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.

Belonging or relating to volition.

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 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.

The act or power of vomiting.

Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.

An emetic; a vomit.

An ineffectual attempt to vomit. The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort.

Same as Vansire.

Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.

an economic hypothesis, proposed by President Ronald Regan, that large cuts in tax rates would so stimulate the economy that the tax revenue on the increases in business and personal income would offset the anticipated tax revenue losses, so that such tax cuts would not increasing the federal budget deficit. Its believers do not consider the actual massive deficit increases subsequent to the 1982-83 tax cut as being caused by the tax cut itself, but by other governmental policies. This hypothesis was graphically illustrated by the Laffer curve.

A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Haiti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.

One who treks before or first; a pioneer.

Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.

The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.

Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.

Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.

A vorticella.

Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.

Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion.

Moving rapidly round a center; vortical.

A woman who is a votary.

A votary.

One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.

To choose by suffrage; to elec/; as, to vote a candidate into office.

One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter.

a. n. from Vote, v.