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Found: 1,810 words.
Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.
Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.
Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
See Vermeil.
Vermilinguia
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A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.
Vermilion
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A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, ...
Vermeil.
Vermin
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A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.
To breed vermin.
Vermination
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A griping of the bowels.
Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin.
Verminous
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Caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin; as, verminous disease.
In a verminous manner.
Producing or breeding worms.
Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds.
A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.
See Veronica, 1.
Vernacular
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Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
A vernacular idiom.
The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular.
In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular.
Vernaculous
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Scoffing; scurrilous.
A kind of sweet wine from Italy.
Vernal
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Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.
Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
To become young again.
The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
A Veronica. See Veronica, 1.
Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so gradua...
Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious.
Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility.
An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
Varnish.
A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.
Veronese
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A native of Verona; collectively, the people of Verona.
Veronica
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A genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. See Speedwell.
Very; true.
Verily; truly.
See Ferrule.
Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.
Shaped like a wart or warts.
Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.
Verrucose.
Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.
A verse or verses. See Verse.
See Society verses, under Society.
The quality or state of being versable.