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Vapor
() To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
Vapor
() To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
Vaporability
() The quality or state of being vaporable.
Vaporable
() Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.
Vaporate
() To emit vapor; to evaporate.
Vaporation
() The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
Vapored
() Wet with vapors; moist.
Vapored
() Affected with the vapors. See Vapor, n., 5.
Vaporer
() One who vapors; a braggart.
Vaporiferous
() Conveying or producing vapor.
Vaporific
() Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
Vaporiform
() Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
Vaporimeter
() An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
Vaporing
() Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.
Vaporish
() Full of vapors; vaporous.
Vaporish
() Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.
Vaporizable
() Capable of being vaporized into vapor.
Vaporization
() The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.
Vaporized
() of Vaporize
Vaporizing
() of Vaporize
Vaporize
() To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
Vaporize
() To pass off in vapor.
Vaporizer
() One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
Vaporose
() Full of vapor; vaporous.
Vaporous
() Having the form or nature of vapor.
Vaporous
() Full of vapors or exhalations.
Vaporous
() Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent.
Vaporous
() Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.
Vaporousness
() The quality of being vaporous.
Vapory
() Full of vapors; vaporous.
Vapory
() Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
Vapulation
() The act of beating or whipping.
Vaquero
() One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman.
Vara
() A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
Varan
() The monitor. See Monitor, 3.
Varangian
() One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.
Varanus
() A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.
Vare
() A wand or staff of authority or justice.
Vare
() A weasel.
Varec
() The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
Vari
() The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.
Variability
() The quality or state of being variable; variableness.
Variability
() The power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or function.
Variable
() Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
Variable
() Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
Variable
() That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.
Variable
() A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables.
Variable
() A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
Variable
() Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
Variableness
() The quality or state of being variable; variability.