Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 18
Vie (n.) A contest for
superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
Vielle (n.) An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
Vienna paste () 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.
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.) The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
View (n.) Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.
View (n.) Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.
View (n.) That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.
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.
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.
View (n.) Appearance; show; aspect.
Viewed (imp. & p. p.) of View.
Viewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of View.
View (v. t.) 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.
View (v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.
Viewer (n.) One who views or examines.
Viewer (n.) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
Viewer (n.) The superintendent of a coal mine.
Viewiness (n.) The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.
Viewless (a.) Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.
Viewly (a.) Alt. of Viewsome.
Viewsome (a.) Pleasing to the sight; sightly.
Viewy (a.) Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.
Viewy (a.) Spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination.
Vifda (n.) In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.
Vigesimal (a.) Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.
Vigesimation (n.) The act of putting to death every twentieth man.
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.
Vigesimo-quarto (n.) 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?
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.
Vigilance (n.) Guard; watch.
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}].
Vigilancy (n.) Vigilance.
Vigilant (a.) Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
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.
Vigily (n.) A vigil.
Vigintivirate (n.) The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.
Vignette (n.) 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 (v. t.) To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
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/a; characterizing the vicu/a; -- said of the wool of that animal, used in felting hats, and for other purposes.
Vigor (n.) 精力，活力 Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
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.
Vigor (v. t.) To invigorate.
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.) An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.
Vigoroso (a. & adv.) 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.
Vigorous (a.) Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.
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.
Vilany (n.) Villainy.
Vilayet (n.) One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
Vild (a.) Vile.
Vile (a..) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
Vile (a.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.
Viled (a.) Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile.
Vileyns (a.) Villainous.
Vilification (n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Vilifier (n.) One who vilifies or defames.
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.
Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Vilify (v. t.) To treat as vile; to despise.
Vilipend (v. t.) To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.
Vilipendency (n.) Disesteem; slight; disparagement.
Vility (n.) Vileness; baseness.
Vill (n.) A small collection of houses; a village.
Villas (n. pl. ) of Villa.
Villa (n.) A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
Village (n.) A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Villager (n.) An inhabitant of a village.
Villagery (n.) Villages; a district of villages.
Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
Villain (n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
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.
Villain (a.) Villainous.
Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
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.
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.
Villainy (n.) Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk.
Villainy (n.) The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.
Villakin (n.) A little villa.
Villan (n.) A villain.
Villanage (n.) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.
Villanage (n.) Baseness; infamy; villainy.
Villanel (n.) A ballad.
Villanelle (n. pl. ) of Villanella.
Villanella (n.) An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.