Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 23
Vitals (n. pl.) 重要器官，要害，命脈 Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state. "The vitals of the public body." -- Glanvill.
Vitals (n.) A bodily organ that is essential for life [syn: {vital organ}, {vitals}].
Vitellary (a.) (Biol.) Vitelline.
Vitelligenous (a.) (Zool.) Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.
Vitellin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.
Vitelline (a.) (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.
Vitellogene (n.) (Zool.) A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.
Vitellus (n.) (Biol.) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.
Vitellus (n.) (Bot.) Perisperm in an early condition.
Vitellus (n.) Nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) [syn: yolk, vitellus].
Vitiated (imp. & p. p.) of Vitiate.
Vitiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vitiate.
Vitiate (v. t.) (v. i. & v. t.) 損害；汙染；（使）無效；（使）墮落 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.
Vitiate (v.) Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: {corrupt}, {pervert}, {subvert}, {demoralize}, {demoralise}, {debauch}, {debase}, {profane}, {vitiate}, {deprave}, {misdirect}].
Vitiate (v.) Make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: {mar}, {impair}, {spoil}, {deflower}, {vitiate}].
Vitiate (v.) Take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract" [syn: {invalidate}, {void}, {vitiate}] [ant: {validate}].
Vitiation (n.) 損害；汙染；無效；墮落 The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract.
The vitiation that breeds evil acts. -- G. Eliot.
Vitiation (n.) Nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null; "the vitiation of the contract".
Viticulose (a.) (Bot.) Having long and slender trailing stems.
Viticultural (a.) 栽培葡萄的；葡萄栽培法 Of or pertaining to viticulture.
Viticulture (n.) 葡萄的栽培；葡萄栽培術 The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.
Viticulture (n.) The cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing [syn: viticulture, viniculture].
Viticulturist (n.) 葡萄栽培者 One engaged in viticulture.
Viticulturist (n.) A cultivator of grape vine.
Vitiligo (n.) (Med.) 【醫】白斑病（= leukoderma） A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.
Vitiligo (n.) An acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border).
Vitilitigate (v. i.) To contend in law litigiously or cavilously. [Obs.]
Vitilitigation (n.) Cavilous litigation; cavillation. [Obs.] -- Hudibras.
Vitiosity (n.) Viciousness; depravity.
The perverseness and vitiosity of man's will. -- South. Vitiously Vitious
Vitious (n.) Alt. of Vitiousness.
Vitiously (n.) Alt. of Vitiousness.
Vitiousness (n.) See Vicious, Viciously, Viciousness.
Vitiousness (n.) [U] 惡毒；邪惡 The quality or fact of being cruel and showing an intention to hurt or upset someone.
// I don't think he expected the viciousness or nastiness of the book.
// They subject their opponents to hate campaigns of rare viciousness.
Vitiousness (n.) [U] 劇烈；嚴重 The quality or fact of being violent causing great pain.
// We weren't prepared for the ferocity and viciousness of the attack.
// It was a racist attack of shocking viciousness.
Compare: Vicious
Vicious (a.) 邪惡的；墮落的；惡意的；惡毒的；兇惡的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].
Vitis (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants including all true grapevines.
Vitis (n.) The type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes [syn: Vitis, genus Vitis].
Vitoe (a.) (Zool.) See Durukuli.
Vitrella (n.) (Zool.) One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.
Vitre-o-electic (a.) (Physics) Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.
Vitreous (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.
Vitreous (a.) Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.
Vitreous body (Anat.), The vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye.
Vitreous electricity (Elec.), The kind of electricity excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk; positive electricity; -- opposed to resinous, or negative, electricity.
Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See the Note under Eye.
Vitreous sponge (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of siliceous sponges having, often fibrous, glassy spicules which are normally six-rayed; a hexactinellid sponge. See Venus's basket, under Venus.
Vitreous (a.) Of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber".
Vitreous (a.) Relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica".
Vitreous (a.) (Of ceramics) Having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" [syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified].
Vitreousness (n.) The quality or state of being vitreous.
Vitrescence (n.) The quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass. --Kirwan.
Vitrescent (a.) Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.
Vitrescible (a.) That may be vitrified; vitrifiable.
Vitric (a.) Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from ceramic.
Vitrifaction (n.) The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.
Vitrifacture (n.) The manufacture of glass and glassware.
Vitrifiable (a.) Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.
Vitrificable (a.) Vitrifiable. [Obs.]
Vitrificate (v. t.) To convert into glass; to vitrify. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Vitrification (n.) Same as Vitrifaction. -- Sir T. Browne. Ure.
Vitrification (n.) A vitrified substance; the glassy result of being vitrified.
Vitrification (n.) The process of becoming vitreous.
Vitrified (a.) Converted into glass.
Vitriform (a.) Having the form or appearance of glass; resembling glass; glasslike.
Vitrified (imp. & p. p.) of Vitrify.
Vitrifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vitrify.
Vitrify (v. t.) To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
Vitrify (v. t.) To become glass; to be converted into glass.
Vitrina (n.) A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name.
Vitriol (n.) A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
Vitriol (n.) Sulphuric acid; -- called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
Vitriolated (imp. & p. p.) of Vitriolate.
Vitriolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vitriolate.
Vitriolate (v. t.) To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate.
Vitriolate (v. t.) To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
Vitriolate (a.) Vitriolated.
Vitriolate (n.) A sulphate.
Vitriolated (a.) Changed into a vitriol or a sulphate, or subjected to the action of sulphuric acid or of a sulphate; as, vitriolated potash, i. e., potassium sulphate.
Vitriolation (n.) The act, process, or result of vitriolating.
Vitriolic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol.
Vitriolic (a.) Biting, bitter or caustic; having or expressing strong and unpleasantly negative feelings; -- of speech or feelings; the vitriolic denunciations of opponents by partisan columnists.
Vitriolic acid (Old Chem.), (a) sulphuric acid. See Vitriol
Vitriolic acid (Old Chem.), (b) . [Colloq.]
Vitriolic (a.) Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic].
Vitriolic (a.) Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action [syn: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic, mordant].
Vitriolizable (a.) Capable of being converted into a vitriol.
Vitriolization (n.) (Old Chem.) The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.
Vitriolize (v. t.) To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.
Vitriolize (v. t.) To injure (a person) with vitriol, or sulphuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face.
Vitriolous (a.) See Vitriolic. [Obs.]
Vitrite (n.) A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.
Vitruvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect.
Vitruvian scroll (Arch.), A name given to a peculiar pattern of scrollwork, consisting of convolved undulations. It is used in classical architecture. -- Oxf. Gloss.
Vittae (n. pl. ) of Vitta.
Vitta (n.) (Bot.) One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
Vitta (n.) (Zool.) A band, or stripe, of color.
Vittate (a.) (Bot.) Bearing or containing vittae.
Vittate (a.) Striped longitudinally.
Vituline (a.) Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.
Vituperable (a.) Liable to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.
Vituperate (v. t.) To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Vituperate (v.) Spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" [syn: vilify, revile, vituperate, rail].
Vituperation (n.) The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.
When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him. -- Donne.
Vituperation (n.) Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn: vituperation, invective, vitriol].
Vituperation, (n.) Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Vituperative (a.) Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive. -- Vi*tu"per*a*tive*ly, adv.
Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities. -- B. Jonson.
Vituperative (a.) Marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing" [syn: scathing, vituperative].
Vituperator (n.) [L.] One who vituperates, or censures abusively.
Vituperrious (a.) Worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.]
Vivace (a. & adv.) [It.] (Mus.) 【音】活潑地（的） Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.
Vivace (adv.) Lively, in music; "play this section vivace!"
Vivace (a.) (Of tempo) Very fast and lively.
Vivacious (a.) 活潑的；快活的；有生氣的 Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. [Obs.]
Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign. -- Fuller.
The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. -- I. Taylor.
Vivacious (a.) Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet. "Vivacious nonsense." -- V. Knox.
Vivacious (a.) (Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. [R.]
Syn: Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light-hearted. -- Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi*va"cious*ness, n.
Vivacious (a.) Vigorous and animated; "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance" [syn: {vibrant}, {vivacious}].
Vivacious (a.) (Approving) (C2) （尤指女性） 活潑迷人的 A vivacious person, especially a woman or girl, is attractively energetic and enthusiastic.
// He brought along his wife, a vivacious blonde, some 20 years his junior.
Vivacity (n.) 活潑；快活；有生氣 [U] The quality or state of being vivacious. Specifically:
Vivacity (n.) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor. [Obs.]
The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long. -- Fuller.
Vivacity (n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.
Syn: Liveliness; gayety. See Liveliness.
Vivacity (n.) Characterized by high spirits and animation.
Vivacity (n.) (pl. Vivacities) [U] 活潑；快活；有生氣 The quality or state of being vivacious.
Vivacity (n.) Liveliness; animation; sprightliness.
// A people noted for their vivacity.
Vivacity (n.) A vivacious act or statement.
Vivandiere (n.) In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.
Vivariums (n. pl. ) of Vivarium.
Vivaria (n. pl. ) of Vivarium.
Vivarium (n.) A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
Vivarium (n.) An indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions.
Vivaries (n. pl. ) of Vivary.
Vivary (n.) A vivarium. "That . . . vivary of fowls and beasts." -- Donne.
Vivary. () A place where living things are kept; as a park, on land; or in the water, as a pond.
Viva voce () [L.] By word of mouth; orally.
Viva voce (adv.) Orally; "I heard it viva voce" [syn: by word of mouth, viva voce].
Viva voce (n.) An examination conducted by spoken communication [syn: oral, oral exam, oral examination, viva voce, viva].
Viva voce. () Living voice; verbally. It is said a witness delivers his evidence viva voce, when he does so in open court; the term is opposed to deposition. It is sometimes opposed to ballot; as, the people vote by ballot, but their representatives in the legislature, vote viva voce.
Compare: Vifda
Vifda (n.) In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted. [Scot.] [Written also vivda.] -- Jamieson.
Vivda (n.) See Vifda.
Vive () Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.
Vive (a.) Lively; animated; forcible. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Vively (adv.) In a lively manner. [Obs.]
If I see a thing vively represented on the stage. -- B. Jonson.
Vivency (n.) Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Viverra (n.) (Zool.) A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.
Viverra (n.) Type genus of the family Viverridae [syn: Viverra, genus Viverra].
Viverrine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Viverridae, or Civet family.
Viverrine (n.) Small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World [syn: viverrine, viverrine mammal].
Vivers (n. pl.) Provisions; victuals. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
I 'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long. -- Sir W. Scott.
Vives (n.) (Far.) A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.