Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 16

Vexation (n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

Vexation (n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.

Vexation (n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit.

Vexatious (a.) Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.

Vexatious (a.) Full or vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.

Vexed (a.) Annoyed; harassed; troubled.

Vexed (a.) Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.

Vexer (n.) One who vexes or troubles.

Vexil (n.) A vexillum.

Vexillar () Alt. of Vexillary

Vexillary () Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard.

Vexillary () Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.

Vexillary (n.) A standard bearer.

Vexillation (n.) A company of troops under one vexillum.

Vexilla (pl. ) of Vexillum

Vexillum (n.) A flag or standard.

Vexillum (n.) A company of troops serving under one standard.

Vexillum (n.) A banner.

Vexillum (n.) The sign of the cross.

Vexillum (n.) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.

Vexillum (n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.

Vexingly (adv.) In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate.

V hook () A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.

Via (n.) A road way.

Via (prep.) By the way of; as, to send a letter via Queenstown to London.

Viability (n.) The quality or state of being viable.

Viability (n.) The capacity of living after birth.

Viability (n.) The capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.

Viable (a.) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

Viaduct (n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.

Viage (n.) A voyage; a journey.

Vial (n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.

Vialed (imp. & p. p.) of Vial

Vialled () of Vial

Vialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vial

Vialling () of Vial

Vial (v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.

Viameter (n.) An odometer; -- called also viatometer.

Viand (n.) An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Viander (n.) A feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host.

Vi-apple (n.) See Otaheite apple.

Viary (a.) Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads.

Viatecture (n.) The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.

Viatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.

Viaticum (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.

Viaticum (n.) Provisions for a journey.

Viaticum (n.) The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.

Viatometer (n.) A viameter.

Vibices (n. pl.) More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.

Vibracula (pl. ) of Vibraculum

Vibraculum (n.) One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.

Vibrancy (n.) The state of being vibrant; resonance.

Vibrant (a.) Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums.

Vibrate (imp. & p. p.) of Vibrate

Vibrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vibrate

Vibrate (v. t.) To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.

Vibrate (v. t.) To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.

Vibrate (v. t.) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.

Vibrate (v. i.) To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.

Vibrate (v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.

Vibrate (v. i.) To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.

Vibrate (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.

Vibratile (a.) Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.

Vibratility (n.) The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.

Vibration (n.) The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.

Vibration (n.) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.

Vibratiuncle (a.) A small vibration.

Vibrative (a. Vibrating) ; vibratory.

Vibratory (a.) Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.

Vibrios (pl. ) of Vibrio

Vibriones (pl. ) of Vibrio

Vibrio (n.) A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.

Vibrissae (pl. ) of Vibrissa

Vibrissa (n.) One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.

Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

Vibroscope (n.) An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.

Vibroscope (n.) An instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.

Viburnum (n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.

Vicar (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.

Vicar (n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.

Vicarage (n.) The benefice of a vicar.

Vicarage (n.) The house or residence of a vicar.

Vicarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.

Vicarial (a.) Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.

Vicarian (n.) A vicar.

Vicariate (a.) Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.

Vicariate (n.) Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar.

Vicarious (prep.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.

Vicarious (prep.) Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.

Vicarious (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.

Vicarious (prep.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.

Vicariously (adv.) In a vicarious manner.

Vicarship (n.) The office or dignity of a vicar.

Vicary (n.) A vicar.

Vice (n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.

Vice (n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.

Vice (n.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.

Vice (n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.

Vice (n.) A gripe or grasp.

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