To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
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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.
A vial.
To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
To be violent; to act violently.
In a violent manner.
Tending to a violet color; violascent.
Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts.
A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.
A pale yellow amorphous substance of alkaloidal nature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (Viola). Mauve aniline. See under Mauve.
A player on the violin.
A player on the viol.
A player on the violoncello.
A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.
The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass.
Violent.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid. It is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.
A trade name for rofecoxib.
See Viperoidea.
Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper.
Somewhat like a viper; viperous.
Like or pertaining to the vipers.
A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.
Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue.
Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago.
The qualities or characteristics of a virago.
A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton.
An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
Green; not withered.
Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonidae. In many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored. Called also greenlet.
Beginning to be green; slightly green; greenish.
An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.
A valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor; -- more properly called White Doyenn/.
A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres.
Striped; streaked.
A wand. See Verge.
See Verger.
Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil.
To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5.
To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.
Virginity; maidenhood.
One of the States of the United States of America. Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia.
The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.
A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [/] in almanacs. A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.
An old French variety of pear, of little value.
Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
Shaped like a little twig or rod.
A comma.
A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
Green.
Quality or state of being viridescent.
Slightly green; greenish.
A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.
A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.
Viridity; greenness.
Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.
Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable.
See Vermilion.
A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
Furnished with a virole or viroles; -- said of a horn or a bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the horn.
Having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous.
A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.
Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
The quality or state of being virtual.
In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
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