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Found: 1,810 words.
The quality or state of being vascular.
One of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in its solubility in certain media.
Vasculum
2 defs
A tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in collecting plants.
Vase
4 defs
A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a go...
Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.
A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several o...
Having the form of a vessel, or duct.
See Vasodilator.
Vasoconstrictor
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A substance which causes constriction of the blood vessels. Such substances are used in medicine to raise blood pressure.
A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.
Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also c...
Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.
Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels.
Vassal
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A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.
Vassalage
5 defs
A territory held in vassalage.
A female vassal.
The body of vassals.
Vast
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A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation.
See Wastel.
Vastness; immensity.
Vastitude
2 defs
Destruction; vastation.
Vastness.
To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.
The quality or state of being vast.
Vast; immense.
A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.
Vat
6 defs
A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.
As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.
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Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical.
A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.
The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; -- a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics.
One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.
The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.
Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.
To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.
Prediction; prophecy.
One who vaticinates; a prophet.
A prediction; a vaticination.
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Vaudeville
2 defs
A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
Vaudois
2 defs
A modern name of the Waldenses.
See Voodoo.
Vault
10 defs
A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar.
Vaulted
4 defs
Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.
One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.
Vaulting
3 defs
Act of one who vaults or leaps.