Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 1

V () V, the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. V and U are only varieties of the same character, U being the cursive form, while V is better adapted for engraving, as in stone. The two letters were formerly used indiscriminately, and till a comparatively recent date words containing them were often classed together in dictionaries and other books of reference (see U). The letter V is from the Latin alphabet, where it was used both as a consonant (about like English w) and as a vowel. The Latin derives it from it from a form (V) of the Greek vowel / (see Y), this Greek letter being either from the same Semitic letter as the digamma F (see F), or else added by the Greeks to the alphabet which they took from the Semitic. Etymologically v is most nearly related to u, w, f, b, p; as in vine, wine; avoirdupois, habit, have; safe, save; trover, troubadour, trope. See U, F, etc.

V () As a numeral, V stands for five, in English and Latin.

Vaagmer (n.) (Zool.) The dealfish. [Written also vaagmaer, and vaagmar.]

Vacancies  (n. pl. ) of Vacancy.

Vacancy (n.) 空；空白；空間 [U]；空處；空地；空房 [C] The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.

All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. -- Sir H. Wotton.

Vacancy (n.) That which is vacant. Specifically:

Vacancy (n.) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy? -- Shak.

Vacancy (n.) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.

Vacancy (n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.

Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. -- Milton.

No interim, not a minute's vacancy. -- Shak.

Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. -- Dryden.

Vacancy (n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

Vacancy (n.) Being unoccupied.

Vacancy (n.) An empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" [syn: void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuum].

Vacancy. () A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.

Vacancy. () By the constitution of the United States, the president has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate. Whether the president can create an office and fill it during the recess of the senate, seems to have been much questioned. Story, Const. Sec. 1553. See Serg. Const. Law, ch. 31; 1 Breese, R. 70.

Vacant (a.) 空的；空白的；空著的，未被佔用的；（職位）空缺的 Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.

Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. -- Shak.

Being of those virtues vacant. -- Shak.

There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. -- Longfellow.

Vacant (a.) Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.

Religion is the interest of all; but philosophy of those . . . at leisure, and vacant from the affairs of the world.  -- Dr. H. More.

There was not a minute of the day which he left vacant. -- Bp. Fell.

Vacant (a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; unoccupied; as, a vacant throne; a vacant house; a vacant apartment; a vacant parish.

Special dignities which vacant lie For thy best use and wearing. -- Shak.

Vacant (a.) Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.

The duke had a pleasant and vacant face. -- Sir H. Wotton.

When on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood. -- Wordsworth.

Vacant (a.) (Law) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate. -- Bouvier.

Vacant succession (Law), One that is claimed by no person, or where all the heirs are unknown, or where all the known heirs to it have renounced it. -- Burrill.

Syn: Empty; void; devoid; free; unemployed; disengaged; unincumbered; uncrowded; idle.

Usage: Vacant, Empty. A thing is empty when there is nothing in it; as, an empty room, or an empty noddle. Vacant adds the idea of having been previously filled, or intended to be filled or occupied; as, a vacant seat at table; a vacant office; vacant hours. When we speak of a vacant look or a vacant mind, we imply the absence of the intelligence naturally to be expected there.

Vacant (a.) Void of thought or knowledge; "a vacant mind".

Vacant (a.) Without an occupant or incumbent; "the throne is never vacant".

Vacantly (adv.) 神情茫然地 In a vacant manner; inanely.

Vacantly (adv.) In a vacant manner; "she was staring vacantly into the room".

Vacated (imp. & p. p.) of Vacate.

Vacating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vacate.

Vacate (v. t.) To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

Vacate (v. t.) To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause.

That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. -- Eikon Basilike.

The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. -- R. Nelson.

Vacate (v. t.) To defeat; to put an end to. [R.]

He vacates my revenge. -- Dryden.

Vacate (v.) Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" [syn: vacate, resign, renounce, give up].

Vacate (v.) Leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight" [syn: vacate, empty, abandon]

Vacate (v.) Cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate].

Vacation (n.) [C] [U] 休假；假期；休庭期；休假日；（房屋等的）騰出，搬出；辭職 The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.

Vacation (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.

It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy. -- Palfrey. Hence, specifically:
Vacation (n.) (Law) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the vacation." -- Shak.

Vacation (n.) A period of intermission of regular paid work or employment, or of studies and exercises at an educational institution; the time during which a person temporarily ceases regular duties of any kind and performs other activites, usually some form of liesure; holidays; recess (at a school); as, the spring vacation; to spend one's vacation travelling; to paint the house while on vacation. Vacation is typically used for rest, travel, or recreation, but may be used for any purpose. In Britain this sense of vacation is usually referred to as holiday.

Vacation (n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

Vacation (n.) Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico" [syn: vacation, holiday].

Vacation (n.) The act of making something legally void.

Vacation (v.) (v. i.) 度假 Spend or take a vacation [syn: vacation, holiday].

Vaccary (n.) A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.

Vaccina (n.) [NL.] (Med.) Vaccinia.

Vaccina (n.) A local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar [syn: vaccinia, vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia, variola vaccina].

Vaccinal (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

Vaccinated (imp. & p. p.) of Vaccinate.

Vaccinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaccinate.

Vaccinate (v. t.) (v. t.) 給……種牛痘，給……注射疫苗 [（+against）] (v. i.) 種牛痘；注射疫苗；接種疫苗 To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows ; now, generally, to administer (by injection or otherwise) any vaccine with the objective of rendering the recipient immune to an infectious disease. One who has been thus immunized by vaccination is said to be vaccinated against a particular disease. One may be thus immunized (vaccinated) also by oral ingestion or inhalation of a vaccine.

Vaccinated against, () A particular disease. One may be thus immunized (vaccinated) also by oral ingestion or inhalation of a vaccine.

Vaccinate (v.) Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school" [syn: immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate].

Vaccinated (a.) 接種疫苗的；已接種的；種痘的；接種過疫菌的 Having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease [syn: immunized, immunised, vaccinated].

Vaccination (n.) 疫苗接種；種痘 [（+against）]；牛痘疤 The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.

Note: In recent use, vaccination sometimes includes inoculation with any virus as a preventive measure; as, vaccination against cholera.

Vaccination (n.) Any inoculation intended to raise immunity to a disease.

Vaccination (n.) Taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease [syn: inoculation, vaccination].

Vaccination (n.) The scar left following inoculation with a vaccine.

Vaccinator (n.) 牛痘接種員；種痘刀；接種刀（針） One who, or that which, vaccinates.

Vaccinator (n.) A medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases [syn: inoculator, vaccinator].

Vaccine (a.) 牛痘的；疫苗的 Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.

Vaccine (a.) Of or pertaining to a vaccine or vaccination.

Vaccine (n.) 牛痘苗；疫苗 The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.

Vaccine (n.) Any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.

Vaccine (n.) (Computers) A program designed to protect a computer from software viruses, by detecting and or eliminating them.
Vaccine (n.) Immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies [syn: vaccine, vaccinum].

Vaccinia (n.) (Med.) 牛痘 Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

Vaccinia (n.) A local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar [syn: vaccinia, vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia, variola vaccina].

Vaccinia (n.) A viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox [syn: cowpox, vaccinia].

Vaccinist (n.) 牛痘接種員 A vaccinator.

Vaccinium (n.) (Bot.) 越橘屬 A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

Vaccinium (n.) Evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberries; blueberries [syn: Vaccinium, genus Vaccinium].

Vacher (n.) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman. [Southwestern U. S.] -- Bartlett.

Vachery (n.) An inclosure for cows.

Vachery (n.) A dairy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Prompt. Parv.

Vacillancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.

Vacillant (a.) Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.

Vacillant (a.) Uncertain in purpose or action [syn: vacillant, vacillating, wavering].

Vacillated (imp. & p. p.) of Vacillate.

Vacillating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vacillate.

Vacillate  (v. i.) 動搖；猶豫；躊躇 [（+between）]；搖擺；波動 To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.

[A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. -- Paley.

Vacillate (v. i.) To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.

Syn: See Fluctuate.

Vacillate (v.) Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement" [syn: hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate].

Vacillate (v.) Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated" [syn: fluctuate, vacillate, waver] .

Vacillating (a.) 猶豫不決的；Vacillate 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. -- Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.

Vacillating (a.) Uncertain in purpose or action [syn: vacillant, vacillating, wavering].

Vacillation (n.) 猶豫不決，躊躇；搖擺；波動 The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering.

His vacillations, always exhibited most pitiably in emergencies.  -- Macaulay.

Vacillation (n.) Unsteadiness of purpose; changeableness.

There is a vacillation, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. -- Jer. Taylor.

Vacillation (n.) Indecision in speech or action [syn: hesitation, vacillation, wavering].

Vacillation (n.) Changing location by moving back and forth [syn: swing, swinging, vacillation].

Vacillatory (a.) Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. -- Hawthorne.

Vacuate (v. t.) 在……中造成真空；【廢】使空 To make void, or empty. [R.]

Vacuation (n.) The act of emptying; evacuation. [R.]

Vacuist (n.) One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist.

Vacuity (n.) 空白；空間；真空；空虛；空泛 The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.

Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply of aliment. -- Arbuthnot.

Vacuity (n.) Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.

A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter. -- Bentley.

God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul. -- Rogers.

Vacuity (n.) Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [R.]

Their expectations will meet with vacuity. -- Glanvill.

Vacuity (n.) The absence of matter [syn: vacuum, vacuity].

Vacuity (n.) A region that is devoid of matter [syn: vacuum, vacuity].

Vacuity (n.) Total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: inanity, senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness].

Vacuna (n.) (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.

Vacuolated (a.) (Biol.) 有液泡的 Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells.

Vacuolated (a.) Formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell [syn: vacuolate, vacuolated].

Vacuolation (n.) (Biol.) 【生】空泡化；空泡狀態 Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles.

Vacuolation (n.) The state of having become filled with vacuoles [syn: vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation].

Vacuole (n.) (Biol.) 【生】液泡；空泡 A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm.

Contractile vacuole. (Zool.) 伸縮泡 See under Contractile, and see Illusts. of Infusoria, and Lobosa.

Food vacuole. (Zool.) 食泡；食胞 See under Food, and see Illust. of Infusoria.

Vacuole (n.) 【生】液泡；空泡 A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell.

Vacuous (a.)  空的；空虛的；無知的 Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.

Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude; nor vacuous the space. -- Milton.

That the few may lead selfish and vacuous days. -- J. Morley.

Vacuous (a.) Devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous].

Vacuous (a.) Devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: empty, hollow, vacuous].

Vacuous (a.) Devoid of matter; "a vacuous space".

Vacuous (a.) Void of expression; "a blank stare" [syn: blank, vacuous].

Vacuousness (n.) 沒有表情；空虛；無所事事；The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity. -- W. Montagu.

Vacuousness (n.) Indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas; "the vacuousness of her face belied her feelings".

Vacuums (n. pl. ) of Vacuum.

Vacua (n. pl. ) of Vacuum.

Vacuum (n.) (Physics) 真空 [C]；（心靈的）空白，空虛 [S] A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.

Vacuum (n.) The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.

Vacuum brake, 真空煞 A kind of continuous brake operated by exhausting the air from some appliance under each car, and so causing the pressure of the atmosphere to apply the brakes.

Vacuum pan (Technol.), 真空罐 A kind of large closed metallic retort used in sugar making for boiling down sirup. It is so connected with an exhausting apparatus that a partial vacuum is formed within. This allows the evaporation and concentration to take place at a lower atmospheric pressure and hence also at a lower temperature, which largely obviates the danger of burning the sugar, and shortens the process.

Vacuum pump. 真空泵 Same as Pulsometer, 1.

Vacuum tube (Phys.), A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes and exhausted, for the passage of the electrical discharge; a Geissler tube.

Vacuum tube (Phys.), Any tube used in electronic devices, containing a vacuum and used to control the flow of electrons in a circuit, as a vacuum diode, triode, tetrode, or pentode.

Vacuum valve, A safety valve opening inward to admit air to a vessel in which the pressure is less than that of the atmosphere, in order to prevent collapse.

Torricellian vacuum. See under Torricellian. 

Vacuum cleaner, () A machine for cleaning carpets, tapestry, upholstered work, etc., by suction; -- sometimes called a vacuum.

Vacuum (n.) The absence of matter [syn: vacuum, vacuity].

Vacuum (n.) An empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" [syn: void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuum].

Vacuum (n.) A region that is devoid of matter [syn: vacuum, vacuity].

Vacuum (n.) An electrical home appliance that cleans by suction [syn: vacuum, vacuum cleaner].

Vacuum (v.) (v. t.) 【口】用真空吸塵器清掃 [（+out）] Clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets" [syn: vacuum, vacuum-clean, hoover].

Vadantes (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.

Vade (v. i.) To fade; hence, to vanish. [Obs.] " Summer leaves all vaded." -- Shak.

They into dust shall vade. -- Spenser.

Vade mecum () 手冊 A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook.

Vade mecum (n.) A concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location [syn: handbook, enchiridion, vade mecum].

Vadimony (n.) (Law) A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day. [Obs.]

Vadium (n.) (Law) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.

Vadium vivum [LL.] (Law), A living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.

Vadium, () contracts. A pledge, or surety.

Vae (n.) See Voe. [Scot.]

Vafrous (a.) Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks. [Obs.] -- Feltham.

Vagabond (v. i.) [口語] 流浪；漂泊 To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

On every part my vagabonding sight Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight. -- Drummond.

Vagabond (a.) 流浪的；漂泊的；聲名狼藉的；浪蕩的；懶散的 Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering . "Vagabond exile." -- Shak.

Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate. -- Milton.

Vagabond (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

Vagabond (n.) 流浪者；浪子；懶漢；流浪漢 [C] One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.

A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. -- Gen. iv. 12.

Note: In English and American law, vagabond is used in bad sense, denoting one who is without a home; a strolling, idle, worthless person. Vagabonds are described in old English statutes as "such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and alehouses, and routs about; and no man wot from whence they came, nor whither they go." In American law, the term vagrant is employed in the same sense. Cf Rogue, n., 1. -- Burrill. -- Bouvier.

Vagabond (a.) Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: rootless, vagabond].

Vagabond (a.) Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant].

Vagabond (n.) Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea".

Vagabond (n.) A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond].

Vagabond (v.) Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond].

Vagabond, () from Lat. vagabundus, "a wanderer," "a fugitive;" not used opprobriously (Gen. 4:12, R.V., "wanderer;" Ps. 109:10; Acts 19:13, R.V., "strolling").

Vagabond, () One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. The ordinances of the French define a vagabond almost in the same terms. Dalloz, Dict. Vagabondage. See Vattel, liv. 1, Sec. 219, n.

Vagabondage (n.) 流浪；流浪的習慣；（總稱）流浪者 The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

Vagabondage (n.) Travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" [syn: wandering, roving, vagabondage].

Vagabondism (n.) 流浪；流浪生活 Vagabondage.

Vagabondize (v. i.) 流浪，漂泊，漫遊 To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

Vagabondry (n.) Vagabondage.

Vagabondry (n.) The condition or behaviour of  vagabonds.

Vagal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.

Vagal (a.) Of or relating to the vagus nerve [syn: vagal, pneumogastric].

Vagancy (n.) A wandering; vagrancy. [Obs.]

A thousand vagancies of glory and delight. -- Milton.

Vagantes (prop. n. pl.) A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey.

Vagarious (a.) Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety.

Vagaries (n. pl. ) of Vagary.

Vagary (n.) [P1] 奇想；異想天開；怪異的行為（或觀念）；難以預測的變化 A wandering or strolling. [Obs.]

Vagary (n.) Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. "The vagaries of a child." -- Spectator.

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. -- Milton.

Vagary (n.) An unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.); "the vagaries of the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for many years".

Vagient (a.) Crying like a child. [Obs.]

Vaginae (n. pl. ) of Vagina.

Vagina (n.) (Anat.) [L. vagina a scabbard or sheath.] 【解】陰道；【植】葉鞘 A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

Vagina (n.) (Anat.) Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca.

Vagina (n.) (Zool.) The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca.

Vagina (n.) (Bot.) The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.

Vagina (n.) (Arch.) The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise.

Vagina (n.) The lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus; "the vagina receives the penis during coitus"; "the vagina is elastic enough to allow the passage of a fetus".

Vagina (n.) The vagina is a long muscular organ that extends from the vulva to the cervix. The vagina can elongate to accommodate the stallion penis, an inseminator's arm, or the birth of a foal. The vagina is separated by a fold of tissue (transurethral fold) located at the vulvo-vaginal sphincter. The part nearest the rear of the animal is the vestibule (posterior vagina), with anterior vagina being closer to the cervix. The vulvo-vaginal sphincter and associated fold of tissue covers the urethral opening (where the bladder empties), preventing urine flow back toward the cervix. The transurethral fold in a virgin filly is covered with a thin layer of connective tissue similar to the hymen in women. Care needs to be taken when entering the vagina of a virgin filly so as not to tear the rest of the tissue. The vestibule contains vestibular glands which secretes mucous to lubricate the posterior tract.

At the tip of the anterior vagina is the cervix. The blind pocket in the anterior vagina that surrounds the protrusion of the cervix is called the fornix.

Vaginal (a.) 【解】陰道的；【植】葉鞘的 Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.

Vaginal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery.

Vaginal (a.) Of or relating to the vagina; "vaginal suppository".

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