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Vacillatory
() Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute.
Vacuate
() To make void, or empty.
Vacuation
() The act of emptying; evacuation.
Vacuist
() One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist.
Vacuity
() The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.
Vacuity
() Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.
Vacuity
() Want of reality; inanity; nihility.
Vacuna
() The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.
Vacuolated
() Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells.
Vacuolation
() Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles.
Vacuole
() A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm.
Vacuous
() Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
Vacuousness
() The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.
Vacuums
() of Vacuum
Vacua
() of Vacuum
Vacuum
() A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
Vacuum
() The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.
Vadantes
() An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.
Vade
() To fade; hence, to vanish.
Vade mecum
() A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook.
Vadimony
() A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.
Vadium
() Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
Vae
() See Voe.
Vafrous
() Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks.
Vagabond
() Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
Vagabond
() Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Vagabond
() Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
Vagabond
() One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
Vagabond
() To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
Vagabondage
() The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
Vagabondism
() Vagabondage.
Vagabondize
() To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
Vagabondry
() Vagabondage.
Vagal
() Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.
Vagancy
() A wandering; vagrancy.
Vagantes
() 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.
Vagarious
() Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety.
Vagaries
() of Vagary
Vagary
() A wandering or strolling.
Vagary
() Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose.
Vagient
() Crying like a child.
Vaginae
() of Vagina
Vagina
() A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.
Vagina
() Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca.
Vagina
() The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca.
Vagina
() The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.
Vagina
() The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise.
Vaginal
() Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.
Vaginal
() Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery.
Vaginant
() Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing.