Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.

The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.

The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.

To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.

In a vital manner.

Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.

any of several organic chemical substances not synthesized by an animal and required in small quantities for normal metabolism, present in and obtained from the natural foods eaten by the animal. Human vitamins are also produced synthetically, and taken in pure form or in mixtures, as dietary supplements. Deficiencies of specific vitamins lead to certain specific disorders, such as scurvy, caused by an insufficiency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

any of several related fat-soluble vitamins (such as retinol) essential for normal vision; it also prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes.

retinol (C20H30O), one of the substances also called vitamin A. It is also called more specifically vitamin A alcohol. It is a required factor for human nutrition. The USP unit of activity is equal to 0.30 micrograms of retinol.

dehydroretinol (C20H28O), one of the substances also called vitamin A. It has about 40% of the bioactivity of vitamin A1.

a group of water-soluble vitamins originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins.

a mixture of water-soluble vitamins originally thought to be a single vitamin but now known to be a mixture of several compounds with vitaminic activity.

a B vitamin (C12H17N4OS)Cl that prevents beriberi and maintains appetite and growth. Same as thiamine.

a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia.

a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss.

See nicotinamide.

See nicotinic acid.

a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch.

a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction. Also called folic acid

a vitamin that prevents scurvy. Also called ascorbic acid.

any of several chemically related fat-soluble vitamins that prevent rickets. It is found in fish-liver oils, egg yolks and milk. Component vitamin D2 is also called calciferol, and vitamin D3 is called cholecalciferol.

a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction. It is found in vegetable oils, butter, and eggs.

same as vitamin B2.

a B vitamin that aids in body growth.

either of two fat-soluble vitamins (vitamin K1 or vitamin K2) that help clot blood by participating in the fromation of prothrombin.

one of the two K vitamins, (C31H46O2). It is fat-soluble and occurs naturally as the trans isomer. Chemically it is 2-methyl-3-phytyl-1,4,-naphthoquinone.

menadione, (C11H8O2) being chemically 2-methyl-1,4,-naphthoquinone. Having no side chain in the 3 position, it cannot exert all functions of a true K vitamin and the designation as vitamin K3 has been discouraged

same as vitamin Bc; folic acid.

a water-soluble vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation.

one of the two K vitamins, actually a mixture of homologous fat-soluble substituted naphthoquinones (called menaquinones), (C11H7O2[C5H8]nH), where n may be 1 to 13 but is mostly 7 to 9. The term is also used for synthetic compounds resembling vitamin K2 and having the same physiological action. The individual components of vitamin K2 are also referred to by the number of isoprenyl units in the side chain (the number n in the formula), as for menadione, having no units at that position of the naphthaquinone ring, and also called vitamin K2(0) (and also called vitamin K3).

A form of machine for exhibiting animated pictures.

Vitelline.

Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.

An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.

Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.

A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.

To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.

The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract.

Having long and slender trailing stems.

Of or pertaining to viticulture.

The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.

One engaged in viticulture.

A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.

To contend in law litigiously or cavilously.

Cavilous litigation; cavillation.

Viciousness; depravity.

See Vicious, Viciously, Viciousness.

A genus of plants including all true grapevines.

See Durukuli.

A curtain of light and translucent material intended to be secured directly to the woodwork of a French casement window or a glazed door.

Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.

One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.

Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.

The quality or state of being vitreous.

The quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass.

Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

That may be vitrified; vitrifiable.

Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from ceramic.

The art or study of the manufacture and decoration of glassware.

The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.

Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

Vitrifiable.

To convert into glass; to vitrify.

Same as Vitrifaction.

Converted into glass.

Having the form or appearance of glass; resembling glass; glasslike.

To become glass; to be converted into glass.

A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name.

A glass show case for displaying fine wares, specimens, etc.

To dip in dilute sulphuric acid; to pickle.

A sulphate.

Changed into a vitriol or a sulphate, or subjected to the action of sulphuric acid or of a sulphate; as, vitriolated potash, i. e., potassium sulphate.

The act, process, or result of vitriolating.

Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol.

Capable of being converted into a vitriol.

The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.

To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.

See Vitriolic.

A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.

A kind of Venetian glass or glassware in which white threads are embedded in transparent glass with a lacelike or netlike effect.

Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect.

One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.

Bearing or containing vittae.

Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.

Liable to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.

To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.

Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.

One who vituperates, or censures abusively.

Worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful.

Lit., (long) live; -- an exclamation expressing good will, well wishing, etc. The word viva, or a shout or sound made in uttering it.

Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.

Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.

The quality or state of being vivacious.

In Continental armies, esp. the French, a sutler.

In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.

In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.

A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

A vivarium.

See Vifda.

Lively; animated; forcible.

In a lively manner.

Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation.

A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.

Of or pertaining to the Viverridae, or Civet family.

Provisions; victuals.

A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.

A hydrous phosphate of iron of a blue to green color, growing darker on exposure. It occurs in monoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy.

True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.

The quality or state of being vivid; vividness.

Giving life; reviving; enlivening.

To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.

The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.

Able or tending to vivify, animate, or give life; vivifying.

To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.

The quality or condition of being viviparous.

Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.

In a viviparous manner.

The quality of being viviparous; viviparity.