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.

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

Volatilizable.

The act of flying; flight.

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

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

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

A popular song, or national air.

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.

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.

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

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

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

To glide in a flying machine.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.

An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.

Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.

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

Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author.

The theories or practice of Voltaire.

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.

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.

A wattmeter.

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

An electrotype.

Turn, that is, turn over the leaf.

A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.

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

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

Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume.

Volumetric.

Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.

One who writes a volume; an author.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A woman's cap.

Voluptuous; luxurious.

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

Voluptuousness.

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

A rolling of a body; a wallowing.

Having a volute, or spiral scroll.

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

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.

The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic. Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.

A lurcher.

A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals. The pygostyle.

Of or pertaining to the vomer.

An abscess cavity in the lungs. An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.

See Brucine.

To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.

The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.