Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 16
Vexation (n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.
Passions too violent . . . afford us nothing but vexation and pain. -- Sir W. Temple.
Those who saw him after a defeat looked in vain for any trace of vexation. -- Macaulay.
Vexation (n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.
Your children were vexation to your youth. -- Shak.
Vexation (n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit. -- Bacon.
Syn: Chagrin; agitation; mortification; uneasiness; trouble; grief; sorrow; distress. See Chagrin.
Vexation (n.) Anger produced by some annoying irritation [syn: annoyance, chafe, vexation].
Vexation (n.) The psychological state of being irritated or annoyed [syn: irritation, annoyance, vexation, botheration].
Vexation (n.) Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" [syn: concern, worry, headache, vexation].
Vexation (n.) The act of troubling or annoying someone [syn: annoyance, annoying, irritation, vexation].
Vexation. () The injury or damage which, is suffered in consequence of the tricks of another.
Vexatious (a.) Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor. "Continual vexatious wars." -- South.
Vexatious (a.) Full or vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
He leads a vexatious life. -- Sir K. Digby.
Vexatious suit (Law), A suit commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, or without cause. -- Vex*a"tious*ly, adv. -- Vex*a"tious*ness, n.
Vexatious (a.) Causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering,
pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing].
Vexed (a.) Annoyed; harassed; troubled.
Vexed (a.) Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.
Vexed (a.) Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager" [syn: annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed].
Vexed (a.) Causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed; "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times".
Vexed (a.) [ Before noun ] 棘手的；傷腦筋的；引起爭議的 Difficult to deal with and causing a lot of disagreement and argument.
// Economists argue over the vexed question of how to reduce spending
Vexer (n.) One who vexes or troubles.
Vexer (n.) Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) [syn: tease, teaser, annoyer, vexer].
Vexil (n.) A vexillum. Vexillar
Vexillar () Alt. of Vexillary.
Vexillary () Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard.
Vexillary () (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.
Vexilary aestivation (Bot.), A mode of aestivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants.
Vexillary (n.) A standard bearer. -- Tennyson.
Vexillary (n.) (pl.-ies) (in ancient Rome) One of a class of veteran soldiers who served under a special banner.
Vexillary (a.) Of or relating to flags.
Vexillary (a.) Of or relating to a vexillum.
Vexillation (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) A company of troops under one vexillum.
Vexilla (n. pl. ) of Vexillum.
Vexillum (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) A flag or standard.
Vexillum (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) A company of troops serving under one standard.
Vexillum (n.) (Eccl.) A banner.
Vexillum (n.) (Eccl.) The sign of the cross.
Vexillum (n.) (Bot.) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.
Vexillum (n.) (Zool.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.
Vexingly (adv.) In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate. -- Tatler.
V hook () (Steam Engine) A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.
Via (n.) A road way.
Via Lactea [L.] (Astron.), the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See Galaxy, 1.
Via media [L.] (Theol.), The middle way; -- a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.
Via (prep.) By the way of; as, to send a letter via Queenstown to London.
VIA, () VAX Information Architecture (VAX, DEC)
VIA, () Virtual Interface Architecture.
Viability (n.) 生存能力；發育能力；可行性 The quality or state of being viable. Specifically:
Viability (n.) (Law) The capacity of living after birth. -- Bouvier.
Viability (n.) The capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.
Viability (n.) (Of living things) Capable of normal growth and development.
Viability (n.) Capable of being done in a practical and useful way.
Viability, () med. jur. An aptitude to live after birth; extra uterine life. 1 Briand. Med. Leg. 1ere partie, c. 6, art. 2. See 2 Sav. Dr. Rom. Append. III. for a learned discussion of this subject.
Viable (a.) (Law) （胎兒）能養活的；（卵等）能發育的；可實行的 Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
Viable, () Vitae habilis, capable of living. This is said of a child who is born alive in such an advanced state of formation as to be capable of living. Unless be is born viable he acquires no rights and cannot transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he had never been born. -- Bouvier (Law Dictionary, 1856).
Viable (a.) Capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are [syn: feasible, executable, practicable, viable, workable].
Viable (a.) Capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus".
Viable, () Vitae habilis, capable of living. This is said of a child who is born alive in such an advanced state of formation as to be capable of living. Unless be is born viable he acquires no rights and cannot transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he bad never been born.
Viable, () This term is used In the French law, Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. tome 4, p. 101 it would be well to engraft it on our own Vide Traill. Med. Jur. 46, and Dead Born.
Viaduct (n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.
Viaduct (n.) Bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley.
Viage (n.) A voyage; a journey. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Gower.
Vial (n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine. [Written also phial.]
Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off. -- Shak.
Vialed (imp. & p. p.) of Vial.
Vialled () of Vial.
Vialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vial.
Vialling () of Vial.
Vial (v. t.) To put in a vial or vials. "Precious vialed liquors." -- Milton.
Vial (n.) A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) [syn: phial, vial, ampule, ampul, ampoule].
Viameter (n.) An odometer; -- called also viatometer.
Viand (n.) An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural. -- Cowper.
Viands of various kinds allure the taste. -- Pope.
Viand (n.) A choice or delicious dish.
Viander (n.) A feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Compare: Otaheite apple
Otaheite apple, () (Bot.) (a) The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree ({Spondias dulcis), also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.
Otaheite apple, () (Bot.) (b) A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree ({Jambosa Malaccensis) which bears crimson berries.
Vi-apple (n.) See Otaheite apple.
Viary (a.) Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads. [Obs.]
Viatecture (n.) The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc. [R.] -- R. Park.
Viatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.
Viaticum (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
Viaticum (n.) Provisions for a journey. -- Davies (Wit's Pilgr.).
Viaticum (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.
Viameter (n.) An odometer; -- called also viatometer.
Viatometer (n.) A viameter.
Vibices (n. pl.) (Med.) More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
Vibracula (n. pl. ) of Vibraculum.
Vibraculum (n.) (Zool.) One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.
Vibrancy (n.) The state of being vibrant; resonance.
Vibrancy (n.) Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy].
Vibrant (a.) Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums. -- Longfellow.
Vibrant (a.) Vigorous and animated; "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance" [syn: vibrant, vivacious].
Vibrant (a.) Of sounds that are strong and resonating; "the men's vibrant voices".
Vibrant (a.) Of colors that are bright and striking.
Vibrate (imp. & p. p.) of Vibrate.
Vibrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vibrate.
Vibrate (v. t.) To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
Vibrate (v. t.) To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
Vibrate (v. t.) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may . . . impress a swift, tremulous motion. -- Holder.
Star to star vibrates light. -- Tennyson.
Vibrate (v. i.) To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
Vibrate (v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
Vibrate (v. i.) To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear. -- Pope.
Vibrate (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.
Vibrate (v.) Shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner.
Vibrate (v.) Move or swing from side to side regularly; "the needle on the meter was oscillating" [syn: oscillate, vibrate].
Vibrate (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].
Vibrate (v.) Sound with resonance; "The sound resonates well in this theater" [syn: resonate, vibrate].
Vibrate (v.) Feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: thrill, tickle, vibrate].
Vibratile (a.) Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.
Vibratility (n.) The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation. --Rush.
Vibration (n.) The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.
As a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. -- Longfellow.
Vibration (n.) (Physics) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
Note: Vibration and oscillation are both used, in mechanics, of the swinging, or rising and falling, motion of a suspended or balanced body; the latter term more appropriately, as signifying such motion produced by gravity, and of any degree of slowness, while the former applies especially to the quick, short motion to and fro which results from elasticity, or the action of molecular forces among the particles of a body when disturbed from their position of rest, as in a spring.
Amplitude of vibration, The maximum displacement of a vibrating particle or body from its position of rest.
Phase of vibration, any part of the path described by a particle or body in making a complete vibration, in distinction from other parts, as while moving from one extreme to the other, or on one side of the line of rest, in distinction from the opposite. Two particles are said to be in the same phase when they are moving in the same direction and with the same velocity, or in corresponding parts of their paths.
Vibration (n.) The act of vibrating [syn: vibration, quiver, quivering].
Vibration (n.) A shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation].
Vibration (n.) (Physics) A regular periodic variation in value about a mean [syn: oscillation, vibration].
Vibration (n.) A distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively; "that place gave me bad vibrations"; "it gave me a nostalgic vibe" [syn: vibration, vibe].
Vibration (n.) [ C or U ] Continuous quick, slight shaking movement.
// Vibrations were felt hundreds of miles from the centre of the earthquake.
Aircraft manufacturers want to reduce vibration for the sake of safety.
Vibratiuncle (a.) A small vibration. [R.] -- Chambers.
Vibrative (a.) Vibrating; vibratory. "A vibrative motion." -- Sir I. Newton.
Vibratory (a.) Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.
Vibratory (a.) Moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down; "the vibrating piano strings".
Vibrios (n. pl. ) of Vibrio.
Vibriones (n. pl. ) of Vibrio.
Vibrio (n.) (Biol.) A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.
Vibrissae (n. pl. ) of Vibrissa.
Vibrissa (n.) (Anat.) One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.
Vibrissa (n.) (Zool.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.
Vibroscope (n.) An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.
Vibroscope (n.) An instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.
Viburnum (n.) (Bot.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.
Viburnum (n.) Deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree [syn: Viburnum, genus Viburnum].
Viburnum, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 825
Housing Units (2000): 325
Land area (2000): 1.722485 sq. miles (4.461215 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007455 sq. miles (0.019308 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.729940 sq. miles (4.480523 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76012
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.714668 N, 91.127914 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65566
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Viburnum, MO
Viburnum
Vicar (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy. [R.]
Vicar (n.) (Eng. Eccl. Law) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.
Note: The distinction between a parson [or rector] and vicar is this: The parson has, for the most part, the whole right to the ecclesiastical dues in his parish; but a vicar has generally an appropriator over him, entitled to the best part of the profits, to whom he is in fact perpetual curate with a standing salary. -- Burrill.
Apostolic vicar, or Vicar apostolic. (R. C. Ch.) (a) A bishop to whom the Roman pontiff delegates a portion
of his jurisdiction.
Apostolic vicar, or Vicar apostolic. (R. C. Ch.) (b) Any ecclesiastic acting under a papal brief, commissioned to exercise episcopal authority.
Apostolic vicar, or Vicar apostolic. (R. C. Ch.) (c) A titular bishop in a country where there is no episcopal see, or where the succession has been interrupted.
Vicar forane. [Cf. LL. foraneus situated outside of the episcopal city, rural. See Vicar, and Foreign.] (R. C. Ch.) A dignitary or parish priest appointed by a bishop to exercise a limited jurisdiction in a particular town or district of a diocese. -- Addis & Arnold.
Vicar-general. () (a) (Ch. of Eng.) The deputy of the Archbishop of Canterbury or York, in whose court the bishops of the province are confirmed. -- Encyc. Brit.
Vicar-general. () (b) (R. C. Ch.) An assistant to a bishop in the discharge of his official functions.
Vicar of Jesus Christ (R. C. Ch.), The pope as representing Christ on earth.
Vicar (n.) A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
Vicar (n.) (Episcopal Church) A clergyman in charge of a chapel.
Vicar (n.) (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish.
Vicarage (n.) The benefice of a vicar.
Vicarage (n.) The house or residence of a vicar.
Vicarage (n.) An official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector [syn: parsonage, vicarage, rectory].
Vicarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.
Vicarial (a.) Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.
Vicarial (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of a vicar.
Vicarian (n.) A vicar. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Vicariate (a.) Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. -- Barrow.
Vicariate (n.) Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar.
The vicariate of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws devolved on the elector of Saxony. -- Robertson.
Vicariate (n.) The religious institution under the authority of a vicar [syn: vicariate, vicarship].
Vicarious (a.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
Vicarious (a.) Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
The soul in the body is but a subordinate efficient, and vicarious . . . in the hands of the Almighty. -- Sir M. Hale.
Vicarious (a.) Performed,experienced, or
suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice;
vicarious punishment; vicarious pleasure.
The vicarious work of the Great Deliverer. -- I. Taylor.
Vicarious (a.) (Med.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
Vicarious (a.) Experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement".
Vicarious (a.) Occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation".
Vicarious (a.) Suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement".
Vicariously (adv.) In a vicarious manner.
Vicariously (adv.) Indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute; "she enjoyed the wedding vicariously".
Vicarship (n.) The office or dignity of a vicar.
Vicarship (n.) The religious institution under the authority of a vicar [syn: vicariate, vicarship].
Vicary (n.) A vicar. [Obs.]
Vice (n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
Withouten vice of syllable or letter. -- Chaucer.
Mark the vice of the procedure. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
I do confess the vices of my blood. -- Shak.
Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice. -- Milton.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. -- Addison.
Vice (n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
Note:
This character was grotesquely dressed in a cap with ass's ears, and was armed
with a dagger of lath: one of his chief employments was to make sport with the
Devil, leaping on his back, and belaboring him with the dagger of lath till he
made him roar. The Devil, however, always carried him off in the end. -- Nares.
How like you the Vice in the play? . . . I would not give a rush for a Vice
that has not a wooden dagger to snap at everybody. -- B. Jonson.
Syn: Crime; sin; iniquity; fault. See Crime.
Vice (n.) (Mech.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
Vice (n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. [Written also vise.]
Vice (n.) A gripe or grasp. [Obs.] -- Shak.