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Vowel

Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

Vowelize

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

Vower

One who makes a vow.

Voyage

To travel; to pass over; to traverse.

Voyageable

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

Voyager

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

Voyageur

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.

Voyol

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

Vugh Vugg

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

Vulcan

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

Vulcanic

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

Vulcanite

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

Vulcanization

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

Vulcanize

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

Vulcanizer

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

Vulcanology

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

Vulgarian

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

Vulgate

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

Vulnerability

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.

Vulnerableness

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerability.

Vulnerary

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

Vulneration

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

Vulpes

A genus of Carnivora including the foxes.

Vulpic

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.

Vulpicide

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

Vulpine

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

Vulpinism

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

Vulpinite

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

Vultern

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

Vulture

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

Vulturine

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

Vulturism

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

Vyce

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

Waahoo

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

Wabble

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

Wabbly

Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

Wacky Wacke

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

Wadd Wad

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.

Waddle

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

Waddler

One who, or that which, waddles.

Waddy

To attack or beat with a waddy.

Waddywood

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

Wade

The act of wading.

Wader

One who, or that which, wades.

Wadmol

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

Wadset

A kind of pledge or mortgage.

Wady

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

Wafer

To seal or close with a wafer.

Waferer

A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner.

Waffle

A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

Waft

A wave or current of wind.

Waftage

Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.

Wafter

One who, or that which, wafts.

Wafture

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

Wag

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

Wag-halter

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

Wagati

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

Wage

To bind one's self; to engage.

Wagenboom

A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.

wager

To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some eventuality; to lay; to stake; to bet.

Wager

To make a bet; to lay a wager.

Wagerer

One who wagers, or lays a bet.

Wagering

Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.

Wages

A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.

Waggel

The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.

Waggery

The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.

Waggish

Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.

Waggle

A waggling or wagging; the preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

Wagnerian

Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer.

Wagnerite

A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.

Wagon

To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Wagon-headed

Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

Wagon-roofed

Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.

Wagonage

Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.

Wagoner

One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.

Wagonette

A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

Wagonful

As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.

Wagonry

Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.

Wagtail

Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name.

Wahabee

A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Islam. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.

Wahoo

A dark blue scombroid food fish (Acanthocibium solandri or Acanthocibium petus) of Florida and the West Indies.

Waid

Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

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