Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 9
Velum (n.) (Zool.) A veil-like organ or part. Especially:
Velum (n.) (Zool.) The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusae.
Velum (n.) (Zool.) A delicate funnel-like membrane around the flagellum of certain Infusoria. See Illust. a of Protozoa.
Velure (n.) Velvet.
Velutina (n.) Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to Velutina and allied genera.
Velutinous (a.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf.
Velverd (n.) The veltfare.
Velveret (n.) A kind of velvet having cotton back.
Velvet (n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
Velvet (a.) Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
Velvet (v. i.) To pain velvet.
Velvet (v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.
Velvetbreast (n.) The goosander.
Velveteen (n.) A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
Velveting (n.) The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.
Velvetleaf (n.) A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.
Velvety (a.) Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
Venae (n. pl. ) of Vena.
Vena (n.) A vein.
Venae cavae (n. pl. ) of Vena.
VenAe portae (n. pl. ) of Vena.
Venada (n.) The pudu.
Venal (a.) Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood. [R.]
Compare: Venous
Venous (a.) 靜脈的；有脈紋的；有紋理的；多葉脈的 Relating to a vein or the veins.
Compare: Vein
Vein (n.) [C] 靜脈，血管；【植】葉脈；【動】翅脈 Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood towards the heart.
Compare with: Artery
Vein (n.) (In general use) A blood vessel.
‘He felt the adrenaline course through his veins.’
Vein (n.) (In plants) A slender rib running through a leaf or bract, typically dividing or branching, and containing a vascular bundle.
Vein (n.) (In insects) A hardened branching rib that forms part of the supporting framework of a wing, consisting of an extension of the tracheal system; a nervure.
Vein (n.) A fracture in rock containing a deposit of minerals or ore and typically having an extensive course underground.
‘Gold-bearing quartz veins.’
Vein (n.) A streak or stripe of a different colour in wood, marble, cheese, etc.
Vein (n.) A source of a specified quality.
‘He managed to tap into the thick vein of discontent to his own advantage.’
‘United have hit a rich vein of form.’
Vein (n.) [In singular] A distinctive quality, style, or tendency.
‘He closes his article in a somewhat humorous vein.’
Vein (v. t.) 使有脈絡（或條紋）；使呈脈絡狀 [H] To pattern with or as if with veins.
Compare: Venal blood
Venal blood (n.) Venal blood in simple terms in the blood found in the veins, it is the blood that has dissolved carbon dioxide in it, so appearing greenish blue under the skin. The veins collect the CO2 from the cells of the body and carry it to the lungs for removing the CO2 and dissolving fresh O2 into the blood.
Venal (a.) 能收買的；貪贓枉法的；腐敗的 Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services. " Paid court to venal beauties." -- Macaulay.
The venal cry and prepared vote of a passive senate. -- Burke.
Syn: Mercenary; hireling; vendible.
Usage: {Venal}, {Mercenary}. One is mercenary who is either actually a hireling (as, mercenary soldiers, a mercenary judge, etc.), or is governed by a sordid love of gain; hence, we speak of mercenary motives, a mercenary marriage, etc. Venal goes further, and supposes either an actual purchase, or a readiness to be purchased, which places a person or thing wholly in the power of the purchaser; as, a venal press. Brissot played ingeniously on the latter word in his celebrated saying, " My pen is venal that it may not be mercenary," meaning that he wrote books, and sold them to the publishers, in order to avoid the necessity of being the hireling of any political party.
Thus needy wits a vile revenue made, And verse became a mercenary trade. -- Dryden.
This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This, from no venal or ungrateful muse. -- Pope.
Venal (a.) Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" [syn: {corruptible}, {bribable}, {dishonest}, {purchasable}, {venal}].
Venal (a.) Something that is bought. The term is generally applied in a bad sense; as, a venal office is an office which has been purchased.
Venality (n.) The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official.
Venally (adv.) In a venal manner.
Venantes (n. pl.) The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.
Venary (a.) Of or, pertaining to hunting.
Venatic (a.) Alt. of Venatical.
Venatical (a.) Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.
Venatica (n.) See Vinatico.
Venation (n.) The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.
Venation (n.) The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.
Venatorial (a.) Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic.
Vended (imp. & p. p.) of Vend.
Vending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vend.
Vend (v. t.) 出售；販賣 To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
Vend (n.) The act of vending or selling; a sale.
Vend (n.) The total sales of coal from a colliery.
Vendace (n.) A European lake whitefish (Coregonus Willughbii, or C. Vandesius) native of certain lakes in Scotland and England. It is regarded as a delicate food fish. Called also vendis.
Vendee (n.) 買方，買主 The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.
Vendemiaire (n.) The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.
Vender (n.) One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.
Vendetta (n.) [It.] （尤指族間或血親間的）仇殺；世仇 A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Vendetta (n.) Any feud or contention that is bitter and prolonged; however, the deep enmity may be held by only one party to the dispute; as, the former Mayor nurtured a lifelong vendetta against the candidate who defeated him.
Vendetta (n.) A feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other [syn: vendetta, blood feud].
Vendibility (n.) The quality or state of being vendible, or salable.
Vendible (a.) Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable.
Vendible (n.) Something to be sold, or offered for sale.
Venditate (v. t.) To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon.
Venditation (n.) The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display.
Vendition (n.) The act of vending, or selling; sale.
Vendor (n.) 小販，賣主，自動售貨機 A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
Vendor (n.) [ C ] (Formal or specialized) 小販；攤主；賣主 Someone who is selling something.
// For the past few months she's been working as a street vendor, selling fruit and vegetables.
// The vendor of the house wants to exchange contracts this week.
Vends (n. pl.) See Wends.
Vendue (n.) A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction.
Veneered (imp. & p. p.) of Veneer.
Veneering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Veneer.
Veneer (v. t.) To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
Veneer (v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.
Veneering (n.) The act or art of one who veneers.
Veneering (n.) Thin wood or other material used as a veneer.
Venefical (a.) Veneficial.
Venefice (n.) The act or practice of poisoning.
Veneficial (a.) Alt. of Veneficious.
Veneficious (a.) Acting by poison; used in poisoning or in sorcery.
Venemous (a.) Venomous.
Venenate (v. t.) To poison; to infect with poison.
Venenate (a.) Poisoned.
Vennation (n.) The act of poisoning.
Vennation (n.) Poison; venom.
Venene (a.) Poisonous; venomous.
Venenose (a.) Poisonous.
Venerability (n.) The quality or state of being venerable; venerableness.
Venerable (a.) Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; as, a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent.
Venerable (a.) Rendered sacred by religious or other associations; that should be regarded with awe and treated with reverence; as, the venerable walls of a temple or a church.
Venerable (a.) (Formal) 德高望重的；令人尊敬的；崇高神聖的 Deserving respect because of age, high position, or religious or historical importance.
// A venerable tradition/ company/ family.
// She has worked at such venerable institutions as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.
Venerable (a.) The Venerable （對英國聖公會會吏長的尊稱）尊者 Used as a title for an archdeacon in the Church of England.
Venerable (a.) （羅馬天主教對尚未列為聖徒的聖潔者的尊稱）尊者 Used as a title for a person who is considered holy by the Roman Catholic Church but who has not yet been made a saint.
Venerable (a.) （佛教中對和尚的尊稱）師父，法師 Used as a title for a monk in Buddhism.
Veneracea (n. pl.) An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.
Venerated (imp. & p. p.) of Venerate.
Venerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Venerate.
Venerate (v. t.) 尊敬；崇敬 To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders.
And seemed to venerate the sacred shade. -- Dryden.
I do not know a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. -- Sir W. Scott.
Syn: To reverence; revere; adore; respect.
Venerate (v.) Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius" [syn: reverence, fear, revere, venerate].
Venerate (v.) To feel or show deep respect for (someone or something that is considered great, holy, etc.).
Venerate (v. t.) To regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference.
Venerate (v. t.) To honor (as an icon or a relic) with a ritual act of devotion.
Venerate (v.) To consider holy.
Venerate (v.) To show deep respect for.
Veneration (n.) 尊敬，崇敬，崇拜 The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations.
Veneration (n.) A feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" [syn: {fear}, {reverence}, {awe}, {veneration}].
Veneration (n.) Religious zeal; the willingness to serve God [syn: {idolatry}, {devotion}, {veneration}, {cultism}].
Venerator (n.) One who venerates.
Venereal (a.) 性愛的；引起性慾的；性交的；性病的；治療性病的；性交傳染的 Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
Into the snare I fell Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. -- Milton.
Venereal (a.) (Med.) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.
Venereal (a.) (Med.) Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines.
Venereal (a.) Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac.
Venereal (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Venereal (n.) (Med.) The venereal disease; syphilis.
Venereal (a.) Of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital herpes"; "venereal disease" [syn: genital, venereal].
Venerean (a.) Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal. [Obs.] "I am all venerean in feeling." -- Chaucer.
Venereous (a.) Venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac. [Obs.]
Venereous (a.) Lustful; lascivious; libidinous. [R.] -- Derham.
Venerous (a.) Venereous. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Venery (n.) 【古】性慾；狩獵 Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition.
Venery (n.) The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase.
Venesection (n.) (Med.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
Venesection (n.) Surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis [syn: venesection, phlebotomy].
Venetian (a.) Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
Venetian blind, A blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when closed, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.
Venetian carpet, An inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.
Venetian chalk, A white compact talc or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.
Venetian door (Arch.), A door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.
Venetian glass, A kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.
Venetian red, A brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.
Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.
Venetian sumac (Bot.), A South European tree ({Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.
Venetian window (Arch.), A window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.
Venetian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Venice.
Venetian (n.) pl. Galligaskins. [Obs.]
Venetian (n.) A Venetian blind. [Colloq.]
Venetian (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Venice or its people; "Venetian glass"; "Venetian canals."
Venetian (n.) A resident of Venice.
Venew (n.) A bout, or turn, as at fencing; a thrust; a hit; a veney. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Veney (n.) A bout; a thrust; a venew. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes. -- Shak.
Venezuela (n.) 委內瑞拉玻利瓦共和國（西班牙語：República Bolivariana de Venezuela），簡稱委內瑞拉，是一個位於南美洲北部的熱帶國家，為南美洲國家聯盟的成員國。首都為卡拉卡斯。西與哥倫比亞接壤，東與蓋亞那毗鄰，南與巴西交界。海岸線包括北部加勒比海及東北部大西洋島嶼總長約2,800公里。委內瑞拉生物多樣性豐富，為西至安地斯山脈、南至亞馬遜盆地、東至奧里諾科河三角洲物種的生物棲息地。Officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a federal republic on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental land and a large number of small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea, whose capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. It has a territorial extension of 916,445 km2 (353,841 sq mi). The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. With this last country, the Venezuelan Government maintains a claim for Guayana Esequiba over an area of 159,542 km2 (61,600 sq mi). For its maritime areas, it exercises sovereignty over 71,295 km2 (27,527 sq mi) of territorial waters, 22,224 km2 (8,581 sq mi) in its contiguous zone, 471,507 km2 (182,050 sq mi) of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean under the concept of exclusive economic zone, and 99,889 km2 (38,567of mi) continental shelf. This marine area borders those of thirteen States. The country has extremely high biodiversity and is ranked 7th in the world's list of nations with the most number of species. [8] There are habitats ranging from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon basin rain-forest in the south via extensive llanos plains, the Caribbean coast and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
Venezuelan (a.) 委內瑞拉的；委內瑞拉人 Belonging to or relating to Venezuela or its people.
Venge (v. t.) To avenge; to punish; to revenge. [Obs.] See {Avenge}, and {Revenge}. -- Chaucer. "To venge me, as I may." -- Shak.
Vengeable (a.) Revengeful; deserving revenge. [Obs.] -- Spenser. -- {Venge"a*bly}, adv. [Obs.]
Vengeance (n.) 報復；報仇，復仇 [U] [S1] [（+on/ upon）] Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. -- Deut. xxxii. 35.
To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. -- Milton.