Voluted (a.) Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
Volution (n.) A spiral turn or wreath.
Volution (n.) A whorl of a spiral shell.
Volva (n.) A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.
Volvox (n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
Volvulus (n.) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
Volvulus (n.) Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.
Volyer (n.) A lurcher.
Vomer (n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
Vomer (n.) The pygostyle.
Vomerine (a.) Of or pertaining to the vomer.
Vomica (n.) An abscess cavity in the lungs.
Vomica (n.) An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.
Vomicine (n.) See Brucine.
Vomic nut () Same as Nux vomica.
Vomited (imp. & p. p.) of Vomit
Vomiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vomit
Vomit (n.) To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
Vomit (v. t.) To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.
Vomit (v. t.) Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.
Vomit (n.) Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
Vomit (n.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic.
Vomiting (n.) The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
Vomition (n.) The act or power of vomiting.
Vomitive (a.) Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
Vomito (n.) The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.
Vomitory (a.) Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
Vomitories (pl. ) of Vomitory
Vomitory (n.) An emetic; a vomit.
Vomitory (n.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.
Vomiturition (n.) An ineffectual attempt to vomit.
Vomiturition (n.) The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort.
Vondsira (n.) Same as Vansire.
Voodoo (n.) See Voodooism.
Voodoo (n.) One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
Voodoo (a.) Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.
Voodooism (n.) A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
Voracity (n.) The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
Vortexes (pl. ) of Vortex
Vortices (pl. ) of Vortex
Vortex (n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
Vortex (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
Vortex (n.) Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
Vortical (a.) Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.
Vorticel (n.) A vorticella.
Vorticellas (pl. ) of Vorticella
Vorticellae (pl. ) of Vorticella
Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
Vorticose (a.) Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion.
Vortiginous (a.) Moving rapidly round a center; vortical.
Votaress (n.) A woman who is a votary.
Votarist (n.) A votary.
Votary (a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
Votaries (pl. ) of Votary
Votary (n.) One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.
Vote (n.) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
Vote (n.) A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
Vote (n.) That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
Vote (n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
Vote (n.) Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
Voted (imp. & p. p.) of Vote
Voting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vote
Vote (v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
Vote (v. t.) To choose by suffrage; to elec/; as, to vote a candidate into office.
Vote (v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
Vote (v. t.) To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.
Vote (v. t.) To condemn; to devote; to doom.
Voter (n.) One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter.
Voting () a. & n. from Vote, v.
Votist (n.) One who makes a vow.
Votive (a.) Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet.
Votress (n.) A votaress.
Vouched (imp. & p. p.) of Vouch
Vouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vouch
Vouch (v. t.) To call; to summon.
Vouch (v. t.) To call upon to witness; to obtest.
Vouch (v. t.) To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
Vouch (v. t.) To back; to support; to confirm; to establish.
Vouch (v. t.) To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
Vouch (v. i.) To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
Vouch (v. i.) To assert; to aver; to declare.
Vouch (n.) Warrant; attestation.
Vouchee (n.) The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
Voucher (n.) One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.
Voucher (n.) A book, paper, or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.
Voucher (n.) The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.
Voucher (n.) The tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher or double vouchers.
Vouchment (n.) A solemn assertion.
Vouch/or (n.) Same as Voucher, 3 (b).
Vouchsafed (imp. & p. p.) of Vouchsafe
Vouchsafing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vouchsafe
Vouchsafe (v. t.) To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.
Vouchsafe (v. t.) To receive or accept in condescension.
Vouchsafe (v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
Vouchsafement (n.) The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension.
Voussoir (n.) One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
Vow (n.) A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or condition; a devotion of one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow of poverty.
Vow (n.) Specifically, a promise of fidelity; a pledge of love or affection; as, the marriage vow.