Dictionary
Found: 1,810 words.
Velocity
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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 ve...
One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.
The fieldfare.
Velum
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A delicate funnel-like membrane around the flagellum of certain Infusoria. See Illust. a of Protozoa.
Velvet.
Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to Velutina and allied genera.
Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf.
The veltfare.
A kind of velvet having cotton back.
Velvet
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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.
The goosander.
A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.
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.
Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
A vein.
The pudu.
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Venal
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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 s...
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 ven...
In a venal manner.
The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.
Of or, pertaining to hunting.
Alt. of Venatical
See Vinatico.
Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.
Venation
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The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.
Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic.
Vend
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The act of vending or selling; a sale.
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.
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The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.
The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.
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...
A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
The quality or state of being vendible, or salable.
Vendible
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Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable.
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To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon.
The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display.
The act of vending, or selling; sale.
A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
See Wends.
A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction.
Veneer
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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 sho...
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Veneering
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Veneficial.