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Found: 1,810 words.
As a numeral, V stands for five, in English and Latin.
A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.
A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.
The dealfish.
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Vacancy
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A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
Vacant
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Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.
In a vacant manner; inanely.
Vacate
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To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause.
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Vacation
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Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.
Vaccinia.
Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.
To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.
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The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.
One who, or that which, vaccinates.
Vaccine
3 defs
any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained kil...
Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.
A vaccinator.
A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
Vachery
2 defs
A dairy.
The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering.
Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.
Vacillate
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To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.
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Vacillating
2 defs
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering.
The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering.
Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute.
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To make void, or empty.
The act of emptying; evacuation.
One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist.
Vacuity
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Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.
The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.
Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells.
Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles.
A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplas...
Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.
Vacuum
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A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been...
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An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.
To fade; hence, to vanish.
A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook.
A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.