Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 26
Volitive (a.) Of or pertaining to the will; originating in the will; having the power to will. "They not only perfect the intellectual faculty, but the volitive." -- Sir M. Hale.
Volitive (a.) (Gram.) Used in expressing a wish or permission as, volitive proposition.
Volkslieder (n. pl. ) of Volkslied.
Volkslied (n.) [G.] (Mus.) A popular song, or national air.
Volley (v. t.) To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
Volley (v. i.) To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys. -- Tennyson.
Volley (v. i.) (Tennis) To return the ball before it touches the ground.
Volley (v. i.) (Cricket) To send the ball full to the top of the wicket. -- R. A. Proctor.
Volleys (n. pl. ) of Volley.
Volley (n.) A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew. -- Milton.
Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe. -- Byron.
Volley (n.) A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words. "This volley of oaths." -- B. Jonson.
Rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks. -- Pope.
Volley (n.) (Tennis) A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
Volley (n.) (Cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
Half volley. (Tennis) A return of the ball immediately after is has touched the ground.
Half volley. (Cricket) A sending of the ball so that after touching the ground it flies towards the top of the wicket. -- R. A. Proctor.
On the volley, At random. [Obs.] "What we spake on the volley begins work." -- Massinger.
Volley gun, A gun with several barrels for firing a number of shots simultaneously; a kind of mitrailleuse.
Volley (n.) Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise" [syn: fusillade, salvo, volley, burst].
Volley (n.) A tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces [ant: ground stroke].
Volley (v.) Be dispersed in a volley; "gun shots volleyed at the attackers."
Volley (v.) Hit before it touches the ground; "volley the tennis ball."
Volley (v.) Discharge in, or as if in, a volley; "the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians."
Volley (v.) Make a volley.
Volley (v.) Utter rapidly; "volley a string of curses."
Volleyed (imp. & p. p.) of Volley.
Volleying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Volley.
Volley (n.) (Bullets) [ C ] （槍彈的）齊射，群射 A large number of bullets (seeming to be) fired at the same time.
// Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/ let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
Volley (n.) (Large number) [ C usually singular ] （…大量的）迸發，連發 A lot of similar things that are said or produced, or that happen, quickly one after the other.
// I'm afraid my proposal was met with a volley of criticisms.
Volley (n.) (Sports) [ C ] (In sports) 淩空擊球；截擊球；淩空踢球 A kick or hit in which a player returns a moving ball before it touches the ground.
// That was a beautiful backhand volley.
Volley (v.) [ I or T ] (In sports) 淩空擊球；截擊球；淩空踢球 To hit or kick a moving ball before it touches the ground.
Volleyball (n.) A game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands [syn: volleyball, volleyball game].
Volleyball (n.) An inflated ball used in playing volleyball.
Volleyball (n.) [ U ] (A2) 排球（運動）A game in which two teams use their hands to hit a large ball backwards and forwards over a high net without allowing the ball to touch the ground.
Volleyed (a.) Discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; as, volleyed thunder.
Volow (v. t.) To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers. [Obs.] -- Tyndale.
Volt (n.) (Man.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
Volt (n.) (Fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
Volt (n.) (Elec.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one amp[`e]re. It is practically equivalent to 1000/1434 the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15[deg] C.
Volt (n.) A unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it [syn: volt, V].
Volte (n. pl. ) of Volta.
Volta (n.) (Mus.) A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
Volta-electric (a.) Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.
Volta-electrometer (n.) An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.
Voltage (n.) (Elec.) Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
Voltage (n.) The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts [syn: voltage, electromotive force, emf].
Voltage (n.) The difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts [syn: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage].
Voltage
Potential difference
(Or "potential difference", "electro-motive force" (EMF)) A quantity measured as a signed difference between two points in an electrical circuit which, when divided by the resistance in Ohms between those points, gives the current flowing between those points in Amperes, according to Ohm's Law. Voltage is expressed as a signed number of Volts (V). The voltage gradient in Volts per metre is proportional to the force on a charge.
Voltages are often given relative to "earth" or "ground" which is taken to be at zero Volts. A circuit's earth may or may not be electrically connected to the actual earth.
The voltage between two points is also given by the charge present between those points in Coulombs divided by the capacitance in Farads. The capacitance in turn depends on the dielectric constant of the insulators present.
Yet another law gives the voltage across a piece of circuit as its inductance in Henries multiplied by the rate of change of current flow through it in Amperes per second.
A simple analogy likens voltage to the pressure of water in a pipe. Current is likened to the amount of water (charge) flowing per unit time.
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Voltagraphy (n.) In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode. [R.]
Voltaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
Voltaic (a.) Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
Note: See the Note under Galvanism.
Voltaic arc, A luminous arc, of intense brilliancy, formed between carbon points as electrodes by the passage of a powerful voltaic current.
Voltaic battery, An apparatus variously constructed, consisting of a series of plates or pieces of dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, arranged in pairs, and subjected to the action of a saline or acid solution, by which a current of electricity is generated whenever the two poles, or ends of the series, are connected by a conductor; a galvanic battery. See Battery, 4. (b), and Note.
Voltaic circuit. See under Circuit.
Voltaic couple or Voltaic element, A single pair of the connected plates of a battery.
Voltaic electricity. See the Note under Electricity.
Voltaic pile, A kind of voltaic battery consisting of alternate disks of dissimilar metals, separated by moistened cloth or paper. See 5th Pile.
Voltaic protection of metals, The protection of a metal exposed to the corrosive action of sea water, saline or acid liquids, or the like, by associating it with a metal which is positive to it, as when iron is galvanized, or coated with zinc.
Voltaic (a.) Pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action; "a galvanic cell"; "a voltaic (or galvanic) couple" [syn: voltaic, galvanic].
Voltaic (n.) A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana [syn: Gur, Voltaic].
Voltairean (a.) Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author. -- J. Morley.
Voltairism (n.) The theories or practice of Voltaire. -- J. Morley.
Voltaism (n.) (Physics) That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.
Voltameter (n.) (Physics) An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.
Voltaplast (n.) A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping. -- G. Francis.
Voltatype (n.) An electrotype. [R.]
Volti (imperative.) (Mus.) Turn, that is, turn over the leaf.
Volti subito [It.] (Mus.), Turn over quickly.
Voltigeur (n.) A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
Voltigeur (n.) (Mil.) One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.
Voltmeter (n.) (Elec.) An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit.
Voltmeter (n.) Meter that measures the potential difference between two points.
Voltzite (n.) (Min.) An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine. Volubilate
Volubilate (a.) Alt. of Volubile.
Volubile (a.) Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble.
Volubility (n.) The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Volubility (n.) The quality of being facile in speech and writing [syn: fluency, volubility, articulateness].
Voluble (a.) Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
Voluble (a.) Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
[Cassio,] A knave very voluble. -- Shak.
Note: Voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. "A grave and voluble eloquence." -- Bp. Hacket.
Voluble (a.) Changeable; unstable; fickle. [Obs.]
Voluble (a.) (Bot.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
Voluble stem (Bot.), A stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body. -- Vol"u*ble*ness, n. -- Vol"u*bly, adv.
Voluble (a.) Marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations" [ant: taciturn].
Voluble (a.) Easily rolling or turning : Rotating.
Voluble (a.) Characterized by ready or rapid speech : Glib, Fluent.
Volubleness (n.) [U] The quality of being voluble.
Volubly (adv.) In a chatty manner; "`when I was a girl,' she said chattily, `I used to ride a bicycle'" [syn: chattily, volubly].
Volubly (adv.) (Ant.) Taciturn.
// Having worked as a teacher for almost twenty years, Pamela was voluble on the subject of education.
Volume (n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.]
The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen). -- Encyc. Brit.
Volume (n.) Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set. -- Franklin.
Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. -- Dryden.
Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. -- W. Irving.
Volume (n.) Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
Volume (n.) (Mus.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
Atomic volume, Molecular volume (Chem.), The ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question.
Specific volume (Physics & Chem.), The quotient obtained by dividing unity by the specific gravity; the reciprocal of the specific gravity. It is equal (when the specific gravity is referred to water at 4[deg] C. as a standard) to the number of cubic centimeters occupied by one gram of the substance.
Volume (n.) The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; "the gas expanded to twice its original volume."
Volume (n.) The property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" [syn: bulk, mass, volume].
Volume (n.) Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" [syn: book, volume].
Volume (n.) A publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review."
Volume (n.) A relative amount; "mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water."
Volume (n.) The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: volume, loudness, intensity] [ant: softness].
Volumed (a.) Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist.
The distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll. -- Byron.
Volumed (a.) Having volume, or bulk; massive; great.
Volumed (a.) (Often used in combination) consisting of or having a given number or kind of volumes; "the poet's volumed works"; "a two-volumed history"; "multi-volumed encyclopedias"; "large-volumed editions."
Volumed (a.) Formed or rising in rounded masses; "gasping with the volumed smoke."
Volumed (a.) Furnished with volumes; "a large room volumed with ancient books."
Volumenometer (n.) (Physics) An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
Volumenometry (n.) (Chem. & Physics) The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
Volumescope (n.) (Physics) An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, etc.
Volumeter (n.) (Physics) An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
Volumeter (n.) A meter to measure the volume of gases, liquids, or solids (either directly or by displacement).
Volumetric (a.) Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume.
Volumetric analysis (Chem.), That system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the analysis of gases by volume, as by the eudiometer.
Volumetric (a.) Of or relating to measurement by volume; "volumetric analysis" [syn: volumetric, volumetrical].
Volumetrical (a.) Volumetric. -- Vol`u*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
Volumetrical (a.) Of or relating to measurement by volume; "volumetric analysis" [syn: volumetric, volumetrical].
Voluminous (a.) Of or pertaining to volume or volumes. Specifically:
Voluminous (a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. -- Milton.
Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen. -- De Quincey.
Voluminous (a.) Of great volume, or bulk; large. -- B. Jonson.
Voluminous (a.) Consisting of many volumes or books; as, the collections of Muratori are voluminous.
Voluminous (a.) Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer. -- Vo*lu"mi*nous*ly, adv. -- Vo*lu"mi*nous*ness, n.
Voluminous (a.) Large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt."
Voluminous (a.) Marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous].
Voluminous (a.) Large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she took copious notes"; "a subject of voluminous legislation" [syn: copious, voluminous].
Volumist (n.) One who writes a volume; an author. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Voluntarily (adv.) 志願地；自動地；自發地 In a voluntary manner; of one's own will; spontaneously.
Voluntarily (adv.) Out of your own free will; "he voluntarily submitted to the fingerprinting" [ant: {involuntarily}].
Voluntariness (n.) The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.
Voluntary (a.) Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy. -- N. W. Taylor.
Voluntary (a.) Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free.
Our voluntary service he requires. -- Milton.
She fell to lust a voluntary prey. -- Pope.
Voluntary (a.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
Voluntary (a.) (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion.
Voluntary (a.) Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.
God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary, agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him. -- Hooker.
Voluntary (a.) (Law) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration.
Voluntary (a.) (Eccl.) Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church.
Voluntary affidavit or Voluntary oath (Law), An affidavit or oath made in an extrajudicial matter.
Voluntary conveyance (Law), A conveyance without valuable consideration.
Voluntary escape (Law), The escape of a prisoner by the express consent of the sheriff.
Voluntary jurisdiction. (Eng. Eccl. Law) See Contentious jurisdiction, under Contentious.
Voluntary waste. (Law) See Waste, n., 4.
Syn: See Spontaneous.
Voluntaries (n. pl. ) of Voluntary.
Voluntary (n.) One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer. [R.] -- Shak.
Voluntary (n.) (Mus.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service.
Voluntary (n.) (Eccl.) One who advocates voluntaryism.
Voluntary (a.) Of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled; "man is a voluntary agent"; "participation was voluntary"; "voluntary manslaughter"; "voluntary generosity in times of disaster"; "voluntary social workers"; "a voluntary confession" [ant: involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary].
Voluntary (a.) Controlled by individual volition; "voluntary motions"; "voluntary muscles" [ant: involuntary].
Voluntary (n.) (Military) A person who freely enlists for service [syn: volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary] [ant conscript, draftee, inductee].
Voluntary (n.) Composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance.
Voluntary. () Willingly; done with one's consent; negligently. Wolff, Sec. 5.
Voluntary. () To render an act criminal or tortious it must be voluntary. If a man, therefore, kill another without a will on his part, while engaged in the performance of a lawful act, and having taken proper care to prevent it, he is not guilty of any crime. And if he commit an injury to the person or property of another, he is not liable for damages, unless the act has been voluntary or through negligence, as when a collision takes place between two ships without any fault in either. 2 Dobs. R. 83 3 Hagg. Adm. R. 320, 414.
Voluntary. () When the crime or injury happens in the performance of an unlawful act, the party will be considered as having acted voluntarily.
Voluntary. () A negligent escape permitted by an officer having the custody of a prisoner will be presumed as voluntary; under a declaration or count charging the escape to have been voluntary, the party will, therefore, be allowed to give a negligent escape in evidence. 1 Saund. 35, n. 1. So Will.
Voluntaryism (n.) (Eccl.) The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.
Volunteer (n.) One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
Volunteer (n.) (Mil.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
Volunteer (n.) (Law) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made. -- Burrill.
Volunteer (n.) A plant, especially a flowering plant in a garden, that appears spontaneously without having been intentionally planted.
Volunteer (a.) Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
Volunteered (imp. & p. p.) of Volunteer.
Volunteering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Volunteer.
Volunteer (v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
Volunteer (v. i.) To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
Volunteer (a.) Without payment; "the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department" [syn: unpaid, volunteer(a)].
Volunteer (n.) (Military) A person who freely enlists for service [syn: volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary] [ant: conscript, draftee, inductee].
Volunteer (n.) A person who performs voluntary work [syn: volunteer, unpaid worker].
Volunteer (n.) A native or resident of Tennessee [syn: Tennessean, Volunteer].
Volunteer (v.) Tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information."
Volunteer (v.) Agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it" [syn: volunteer, offer].
Volunteer (v.) Do volunteer work.
Volunteer (n.) [ C ] (B2) 自願參加者，（尤指幫助別人的）志願者 A person who does something, especially helping other people, willingly and without being forced or paid to do it.
// The Health clinic is relying on volunteers to run the office and answer the phones.
// Since it would be a highly dangerous mission, the Lieutenant asked for volunteers.
// It's a volunteer army with no paid professionals.
Compare: Conscript
Conscript (v.) [ T ] (US usually Draft) 徵召，招募 To force someone by law to serve in one of the armed forces.
// He was conscripted into the army at the age of 18.
Volunteer (v.) (C1) [ I or T ] 自願做；無償做；作志願者；主動提出做 To offer to do something that you do not have to do, often without having been asked to do it and/or without expecting payment.
// [ + to infinitive ] During the emergency many staff volunteered to work through the weekend.
// He volunteered for the army (= he joined even though he did not have to).
I volunteered myself for the position of Health and Safety Representative.
// (Humorous) My friends volunteered me to do the talking.
Volunteer (v.) [ T ] 主動提供（資訊） To give information without being asked.
// If I were you, I wouldn't volunteer any details of what happened.
// [ + speech ] "I saw her going out of the main entrance half an hour ago," he volunteered.
Volupere (n.) A woman's cap. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Voluptuaries (n. pl. ) of Voluptuary.
Voluptuary (n.) 沉迷於酒色的（人） A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
A good-humored, but hard-hearted, voluptuary. -- Sir W. Scott.
Syn: Sensualist; epicure.
Voluptuary (a.) Voluptuous; luxurious.
Voluptuary (a.) Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous].
Voluptuary (n.) A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses [syn: voluptuary, sybarite].
Voluptuous (a.) 性感的；激起情慾的；貪戀酒色的；縱慾的；滿足感官的；給人以快感的 Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual. Music arose with its voluptuous swell. -- Byron.
Sink back into your voluptuous repose. -- De Quincey.
Voluptuous (a.) Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications. "The jolly and voluptuous livers." -- Atterbury.
Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. -- Milton. -- Vo*lup"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*lup"tu*ous*ness, n.
Voluptuous (a.) Having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" [syn: juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous].
Voluptuous (a.) (Of a woman's body) Having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed].
Voluptuous (a.) Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous].
Volupty (n.) Voluptuousness. [Obs.]
Volutas (n. pl. ) of Voluta.
Volutae (n. pl. ) of Voluta.
Voluta (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.
Volutation (n.) A rolling of a body; a wallowing. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Volute (n.) (Arch.) 渦形；螺旋形；渦螺殼 A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale.
Volute (n.) (Zool.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells.
Volute (n.) (Zool.) Any voluta.
Volute spiring, A spring formed of a spiral scroll of plate, rod, or wire, extended or extensible in the direction of the axis of the coil, in which direction its elastic force is exerted and employed.
Volute (a.) In the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate].
Volute (n.) Ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn: spiral, volute].
Volute (n.) A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix].