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.

To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.

The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

Of or pertaining to vivisection.

One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.

A vivisectionist.

A female fox.

Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

Like a vixen; vixenish.

To wit; that is; namely.

A mask; a visor.

Wearing a vizard.

Same as Viscacha.

A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.

A grand vizier. See under Vizier.

The office, dignity, or authority of a vizier.

Of, pertaining to, or issued by, a vizier.

See Vizier.

See Visor.

The diadem indris. See Indris.

A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.

A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.

The writer or maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer.

Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.

Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.

The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.

The quality of being vocal; vocality.

A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

The vocative case.

Vociferation; noise; clamor.

Noisy; clamorous.

To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.

The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.

One who vociferates, or is clamorous.

Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.

A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b.

A supposed element, afterward found to be a mixture of several metals, as copper, iron, lead, nickel, etc.

A Russian drink distilled from rye.

An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

Same as Vugg.

The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.

To clamor; to cry out.

Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice.

Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.

Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.

To be emitted or evacuated.

Capable of being voided, or evacuated.

The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.

Emptied; evacuated.

One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls.

Receiving what is ejected or voided.

The quality or state of being void; emptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality.

A carriage.

See Waywode.

A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish.

Apt or fit to fly.

A flying fish of California (Exoc/tus Californicus): -- called also volator. The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying.

Light; giddy.

Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current.

A two-wheeled carriage formerly much used in Cuba. The body is in front of the axle; the driver rides on the horse.

One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volap/k.

Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879. For more about /planned languages/, see Esperanto.

Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.

See Volery.

A winged animal; wild fowl; game.

Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness.

Capable of being volatilized.

The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.

To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.

Same as Volador, 1.

A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.

Volcanic.

Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.

Like a volcano.

Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.

Volcanic power or action; volcanicity.

One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.

The quality or state of being volcanic, or volcanic origin; volcanicity.

The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.

To subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action.

A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.

Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinae. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.