Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 8
Vegetate (v. i.) To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. -- Pope.
Vegetate (v. i.) Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. -- Cowper.
Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. -- Jeffrey.
Vegetate (v. i.) (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
Vegetate (v.) Lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind.
Vegetate (v.) Establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house."
Vegetate (v.) Produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously."
Vegetate (v.) Grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously."
Vegetate (v.) Grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed."
Vegetate (v.) Propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along."
Vegetate (v.) Engage in passive relaxation; "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television" [syn: vege out, vegetate].
Vegetation (n.) [U] 【植】植被；（總稱）植物；草木；呆板單調的生活 The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
Vegetation (n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
Vegetation (n.) (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), A crystalline growth of an arborescent form.
Vegetation (n.) All the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology].
Vegetation (n.) The process of growth in plants.
Vegetation (n.) An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart).
Vegetation (n.) Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation."
Vegetative (a.) Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
Vegetative (a.) Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
Vegetative (a.) (Biol.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal. -- Veg"e*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Veg"e*ta*tive*ness, n.
Vegetative (a.) Of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle" [syn: vegetative, vegetive].
Vegetative (a.) Composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor" [syn: vegetal, vegetational, vegetative].
Vegetative (a.) Relating to involuntary bodily functions; "vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation."
Vegetative (a.) (Of reproduction) Characterized by asexual processes [syn: vegetal, vegetative].
Vegete (a.) Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous. [Obs.]
Even her body was made airy and vegete. -- Jer. Taylor.
Vegetive (a.) Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life. [R.] -- Tusser.
Vegetive (n.) A vegetable. [Obs.]
The blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones. -- Shak.
Vegetive (a.) Of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle" [syn: vegetative, vegetive].
Vegeto-animal (a.) (Biol.) Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.
Vegetous (a.) Vigorous; lively; active; vegete. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Vehemence (n.) The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.
Vehemence (n.) Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions.
I . . . tremble at his vehemence of temper. -- Addison.
Vehemence (n.) Intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights" [syn: vehemence, emphasis].
Vehemence (n.) The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness].
Vehemency (n.) Vehemence. [R.]
The vehemency of your affection. -- Shak.
Vehement (a.) 熱烈的，激烈的 Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.
Vehement (a.) Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion. "Vehement instigation." -- Shak. "Vehement desire." -- Milton.
Syn: Furious; violent; raging; impetuous; passionate; ardent; eager; hot; fervid; burning.
Vehement (a.) Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn: fierce, tearing, vehement, violent, trigger-happy].
Vehement (a.) Characterized by great force or energy; "vehement deluges of rain"; "vehement clapping"; "a vehement defense."
Vehemently (adv.) 激烈地；竭盡全力地 In a vehement manner.
Vehemently (adv.) In a vehement manner; "he vehemently denied the accusations against him".
Vehicle (n.) That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.
Vehicle (n.) That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.
A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to a popular assembly. -- Wirt.
Vehicle (n.) (Pharm.) A substance in which medicine is taken.
Vehicle (n.) (Paint.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it.
Note: Water is used in fresco and in water-color painting, the colors being consolidated with gum arabic; size is used in distemper painting. In oil painting, the fixed oils of linseed, nut, and poppy, are used; in encaustic, wax is the vehicle. -- Fairholt.
Vehicle (n.) (Chem.) A liquid used to spread sensitive salts upon glass and paper for use in photography.
Vehicle (n.) A conveyance that transports people or objects.
Vehicle (n.) A medium for the expression or achievement of something; "his editorials provided a vehicle for his political views"; "a congregation is a vehicle of group identity"; "the play was just a vehicle to display her talents."
Vehicle (n.) Any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it.
Vehicle (n.) Any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another [syn: fomite, vehicle].
Vehicled (a.) Conveyed in a vehicle; furnished with a vehicle. -- M. Green.
Vehicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.
Vehicular (a.) Of or relating to or intended for (motor) vehicles; "vehicular traffic".
Vehiculary (a.) Vehicular.
Vehiculate (v. t. & i.) To convey by means of a vehicle; to ride in a vehicle. -- Carlyle.
Vehiculation (n.) Movement of vehicles.
Vehiculatory (a.) Vehicular. -- Carlyle. Vehm
Vehmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 16th, usurping many of the functions of the government which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction.
Vail (v. t.) To let fall; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.]
Vail your regard Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid! -- Shak.
Vail (v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! -- Shak.
Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic. -- Sir. W. Scott.
Vail (v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also vale, and veil.] [Obs.]
Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. -- South.
Veil (n.) Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
The veil of the temple was rent in twain. -- Matt. xxvii. 51.
She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorn['e]d golden tresses wore. -- Milton.
Veil (n.) A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page. -- Shak.
Veil (n.) (Bot.) The calyptra of mosses.
Veil (n.) (Bot.) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
Veil (n.) (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
Veil (n.) (Zool.) Same as Velum, 3.
To take the veil (Eccl.), To receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun.
Compare: Caul
Caul (n.) A covering of
network for the head, worn by women; also, a net. -- Spenser.
Caul (n.) (Anat.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which
covers more
or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.
The caul serves for the warming of the lower belly. -- Ray.
Caul (n.) A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth; -- called also a veil.
It is deemed lucky to be with a caul or membrane over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chrysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. -- Grose.
I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. -- Dickens.
Caul (n.) Part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines [syn: greater omentum, gastrocolic omentum, caul].
Caul (n.) The inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul, veil, embryonic membrane].
Veiled (imp. & p. p.) of Veil.
Veiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Veil.
Veil (v. t.) To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. -- Milton.
Veil (v. t.) Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
To keep your great pretenses veiled. -- Shak.
Vail (v. i.) 蒙上面紗 To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also {vale}, and {veil}.] [Obs.]
Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. -- South.
Veil (n.) A garment that covers the head and face [syn: head covering, veil].
Veil (n.) A membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms [syn: veil, velum].
Veil (n.) The inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul, veil, embryonic membrane].
Veil (n.) A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl [syn: humeral veil, veil].
Veil (v.) To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces" [ant: unveil].
Veil (v.) Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn: obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide].
VEIL, () Video Encoded Invisible Light Technology (VEIL).
Veiled (a.) Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden. "Words used to convey a veiled meaning." -- Earle.
Veiled (a.) Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover; "a veiled dancer"; "a veiled hat"; "veiled threats"; "veiled insults" [ant: unveiled].
Veiled (a.) Muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or foggy."
Veiling (n.) A veil; a thin covering; also, material for making veils.
Veiling (n.) A net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave [syn: gauze, netting, veiling].
Veilless (a.) Having no veil. -- Tennyson.
Vein (n.) (Anat.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
Vein (n.) (Bot.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
Vein (n.) (Zool.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.
Vein (n.) (Geol. or Mining) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance. "Down to the veins of earth." -- Milton.
Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins. -- Sir I. Newton.
Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.
Vein (n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course ; as, reasoning in the same vein.
He can open a vein of true and noble thinking. -- Swift.
Vein (n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein. -- Shak.
Certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins. -- Bacon.
Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein. -- Waller.
Veined (imp. & p. p.) of Vein.
Veining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vein.
Vein (v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins. -- Tennyson.
Vein (n.) A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood" [syn: vein, vena, venous blood vessel].
Vein (n.) A distinctive style or manner; "he continued in this vein for several minutes."
Vein (n.) Any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ [syn: vein, nervure].
Vein (n.) A layer of ore between layers of rock [syn: vein, mineral vein].
Vein (n.) One of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect [syn: vein, nervure].
Vein (v.) Make a veinlike pattern.
Veinal (a.) Pertaining to veins; venous. [R.]
Veinal (a.) Relating to the veins of plants; "leaves affected with veinal mosaic."
Veined (a.) Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble. "Veined follies." -- Ford.
Veined (a.) (Bot.) Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf.
Veined (a.) Having or showing markings that resemble veins [syn: veined, venose, veinlike].
Veinless (a.) Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.
Veinlet (n.) A small vein.
Veinous (a.) Marked with veins; veined; veiny.
The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. -- Dickens.
Veinstone (n.) (Mining) The valueless nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which surrounds the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; gangue; matrix; -- called also veinstuff.
Veiny (a.) Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.
Velar (a.) Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.
Velar (a.) (Phon.) Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard g.
Velar (a.) Of or relating to the velum.
Velar (a.) Produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing').
Velar (n.) A consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate [syn: velar, velar consonant].
Velaria (n. pl. ) of Velarium.
Velarium (n.) (Zool.) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
Velate (a.) (Bot.) Having a veil; veiled.
Vele (n.) A veil. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Velella (n.) (Zool.) Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella.
Note: These creatures are brilliantly colored and float at the surface of the sea. They have an oblong, disklike body, supported by a thin chitinous plate, from which rises a thin diagonal crest which acts as a sail. The feeding and reproductive zooids hang down from the under side of the disk.
Veliferous (a.) Carrying or bearing sails. [Obs.] "Veliferous chariots." -- Evelyn.
Veliger (n.) (Zool.) Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
Velitation (n.) A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish. [R.] -- Sir M. Hale.
After a short velitation we parted. -- Evelyn.
Velivolant (a.) Flying with sails; passing under full sail. [R.]
Vell (n.) The salted stomach
of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]
Vell (v. i.) To cut the turf from, as for burning. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Velleity (n.) The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition. -- Locke.
Velleity (n.) A mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain.
Velleity (n.) Volition in its weakest form.
Velleity (n.) (pl. -ties) The lowest degree of volition.
Velleity (n.) A slight wish or tendency : Inclination.
Vellet (n.) Velvet. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vellicated (imp. & p. p.) of Vellicate.
Vellicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vellicate.
Vellicate (v. t.) 【醫】【罕】拔；捏；擰 To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively.
Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous. -- Arbuthnot.
Vellicate (v. i.) 【醫】顫搐；肌攣縮 To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.
Vellicate (v.) Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements [syn: tickle, titillate, vellicate].
Vellicate (v.) Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back" [syn: pinch, vellicate].
Vellication (n.)【醫】痙攣性抽動 The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.
Vellication (n.) (Med.) A local twitching, or convulsive motion, of a muscular fiber, especially of the face.
Vellication (n.) A sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition [syn: twitch, twitching, vellication].
Vellicative (a.) 能拔（或捏、擰）的 Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication.
Vellon (n.) [Sp.] A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real.
Vellum (n.) A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white, -- used as for writing upon, and for binding books.
Vellum cloth, A fine kind of cotton fabric, made very transparent, and used as a tracing cloth.
Vellum (n.) A heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment.
Vellum (n.) Fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb.
Vellumy (a.) Resembling vellum.
Velocimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.
Velocipede (n.) A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.
Velocipede (n.) Any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel.
Velocipede (n.) A vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals [syn: tricycle, trike, velocipede].
Velocipedist (n.) One who rides on a velocipede; a cyclist.
Velocities (n. pl. ) of Velocity.
Velocity (n.) Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.
Note: In such phrases, velocity is more generally used than celerity. We apply celerity to animals; as, a horse or an ostrich runs with celerity; but bodies moving in the air or in ethereal space move with greater or less velocity, not celerity. This usage is arbitrary, and perhaps not universal.
Velocity (n.) (Mech.) Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under Speed.
Angular velocity. See under Angular.
Initial velocity, The velocity of a moving body at starting; especially, the velocity of a projectile as it leaves the mouth of a firearm from which it is discharged.
Relative velocity, The velocity with which a body approaches or recedes from another body, whether both are moving or only one.
Uniform velocity, Velocity in which the same number of units of space are described in each successive unit of time.
Variable velocity, Velocity in which the space described varies from instant to instant, either increasing or decreasing; -- in the former case called accelerated velocity, in the latter, retarded velocity; the acceleration or retardation itself being also either uniform or variable.
Virtual velocity. See under Virtual.
Note: In variable velocity, the velocity, strictly, at any given instant, is the rate of motion at that instant, and is expressed by the units of space, which, if the velocity at that instant were continued uniform during a unit of time, would be described in the unit of time; thus, the velocity of a falling body at a given instant is the number of feet which, if the motion which the body has at that instant were continued uniformly for one second, it would pass through in the second. The scientific sense of velocity differs from the popular sense in being applied to all rates of motion, however slow, while the latter implies more or less rapidity or quickness of motion.
Syn: Swiftness; celerity; rapidity; fleetness; speed.
Velours (n.) One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet. Veloute
Veltfare (n.) (Zool.) The fieldfare. [Prov. Eng.]
Vela (n. pl. ) of Velum.
Velum (n.) (Anat.) A curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.
Velum (n.) (Bot.) See Veil, n., 3 (b).
Velum (n.) (Bot.) A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes).