Dictionary

"V the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet is a vocal consonant. V and U are only varieties of the same character U being the cursive form while V is better adapted for engraving as in stone. The two letters we

"Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as a vacant room." — "Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as vacant hours." — "Not filled or occupied by an incumbent possessor or o

"The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as the vacation of an office or a charter." — "Intermission of a stated employment procedure or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure." — "Intermission

"Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to derived from or caused by vaccinia; as vaccine virus; the vaccine disease." — "The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination." — "any preparation used to render an organism immun

"A sheath; a theca; as the vagina of the portal vein." — "Specifically the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal or to the cloaca." — "The terminal part of the oviduct in in

"Wandering; vagrant; vagabond." — "Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as a vague idea; a vague proposition." — "Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as a vag

"A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day." — "A letter containing professions of love or a missive of a sentimental comic or burlesque character sent on St. Valentine's Day."

"Strong; powerful; efficient." — "Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified defended or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as a valid argument; a valid

"The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country including usually the bed of a stream with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or b

"Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo." — "Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as a valuable friend; a val

"The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance." — "Worth estimated by any stan

"of Value" — "Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as a valued contributor; a valued friend."

"A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent

"The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also the front line or foremost division of a fleet either in sailing or in battle." — "A shovel used in cleansing ore." — "To wash or cleanse as a small por

"A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants natives of tropical America." — "The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia and V. claviculata remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor for the volatile odorifero

"Varying in from character or the like; variable; different; diverse." — "Changeable; changing; fickle." — "Something which differs in form from another thing though really the same; as a variant from a type in nat

"The act of varying; a partial change in the form position state or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; vari

"Changed; altered; various; diversified; as a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery." — "of Vary"

"of Variety"

"The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness." — "That which is various." — "A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as

"Different; diverse; several; manifold; as men of various names; various occupations; various colors." — "Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable." — "Variegated; diversified; not monotonous."

"To change the aspect of; to alter in form appearance substance position or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as to vary the properties proportions or nature of a thing; to vary a posture or an

"of Vary" — "a. & n. from Vary."

"Waste; desert; desolate; lonely." — "Of great extent; very spacious or large; also huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia." — "Very great in numbers quantity

"A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome near the church of St. Peter including the pope's palace a museum a library a famous chapel etc."

"An arched structure of masonry forming a ceiling or canopy." — "An arched apartment; especially a subterranean room use for storing articles for a prison for interment or the like; a cell; a cellar." — "The canopy

"Same as Radius 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."

"Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of or produced by plants; as a vegetable nature; vegetable growths juices etc." — "Consisting of or comprising plants; as the vegetable kingdom." — "Plants having dist

"One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat eggs or milk." — "Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as a vegetarian diet."

"The act or process of vegetating or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth." — "The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as luxuriant vegetation." — "An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any pa

"That in or on which any person or thing is or may be carried as a coach carriage wagon cart car sleigh bicycle etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically a means of conveyance upon land." — "That which is used as the