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.

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.

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.

See Waggel.

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

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.

To make a bet; to lay a wager.

One who wagers, or lays a bet.

Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.

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

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

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

The pied wagtail.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.

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

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

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

Same as Wagonful.

Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.

One who makes wagons.

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.

The panda.

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.

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

Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

A waif.

Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

One who wails or laments.

A woman who wails.

Sorrowful; mournful.

In a wailing manner.

Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.

See Wayment.

Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.

See Gainage, a.

See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.

The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.

Same as Wagonwright.

A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.

The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.

A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.

A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest. A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.

One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet.