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.

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.

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.

A genus of Carnivora including the foxes.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained from a lichen (Cetraria vulpina) as a yellow or red crystalline substance which on decomposition yields pulvinic acid.

One who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox.

Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy; cunning; crafty; artful.

Same as Vulpic.

The quality of being cunning like the fox; craft; artfulness.

A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.

The brush turkey (Talegallus Lathami) of Australia. See Brush turkey.

Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.

Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.

Vulturous.

The quality or state of being like a vulture; rapaciousness.

Like a vulture; rapacious.

Like a cleft with projecting edges.

Inflammation of the vulva.

Pertaining both to the vulva and the uterus.

Pertaining both to the vulva and the vagina.

A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

a. n. from Vie.

The grivet.

The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

Woad.

An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. Plumbago, or black lead.

See Waddy.

To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.

One who, or that which, waddles.

In a waddling manner.

To attack or beat with a waddy.

An Australian tree (Pittosporum bicolor); also, its wood, used in making waddies.

The act of wading.

One who, or that which, wades.

a. n. from Wade, v.

A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.

A kind of pledge or mortgage.

One who holds by a wadset.

A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

A wave.

The kittiwake.

To seal or close with a wafer.

A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner.

A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

A wave or current of wind.

Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.

One who, or that which, wafts.

The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.

One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.

A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat.

To bind one's self; to engage.