Dictionary
Found: 1,810 words.
Vantage
3 defs
superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
Alt. of Vantbrass
Armor for the arm; vambrace.
Being on, or towards, the van, or front.
That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.
The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.
Vapor
10 defs
A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.
The quality or state of being vaporable.
Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.
To emit vapor; to evaporate.
The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
Vapored
3 defs
Affected with the vapors. See Vapor, n., 5.
One who vapors; a braggart.
Conveying or producing vapor.
Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
Vaporing
2 defs
of Vapor
Vaporish
2 defs
Full of vapors; vaporous.
Capable of being vaporized into vapor.
The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boi...
Vaporize
2 defs
To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
of Vaporize
One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
of Vaporize
Full of vapor; vaporous.
Vaporous
4 defs
Full of vapors or exhalations.
The quality of being vaporous.
Vapory
2 defs
Full of vapors; vaporous.
The act of beating or whipping.
One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman.
A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
The monitor. See Monitor, 3.
One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.
A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.
Vare
2 defs
A wand or staff of authority or justice.
The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.
Variability
2 defs
The power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate v...
Variable
6 defs
A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x ...
The quality or state of being variable; variability.
In a variable manner.
Variance
3 defs
A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the alle...
Variant
3 defs
Changeable; changing; fickle.
To alter; to make different; to vary.
Variation
5 defs
Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.
Chicken pox.
Varices
2 defs
of Varix
Resembling a varix.