaheite apple.

By the way of; as, to send a letter via Queenstown to London.

The quality or state of being viable.

Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.

A voyage; a journey.

To put in a vial or vials.

An odometer; -- called also viatometer.

An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.

A feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host.

Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads.

The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.

Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.

An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.

A viameter.

More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.

One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.