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.

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.

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.

One who makes a vow.

Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet.

A votaress.

Warrant; attestation.

The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.

One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.

A solemn assertion.

Same as Voucher, 3 (b).

To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.

The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension.

One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

To make a vow, or solemn promise.

One bound by the same vow as another.

Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

Furnished with vowels.

Of the nature of a vowel.

The use of vowels.

To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.

One who makes a vow.

A voice.

To travel; to pass over; to traverse.

That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable.

One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water.

A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.

See Viol, 2. The block through which a messenger passes.

The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.

A cavity in a lode; -- called also vogle.

The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus.

Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.

Volcanicity.

Volcanism.

A volcanist.

Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.

The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.

To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization.

One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.

A volcano.

The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc.

A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.

The act or process of making vulgar, or common.

To make vulgar, or common.

In a vulgar manner.

The quality of being vulgar.

Of or pertaining to the Vulgate, or the old Latin version of the Scriptures.

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerability.

Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions. A vulnerary remedy.

To wound; to hurt.

The act of wounding, or the state of being wounded.

Full of wounds; wounded.

Causing wounds; inflicting wounds; wounding.

Having wounds; vulnerose.