Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 27
Volute (a.) 渦形的；螺旋形的 In the shape of a
coil [syn: {coiling}, {helical}, {spiral}, {spiraling}, {volute},
{voluted}, {whorled}, {turbinate}].
Volute (n.) 渦形；螺旋形；渦螺殼 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}].
Voluted (a.) Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
Voluted (a.) In the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate].
Volution (n.) A spiral turn or wreath.
Volution (n.) (Zool.) A whorl of a spiral shell.
Volution (n.) A rolling or revolving motion.
Volva (n.) (Bot.) A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.
Volva (n.) Cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi.
Volvox (n.) (Bot.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
Compare: Animalcule
Animalcule (n.) A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. [Obs.] -- Ray.
Animalcule (n.) (Zool.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiac[ae], and the siliceous Diatomace[ae].
Spermatic animalcules. See Spermatozoa.
Volvox (n.) Type genus of the Volvocaceae; minute pale green flagellates occurring in tiny spherical colonies; minute flagella rotate the colony about an axis [syn: Volvox, genus Volvox].
Volvulus (n.) (Med.) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
Volvulus (n.) (Med.) Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.
Volvulus (n.) Abnormal twisting of the intestines (usually in the area of the ileum or sigmoid colon) resulting in intestinal obstruction.
Volyer (n.) (Zool.) A lurcher. [Prov. Eng.]
Vomer (n.) (Anat.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
Vomer (n.) (Anat.) The pygostyle.
Vomer (n.) Thin trapezoidal bone of the skull forming the posterior and inferior parts of the nasal septum.
Vomerine (a.) Of or pertaining to the vomer.
Vomica (n.) (Med.) An abscess cavity in the lungs.
Vomica (n.) (Med.) An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.
Vomicine (n.) (Chem.) See Brucine.
Vomic nut () Same as Nux vomica.
Vomit (n.) 嘔吐 [C]；嘔吐物 [U] Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. -- Sandys.
Vomit (n.) (Med.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic.
He gives your Hollander a vomit. -- Shak.
Black vomit. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary.
Vomit nut, Nux vomica.
Vomited (imp. & p. p.) of Vomit
Vomiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vomit
Vomit (v. i.) 嘔吐 To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
Vomit (v. t.) 嘔吐；使嘔吐；噴出；吐出（惡語等） To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.
The fish . . . vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. -- Jonah ii. 10.
Vomit (v. t.) Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.
Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke. -- Milton.
Vomit (n.) The matter ejected in vomiting [syn: vomit, vomitus, puke, barf].
Vomit (n.) A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant].
Vomit (n.) The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth [syn: vomit, vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking].
Vomit (v.) Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down].
Vomit (v.) [ I or T ] (C2) 嘔吐 To empty the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
// He came home drunk and vomited all over the kitchen floor.
// She was vomiting (up) blood.
Vomiting (n.) The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
Vomiting (n.) The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth [syn: vomit, vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking].
Vomition (n.) The act or power of vomiting. -- Grew.
Vomitive (a.) Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
Vomitive (n.) A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant].
Vomito (n.) (Med.) The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.
Vomitory (a.) Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
Vomitories (n. pl. ) of Vomitory
Vomitory (n.) An emetic; a vomit. -- Harvey.
Vomitory (n.) (Arch.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.
Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude. -- Gibbon.
Vomitory (n.) An entrance to an amphitheater or stadium.
Vomiturition (n.) (Med.) An ineffectual attempt to vomit.
Vomiturition (n.) (Med.) The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort. -- Dunglison.
Compare: Vansire
Vansire (n.) (Zool.) An
ichneumon ({Herpestes galera) native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is
reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and
marsh ichneumon.
Vondsira (n.) (Zool.) Same as Vansire.
Voodoo (n.) See Voodooism.
Voodoo (n.) One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
Voodoo (a.) Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.
Voodoo (n.) A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers [syn: juju, voodoo, hoodoo, fetish, fetich].
Voodoo (n.) (Haiti) Followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities.
Voodoo (n.) A religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities [syn: voodoo, vodoun, voodooism, hoodooism].
Voodoo (v.) Bewitch by or as if by a voodoo.
Voodoo, () Versions Of Outdated Documents Organized Orthogonally (Mac)
Voodooism (n.) A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
Voodooism (n.) A religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities [syn: voodoo, vodoun, voodooism, hoodooism].
Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. -- Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.
Voracious (a.) Excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious].
Voracious (a.) Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish].
Voracity (n.) The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
Vortexes (n. pl. ) of Vortex
Vortices (n. pl. ) of Vortex
Vortex (n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
Vortex (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
Vortex (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
Vortex atom (Chem.), A hypothetical ring-shaped mass of elementary matter in continuous vortical motion. It was conveniently regarded in certain early mathematical models as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom, but is no longer considered a useful model, having been superseded by quantum mechanics.
Vortex wheel, A kind of turbine.
Vortex (n.) The shape of something rotating rapidly [syn: whirl, swirl, vortex, convolution].
Vortex (n.) A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) [syn: whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom].
VORTEX, () Varian Omnitasking Real Time EXecutive (???) (OS, Varian)
Vortical (a.) Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion. Vor"ti*cal*ly, adv.
Vorticel (n.) (Zool.) A vorticella.
Vorticellas (n. pl. ) of Vorticella
Vorticellae (n. pl. ) of Vorticella
Vorticella (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
Vorticella (n.) Any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
Vorticose (a.) Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion.
Vortiginous (a.) Moving rapidly round a center; vortical. [R.] -- Cowper.
Votaress (n.) A woman who is a votary. -- Shak.
Votarist (n.) A votary.
Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed. -- Milton.
Votary (a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom. -- Bacon.
Votaries (n. pl. ) of Votary
Votary (n.) One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life. "You are already love's firm votary." -- Shak.
'T was coldness of the votary, not the prayer, that was in fault. -- Bp. Fell.
But
thou, my votary, weepest thou? -- Emerson.
Votary (n.) One bound by vows to a religion or life of worship
or service;
"monasteries of votaries".
Votary (n.) A priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non- Christian religion or cult; "a votary of Aphrodite".
Votary (n.) A devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity; "the cultured votary of science".
Vote (n.) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer. [Obs.] -- Massinger.
Vote (n.) A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
Vote (n.) That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. -- Holmes.
Vote (n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
Vote (n.) Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
Casting vote, Cumulative vote, etc. See under Casting, Cumulative, etc.
Voted (imp. & p. p.) of Vote
Voting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vote
Vote (v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
The vote for a duelist is to assist in the prostration of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime. -- L. Beecher.
To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires a great amount of information. -- F. W. Robertson.
Vote (v. t.) To choose by suffrage; to elect; as, to vote a candidate into office.
Vote (v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
Parliament voted them one hundred thousand pounds. -- Swift.
Vote (v. t.) To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore. [Colloq.]
Vote (v. t.) To condemn; to devote; to doom. [Obs.] -- Glanvill.
Vote (n.) A choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per person" [syn: vote, ballot, voting, balloting].
Vote (n.) The opinion of a group as determined by voting; "they put the question to a vote".
Vote (n.) A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: right to vote, vote, suffrage].
Vote (n.) A body of voters who have the same interests; "he failed to get the Black vote".
Vote (n.) The total number of voters who participated; "they are expecting a large vote" [syn: vote, voter turnout].
Vote (v.) Express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote; "He voted for the motion";
"None of the Democrats voted last night".
Vote (v.) Express one's choice or preference by vote; "vote the Democratic ticket".
Vote (v.) Express a choice or opinion; "I vote that we all go home"; "She voted for going to the Chinese restaurant".
Vote (v.) Be guided by in voting; "vote one's conscience".
Vote (v.) Bring into existence or make available by vote; "They voted aid for the underdeveloped countries in Asia".
Vote, () Suffrage; the voice of an individual in making a choice by many. The total number of voices given at an election; as, the presidential vote.
Vote, () Votes are either given, by ballot, v.) or viva voce; they may be delivered personally by the voter himself, or, in some cases, by proxy. (q.v.)
Vote, () A majority (q.v.) of the votes given carries the question submitted, unless in particular cases when the constitution or laws require that there shall be a majority of all the voters, or when a greater number than a simple majority is expressly required; as, for example in the case of the senate in making treaties by the president and senate, two-thirds of the senators present must concur. Vide Angell on Corpor. Index, h.t.
Vote, () When the votes are equal in number, the proposed measure is lost.
Vote (n.) The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Voter (n.) One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter.
Voter (n.) A citizen who has a legal right to vote [syn: voter, elector].
Voter, () One entitled to a vote; an elector.
Voting () a. & n. from Vote, v.
Votist (n.) One who makes a vow. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Votive (a.) Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet. "Votive incense." -- Keble.
We reached a votive stone, that bears the name Of Aloys Reding. -- Wordsworth.
Embellishments
of flowers and votive garlands. -- Motley.
Votive medal, A medal struck in grateful commemoration of some
auspicious event.
Votive offering, An offering in fulfillment of a religious
vow, as of one's person or property. -- Vo"tive*ly, adv. -- Vo"tive*ness, n.
Votive (a.) Dedicated in fulfillment of a vow; "votive prayers".
Votress (n.) A votaress. -- Dryden.
Vouched (imp. & p. p.) of Vouch
Vouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vouch
Vouch (v. t.) 擔保，証明，斷定，傳出庭作証 To call; to summon. [Obs.]
[They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers. -- Sir T. Elyot.
Vouch (v. t.) To call upon to witness; to obtest.
Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon. -- Dryden.
Vouch (v. t.) To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it. -- Atterbury.
Vouch (v. t.) To back; to support; to confirm; to establish.
Me damp horror chilled At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold. -- Milton.
Vouch (v. t.) (Law) To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee. -- Blackstone.
Syn: To obtest; declare; affirm; attest; warrant; confirm; asseverate; aver; protest; assure.
Vouch (v. i.) 擔保，保証，証明，確定 To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has . . . affirmed. -- Swift.
Vouch (v. i.) To assert; to aver; to declare. -- Shak.
Vouch (n.) Warrant; attestation. [Obs.]
The vouch of very malice itself. -- Shak.
Vouch (v.) Give personal assurance; guarantee; "Will he vouch for me?".
Vouch (v.) Give surety or assume responsibility; "I vouch for the quality of my products" [syn: guarantee, vouch].
Vouch (v.) Summon (a vouchee) into court to warrant or defend a title.
Vouch (v.) Give supporting evidence; "He vouched his words by his deeds".
Vouchee (n.) (Law) The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery. -- Blackstone.
Vouchee (n.) (Law) A person called into court to defend a title.
Vouchee, () In common recoveries, the person who is called to warrant or defend the title, is called the vouchee. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2093.
Voucher (n.) 證人；保證人；證件；證書；收據 One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.
Will his vouchers vouch him no more? -- Shak.
The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for one another's reputation. -- Spectator.
Voucher (n.) A book, paper, or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.
Voucher (n.) (Law) The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.
Voucher (n.) (Law) The tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher or double vouchers. -- Blackstone.
Voucher (n.) A document attesting to a credit against certain defined expenditures; a recipt for prepayment; -- often used in pre-arranged travel plans, to provide evidence of pre-payment of the cost of lodging, transportation, or meals.
Voucher (n.) Someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement [syn: voucher, verifier].
Voucher (n.) A document that serves as evidence of some expenditure.
Voucher (n.) A negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed [syn: coupon, voucher].
Voucher, (), Accounts. An account book in which are entered the acquittances, or warrants for the accountant's discharge. It also signifies any acquittance or receipt, which is evidence of payment, or of the debtor's being discharged. See 3 Halst. 299.
Voucher, () Common recoveries. The voucher in common recoveries, is the person on whom the tenant to the praecipe calls to defend the title to the land, because he is supposed to have warranted the title to him at the time of the original purchase.
Voucher, () The person usually employed for this purpose is the cryer of the court, who is therefore called the common voucher. Vide Cruise, Dig. tit. 36, c. 3, s. 1; 22 Vin. Ab. 26; Dane, Index, h.t.; and see Recovery.
Vouchment (n.) A solemn assertion. [R.]
Vouchor (n.) (Law) Same as Voucher, 3 (b).
Vouchsafe (v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop. -- Chaucer.
Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What power the charms of beauty had of old. -- Dryden.
Vouchsafed (imp. & p. p.) of Vouchsafe
Vouchsafing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vouchsafe
Vouchsafe (v. t.) To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.
If ye vouchsafe that it be so. -- Chaucer.
Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two? -- Shak.
It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathens the means of salvation. -- South.
Vouchsafe (v. t.) To receive or accept in condescension. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Vouchsafe (v.) Grant in a condescending manner.
Vouchsafement (n.) The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. -- Glanvill.
Voussoir (n.) (Arch.) One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
Voussoir (n.) Wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault.
Vow (n.) [C] 誓，誓言，誓約 [（+of）] [+to-v]；鄭重宣言；許願 A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or condition; a devotion of one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow of poverty. "Nothing . . . that may . . . stain my vow of Nazarite." -- Milton.
I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow. -- 2 Sam. xv. 7.
I am
combined by a sacred vow. -- Shak.
Vow (n.) Specifically, a promise of fidelity; a pledge of love or affection; as, the marriage vow.
Knights of love, who never broke their vow; Firm to their plighted faith. -- Dryden.