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Vocalic

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

Vocalism

The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

Vocalist

A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.

Vocality

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

Vocalization

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

Vocalize

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

Vocally

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

Vocalness

The quality of being vocal; vocality.

Vocation

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

Vociferate

To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.

Vociferation

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

Vociferous

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

Vocule

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

Vodanium

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

Vodka

A Russian drink distilled from rye.

Voe

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

Vogue

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.

Voice

To clamor; to cry out.

Voiced

Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice.

Voiceful

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

Voiceless

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

Void

To be emitted or evacuated.

Voidable

Capable of being voided, or evacuated.

Voidance

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

Voider

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

Voiding

Receiving what is ejected or voided.

Voidness

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

Vol-au-vent

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

Volador

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

Volant

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

Volante

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

Volap/kist

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

Volapuk Volapuek

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.

Volar

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

Volatile

A winged animal; wild fowl; game.

Volatilization

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

Volatilize

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

Volborthite

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.

Volcanicity

Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.

Volcanism

Volcanic power or action; volcanicity.

Volcanist

One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.

Volcanity

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

Volcanization

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

Volcanize

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

Volcano

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.

Vole

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.

Volge

The common sort of people; the crowd; the mob.

Volitient

Exercising the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will.

Volition

The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.

Volitive

Of or pertaining to the will; originating in the will; having the power to will.

Volksraad

A legislative assembly or parliament of any one of several countries colonized by the Dutch, esp. that of the South African Republic, or the Transvaal, and that of the Orange Free State.

Volley

To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.

Volleyed

Discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; as, volleyed thunder.

Volost

In the greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities; a canton.

Volow

To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.

Volt

The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one amp/re. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15/ C.

Volta

A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.

Voltage

Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.

Voltagraphy

In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode.

Voltairean

Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author.

Voltaism

That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.

Voltameter

An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.

Voltaplast

A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping.

Volti

Turn, that is, turn over the leaf.

Voltmeter

An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit.

Voltzite

An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine.

Volubility

The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Volume

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

Volumed

Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist.

Volumenometer

An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.

Volumenometry

The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.

Volumescope

An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, etc.

Volumeter

An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.

Volumetric

Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume.

Volumist

One who writes a volume; an author.

Voluntarily

In a voluntary manner; of one's own will; spontaneously.

Voluntariness

The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.

Voluntarism

Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer teaching that the evolution of the universe is the activity of a blind and irrational will, Fichte holding that the intelligent activity of the ego is the fundamental fact of reality.

Voluntary

One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer.

Voluntaryism

The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.

Volunteer

To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.

Voluptuous

Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.

Voluta

Any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.

Voluted

Having a volute, or spiral scroll.

Volva

A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.

Volvox

A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.

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