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.

Widowhood.

A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.

An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.

Of or pertaining to Vienna, or the people of Vienna. An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of Vienna.

The four-colored flag of the South African Republic, or Transvaal, -- red, white, blue, and green.

To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.

The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.

Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.

Pleasing to the sight; sightly.

Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.

In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.

Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.

The act of putting to death every twentieth man.

A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 24mo, or 24/.

Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.

The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.

Vigilance.

Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.

In a vigilant manner.

A vigil.

The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.

To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.

A device used by photographers in printing vignettes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture the edges of which become opaque by insensible gradations.

Of or pertaining to the vicu/a; characterizing the vicu/a; -- said of the wool of that animal, used in felting hats, and for other purposes.

To invigorate.

An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.

Vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.

Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.

One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.

Villainy.

One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.

Vile.

Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile.

Villainous.

The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.

One who vilifies or defames.

To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.

To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.

Disesteem; slight; disparagement.

Vileness; baseness.

A small collection of houses; a village.

A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.

A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.

An inhabitant of a village.

Villages; a district of villages.

To debase; to degrade.

The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer.

A little villa.

A villain.

The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.

A ballad.

An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.

A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.

A small villa.

To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.

One who villanizes.

See Villainous, etc.

See Villainy.

Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural.

See Villain, 1.

Villanage.

Of or pertaining to a villein.

pl. of Villus.

Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.

See Villous.

State of being villous.