Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 17
Viced (imp. & p. p.) of Vice.
Vicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vice.
Vice (v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. -- Shak.
The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh. -- De Quincey.
Vice (prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
Vice (a.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
Vice admiral. (a) An officer holding rank next below an admiral. By the existing laws, the rank of admiral and vice admiral in the United States Navy will cease at the death of the present incumbents.
Vice admiral. (b) A civil officer, in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts.
Vice admiralty, The office of a vice admiral.
Vice-admiralty court, A court with admiralty jurisdiction, established by authority of Parliament in British possessions beyond the seas. -- Abbott.
Vice chamberlain, An officer in court next in rank to the lord chamberlain. [Eng.]
Vice chancellor. (a) (Law) An officer next in rank to a chancellor.
Vice chancellor. (b) An officer in a university, chosen to perform certain duties, as the conferring of degrees, in the absence of the chancellor.
Vice chancellor. (c) (R. C. Ch.) The cardinal at the head of the Roman Chancery.
Vice consul, A subordinate officer, authorized to exercise consular functions in some particular part of a district controlled by a consul.
Vice king, One who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy.
Vice legate, A legate second in rank to, or acting in place of, another legate.
Vice presidency, The office of vice president.
Vice president, An officer next in rank below a president.
Vice (n.) Moral weakness [syn: frailty, vice].
Vice (n.) A specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community."
VICE, () VersatIle Commodore Emulator.
VICE. () A term used in the civil law and in Louisiana, by which is meant a defect in a thing; an imperfection. For example, epilepsy in a slave, roaring and crib-biting in a horse, are vices. Redhibitory vices are those for which the seller will be compelled to annul a sale, and take back the thing sold. Poth. Vente, 203; Civ. Code of Lo. art. 2498 to 2507; 1 Duv. n. 396.
Viced (a.) Vicious; corrupt. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Vicegerency (n.) The office of a vicegerent. -- South.
Vicegerent (a.) Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. --Milton.
Vicegerent (n.) An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. --Bacon.
The symbol and vicegerent of the Deity. -- C. A. Young.
Vicegerent (n.) Someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy.
Vicemen (n. pl. ) of Viceman.
Viceman (n.) A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.
Vicenary (a.) Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.
Vicenary (a.) Of or relating to or based on 20.
Vicennial (a.) Lasting or comprising twenty years.
Vicennial (a.) Happening once in twenty years; as, a vicennial celebration.
Vicennial (a.) Occurring once every 20 years.
Vice-regal (a.) Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty. -- Macaulay.
Viceroy (n.) The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.
Viceroy (n.) (Zool.) A large and handsome American butterfly ({Basilarchia archippus syn. Limenitis archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
Viceroy (n.) Governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign [syn: viceroy, vicereine].
Viceroy (n.) Showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller [syn: viceroy, Limenitis archippus].
Viceroyalty (n.) The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.
Viceroyalty (n.) A district or province governed by a viceroy.
Viceroyship (n.) Viceroyalty.
Viceroyship (n.) The position of viceroy.
Vicety (n.) Fault; defect; coarseness. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Vichy water () A mineral water found at Vichy, France. It is essentially an effervescent solution of sodium, calcium, and magnetism carbonates, with sodium and potassium chlorides; also, by extension, any artificial or natural water resembling in composition the Vichy water proper. Called also, colloquially, Vichy.
Vichy water (n.) Sparkling mineral water from springs at Vichy, France or water similar to it.
Viciate (v. t.) See Vitiate. [R.]
Vitiate (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Vitiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vitiating.] [Written also viciate.] 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.
A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion. -- South.
Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds. -- Burke.
This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers. -- Garth.
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.
Vicinage (n.) The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage. "To summon the Protestant gentleman of the vicinage." -- Macaulay.
Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of vicinage and good neighborhood. -- Sir W. Scott.
Vicinal (a.) 附近的，接近的，一地方的，本地的 Near; vicine. -- T. Warton.
Vicinal (a.) (Organic Chem.) Having the substituted groups on the same carbon atom.
Vicinal planes (Min.), Subordinate planes on a crystal, which are very near to the fundamental planes in angles, and sometimes take their place. They have in general very complex symbols.
Vicinal (a.) Belonging to or limited to a vicinity.
Vicine (a.) Near; neighboring; vicinal. [R.] -- Glanvill.
Vicine (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch ({Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.
Vicinity (n.) The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.
A vicinity of disposition and relative tempers. -- Jer. Taylor.
Vicinity (n.) That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood. "The vicinity of the sun." -- Bentley.
Syn: Neighborhood; vicinage. See Neighborhood.
Vicinity (n.) A surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods].
Viciosity (n.) Vitiosity. [R.]
Vicious (a.) 邪惡的；墮落的；惡意的；惡毒的；兇惡的；【口】惡性的；劇烈的，嚴厲的 Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. -- Shak.
The title of these lords was vicious in its origin. -- Burke.
A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. -- De Quincey.
Vicious (a.) Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.
Who . . . heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race. -- Milton.
Vicious (a.) Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc. -- Dryden.
Vicious (a.) Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.
Vicious (a.) Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.
Vicious (a.) Bitter; spiteful; malignant. [Colloq.]
Syn: Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved. -- Vi"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi"cious*ness, n.
Vicious (a.) (Of persons or their actions) Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious].
Vicious (a.) Having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious].
Vicious (a.) Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious].
Vicious (a.) Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: poisonous, venomous, vicious].
Vicissitude (n.) [C] 變化無常；變換；盛衰；興敗 [P] Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. -- Milton.
Vicissitude (n.) Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
Vicissitude (n.) (pl.) Changing conditions of fortune in one's life; life's ups and downs.
This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. -- Macaulay.
Vicissitude (n.) A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research".
Vicissitude (n.) Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).
Vicissitude (n.) A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another). Vicissitude comes from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim, in turn, probably from vices, changes.
Vicissitudinary (a.) Subject to vicissitudes.
Vicissitudinous (a.) Full of, or subject to, changes.
Vicissy duck () A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated.
Vicontiel (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country.
Vicontiels (n. pl.) Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.
Vicount (n.) See Viscount.
Victim (n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
Victim (n.) A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.
Victim (n.) Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
Victim (n.) [ C ] (B2) 受害者；罹難者；犧牲者；犧牲品 Someone or something that has been hurt, damaged, or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness or chance.
// To provide financial aid to hurricane/ flood, etc. victims.
// Victims of crime.
// The children are the innocent/ helpless victims of the fighting.
// The new drug might help save the lives of cancer victims.
// We appear to have been the victims of a cruel practical joke.
// Our local hospital has become the latest victim of the cuts in government spending.
Fall victim to sth 成為…的受害者；被…所傷（或所害） To be hurt, damaged, or killed because of something or someone.
// In 1948, Gandhi fell victim to a member of a Hindu gang.
// The company has fallen victim to increased competition.
Idiom: Be a victim of your own success
Be a victim of your own success 因成功而反受其害 To have problems because of your success.
// The school has become a victim of its own success, as parents with children who have special needs now actively seek it out.
Victimate (v. t.) To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate. [Obs.] -- Bullokar.
Victimized (imp. & p. p.) of Victimize.
Victimizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Victimize.
Victimize (v. t.) To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
Victor (n.) The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of.
In love, the victors from the vanquished fly; They fly that wound, and they pursue that die. -- Waller.
Victor (n.) A destroyer. [R. & Poetic]
There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. -- Pope.
Victor (a.) Victorious. "The victor Greeks." -- Pope.
Victor (n.) A combatant who is able to defeat rivals [syn: victor, master, superior].
Victor (n.) The contestant who wins the contest [syn: winner, victor] [ant: also-ran, loser].
Victor, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 859
Housing Units (2000): 375
Land area (2000): 1.597918 sq. miles (4.138588 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.597918 sq. miles (4.138588 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76900
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 46.417213 N, 114.149547 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59875
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Victor, MT
Victor
Victor, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 2433
Housing Units (2000): 972
Land area (2000): 1.379715 sq. miles (3.573444 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.379715 sq. miles (3.573444 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77376
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.982939 N, 77.405895 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14564
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Victor, NY
Victor
Victor, CO -- U.S. city in Colorado
Population (2000): 445
Housing Units (2000): 360
Land area (2000): 0.272040 sq. miles (0.704581 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.272040 sq. miles (0.704581 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80865
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.709609 N, 105.140859 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Victor, CO
Victor
Victor, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 840
Housing Units (2000): 330
Land area (2000): 1.295356 sq. miles (3.354957 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.295356 sq. miles (3.354957 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84250
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 43.602945 N, 111.112343 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83455
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Victor, ID
Victor
Victor, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 952
Housing Units (2000): 420
Land area (2000): 0.473484 sq. miles (1.226318 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.473484 sq. miles (1.226318 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80805
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.730149 N, 92.297167 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52347
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Victor, IA
Victor
Victoress (n.) A victress.
Victoria (n.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
Victoria (n.) A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
Victoria (n.) An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
Victorian (a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.
Victorine (n.) A woman's fur tippet.
Victorious (a.) Of or pertaining to victory, or a victor' being a victor; bringing or causing a victory; conquering; winning; triumphant; as, a victorious general; victorious troops; a victorious day.
Victories (n. pl. ) of Victory.
Victory (n.) 勝利，戰勝，克服，勝利女神 The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of defeat.
Victress (n.) A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.
Victrice (n.) A victress.
Victrix (n.) Victress.
Victual (n.) Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
Victual (n.) Grain of any kind.
Victualed (imp. & p. p.) of Victual.
Victualled () of Victual.
Victualing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Victual.
Victualling () of Victual.
Victual (v. t.) To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.
Victualage (n.) Victuals; food.
Victualer (n.) One who furnishes victuals.
Victualer (n.) One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper.
Victualer (n.) A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision use; a provision ship.
Victualer (n.) One who deals in grain; a corn factor.
Victualing (a.) Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship.
Victuals (n. pl.) Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.
Victus (n.) Food; diet.
Vicuña (n.) Alt. of Vicugna.
Vicugna (n.) A South American mammal (Auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.
Vida finch () The whidah bird.
Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
Vide () imperative sing. of L. videre, to see; -- used to direct attention to something; as, vide supra, see above.
Videlicet (adv.) 換言之 To wit; namely; -- often abbreviated to viz.
Videlicet (adv.) As follows [syn: {namely}, {viz.}, {that is to say}, {to wit}, {videlicet}]
Vidette (n.) Same Vedette.
Vidonia (n.) A dry white wine, of a tart flavor, produced in Teneriffe; -- called also Teneriffe.
Viduage (n.) The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.
Vidual (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.
Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.
Viduity (n.) Widowhood.
Vied (imp. & p. p.) of Vie.
Vying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vie.
Vie (v. i.) To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie. [Obs.]
Vie (v. i.) To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.
In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as . . . to vie with the best of their family. -- Addison.
While Waterloo with Cannae's carnage vies. -- Byron.
Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Vie (v. t.) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. [Obs.]
She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss She vied so fast. -- Shak.
Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them. -- Milton.
And vying malice with my gentleness, Pick quarrels with their only happiness. -- Herbert.
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