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.

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.

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.

Victorious.

A victress.

A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.

Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.

A woman's fur tippet.

Of or pertaining to victory, or a victor; being a victor; bringing or causing a victory; conquering; winning; triumphant; as, a victorious general; victorious troops; a victorious day.

A probable chemical element discovered by Sir William Crookes in 1898. Its nitrate is obtained byy practical decomposition and crystallization of yttrium nitrate. At. wt., about 117.

The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of defeat.

A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.

A victress.

A victress.

To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.

Victuals; food.

One who furnishes victuals.

Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship.

Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

Food; diet.

A South American mammal (Auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.

One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.

imperative sing. of L. videre, to see; -- used to direct attention to something; as, vide supra, see above.

To wit; namely; -- often abbreviated to viz.

a casette containing magnetic tape, which can be used in a videocasette recorder to record and play back electronic signals, such as from television programs. The long magnetic tape in the videocasette is moved between two spindles, and a small portion of the tape at any one time is passed over a recording or playback head.

an electronic device which can record electronic signals, as from a television program, on magnetic tape contained in a videocassette, and can also play back the recording. It is used, for example, to record television programs broadcast at some particular time, which can then be viewed at any subsequent time by attaching the videocasette recorder to a television receiver and playing the signals throught the television receiver. Also called VCR.

a video recording made on magnetic tape.

Same as Vedette.

A dry white wine, of a tart flavor, produced in Teneriffe; -- called also Teneriffe.

The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.

Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.

The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.