Vaginant (a.) Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing.
Vaginate (a.) Alt. of Vaginated
Vaginated (a.) Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.
Vaginati (n. pl.) A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.
Vaginervose (a.) Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.
Vaginicola (n.) A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.
Vaginismus (n.) A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.
Vaginitis (n.) Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.
Vaginopennous (a.) Having elytra; sheath-winged.
Vaginula (n.) A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
Vaginula (n.) One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.
Vaginule (n.) A vaginula.
Vagissate (v. i.) To caper or frolic.
Vagous (a.) Wandering; unsettled.
Vagrancy (n.) The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Vagrant (a.) Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
Vagrant (a.) Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.
Vagrant (n.) One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.
Vagrantly (adv.) In a vagrant manner.
Vagrantness (n.) State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
Vague (v. i.) Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
Vague (v. i.) Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
Vague (v. i.) Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
Vague (n.) An indefinite expanse.
Vague (v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.
Vague (n.) A wandering; a vagary.
Vaguely (adv.) In a vague manner.
Vagueness (n.) The quality or state of being vague.
Vagus (a.) Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.
Vagus (n.) The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
Vail (n. & v. t.) Same as Veil.
Vail (n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
Vail (n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
Vail (n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
Vail (v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
Vail (v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
Vail (v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
Vail (n.) Submission; decline; descent.
Vailer (n.) One who vails.
Vaimure (n.) An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure.
Vain (superl.) Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
Vain (superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
Vain (superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
Vain (superl.) Showy; ostentatious.
Vain (n.) Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
Vainglorious (a.) Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
Vainglory (n.) Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
Vainly (adv.) In a vain manner; in vain.
Vainness (n.) The quality or state of being vain.
Vair (n.) The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.
Vairy (n.) Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.
Vaishnava (n.) A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.
Vaishnavism (n.) The worship of Vishnu.
Vaisya (n.) The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.
Vaivode (n.) See Waywode.
Vakeel (n.) A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador.
Valance (n.) Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor.
Valance (n.) The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
Valanced (imp. & p. p.) of Valance
Valancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Valance
Valance (v. t.) To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.
Vale (n.) A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
Vale (n.) See 2d Vail, 3.
Valediction (n.) A farewell; a bidding farewell.
Valedictorian (n.) One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.
Valedictory (a.) Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.
Valedictories (pl. ) of Valedictory
Valedictory (n.) A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.
Valence (n.) The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four.
Valencia (n.) A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.
Valenciennes lace () A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net.
Valencies (pl. ) of Valency
Valency (n.) See Valence.
Valency (n.) A unit of combining power; a so-called bond of affinity.
Valentia (n.) See Valencia.
Valentine (n.) A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.
Valentine (n.) A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day.
Valentinian (n.) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.
Valeramide (n.) The acid amide derivative of valeric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Valerate (n.) A salt of valeric acid.
Valerian (n.) Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic.
Valerianaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaccae) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard.
Valerianate (n.) A valerate.
Valerianic (a.) Performance to, or obtained from, valerian root; specifically, designating an acid which is usually called valeric acid.
Valeric (a.) Valerianic; specifically, designating any one of three metameric acids, of which the typical one (called also inactive valeric acid), C4H9CO2H, is obtained from valerian root and other sources, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese.
Valeridine (n.) A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.
Valerin (n.) A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor.
Valeritrine (n.) A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles.
Valero- () A combining form (also used adjectively) indicating derivation from, or relation to, valerian or some of its products, as valeric acid; as in valerolactone, a colorless oily liquid produced as the anhydride of an hydroxy valeric acid.
Valerone (n.) A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid.
Valeryl (n.) The hypothetical radical C5H9O, regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives.
Valerylene (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C5H8; -- called also pentine.
Valet (n.) A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.
Valet (n.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.
Valetudinarian (a.) Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
Valetudinarian (n.) A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
Valetudinarianism (n.) The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.
Valetudinary (a.) Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian.
Valetudinary (n.) A valetudinarian.
Valetudinous (a.) Valetudinarian.