Vitals (n. pl.) Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state.
Vitellary (a.) Vitelline.
Vitelligenous (a.) Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.
Vitellin (n.) An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.
Vitelline (a.) Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.
Vitellogene (n.) A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.
Vitellus (n.) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.
Vitellus (n.) Perisperm in an early condition.
Vitiated (imp. & p. p.) of Vitiate
Vitiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vitiate
Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
Vitiate (v. t.) To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.
Vitiation (n.) The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract.
Viticulose (a.) Having long and slender trailing stems.
Viticultural (a.) Of or pertaining to viticulture.
Viticulture (n.) The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.
Viticulturist (n.) One engaged in viticulture.
Vitiligo (n.) A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.
Vitilitigate (v. i.) To contend in law litigiously or cavilously.
Vitilitigation (n.) Cavilous litigation; cavillation.
Vitiosity (n.) Viciousness; depravity.
Vitious (n.) Alt. of Vitiousness
Vitiously (n.) Alt. of Vitiousness
Vitiousness (n.) See Vicious, Viciously, Viciousness.
Vitis (n.) A genus of plants including all true grapevines.
Vitoe (a.) See Durukuli.
Vitrella (n.) One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.
Vitre-o-electic (a.) Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.
Vitreous (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.
Vitreous (a.) Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.
Vitreousness (n.) The quality or state of being vitreous.
Vitrescence (n.) The quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass.
Vitrescent (a.) Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.
Vitrescible (a.) That may be vitrified; vitrifiable.
Vitric (a.) Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from ceramic.
Vitrifaction (n.) The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.
Vitrifacture (n.) The manufacture of glass and glassware.
Vitrifiable (a.) Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.
Vitrificable (a.) Vitrifiable.
Vitrificate (v. t.) To convert into glass; to vitrify.
Vitrification (n.) Same as Vitrifaction.
Vitrified (a.) Converted into glass.
Vitriform (a.) Having the form or appearance of glass; resembling glass; glasslike.
Vitrified (imp. & p. p.) of Vitrify
Vitrifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vitrify
Vitrify (v. t.) To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
Vitrify (v. t.) To become glass; to be converted into glass.
Vitrina (n.) A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name.
Vitriol (n.) A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
Vitriol (n.) Sulphuric acid; -- called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
Vitriolated (imp. & p. p.) of Vitriolate
Vitriolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vitriolate
Vitriolate (v. t.) To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate.
Vitriolate (v. t.) To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
Vitriolate (a.) Vitriolated.
Vitriolate (n.) A sulphate.
Vitriolated (a.) Changed into a vitriol or a sulphate, or subjected to the action of sulphuric acid or of a sulphate; as, vitriolated potash, i. e., potassium sulphate.
Vitriolation (n.) The act, process, or result of vitriolating.
Vitriolic (a.) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol.
Vitriolizable (a.) Capable of being converted into a vitriol.
Vitriolization (n.) The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.
Vitriolize (v. t.) To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.
Vitriolous (a.) See Vitriolic.
Vitrite (n.) A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.
Vitruvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect.
Vittae (pl. ) of Vitta
Vitta (n.) One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
Vitta (n.) A band, or stripe, of color.
Vittate (a.) Bearing or containing vittae.
Vittate (a.) Striped longitudinally.
Vituline (a.) Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.
Vituperable (a.) Liable to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.
Vituperate (v. t.) To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Vituperation (n.) The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.
Vituperative (a.) Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
Vituperator (n.) One who vituperates, or censures abusively.
Vituperrious (a.) Worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful.
Vivace (a. & adv.) Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.
Vivacious (a.) Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
Vivacious (a.) Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
Vivacious (a.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.
Vivacity (n.) The quality or state of being vivacious.
Vivacity (n.) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor.
Vivacity (n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.
Vivandiere (n.) In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.
Vivariums (pl. ) of Vivarium
Vivaria (pl. ) of Vivarium
Vivarium (n.) A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
Vivaries (pl. ) of Vivary
Vivary (n.) A vivarium.
Viva voce () By word of mouth; orally.
Vivda (n.) See Vifda.
Vive () Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.
Vive (a.) Lively; animated; forcible.
Vively (adv.) In a lively manner.
Vivency (n.) Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation.
Viverra (n.) A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.
Viverrine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Viverridae, or Civet family.
Vivers (n. pl.) Provisions; victuals.
Vives (n.) A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.