Dictionary
Found: 1,810 words.
Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
See Voe.
Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks.
Vagabond
5 defs
Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
Vagabondage.
To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
Vagabondage.
Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.
A wandering; vagrancy.
A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey.
of Vagary
Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety.
Vagary
2 defs
A wandering or strolling.
Crying like a child.
Vagina
5 defs
A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.
of Vagina
Vaginal
2 defs
Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.
Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing.
Alt. of Vaginated
Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.
A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.
Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.
A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.
A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.
Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.
Having elytra; sheath-winged.
Vaginula
2 defs
A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
A vaginula.
To caper or frolic.
Wandering; unsettled.
The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Vagrant
3 defs
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
In a vagrant manner.
State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
Vague
6 defs
A wandering; a vagary.
In a vague manner.
The quality or state of being vague.
Vagus
2 defs
The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
Vail
8 defs
An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
One who vails.
An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure.
Vain
5 defs
Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
In a vain manner; in vain.
The quality or state of being vain.
The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nob...
Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.
A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.