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Found: 1,810 words.
Arched; concave.
To advance.
Vaunt
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A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
See Van-courier.
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One who vaunts; a boaster.
Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
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In a vaunting manner.
A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall.
Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.
Vaut
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A vault; a leap.
Vaulted.
The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron.
The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.
The fore part; van.
Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis, native of Madagascar; -- called also vasa parrot.
The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.
The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.
Vectitation.
The act of carrying, or state of being carried.
Vector
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A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.
The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of ...
A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the "Anta," or end or substance.
Of or pertaining to the Vedas.
One versed in the doctrines of the Vedantas.
A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.
A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U. S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons.
Veer
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To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.
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Veering
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An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called a...
A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.
The quality or state of being vegetable.
Vegetable
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A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for marke...
Vegetal
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A vegetable.
Vegetality
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The quality or state of being vegetal, or exhibiting those physiological phenomena which are common to plants and animals. See Vegetal, a., 2.
Vegetarian
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Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.
The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.
Vegetate
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Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.
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Vegetation
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An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
Vegetative
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Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.
Vegetive
2 defs
A vegetable.
Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.
Vigorous; lively; active; vegete.
Vehemence
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The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.