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Viennese

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

Vierkleur

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

View

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.

Viewer

One who views or examines.

Viewiness

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

Viewless

Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.

Viewy

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

Vifda

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

Vigesimal

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

Vigesimation

The act of putting to death every twentieth man.

Vigesimo-quarto

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/.

Vigil

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.

Vigilance

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

Vigilant

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

Vigintivirate

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

Vignette

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

Vignetter

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.

Vigonia

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.

Vigorite

An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.

Vigoroso

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

Vigorous

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

Viking

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

Vilayet

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

Viled

Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile.

Vilify

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

Vilipend

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

Vill

A small collection of houses; a village.

Villa

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

Village

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

Villainy

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

Villanage

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

Villanella

An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.

Villanelle

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.

Villanize

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

Villatic

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

Villiform

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

Villous

Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.

Villus

One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.

Vim

Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.

Vimen

A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.

Viminal

Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

Vimineous

Of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs.

Vinaceous

Belonging to, or like, wine or grapes.

Vinaigrette

A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, -- used esp. for cold meats.

Vinasse

The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.

Vinatico

Madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the Persea Indica.

Vincentian

Same as Lazarist. A member of certain charitable sisterhoods.

Vincetoxin

A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin.

Vincibility

The quality or state of being vincible, vincibleness.

Vincible

Capable of being overcome or subdued; conquerable.

Vindemial

Of or pertaining to a vintage, or grape harvest.

Vindicate

To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

Vindication

The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete.

Vindicative

Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.

Vindicator

One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.

Vindicatory

Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.

Vindictive

Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.

Vine

Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes. Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

Vineal

Of or pertaining to vines; containing vines.

Vined

Having leaves like those of the vine; ornamented with vine leaves.

Vinedresser

One who cultivates, prunes, or cares for, grapevines; a laborer in a vineyard.

Vinegar

To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.

Vinegarroon

A whip scorpion, esp. a large Mexican species (Thelyphonus giganteus) popularly supposed to be very venomous; -- from the odor that it emits when alarmed.

Vinegary

Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.

Vineyard

An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.

Vingtun

Contraction for Vingt et un.

Vinic

Of or pertaining to wine; as, vinic alcohol.

Viniculture

The cultivation of the vine, esp. for making wine; viticulture.

Vinification

The conversion of a fruit juice or other saccharine solution into alcohol by fermentation.

Vinolent

Given to wine; drunken; intemperate.

Vinometer

An instrument for determining the strength or purity of wine by measuring its density.

Vinosity

The quality or state of being vinous.

Vinous

Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous taste.

Vintage

The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.

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