Vespertiliones (n. pl.) A tribe of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.
Vespertilionine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Vespertiliones.
Vespertinal (a.) Vespertine.
Vespertine (a.) Of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening.
Vespertine (a.) Blossoming in the evening.
Vespiary (n.) A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.
Vespilloes (pl. ) of Vespillo
Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
Vessel (n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
Vessel (n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.
Vessel (n.) Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
Vessel (n.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
Vessel (v. t.) To put into a vessel.
Vesselfuls (pl. ) of Vesselful
Vesselful (n.) As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
Vesses (n.) Alt. of Vessets
Vessets (n.) A kind of worsted; also, a worsted cloth.
Vessicnon (n.) Alt. of Vessignon
Vessignon (n.) A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.
Vest (n.) An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
Vest (n.) Any outer covering; array; garb.
Vest (n.) Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
Vested (imp. & p. p.) of Vest
Vesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vest
Vest (n.) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
Vest (n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
Vest (n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
Vest (n.) To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
Vest (n.) To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
Vest (v. i.) To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
Vesta (n.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
Vesta (n.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
Vesta (n.) A wax friction match.
Vestal (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
Vestal (a.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
Vestal (a.) A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
Vestales (n. pl.) A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
Vested (a.) Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
Vested (a.) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
Vestiarian (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments.
Vestiary (n.) A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.
Vestiary (a.) Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.
Vestibular (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
Vestibule (n.) The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.
Vestibula (pl. ) of Vestibulum
Vestibulum (n.) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
Vestigate (v. t.) To investigate.
Vestige (n.) The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.
Vestigial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
Vesting (n.) Cloth for vests; a vest pattern.
Vestiture (n.) In vestiture.
Vestlet (n.) Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
Vestment (n.) A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress
Vestment (n.) any priestly garment.
Vestries (pl. ) of Vestry
Vestry (n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.
Vestry (n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.
Vestry (n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
Vestrymen (pl. ) of Vestryman
Vestryman (n.) A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry.
Vesture (v. t.) A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.
Vesture (v. t.) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.
Vesture (v. t.) Seizin; possession.
Vestured (a.) Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped.
Vesuvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.
Vesuvian (a.) Vesuvianite.
Vesuvianite (n.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase.
Vesuvine (n.) A trade name for a brown dyestuff obtained from certain basic azo compounds of benzene; -- called also Bismarck brown, Manchester brown, etc.
Vetch (n.) Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa.
Vetchling (n.) Any small leguminous plant of the genus Lathyrus, especially L. Nissolia.
Vetchy (a.) Consisting of vetches or of pea straw.
Vetchy (a.) Abounding with vetches.
Veteran (a.) Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.
Veteran (n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had.
Veteranize (v. i.) To reenlist for service as a soldier.
Veterinarian (n.) One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon.
Veterinary (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school.
Vetiver (n.) An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus.
Vetoes (pl. ) of Veto
Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.
Veto (n.) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.
Veto (n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.
Vetoed (imp. & p. p.) of Veto
Vetoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Veto
Veto (v. t.) To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.
Vetoist (n.) One who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto.
Vetture (pl. ) of Vettura
Vettura (n.) An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach.
Vetturini (pl. ) of Vetturino
Vetturino (n.) One who lets or drives a vettura.
Vetturino (n.) A vettura.
Vetust (a.) Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.
Vexed (imp. & p. p.) of Vex
Vexing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vex
Vex (v. t.) To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
Vex (v. t.) To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.
Vex (v. t.) To twist; to weave.
Vex (v. i.) To be irritated; to fret.