Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 4
Vamper (n.) One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.
Vamper (v. i.) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
Vampire (n.) 吸血鬼；吸血蝙蝠；高利貸者；（舞臺上的）活板門 A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat, as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897, which has inspired several movies.
The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church,
Vampire (n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
Vampire (n.) (Zool.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
Vampire (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also {false vampire}
{Vampire bat} (Zool.), a vampire, 3.
Vampire (n.) (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living [syn: {vampire}, {lamia}].
Vampirism (n.) 吸血鬼的習性；相信吸血鬼存在的迷信；榨取別人 Belief in the existence of vampires.
Vampirism (n.) The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.
Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion. -- Carlyle.
Vampirism (n.) Belief in the existence of vampires.
Vampirism (n.) The actions or practices of a vampire.
Vamplate (n.) 矛柄部分之護手金屬板 A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand. [Written also {vamplet}.]
Vamure (n.) See {Vauntmure}. [Obs.]
Vauntmure (n.) A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall. [Written also {vaimure}, and {vamure}.] -- Camden.
Vauntmure (n.) A false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.
Van (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
Van (n.) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
Van (v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
Van (n.) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.
Van (n.) A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
Van (n.) A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
Van (n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
Van (n.) A wing with which the air is beaten.
Van (v. t.) To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
Vanadate (n.) A salt of vanadic acid.
Vanadic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds; as, vanadic oxide.
Vanadinite (n.) A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.
Vanadious (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid.
Vanadite (n.) A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.
Vanadium (n.) A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.
Vanadous (a.) Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen.
Vanadyl (n.) The hypothetical radical VO, regarded as a characterized residue of certain vanadium compounds.
Van-courier (n.) One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.
Vandal (n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
Vandal (n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
Vandal (a.) Alt. of Vandalic
Vandal (n.) [ C ] 故意破壞他人財產者 A person who intentionally damages property belonging to other people.
// Vandals smashed windows and overturned cars in the downtown shopping district.
Vandalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.
Vandalism (n.) The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.
Vandalism (n.) [ U ] (C2) (Law) 恣意毀壞他人財產罪 The crime of intentionally damaging property belonging to other people.
// Beset by violence and vandalism, this is one of the most unpleasant areas in the city.
// These schools are known to be vulnerable to vandalism.
Vandalism (n.) （對好事物的）糟蹋 Any activity that is considered to be damaging or destroying something that was good.
// Cutting down the old forest was an act of vandalism.
// The advertising industry's use of classic songs is vandalism of popular culture, he said.
Vandyke (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of Vandyke the painter; used or represented by Vandyke.
Vandyke (n.) A picture by Vandyke. Also, a Vandyke collar, or a Vandyke edge.
Vandyke (v. t.) fit or furnish with a Vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a Vandyke.
Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
Vane (n.) Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
Vane (n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
Vane (n.) One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
Vanessa (n.) Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.
Vanessian (n.) A vanessa.
Vanfess (n.) A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water.
Vang (n.) A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.
Vanglo (n.) Benne (Sesamum orientale); also, its seeds; -- so called in the West Indies.
Vanguard (n.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
Vanilla (n.) A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.
Vanilla (n.) The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and V. claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.
Vanillate (n.) A salt of vanillic acid.
Vanillic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.
Vanillin (n.) A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.
Vanilloes (n. pl.) An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona.
Vanillyl (n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.
Vaniloquence (n.) Vain or foolish talk.
Vanished (imp. & p. p.) of Vanish
Vanishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vanish
Vanish (v. i.) To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
Vanish (v. i.) To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.
Vanish (n.) The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.
Vanished (a.) Having passed out of existence; "vanished civilizations".
Vanished (a.) 消失的；滅絕的 Not now present or existing.
// The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.
Vanishing () a. & n. from Vanish, v.
Vanishment (n.) A vanishing.
Vanities (n. pl. ) of Vanity
Vanity (n.) The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.
Vanity (n.) An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.
Vanity (n.) That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or unsubstantial; fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of no good; empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment.
Vanity (n.) One of the established characters in the old moralities and puppet shows. See Morality, n., 5.
Vanjas (n.) The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.
Vanner (n.) A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.
Vanner hawk () The kestrel.
Vanning (n.) A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
Vanquished (imp. & p. p.) of Vanquish
Vanquishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vanquish
Vanquish (v. t.) To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy. -- Hakluyt.
They . . . vanquished the rebels in all encounters. --
Clarendon.
Vanquish (v. t.) Hence, to defeat in
any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.
This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise. -- Atterbury.
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still. -- Goldsmith.
Syn: To conquer; surmount; overcome; confute; silence. See Conquer.
Vanquish (n.) (Far.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away. [Written also vinquish.]
Vanquish (v.) Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish].
Vanquishable (a.) That may be vanquished.
Vanquishable (a.) Susceptible to being defeated [syn: beatable, vanquishable, vincible].
Vanquisher (n.) One who, or that which, vanquishes. -- Milton.
Vanquisher (n.) Someone who is victorious by force of arms [syn: conqueror, vanquisher].
Vanquishment (n.) The act of vanquishing, or the state of being vanquished. -- Bp. Hall.
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.
Vant (v. i.) See Vaunt. [Obs.]
Vantage (n.) 優勢；優越的位置 [U] Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [R.]
O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! -- Shak.
Vantage (n.) A position offering a superior view of a scene or situation; -- used literally and figuratively; as, from the vantage of hindsight; also called vantage point.
Vantage (n.) (Tennis) The first point after deuce ; advantage [5]. [Brit.]
Note: When the server wins this point, it is called vantage in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is called vantage out.
To have at vantage, To have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. "He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march." -- Bacon.
Vantage ground, Superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. "The vantage ground of truth." -- Bacon.
It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him. -- I. Taylor
Vantage (v. t.) To profit; to aid. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vantage (n.) Place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective).
Vantage (n.) The quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" [syn: advantage, vantage] [ant: disadvantage].
Vantage, WA -- U.S. Census Designated
Place in Washington
Population (2000): 70
Housing Units (2000): 39
Land area (2000): 0.318660 sq. miles (0.825326 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.318660 sq. miles (0.825326 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74200
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.946710 N, 119.991758 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Vantbrace (n.) Alt. of Vantbrass
Vantbrass (n.) (Anc. Armor) Armor for the arm; vambrace. -- Milton.
Vant-courier (n.) An avant-courier. See Van-courier. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Vanward (a.) Being on, or towards, the van, or front. "The vanward frontier." -- De Quincey.
Vap (n.) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine. [Obs.]
In vain it is to wash a goblet, if you mean to put into it nothing but the dead lees and vap of wine. -- Jer. Taylor.
Vape (v.) [ I ] <俚>用蒸發器吸煙或大麻；吸電子煙 To breathe in nicotine (= the drug found in tobacco) or another drug as vapour rather than as smoke, especially using an e-cigarette.
// Rather than start vaping, you should give up smoking altogether.
Vape (n.) [ singular ] The act of breathing in nicotine (= the drug found in tobacco) or another drug as vapour rather than as smoke, especially using an e-cigarette.
Vape (n.) [ C ] <俚>蒸發器；電子煙 A device for breathing in nicotine (= the drug found in tobacco) or another drug as vapour rather than as smoke.
Vapid (a.) Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.
A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste. -- Burke. -- Vap"id*ly, adv. -- Vap"id*ness, n.
Vapid (a.) Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid].
Vapid (a.) Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls".
Vapidity (n.) The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.
Vapidity (n.) The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness].
Vapor (n.) (Physics) 水汽，汽，蒸汽；煙霧 [U] [C]；無實質之物；幻想 [C]；【藥】吸入劑 Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended sense, as identical with gas; and the difference between the two is not so much one of kind as of degree, the latter being applied to all permanently elastic fluids except atmospheric air, the former to those elastic fluids which lose that condition at ordinary temperatures. The atmosphere contains more or less vapor of water, a portion of which, on a reduction of temperature, becomes condensed into liquid water in the form of rain or dew. The vapor of water produced by boiling, especially in its economic relations, is called steam.
Vapor is any substance in the gaseous condition at the maximum of density consistent with that condition. This is the strict and proper meaning of the word vapor. -- Nichol.
Vapor (n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
The vapour which that fro the earth glood [glided]. -- Chaucer.
Fire and hail; snow and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word. -- Ps. cxlviii. 8.
Vapor (n.) Wind; flatulence. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Vapor (n.) Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. -- James iv. 14.
Vapor (n.) pl. An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues. "A fit of vapors." -- Pope.
Vapor (n.) (Pharm.) A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor. --Brit. Pharm.
Vapor bath (ph.) 蒸汽浴；蒸汽浴室 A bath in vapor; the application of vapor to the body, or part of it, in a close place; also, the place itself.
Vapor bath. () (Chem.) A small metallic drying oven, usually of copper, for drying and heating filter papers, precipitates, etc.; -- called also air bath. A modified form is provided with a jacket in the outside partition for holding water, or other volatile liquid, by which the temperature may be limited exactly to the required degree.
Vapor burner, A burner for burning a vaporized hydrocarbon.
Vapor density (Chem.), The relative weight of gases and vapors as compared with some specific standard, usually hydrogen, but sometimes air. The vapor density of gases and vaporizable substances as compared with hydrogen, when multiplied by two, or when compared with air and multiplied by 28.8, gives the molecular weight.
Vapor engine, An engine worked by the expansive force of a vapor, esp. a vapor other than steam.
Vapored (imp. & p. p.) of Vapor
Vaporing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vapor
Vapor (v. i.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.