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.

A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.

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 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.

The state of being vibrant; resonance.

Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums.

To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.

Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.

The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.

The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.

A small vibration.

Vibrating; vibratory.

One that vibrates, or causes vibration or oscillation of any kind; A trembler, as of an electric bell. A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system. A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper. An oscillator. An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion. A vibrating reed, esp. in a reed organ. Any of various vibrating devices, as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens. An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a molding machine to shake the pattern loose. a small electrical device held in the hand, with a motor that causes the device and hand to vibrate, and is used for vibratory massage.

Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.

A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.

One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.

An instrument to observe and record vibrations.

An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.

A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental plants, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.

One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.

The benefice of a vicar.

Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.

A vicar.

Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar.

Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.

In a vicarious manner.

The office or dignity of a vicar.

A vicar.

Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.

Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty.

Vicious; corrupt.

The office of a vicegerent.

An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar.

A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.

Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.

Lasting or comprising twenty years.

The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.

The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.

Viceroyalty.

Fault; defect; coarseness.

A mineral water found at Vichy, France. It is essentially an effervescent aqueous solution of sodium, calcium, and magnesium carbonates, with sodium and potassium chlorides; also, by extension, any artificial or natural water resembling in composition the Vichy water proper. Called also, colloquially, Vichy.

See Vitiate.

The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage.

Near; vicine.

An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.

Vitiosity.

Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

Subject to vicissitudes.

Full of, or subject to, changes.

Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a county.

Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.

See Viscount.

A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.

To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.