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Found: 1,810 words.
Capable of being turned.
Versability.
Universal.
Versant
2 defs
Familiar; conversant.
Versatile
4 defs
Capable of being turned round.
The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.
Verse
9 defs
A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
Versed
3 defs
Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced.
Same as Versemonger.
A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.
A versifier.
A verse.
A little verse; especially, a short verse or text said or sung in public worship by the priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people.
Alt. of Versicolored
Having various colors; changeable in color.
Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.
The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.
A versifier.
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Versifier
2 defs
One who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose; as, Dr. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.
Versify
3 defs
To make verses.
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Verisimilar.
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Version
5 defs
A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.
The turning factor of a quaternion.
A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
Of or pertaining to a verse.
Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.
Vert
3 defs
Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.
A vertebra.
Vertebra
2 defs
One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.
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Vertebral
3 defs
A vertebrate.
At or within a vertebra or vertebrae; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.
Of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery a...
One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the back...
Vertebrate
2 defs
Alt. of Vertebrated
Vertebrated
4 defs
Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.
A vertebra.
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebrae, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.
Iliolumbar.
Vertex
4 defs
A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
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Vertical
4 defs
A vertical line, plane, or circle.
The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness.
In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.