Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 18
Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager. [Obs.]
We 'll all to church together instantly,
And then a vie for boys. -- J. Fletcher.
Vie (v.) Compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others [syn: compete, vie, contend].
Vielle (n.) An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
Vienna paste () (Pharm.) A caustic application made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime; -- called also Vienna caustic.
Viennese (a.) Of or pertaining to Vienna, or people of Vienna.
Viennese (n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of Vienna.
Viennese (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Vienna or its inhabitants.
Vietnam (n.) A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945 [syn: Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Viet Nam, Annam].
Vietnam (n.) A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States [syn: Vietnam War, Vietnam].
Vietnam (Proper noun) 越南 A country in SE Asia, with a coastline on the South China Sea; population 93,500,000 (estimated 2015); official language, Vietnamese; capital, Hanoi.
Traditionally dominated by China, Vietnam came under French influence between 1862 and 1954. After the Second World War the Vietminh defeated the French, who then withdrew. Vietnam was partitioned along the 17th parallel between Communist North Vietnam (capital, Hanoi) and non-Communist South Vietnam (capital, Saigon). The Vietnam War between the North and the US-backed South ended in the victory of the North in 1975 and the reunification of the country under a Communist regime in the following year.
Compare: Hanoi
Hanoi (n.) [Proper noun] 河內（越南首都） The capital of Vietnam, situated on the Red River in the north of the country; population 2,632,100 (est. 2009). It was the capital of French Indo-China from 1887 to 1946 and of North Vietnam before the reunification of North and South Vietnam.
Compare: Reunification
Reunification (n.) [Mass noun] 重新統一；重新團結 Restoration of political unity to a place or group, especially a divided territory.
‘We will strive for the peaceful reunification of the motherland.’
View (n.) 視力；視野 [U]；觀看；眺望 [S] [（+of）]；景色；風景畫，風景照片 [C]；看法，觀點 [C] [+（that）] [（+about/on）]；觀察，展望，概觀 [S1] [（+of）] The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view. -- Milton.
Objects near our view are thought greater than those of a larger size that are more remote. -- Locke.
Surveying nature with too nice a view. -- Dryden.
View (n.) Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.
I have with exact view perused thee, Hector. -- Shak.
View (n.) Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.
The walls of Pluto's palace are in view. -- Dryden.
View (n.) That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.
'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. -- Campbell.
View (n.) The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of Lake George.
View (n.) Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued.
To give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty. -- Locke.
View (n.) That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.
No man sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason. -- Locke.
View (n.) Appearance; show; aspect. [Obs.]
[Graces] which, by the splendor of her view Dazzled, before we never knew. -- Waller.
Field of view. See under Field.
Point of view. See under Point.
To have in view, To have in mind as an incident, object, or aim; as, to have one's resignation in view.
View halloo, The shout uttered by a hunter upon seeing the fox break cover.
View of frankpledge (Law), A court of record, held in a hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. -- Blackstone.
View of premises (Law), The inspection by the jury of the place where a litigated transaction is said to have occurred.
Viewed (imp. & p. p.) of View.
Viewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of View.
View (v. t.) 觀看；查看；察看；看待；考慮；將……看成是 [O] [（+as with）] To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.
O, let me view his visage, being dead. -- Shak.
Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn. -- Milton.
View (v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through. -- Shak.
View (n.) A way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: position, view, perspective].
View (n.) The visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama].
View (n.) The act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited" [syn: view, survey, sight].
View (n.) The range of the eye; "they were soon out of view" [syn: view, eyeshot].
View (n.) A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn: opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought].
View (n.) A message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof; "his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page" [syn: opinion, view].
View (n.) Purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of'; "he took the computer with a view to pawning it."
View (n.) Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept; "he painted scenes from everyday life"; "figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment" [syn: scene, view].
View (n.) The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" [syn: horizon, view, purview].
View (n.) Outward appearance; "they look the same in outward view."
View (v.) Deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard].
View (v.) Look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem" [syn: view, consider, look at].
View (v.) See or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie" [syn: watch, view, see, catch, take in].
VIEW, () A prospect.
VIEW, () Every one is entitled to a view from his premises, but he thereby acquires no right over the property of his neighbors. The erection of buildings which obstruct a man's view, therefore, is not unlawful, and such buildings cannot be considered a nuisance. 9 Co. R. 58 b. Vide Ancient Lights; Nuisance.
VIEW, DEMAND OF, () practice. In most real and mixed actions, in order to ascertain the identity of land claimed with that in the tenant's possession, the tenant is allowed, after the demandant has counted, to demand a view of the land in question; or if the subject of claim be rent, or the like, a view of the land out of which it issues; Vin. Abr. View; Com. Dig. View; Booth, 37; 2 Saund. 45 b; 1 Reeves' Hist 435, This, however, is confined to real or mixed actions; for in personal actions the view does not lie. In the action of dower unde nihil habet, it has been much questioned whether the view be demandable or not; 2 Saund. 44, n, 4; and there are other real and mixed actions in which it is not allowed. The view being granted, the course of proceeding is to issue a writ, commanding the sheriff to cause the defendant to have a view of the land, It being the interest of the demandant to expedite the proceedings, the duty of suing out the writ lies upon him, and not upon the tenant; and when, in obedience to its exigency, the sheriff causes view to be made, the demandant is to show to the tenant, in all ways possible, the thing in demand with its metes and bounds. On the return of the writ into court, the demandant must count de novo; that is, declare again Com. Dig. Pleader, 2 Y 3; Booth, 40; and the pleadings proceed to issue.
VIEW, DEMAND OF, () This proceeding of demanding view, is, in the present rarity of real actions, unknown in practice.
Viewer (n.) One who views or examines.
Viewer (n.) (Law) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
Viewer (n.) The superintendent of a coal mine. [Eng.]
Viewer (n.) A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star" [syn: spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker].
Viewer (n.) An optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
Viewer, () A program to allow a file to be read (or played) but not changed. Viewers are often freely distributable, even when the editor application is not. This allows you to create files with the editor and make the viewer available to other users to view your files, e.g. on a website. Examples include the Word and Adobe Acrobat viewers. (1997-08-29)
Viewiness (n.) The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.
Viewless (a.) Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen. "Viewless winds." -- Shak.
Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air. -- Pope. Viewly
Viewless (a.) Not having or expressing opinions or views.
Viewly (a.) Alt. of Viewsome.
Viewsome (a.) Pleasing to the sight; sightly. [Prov. Eng.]
Viewy (a.) Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.
Viewy (a.) Spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination.
A government intent on showy absurdities and viewy enterprises rather than solid work. -- London Spectator.
Vifda (n.) In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted. [Scot.] [Written also vivda.] -- Jamieson.
Vigesimal (a.) Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts. -- Tylor.
Vigesimal (a.) Relating to or based on the number twenty.
Vigesimation (n.) The act of putting to death every twentieth man. [R.]
Vigesimo-quarto (n.) (pl. -tos) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 24mo, or 24[deg].
Vigesimo-quarto (a.) Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.
-tos (n. pl. ) of Vigesimo-quarto.
Vigil (n.) 守夜；警戒；監視 [C] [U]；宗教節日前夕的祈禱（式）[P] Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. "Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months." -- Macaulay.
Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them. -- Addison.
Vigil (n.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned. -- Milton.
Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate. -- Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard).
Vigil (n.) (Eccl.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
Vigil (n.) (Eccl.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say, "To-morrow is St. Crispian." -- Shak.
Vigil (n.) (Eccl.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
Vigils of flowers or Watchings of flowers (Bot.), A peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals at certain hours of the day. [R.]
Vigil (n.) A period of sleeplessness.
Vigil (n.) The rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) [syn: vigil, watch].
Vigil (n.) A purposeful surveillance to guard or observe [syn: watch, vigil].
Vigilance (n.) 警戒，警覺心，失眠症 The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.
Vigilance (n.) Watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection. -- Cowper.
And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge; of these the vigilance I dread. -- Milton.
Vigilance (n.) Guard; watch. [Obs.] "In at this gate none pass the vigilance here placed." -- Milton.
Vigilance committee, A volunteer committee of citizens for the oversight and protection of any interest, esp. one organized for the summary suppression and punishment of crime, as when the processes of law appear inadequate.
Vigilance (n.) The process of paying close and continuous attention; "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue" [syn: {watchfulness}, {wakefulness}, {vigilance}, {alertness}].
Vigilance (n.) Vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble" [syn: {watchfulness}, {vigilance}, {weather eye}].
VIGILANCE. () Proper attention in proper time.
VIGILANCE. () The law requires a man who has a claim to enforce it in proper time, while the adverse party has it in his power to defend himself; and if by his neglect to do so, he cannot afterwards establish such claim, the maxim vigilantibus non dormientibus leges subserviunt, acquires full force in such case. For example, a claim not sued for within the time required by the acts of limitation, will be presumed to be paid; and the mere possession of corporeal real property, as if in fee simple, and without admitting any other ownership for sixty years, is a sufficient title against all the world, and cannot be impeached by any dormant claim. See 3 Bl. Com. 196, n; 4 Co. 11 b. Vide Twenty years.
Vigilancy (n.) Vigilance. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Vigilant (a.) Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary. "Be sober, be vigilant." -- 1 Pet. v. 8.
Sirs, take your places, and be vigilant. -- Shak.
Vigilant (a.) Carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow" [syn: argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, wakeful].
Vigilant (a.) 警覺的；警戒的；警惕的 Always being careful to notice things, especially possible danger.
// Following the bomb scare at the airport, the staff have been warned to be extra vigilant.
Vigilantly (adv.) In a vigilant manner.
Vigilantly (adv.) In a watchful manner [syn: vigilantly, watchfully].
Vigily (n.) [L. vigilia.] A vigil. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Vigintivirate (n.) The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri. [R.]
Vignette (v. t.) To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
Vignette (n.) (Arch.) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
Vignette (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
Vignette (n.) A picture, illustration, or depiction in words, esp. one of a small or dainty kind.
Vignette (n.) A brief literary description [syn: sketch, vignette].
Vignette (n.) A photograph whose edges shade off gradually.
Vignette (n.) A small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books).
Vignette (n.) A short written description.
Vignette (n.) A short scene in a movie or play.
Vignette (n.) A picture or engraving in a book.
Vignette (n.) A running ornament (as of vine leaves, tendrils, and grapes) put on or just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter; also : a small decorative design or picture so placed.
Vignette (n.) A picture (as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper.
Vignette (n.) The pictorial part of a postage stamp design as distinguished from the frame and lettering.
Vignette (n.) A short descriptive literary sketch.
Vignette (n.) A brief incident or scene (as in a play or movie). -- Vignettes (n. pl.) -- Vignettist (n.)
Vignette (v. t.) To finish (as a photograph) like a vignette.
Vignette (v. t.) To describe briefly. -- Vignetter (n.)
Vigonia (a.) Of or pertaining to the vicu[~n]a; characterizing the vicu[~n]a; -- said of the wool of that animal, used in felting hats, and for other purposes. -- Prescott.
Vigor (n.) 精力，活力 Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
The vigor of this arm was never vain. -- Dryden.
Vigor (n.) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
Vigor (n.) Strength; efficacy; potency.
But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. -- Milton.
Note: Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.
Vigor (v. t.) To invigorate. [Obs.] -- Feltham.
Vigor (n.) Forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" [syn: {energy}, {vigor}, {vigour}, {zip}].
Vigor (n.) Active strength of body or mind [syn: {vigor}, {vigour}, {dynamism}, {heartiness}].
Vigor (n.) An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: {energy}, {muscularity}, {vigor}, {vigour}, {vim}].
Vigorite (n.) [L. vigor strength.] An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.
Vigoroso (a. & adv.) [It.] (Mus.) Vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.
Vigorous (a.) 精力充沛的，元氣旺盛的，有力的 Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.
Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong. -- Waller.
Vigorous (a.) Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.
The beginnings of confederacies have been always vigorous and successful. -- Davenant. -- Vig"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Vig"or*ous*ness, n.
Vigorous (a.) Characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake"; "a vigorous campaign"; "a vigorous foreign policy"; "vigorous opposition to the war."
Vigorous (a.) Strong and active physically or mentally; "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback" -- W.H.Hudson
Viking (n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. -- Longfellow.
Note: Viking differs in meaning from sea king, with which it is frequently confounded. "The sea king was a man connected with a royal race, either of the small kings of the country, or of the Haarfager family, and who, by right, received the title of king as soon he took the command of men, although only of a single ship's crew, and without having any land or kingdom . . . Vikings were merely pirates, alternately peasants and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored with their long ships or rowing galleys." -- Laing.
Viking (n.) Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries.
Viking, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 92
Housing Units (2000): 44
Land area (2000): 0.510252 sq. miles (1.321546 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.510252 sq. miles (1.321546 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67090
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location:
48.219999 N, 96.406736 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56760
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Viking, MN
Viking
Vilany (n.) Villainy. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Vilayet (n.) One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
Compare: Eyalet
Eyalet (n.) Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.
Vild (a.) Vile. [Obs.] "That vild race." -- Spenser. -- Vild"ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vile (a.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
A poor man in vile raiment. -- James ii. 2.
The craft either of fishing, which was Peter's, or of making tents, which was Paul's, were [was] more vile than the science of physic. -- Ridley.
The inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing. -- Abp. Abbot.
Vile (a.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad. "Such vile base
practices." -- Shak.
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee ? -- Job xl. 4.
Syn: See Base. -- Vile"ly, adv. -- Vile"ness, n.
Vile (a.) Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched].
Vile (a.) Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile].
VILE, () VI Like EMACS (Unix, VI, EMACS)
Viled (a.) Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile. [Obs.] "Viled speeches." -- Hayward.
Vileyns (a.) Villainous. [Obs.] "Vileyns sinful deeds make a churl." -- Chaucer.
Vilification (n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse. -- South.
Vilification (n.) Slanderous defamation [syn: smear, vilification, malignment].
Vilification (n.) A rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification].
Vilifier (n.) One who vilifies or defames.
Vilifier (n.) One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel [syn: defamer, maligner, slanderer, vilifier, libeler, backbiter, traducer].
Vilified (imp. & p. p.) of Vilify.
Vilifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vilify.
Vilify (v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.]
When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. -- Milton.
Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. -- I. Taylor.
Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind. -- Addison.
Vilify (v. t.) To treat as vile; to despise. [Obs.]
I do vilify your censure. -- Beau. & Fl.
Vilipend (v. t.) To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.
To vilipend the art of portrait painting. -- Longfellow.
Vilipend (v.) Belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" [syn: deprecate, depreciate, vilipend].
Vilipendency (n.) Disesteem; slight; disparagement. [R.] -- E. Waterhouse.
Vility (n.) Vileness; baseness. [Obs.] -- Kennet.
Vill (n.) A small collection of houses; a village. "Every manor, town, or vill." -- Sir M. Hale.
Not should e'er the crested fowl From thorp or vill his matins sound for me. -- Wordsworth.
Note: A word of various significations in English, law; as, a manor; a tithing; a town; a township; a parish; a part of a parish; a village. The original meaning of vill, in England, seems to have been derived from the Roman sense of the term villa, a single country residence or farm; a manor. Later, the term was applied only to a collection of houses more than two, and hence came to comprehend towns. Burrill. The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I., mentions entire-vills, demivills, and hamlets.
Villas (n. pl. ) of Villa.
Villa (n.) A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance. -- Dryden. Cowper.
Villas, NJ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Jersey
Population (2000): 9064
Housing Units (2000): 5694
Land area (2000): 3.972970 sq. miles (10.289944 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.972970 sq. miles (10.289944 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76010
Located
within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.019277 N, 74.938129 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 08251
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Villas, NJ
Villas
Villas, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population
(2000): 11346
Housing Units (2000): 6574
Land area (2000): 4.686469 sq. miles (12.137898 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.118818 sq. miles (0.307736 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.805287 sq. miles (12.445634 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74512
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 26.555003 N, 81.869036 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Villas, FL
Villas
Village (n.) A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Village cart, A kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top.
Syn: Village, Hamlet, Town, City.
Usage: In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold.
Village (n.) A community of people smaller than a town [syn: village, small town, settlement].
Village (n.) A settlement smaller than a town [syn: village, hamlet].
Village (n.) A mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century [syn: Greenwich Village, Village].
Villager (n.) An inhabitant of a village.
Brutus
had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these
hard condition. -- Shak.
Villager (n.) One who has lived in a village
most of their life.
Villagery (n.) Villages; a district of villages. [Obs.] "The maidens of the villagery." -- Shak.
Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade. [Obs.] -- Sir T. More.
Villain (n.) (Feudal Law) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also villan, and villein.].
If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. -- Jer. Taylor.
Note: Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that is, annexed to the manor (LL. adscripti glebae); and villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of their lord, and transferable from one to another. -- Blackstone.
Villain (n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. [R.]
Pour the blood of the villain in one basin, and the blood of the gentleman in another, what difference shall there be proved? -- Becon.
Villain (n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
Like a villain with a smiling cheek. -- Shak.
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix. -- Pope.
Villain (a.) Villainous. [R.] -- Shak.
Villain (n.) A wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately [syn: villain, scoundrel].
Villain (n.) The principal bad character in a film or work of fiction [syn: villain, baddie].
VILLAIN () An epithet used to cast contempt and contumely on the person to whom it is applied.
VILLAIN () To call a man a villain in a letter written to a third person, will entitle him to an action without proof of special damages. 1 Bos. & Pull. 331.
Villainous (a.) Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.
Villainous (a.) Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action.
Villainous (a.) Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine eye." -- Shak.
Villainous judgment (O. E. Law), A judgment that casts reproach on the guilty person. -- Vil"lain*ous*ly, adv. Vil"lain*ous*ness, n.
Villainous (a.) Extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous].
Villainous (a.) [ Before noun ] 邪惡的；極壞的 A villainous person or an action is evil.
// A villainous dictator.
Villainies (n. pl. ) of Villainy.
Villainy (n.) The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." -- Chaucer.
The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. -- Shak.
Villainy (n.) Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk. [Archaic]
He never yet not vileinye ne said In all his life, unto no manner wight. -- Chaucer.
In our modern language, it [foul language] is termed villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment. -- Barrow.
Villainy till a very late day expressed words foul and disgraceful to the utterer much oftener than deeds. -- Trench.
Villainy (n.) The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.
Such villainies roused Horace into wrath. -- Dryden.
That execrable sum of all villainies commonly called a slave trade. -- John Wesley.
Villainy (n.) The quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior [syn: villainy, villainousness].
Villainy (n.) A criminal or vicious act.
Villakin (n.) A little villa. [R.] -- Gay.
Compare: Villain
Villain (n.) (Feudal Law) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also villan, and villein.]
If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. -- Jer. Taylor.
Note: Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that is, annexed to the manor (LL. adscripti glebae); and villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of their lord, and transferable from one to another. -- Blackstone.
Villain (n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. [R.]
Pour the blood of the villain in one basin, and the blood of the gentleman in another, what difference shall there be proved? -- Becon.
Villain (n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
Like a villain with a smiling cheek. -- Shak.
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix. -- Pope.
Villan (n.) A villain. [R.]
Villanage (n.) (Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. [In this sense written also villenage, and villeinage.]
I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. -- Milton.
Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. -- Macaulay.
Villanage (n.) Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Villanel (n.) A ballad. [Obs.] -- Cotton.
Villanelle (n. pl. ) of Villanella.
Villanella (n.) (Mus.) An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.