A genus of plants including all true grapevines.

See Durukuli.

A curtain of light and translucent material intended to be secured directly to the woodwork of a French casement window or a glazed door.

Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.

One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.

Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.

The quality or state of being vitreous.

The quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass.

Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

That may be vitrified; vitrifiable.

Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from ceramic.

The art or study of the manufacture and decoration of glassware.

The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.

The manufacture of glass and glassware.

Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

Vitrifiable.

To convert into glass; to vitrify.

Same as Vitrifaction.

Converted into glass.

Having the form or appearance of glass; resembling glass; glasslike.

To become glass; to be converted into glass.

A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name.

A glass show case for displaying fine wares, specimens, etc.

To dip in dilute sulphuric acid; to pickle.

A sulphate.

Changed into a vitriol or a sulphate, or subjected to the action of sulphuric acid or of a sulphate; as, vitriolated potash, i. e., potassium sulphate.

The act, process, or result of vitriolating.

Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol.

Capable of being converted into a vitriol.

The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.

To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.

See Vitriolic.

A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.

A kind of Venetian glass or glassware in which white threads are embedded in transparent glass with a lacelike or netlike effect.

Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect.

One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.

Bearing or containing vittae.

Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.

Liable to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.

To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.

Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.

One who vituperates, or censures abusively.

Worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful.

Lit., (long) live; -- an exclamation expressing good will, well wishing, etc. The word viva, or a shout or sound made in uttering it.

Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.

Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.

The quality or state of being vivacious.

In Continental armies, esp. the French, a sutler.

In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.

In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.

A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

A vivarium.

See Vifda.

Lively; animated; forcible.

In a lively manner.

Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation.

A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.

Of or pertaining to the Viverridae, or Civet family.

Provisions; victuals.

A hydrous phosphate of iron of a blue to green color, growing darker on exposure. It occurs in monoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy.

True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.

The quality or state of being vivid; vividness.

Giving life; reviving; enlivening.

To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.

The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.

Able or tending to vivify, animate, or give life; vivifying.

To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.

The quality or condition of being viviparous.

Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.

In a viviparous manner.

The quality of being viviparous; viviparity.

To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.

The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

Of or pertaining to vivisection.

One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.

A vivisectionist.

A female fox.

Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

Like a vixen; vixenish.

To wit; that is; namely.

A mask; a visor.

Wearing a vizard.

Same as Viscacha.

A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.

A grand vizier. See under Vizier.

The office, dignity, or authority of a vizier.

Of, pertaining to, or issued by, a vizier.

See Vizier.

See Visor.

The diadem indris. See Indris.

A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.

A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.

The writer or maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer.

Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.

Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.

The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.

The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.

The quality of being vocal; vocality.

A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

The vocative case.

Vociferation; noise; clamor.

Noisy; clamorous.

To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.

The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.

One who vociferates, or is clamorous.

Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.

A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b.

A supposed element, afterward found to be a mixture of several metals, as copper, iron, lead, nickel, etc.

A Russian drink distilled from rye.

An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

Same as Vugg.

The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.

To clamor; to cry out.

Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice.