Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
Vielle (n.) An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
Vienna paste () A caustic application made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime; -- called also Vienna caustic.
Viennese (a.) Of or pertaining to Vienna, or people of Vienna.
Viennese (n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of Vienna.
View (n.) The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
View (n.) Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.
View (n.) Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.
View (n.) That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.
View (n.) The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of Lake George.
View (n.) Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued.
View (n.) That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.
View (n.) Appearance; show; aspect.
Viewed (imp. & p. p.) of View
Viewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of View
View (v. t.) To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.
View (v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.
Viewer (n.) One who views or examines.
Viewer (n.) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
Viewer (n.) The superintendent of a coal mine.
Viewiness (n.) The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.
Viewless (a.) Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.
Viewly (a.) Alt. of Viewsome
Viewsome (a.) Pleasing to the sight; sightly.
Viewy (a.) Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.
Viewy (a.) Spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination.
Vifda (n.) In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.
Vigesimal (a.) Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.
Vigesimation (n.) The act of putting to death every twentieth man.
Vigesimo-quarto (a.) Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.
-tos (pl. ) of Vigesimo-quarto
Vigesimo-quarto (n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 24mo, or 24¡.
Vigil (v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
Vigil (v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
Vigil (v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
Vigil (v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
Vigil (v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
Vigilance (n.) The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.
Vigilance (n.) Watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection.
Vigilance (n.) Guard; watch.
Vigilancy (n.) Vigilance.
Vigilant (a.) Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
Vigilantly (adv.) In a vigilant manner.
Vigily (n.) A vigil.
Vigintivirate (n.) The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.
Vignette (n.) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
Vignette (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
Vignette (v. t.) To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
Vigonia (a.) Of or pertaining to the vicu/a; characterizing the vicu/a; -- said of the wool of that animal, used in felting hats, and for other purposes.
Vigor (n.) Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
Vigor (n.) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
Vigor (n.) Strength; efficacy; potency.
Vigor (v. t.) To invigorate.
Vigorite (n.) An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.
Vigoroso (a. & adv.) Vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.
Vigorous (a.) Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.
Vigorous (a.) Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.
Viking (n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Vilany (n.) Villainy.
Vilayet (n.) One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
Vild (a.) Vile.
Vile (superl.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
Vile (superl.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.
Viled (a.) Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile.
Vileyns (a.) Villainous.
Vilification (n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Vilifier (n.) One who vilifies or defames.
Vilified (imp. & p. p.) of Vilify
Vilifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vilify
Vilify (v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Vilify (v. t.) To treat as vile; to despise.
Vilipend (v. t.) To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.
Vilipendency (n.) Disesteem; slight; disparagement.
Vility (n.) Vileness; baseness.
Vill (n.) A small collection of houses; a village.
Villas (pl. ) of Villa
Villa (n.) A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
Village (n.) A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Villager (n.) An inhabitant of a village.
Villagery (n.) Villages; a district of villages.
Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
Villain (n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
Villain (n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
Villain (a.) Villainous.
Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
Villainous (a.) Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.
Villainous (a.) Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action.
Villainous (a.) Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense.
Villainies (pl. ) of Villainy
Villainy (n.) The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer.
Villainy (n.) Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk.
Villainy (n.) The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.
Villakin (n.) A little villa.
Villan (n.) A villain.
Villanage (n.) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.
Villanage (n.) Baseness; infamy; villainy.
Villanel (n.) A ballad.
Villanelle (pl. ) of Villanella
Villanella (n.) An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.