Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 6
Varioloid (n.) 【醫】假性天花 The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.
Note: It is almost always a milder disease than smallpox, and this circumstance, with its shorter duration, exhibits the salutary effects of previous vaccination or inoculation. -- Dunglison.
Variolous (a.) (Med.)【醫】天花的：【動】有痘痕般小窩的 Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.
Variolous (a.) Relating to small pox [syn: variolar, variolic, variolous].
Variorum (a.) Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.
Variorum (n.) An edition containing various versions of a text or notes by various scholars or editors [syn: variorum, variorum edition].
Various (a.) Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.
So many and so various laws are given. -- Milton.
A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. -- Byron.
Various (a.) Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable.
A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. -- Dryden.
The names of mixed modes . . . are very various. -- Locke.
Various (a.) Variegated; diversified; not monotonous.
A happy rural seat of various view. -- Milton.
Various (a.) Of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many and various"; "various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his behavior" [syn: assorted, various].
Various (a.) Considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a), various(a)].
Various (a.) Distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth" [syn: diverse, various]
Various (a.) Having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn: versatile, various].
Variously (adv.) In various or different ways.
Variously (adv.) In diverse ways; "the alternatives that are variously represented by the participants"; "the speakers treated the subject most diversely" [syn: variously, diversely, multifariously].
Variscite (n.) (Min.) An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.
Varisse (n.) (Far.) An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequently injuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly size.
Varices (n. pl. ) of Varix.
Varix (n.) [L.] (Med.) A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.
Note: Varices are owing to local retardation of the venous circulation, and in some cases to relaxation of the parietes of the veins. They are very common in the superficial veins of the lower limbs. -- Dunglison.
Varix (n.) (Zool.) One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.
Note: The varices usually indicate stages of growth, each one showing a former position of the outer lip of the aperture.
Vark (n.) (Zool.) The bush hog, or boshvark.
Varlet (n.) A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Tusser.
Varlet (n.) Hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; as, an impudent varlet.
What a brazen-faced varlet art thou ! -- Shak.
Varlet (n.) In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack. [Obs.]
Varlet (n.) A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet].
Varlet (n.) In medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: page, varlet].
Varletry (n.) The rabble; the crowd; the mob.
Shall they hoist me up, And show me to the shouting varletry Of censuring Rome. -- Shak.
Varnish (n.) A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.
Note: According to the sorts of solvents employed, the ordinary kinds of varnish are divided into three classes: spirit, turpentine, and oil varnishes. -- Encyc. Brit
Varnish (n.) That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.
The varnish of the holly and ivy. -- Macaulay.
Varnish (n.) An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss.
And set a double varnish on the fame The Frenchman gave you. -- Shak.
Varnish tree (Bot.), A tree or shrub from the juice or resin of which varnish is made, as some species of the genus Rhus, especially Rhus vernicifera of Japan. The black varnish of Burmah is obtained from the Melanorrh[oe]a usitatissima, a tall East Indian tree of the Cashew family. See Copal, and Mastic.
Varnished (imp. & p. p.) of Varnish.
Varnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Varnish.
Varnish (v. t.) To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.
Varnish (v. t.) To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt. "Beauty doth varnish age." -- Shak.
Close ambition, varnished o'er with zeal. -- Milton.
Cato's voice was ne'er employed To clear the guilty and to varnish crimes. -- Addison.
Varnish (n.) A coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface.
Varnish (v.) Cover with varnish [syn: varnish, seal].
Varnish tree (Bot.), A tree or shrub from the juice or resin of which varnish is made, as some species of the genus Rhus, especially Rhus vernicifera of Japan. The black varnish of Burmah is obtained from the Melanorrh[oe]a usitatissima, a tall East Indian tree of the Cashew family. See Copal, and Mastic.
Varnish tree (n.) Large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles [syn: candlenut, varnish tree, Aleurites moluccana].
Varnish tree (n.) Small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained [syn: varnish tree, lacquer tree, Chinese lacquer tree, Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese varnish tree, Japanese sumac, Toxicodendron vernicifluum, Rhus verniciflua].
Varnisher (n.) One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish.
Varnisher (n.) One who disguises or palliates; one who gives a fair external appearance. -- Pope.
Varnisher (n.) Someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish.
Varnishing (n.) The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.
Vartabed (n.) (Eccl.) A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.
Varuna (n.) (Hindu Myth.) The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water.
Varuna (n.) In Vedism, god of the night sky who with his thousand eyes watches over human conduct and judges good and evil and punishes evildoers; often considered king of the Hindu gods and frequently paired with Mitra as an upholder of the world.
Varvel (n.) In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses. [Written also vervel.]
Varveled (a.) Having varvels, or rings. [Written also varvelled, and vervelled.]
Note: In heraldry, when the jesses attached to the legs of hawks hang loose, or have pendent ends with rings at the tips, the blazon is a hawk (or a hawk's leg) jessed and varveled.
Varied (imp. & p. p.) of Vary.
Varying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vary.
Vary (v. t.) To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature of a thing; to vary a posture or an attitude; to vary one's dress or opinions.
Shall we vary our device at will, Even as new occasion appears? -- Spenser.
Vary (v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.
Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate. -- Waller.
We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies. -- Dryden.
Vary (v. t.) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
God hath varied their inclinations. -- Sir T. Browne.
God hath here Varied his bounty so with new delights. -- Milton.
Vary (v. t.) (Mus.) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See Variation, 4.
Vary (v. i.) To alter, or be altered, in any manner; to suffer a partial change; to become different; to be modified; as, colors vary in different lights.
That each from other differs, first confess; Next, that he varies from himself no less. -- Pope.
Vary (v. i.) To differ, or be different; to be unlike or diverse; as, the laws of France vary from those of England.
Vary (v. i.) To alter or change in succession; to alternate; as, one mathematical quantity varies inversely as another.
While fear and anger, with alternate grace, Pant in her breast, and vary in her face. -- Addison.
Vary (v. i.) To deviate; to depart; to swerve; -- followed by from; as, to vary from the law, or from reason. -- Locke.
Vary (v. i.) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension; as, men vary in opinion.
The rich jewel which we vary for. -- Webster (1623).
Vary (n.) Alteration; change. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Vary (v.) Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" [syn: change, alter, vary].
Vary (v.) Be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate, vary, diverge, depart] [ant: conform].
Vary (v.) Be subject to change in accordance with a variable; "Prices vary"; "His moods vary depending on the weather".
Vary (v.) Make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu" [syn: vary, variegate, motley].
Varying () a. & n. from Vary.
Varying hare (Zool.), Any hare or rabbit which becomes white in winter, especially the common hare of the Northern United States and Canada.
Varying (a.) Marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable" [syn: varying, variable].
Vasa (n. pl. ) of Vas.
Vas (n.) A vessel; a duct.
Vas deferens; pl. Vasa deferentia. (Anat.) The excretory duct of a testicle; a spermatic duct.
Vascular (a.) (Biol.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
Vascular (a.) (Biol.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
Vascular (a.) (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
Vascular (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
Vascular plants (Bot.), Plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class Pteridophyta. Cf. Cellular plants, under Cellular.
Vascular system (Bot.), The body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants.
Vascular tissue (Bot.), Vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes.
Water vascular system (Zool.), A system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish.
Vascular (a.) Of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids; "vascular constriction"; "a vascular bundle" [ant: avascular].
Vascularities (n. pl. ) of Vascularity.
Vascularity (n.) The quality or state of being vascular.
Vasculose (n.) One of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in its solubility in certain media.
Vascula (n. pl. ) of Vasculum.
Vasculum (n.) Same as Ascidium, n., 1.
Vasculum (n.) A tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in collecting plants.
Vase (n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
Vase (n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
Vase (n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
Vase (n.) The calyx of a plant.
Vaseline (n.) A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum.
Vase-shaped (a.) Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.
Vasiform (a.) Having the form of a vessel, or duct.
Vasoconstrictor (a.) Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic.
Vasoconstrictor (n.) A substance which causes constriction of the blood vessels. Such substances are used in medicine to raise blood pressure.
Vasodentine (n.) A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.
Vasodilator (a.) Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso-inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.
Vasoformative (a.) Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.
Vaso-inhibitory (a.) See Vasodilator.
Vasomotor (a.) Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels.
Vassal (n.) (Feud. Law) [C] （封建時代的）諸侯；封臣；從屬者；下屬 The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. -- Burrill.
Vassal (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. "The vassals of his anger." -- Milton.
Rear vassal, The vassal of a vassal; an arriere vassal.
Rear vassal (n.) A vassal's vassal.
Vassal (a.) 臣的；附庸的；奴僕的；奴隸的 Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
The sun and every vassal star. -- Keble.
Vassal (v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Vassal (n.) A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory].
Vassal, () feudal law. This was the name given to the holder of a fief, bound to perform feudal service; this word was then always correlative to that of lord, entitled to such service.
Compare: Feudal law
Feudal law (n.) 封建法 By this phrase is understood a political system which placed men and estates under hierarchical and multiplied distinctions of lords and vassals. The principal features of this system were the following.
Feudal law (n.) The right to all lands was vested in the sovereign. These were, parcelled out among the great men of the nation by its chief, to be held of him, so that the king had the Dominum directum, and the grantee or vassal, had what was called Dominum utile. It was a maxim nulle terre sans seigneur. These tenants were bound to perform services to the king, generally of a military character. These great lords again granted parts of the lands. they thus acquired, to other inferior vassals, who held under them, and were bound to perform services to the lord.
Feudal law (n.) The principles of the feudal law will be found in Littleton's Tenures Wright's Tenures; 2 Blackstone's Com. c. 5 Dalrymple's History of Feudal Property; Sullivan's Lectures; Book of Fiefs; Spellman, Treatise of Feuds and Tenures; Le Grand Coutumier; the Salic Laws; The Capitularies; Les Establissements de St. Louis; Assizes de Jerusalem; Poth. Des Fiefs. Merl. Rep. Feodalite; Dalloz, Dict. Feodalit 6; Guizot, Essais sur I'Histoire de France, Essai 5eme.
Feudal law (n.) In the United States the feudal law never was in its full vigor, though some of its principles are still retained. "Those principles are so interwoven with every part of our jurisprudence," says Ch. J. Tilghman, 3 S. & R. 447, "that to attempt to eradicate them would be to destroy the whole. They are massy stones worked into the foundation of our legal edifice. Most of the inconveniences attending them, have been removed, and the few that remain can be easily removed, by acts of the legislature." See 3 Kent, Com. 509, 4th ed.
Vassal, () The vassal himself might be lord of some other vassal.
Vassal, () In aftertimes, this word was used to signify a species of slave who owed servitude, and was in a state of dependency on a superior lord. 2 Bl. Com. 53; Merl. Repert. h.t.
Vassalage (n.) 封臣的身分；忠順；隸屬 The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
Vassalage (n.) Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
Vassalage (n.) A territory held in vassalage. "The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages." -- Milman.
Vassalage (n.) Vassals, collectively; vassalry. [R.] -- Shak.
Vassalage (n.) Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Vassalage (n.) The state of a serf [syn: serfdom, serfhood, vassalage].
Vassaless (n.) A female vassal. [R.] -- Spenser.
Vassalry (n.) The body of vassals. [R.]
Vast (n.) A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The Watery () vast." -- Pope.
Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. -- Milton.
Vast (a.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]
The empty, vast, and wandering air. -- Shak.
Vast (a.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
Through the vast and boundless deep. -- Milton.
Vast (a.) Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
Vast (a.) Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor.
Vast (a.) Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
Vast (a.) Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization" -- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian].
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Vastation (n.) A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Vastel (n.) See Wastel. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Vastidity (n.) Vastness; immensity. [Obs.] "All the world's vastidity." -- Shak.
Vastitude (n.) Vastness; immense extent. [R.]
Vastitude (n.) Destruction; vastation. [Obs.] -- Joye.
Vastity (n.) Vastness. [Obs.]
The huge vastity of the world. -- Holland.
Vastly (adv.) To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely. -- Jer. Taylor.
Vastly (adv.) To an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator" [syn: vastly, immensely].
Vastness (n.) The quality or state of being vast.
Vastness (n.) Unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness].
Vasty (a.) Vast; immense. [R.]
I can call spirits from the vasty deep. -- Shak.
Vasum (n.) (Zool.) A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.
Vat (n.) （染色、釀造等用的）大桶；大盆；瓮；缸 [C] A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.
Let him produce his vats and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards. -- Addison.
Vat (n.) A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
Note: The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.
Vat (n.) (Metal.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.