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.

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

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.

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

A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.

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

Of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs.

Belonging to, or like, wine or grapes.

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

Resembling vinegar; sour.

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

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

Same as Lazarist. A member of certain charitable sisterhoods.

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.

The quality or state of being vincible, vincibleness.

The quality or state of being vincible.

A binding.

A bond of union; a tie.

Of or pertaining to a vintage, or grape harvest.

To gather the vintage.

The operation of gathering grapes.

Capable of being vindicated.

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

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.

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

One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.

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

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

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.

Covered with vines.

Of or pertaining to vines; containing vines.

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

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

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

See Vinaigrette, n., 2.

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

Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.

A vinedresser.

A vineyard.

A sprig or branch.

Same as Vinnewed.

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

One who cultivates a vineyard.

Contraction for Vingt et un.

Of or pertaining to wine; as, vinic alcohol.

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

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

Moldy; musty.

Vinnewed.

Drunkennes.

Given to wine; drunken; intemperate.

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

Vinous.

The quality or state of being vinous.

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

See Vanquish, n.

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

One who gathers the vintage.

The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.

One who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant.

A place where wine is sold.

Wine, -- chiefly used in Pharmacy in the name of solutions of some medicinal substance in wine; as: vina medicata, medicated wines; vinum opii, wine of opium.

Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines.

The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.

An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.

Capable of being violated, broken, or injured.

Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.

A dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.

A complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid.

A yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin.

Violescent.

To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.

Violating, or tending to violate.

One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.