Ventro-inguinal (a.) Pertaining both to the abdomen and groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal; as, ventro-inguinal hernia.
Venture (n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
Venture (n.) An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
Venture (n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
Ventured (imp. & p. p.) of Venture
Venturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Venture
Venture (v. i.) To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
Venture (v. i.) To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.
Venture (v. t.) To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
Venture (v. t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
Venture (v. t.) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
Venturer (n.) One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.
Venturer (n.) A strumpet; a prostitute.
Venturesome (a.) Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act.
Venturine (n.) Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces.
Venturous (n.) Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adveturous; as, a venturous soldier.
Ventuse (v. t. & i.) See Ventouse.
Venue (n.) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
Venue (n.) A bout; a hit; a turn. See Venew.
Venule (n.) A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.
Venulose (a.) Full of venules, or small veins.
Venus (n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
Venus (n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
Venus (n.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
Venus (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
Venust (a.) Beautiful.
Veracious (a.) Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.
Veracious (a.) Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative.
Veraciously (adv.) In a veracious manner.
Veracity (n.) The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.
Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
Veratralbine (n.) A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.
Veratrate (n.) A salt of veratric acid.
Veratria (n.) Veratrine.
Veratric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.
Veratrina (n.) Same as Veratrine.
Veratrine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.
Veratrol (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.
Veratrum (n.) A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
Verb (n.) A word; a vocable.
Verb (n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
Verbal (a.) Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
Verbal (a.) Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
Verbal (a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
Verbal (a.) Abounding with words; verbose.
Verbal (a.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
Verbal (n.) A noun derived from a verb.
Verbalism (n.) Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.
Verbalist (n.) A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.
Verbality (n.) The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression.
Verbalization (n.) The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.
Verbalized (imp. & p. p.) of Verbalize
Verbalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Verbalize
Verbalize (v. t.) To convert into a verb; to verbify.
Verbalize (v. i.) To be verbose.
Verbally (adv.) In a verbal manner; orally.
Verbally (adv.) Word for word; verbatim.
Verbarian (a.) Of or pertaining to words; verbal.
Verbarian (n.) One who coins words.
Verbarium (n.) A game in word making. See Logomachy, 2.
Verbatim (adv.) Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.
Verbena (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
Verbenaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceae) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.
Verbenated (imp. & p. p.) of Verbenate
Verbenating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Verbenate
Verbenate (v. t.) To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.
Verberate (v. t.) To beat; to strike.
Verberation (n.) The act of verberating; a beating or striking.
Verberation (n.) The impulse of a body; which causes sound.
Verbiage (n.) The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Verify (v. t.) To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.
Verbose (a.) Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
Verbosities (pl. ) of Verbosity
Verbosity (n.) The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
Verd (n.) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
Verd (n.) The right of pasturing animals in a forest.
Verd (n.) Greenness; freshness.
Verdancy (n.) The quality or state of being verdant.
Verdant (a.) Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
Verdant (a.) Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth.
Verd antique () A mottled-green serpentine marble.
Verd antique () A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.
Verdantly (adv.) In a verdant manner.
Verderer (n.) Alt. of Verderor
Verderor (n.) An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses.
Verdict (n.) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
Verdict (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.
Verdigris (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.
Verdigris (n.) The green rust formed on copper.
Verdigris (v. t.) To cover, or coat, with verdigris.
Verdin (n.) A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.
Verdine (n.) A commercial name for green aniline dye.
Verdingale (n.) See Farthingale.
Verdit (n.) Verdict.
Verditer (n.) Verdigris.
Verditer (n.) Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.
Verditure (n.) The faintest and palest green.
Verdoy (a.) Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border.
Verdure (n.) Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.
Verdured (a.) Covered with verdure.