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Vaunter
() One who vaunts; a boaster.
Vauntful
() Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
Vauntingly
() In a vaunting manner.
Vauntmure
() A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall.
Vauquelinite
() Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.
Vaut
() To vault; to leap.
Vaut
() A vault; a leap.
Vauty
() Vaulted.
Vavasor
() The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron.
Vavasory
() The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.
Vaward
() The fore part; van.
Vaza parrot
() Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis, native of Madagascar; -- called also vasa parrot.
Veadar
() The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.
Veal
() The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.
Vection
() Vectitation.
Vectitation
() The act of carrying, or state of being carried.
Vector
() Same as Radius vector.
Vector
() A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.
Vecture
() The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
Veda
() The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.
Vedanta
() A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the \"Anta,\" or end or substance.
Vedantic
() Of or pertaining to the Vedas.
Vedantist
() One versed in the doctrines of the Vedantas.
Vedette
() A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.
Vedro
() A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U. S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons.
Veered
() of Veer
Veering
() of Veer
Veer
() To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.
Veer
() To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.
Veering
() Shifting.
Veery
() An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.
Vega
() A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.
Vegetability
() The quality or state of being vegetable.
Vegetable
() Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
Vegetable
() Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
Vegetable
() Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
Vegetable
() Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
Vegetable
() A plant. See Plant.
Vegetable
() A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
Vegetal
() Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.
Vegetal
() Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals.
Vegetal
() A vegetable.
Vegetality
() The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable.
Vegetality
() The quality or state of being vegetal, or exhibiting those physiological phenomena which are common to plants and animals. See Vegetal, a., 2.
Vegetarian
() One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.
Vegetarian
() Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.
Vegetarianism
() The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.
Vegetated
() of Vegetate
Vegetating
() of Vegetate
Vegetate
() To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.