# Dictionary

Topic: Tyranny
Definition:
TYR'ANNY, n.  
1.  Arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; the exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.  Hence tyranny is often synonymous with cruelty and oppression.
2.  Cruel government or discipline; as the tyranny of a master.
3.  Unresisted and cruel power.
4.  Absolute monarchy cruelly administered.
5.  Severity; rigor; inclemency.
 The tyranny o' th' open night.


Topic: U
Definition:
U is the twenty first letter and the fifth vowel in the English Alphabet.  The sound seems to be nearly that of eu, shortened and blended.  This sound however is not precisely that of eu or yu, except in a few words, as in unite, union, uniform; the sound does not begin with the distinct sound of e, nor end in the distinct sound of oo, unless when prolonged.  It cannot be well expressed in letters.  This sound is heard in the unaffected pronunciation of annuity, numerate, brute, mute, dispute, duke, true, truth, rule, prudence, opportunity, infusion.
Some modern writers make a distinction between the sound of u, when it follows r, as in rude, truth, and its sound when it follows other letters, as in mute, duke; making the former sound equivalent to oo; rood, trooth; and the latter a diphthong equivalent to eu or yu.  This is a mischievous innovation, and not authorized by any general usage either in England or the United States.  The difference, very nice indeed, between the sound of u in mute, and in rude, is owing entirely to the articulation which precedes that letter.  For example,  when a labial precedes u, we enter on its sound with the lips closed, and in opening them to the position required for uttering u, there is almost necessarily a slight sound of e formed before we arrive at the proper sound of u.  When r precedes u, the mouth is open before the sound of u is commenced.  But in both cases, u is to be considered as having the same sound.
In some words, as in bull, full, pull, the sound of u is that of the Italian u, the French ou, but shortened.  This is a vowel.
U has another short sound, as in tun, run, sun, turn, rub.  This also is a vowel.


Topic: Uberty
Definition:
U'BERTY, n.  [L. ubertas, from uber, fruitful or copious.]  Abundance; fruitfulness.  [Little used.]


Topic: Ubiquitary
Definition:
UBIQ'UITARY, a.  [L. ubique, from ubi. where.]
Existing every where, or in all places.
UBIQ'UITARY, n.  [supra.]  One that exists every where.


Topic: Ubiquity
Definition:
UBIQ'UITY, n.  [L. ubique, every where.]  Existence in all places or every where at the same time; omnipresence.  The ubiquity of God is not disputed by those who admit his existence.


Topic: Udder
Definition:
UD'DER, n.  [Gr.]
The breast of a female; but the word is applied chiefly or wholly to the glandular organ of female breasts, in which the milk is secreted and retained for the nourishment of their young, commonly called the bag, in cows and other quadrupeds.


Topic: Ugliness
Definition:
UG'LINESS, n.  [from ugly.]
1.  Total want of beauty; deformity of person; as old age and ugliness.
2.  Turpitude of mind; moral depravity; lothesomeness.
Their dull ribaldry must be offensive to any one who does not, for the sake of the sin, pardon the ugliness of its circumstances.


Topic: Ugly
Definition:
UG'LY, a.  [See Hack.[
Deformed; offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; hateful; as an ugly person; an ugly face.
O I have pass'd a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
Fellow, begone; I cannot bear thy sight; this news hath made thee a most ugly man.


Topic: Ulcer
Definition:
UL'CER, n.  [L. ulcus; Gr.]
A sore; a solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, attend with a secretion of pus or some kind of discharge.  Ulcers on the lungs are seldom healed.


Topic: Ulcerate
Definition:
UL'CERATE, v.i.  To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.
UL'CERATE, v.t.  [L. ulcero.]  To affect with an ulcer or with ulcers.


Topic: Ulceration
Definition:
ULCERA'TION, n.  [L. ulceratio.]
1.  The process of forming into an ulcer, or the process of becoming ulcerous.
2.  An ulcer; a morbid sore that discharges pus or other fluid.


Topic: Ulcerous
Definition:
UL'CEROUS, a.
1.  Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.
2.  Affected with an ulcer or with ulcers.


Topic: Ule-tree
Definition:
U'LE-TREE, n.  In botany the Castilla, a genus of trees, whose milky juice yields that king of elastic gum, called by the Mexicans ule.


Topic: Ulency
Definition:
VIR'ULENCE,'ULENCY, n.  [from virulent.]
1.  That renders it extremely active in doing injury; acrimony; malignancy; as the virulence of poison.
2.  Acrimony of temper; extreme bitterness or malignity; as the virulence of enmity or malice; the virulence of satire; to attack a man with virulence.


Topic: Ulmin
Definition:
UL'MIN, n.  [L. ulmus, elm.]  A substance obtained from the elm tree, of very singular properties.  It resembles gum, but is hard of a black color, and considerably bitter.  In its original state it is soluble in water, and insoluble in alcohol or ether; but when nitric or oxymuriatic acid is poured into its solution, it changes into a resinous substance no longer soluble in water, but soluble in alcohol.
A substance originally obtained in the state of an exsudation from the elm; but it is found to be a constituent of the bark of almost all trees.


Topic: Ulterior
Definition:
ULTE'RIOR, a.  [L. comparative.]  
1.  Further; as ulterior demands; ulterior propositions.  What ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
2.  In geography, being or situated beyond or on the further side of any line or boundary; opposed to citerior, or hither.


Topic: Ultimate
Definition:
UL'TIMATE, a.  [L. ultimus, furthest.]
1.  Furthest; most remote; extreme.  We have not yet arrived at the ultimate point of progression.
2.  Final; being that to which all the rest is directed, as to the main object.  The ultimate end of our actions should be the glory of God, or the display of his exalted excellence.  The ultimate end and aim of men is to be happy, and to attain to this end, we must yield that obedience which will honor the law and character of God.
3.  Last in a train of consequences; intended in the last resort.
Many actions apt to procure fame, are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.
4.  Last; terminating; being at the furthest point.
5.  The last into which a substance can be resolved; constituent.


Topic: Ultimately
Definition:
UL'TIMATELY, adv.  Finally; at last; in the end of last consequence.  Afflictions often tend to correct immoral habits, and ultimately prove blessings.


Topic: Ultimatum
Definition:
ULTIMA'TUM, n.  [L.]  
1..In diplomacy, the final propositions, conditions or terms offered as the basis of a treaty; the most favorable terms that a negotiator can offer, and the rejection of which usually puts an end to negotiation.  It is sometimes used in the plural, ultimata.
2.  Any final proposition or condition.


Topic: Ultramarine
Definition:
ULTRAMARINE, a.  [L. ultra, beyond, and marinus, marine.]
Situated or being beyond the sea.
ULTRAMARINE, n.  [supra.]
1.  a beautiful and durable sky-blue; a color formed of the mineral called lapis lazuli, and consisting of little else than oxyd of iron.
2.  Azure-stone.
Ultramarine ashes, a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli, after the ultramarine has been extracted.  Their appearance is that of the ultramarine, a little tinged with red, and diluted with white.


Topic: Ultramontane
Definition:
ULTRAMON'TANE, a.  [L. ultra and montanus, from mons, mountain.]
Being beyond the mountain.  Thus France, with regard to Italy, is an ultramontane country.
Bouffin is the only ultramontane painter whom the Italians seem to envy.


Topic: Ultramundane
Definition:
ULTRAMUN'DANE, a.  [L. ultra and mundus, world.]
Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system.


Topic: Umbel
Definition:
UM'BEL, n.  [L. umbella, a screen or fan.]
In botany, a particular mode of inflorescence or flowering, which consists of a number of flower-stalks or rays, nearly equal in length, spreading from a common center, their summits forming a level, convex, or even globose surface, more rarely a concave one, as in the carrot.  it is simple or compound; in the latter, each peduncle bears another little umbel, umbellet or umbellicle.
Umbel is sometimes called a rundle, from its roundness.


Topic: Umbelliferous
Definition:
UMBELLIF'EROUS, a.  [L. umbella and fero, to bear.]
Producing the inflorescence called an umbel; bearing umbels; as umbelliferous plants.


Topic: Umber
Definition:
UM'BER, n.  In natural history, an ore of iron, a fossil of a brown, yellowish, or blackish brown color, so called from Ombria in Italy, where it was first obtained.  It is used in painting.  A specimen from Cyprus afforded, of a hundred parts, 48 parts of oxyd of iron, 20 of oxyd of manganese, the remainder silex, alumin and water.
UM'BER, n.  A fowl of Africa, called the African crow.
The Scopus umbretta, a fowl of the grallic order, inhabiting Africa.
UM'BER, n.  A fish of the truttaceous kind, called the grayling, or thymallus; a fresh water fish of a fine taste.
UM'BER, v.t.  To color with umber; to shade or darken.


Topic: Umbilical
Definition:
UMBIL'ICAL, a.  [L. umbilicus, the navel.]  Pertaining to the navel; as umbilical vessels; umbilical region.
Umbilical points, in mathematics, the same as foci.
Umbilical vessels, in vegetables, are the small vessels which pass from the heart of the seed into the side seed-lobes, and are supposed to imbibe the saccharine, farinaceous or oily matter which is to support the new vegetable in its germination and infant growth.


Topic: Umboldilite
Definition:
UMBOLDILITE, n.  [from Humboldt.]  A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, whose primitive form is a right rectangular prism, with a square base, its color brown, inclining to yellowish or greenish yellow.


Topic: Umbra
Definition:
UM'BRA, n.  A fish caught in the Mediterranean, generally about 12 or 14 inches long, but sometimes growing to the weight of 60 pounds.  It is called also thromis and corvo.


Topic: Umbrage
Definition:
UM'BRAGE, n.  [L. umbra, a shade.]
1.  A shade; a screen of trees; as the umbrage of woods.
2.  Shadow; shade; slight appearance.
The opinion carries no show of truth nor umbrage of reason on its side.  [See Shadow.]
3.  Suspicion of injury; offense; resentment.  The court of France took umbrage at the conduct of spain.


Topic: Umbrageous
Definition:
UMBRA'GEOUS, a.
1.  Shading; forming a shade; as umbrageous trees or foliage.
2.  Shady; shaded; as an umbrageous grotto or garden.
Umbrageous grots, and caves of cool recess.
3.  Obscure.


Topic: Umbratile
Definition:
UM'BRATILE, a.  [L. umbratilis.]
1.  Being in the shade.
2.  Unreal; unsubstantial.
3.  Being in retirement; secluded; as an umbratile life.  [Little used.]


Topic: Umbratious
Definition:
UMBRA'TIOUS, a.  [See Umbrage.]  Suspicious; apt to distrust; captious; disposed to take umbrage.  [Little used.]


Topic: Uminpaired
Definition:
UMINPA'IRED, a.  Not impaired; not diminished; not enfeebled by time or injury; as an unimpaired constitution.


Topic: Umpirage
Definition:
UM'PIRAGE, n.  [from umpire.]  
1.  The power, right or authority of an umpire to decide.
2.  The decision of an umpire.


Topic: Umpire
Definition:
UM'PIRE, n.  [L. imperium, contracted, as in empire.]
1.  A third person called in to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators, when the arbitrators do not agree in opinion.
2.  A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred.  Thus the emperor of Russia was constituted umpire between Great Britain and the United States, to decide the controversy respecting the slaves carried from the states by the British troops.
UM'PIRE, v.t.  To arbitrate; to decide as umpire; to settle, as a dispute.  [Little used.]


Topic: Un
Definition:
UN,  a prefix or inseparable preposition, un or on, usually un, an, is the same word as the L. in.  It is a particle of negation, giving to words to which it is prefixed, a negative signification.  We use un or in indifferently for this purpose; and the tendency of modern usage is to prefer the use of in, in some words, where un was formerly used.  Un admits of no change of n into l, m or r, as in does, in illuminate, immense, irresolute.  It is prefixed generally to adjectives and participles, and almost at pleasure.  In a few instances, it is prefixed to verbs, as in unbend, unbind, unharness.  As the compounds formed with un are so common and so well known, the composition is not noticed under the several words.  For the etymologies, see the simple words.


Topic: Unable
Definition:
UNA'BLE, a.
1.  Not able; not having sufficient strength or means; impotent; weak in power, or poor in substance.  A man is unable to rise when sick; he is unable to labor; he is unable to support his family or to purchase a farm; he is unable for a particular enterprise.
2.  Not having adequate knowledge or skill.  A man is unable to paint a good likeness; he is unable to command a ship or an army.


Topic: Unacceptable
Definition:
UNACCEPT'ABLE, a.  Not acceptable; not pleasing; not welcome; not such as will be received with pleasure.


Topic: Unaccessibleness
Definition:
UNACCESS'IBLENESS, n.  State of not being approachable; inaccessibleness. 
[The latter is word now used.]


Topic: Unaccommodated
Definition:
UNACCOM'MODATED, a.  
1.  Not accommodated; not furnished with external conveniences.
2.  Not fitted or adapted.


Topic: Unaccompanied
Definition:
UNACCOMPANIED, a.  
1.  Not attended; having no attendants, companions or followers.
2.  Having no appendages.


Topic: Unaccomplished
Definition:
UNACCOM'PLISHED, a.
1.  Not accomplished; not finished; incomplete.
2.  Not refined in manners; not furnished with elegant literature or with polish of manners.


Topic: Unaccountability
Definition:
UNACCOUNTABIL'ITY, n.  The state or quality of not being accountable; or the state of being unaccountable for.


Topic: Unaccountable
Definition:
UNACCOUNT'ABLE, a.
1.  Not to be accounted for.  Such folly is unaccountable.
2.  Not explicable; not to be solved by reason or the light possessed; not reducible to rule.  The union of soul and body is to us unaccountable.
3.  Not subject to account or control; not subject to answer; not responsible.


Topic: Unaccredited
Definition:
UNACCRED'ITED, a.  Not accredited; not received; not authorized.  The minister or the consul remained unaccredited.


Topic: Unaccustomed
Definition:
UNACCUS'TOMED, a.
1.  Not accustomed; not used; not made familiar; not habituated; as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke.  Jer. 31.
2.  New; not usual; not made familiar; as unaccustomed air; unaccustomed ideas.


Topic: Unacknowledged
Definition:
UNACKNOWL'EDGED, a.
1.  Not acknowledged; not recognized; as an unacknowledged agent or consul.
2.  Not owned; not confessed; not avowed; as an unacknowledged crime or fault.


Topic: Unacquaintance
Definition:
UNACQUA'INTANCE, n.  Want of acquaintance or familiarity; want of knowledge; followed by with; as an utter unacquaintance with his design.


Topic: Unacquainted
Definition:
UNACQUA'INTED, a.  
1.  Not well known; unusual.
And th' unacquainted light began to fear.  [Not in use.]
2.  Not having familiar knowledge; followed by with.
My ears are unacquainted with such bold truths.


Topic: Unactive
Definition:
UNACT'IVE, a.  
1.  Not active; not brisk.  [We now use inactive.]
2.  Having no employment.
3.  Not busy; not diligent; idle.
4.  Having no action or efficacy.  [See Inactive.]


Topic: Unadjusted
Definition:
UNADJUST'ED, a.  
1.  Not adjusted; not settled; not regulated; as differences unadjusted.
2.  Not settled; not liquidated; as unadjusted accounts.


Topic: Unadvised
Definition:
UNADVI'SED, a. s as z.
1.  Not prudent; not discrete.
2.  Done without due consideration; rash; as an unadvised measure or proceeding.


Topic: Unaffected
Definition:
UNAFFECT'ED, a.
1.  Not affected; plain; natural; not labored or artificial; simple; as unaffected ease and grace.
2.  Real; not hypocritical; sincere; as unaffected sorrow.
3.  Not moved; not having the heart or passions touched.  Men often remain unaffected under all the solemn monitions of Providence.


Topic: Unaffectedly
Definition:
UNAFFECT'EDLY, adv.  Really; in sincerity; without disguise; without attempting to produce false appearances.  He was unaffectedly cheerful.


Topic: Unalienable
Definition:
UNA'LIENABLE, a.  Not alienable; that cannot be alienated; that may not be transferred; as unalienable rights.


Topic: Unallied
Definition:
UNALLI'ED, a.
1.  Having no alliance or connection, either by nature, marriage or treaty; as unallied families or nations, or substances.
2.  Having no powerful relation.


Topic: Unalloyed
Definition:
UNALLOY'ED, a.  Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; as metals unalloyed.
I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company.


Topic: Unambitious
Definition:
UNAMBI'TIOUS, a.  
1.  Not ambitious; free from ambition.
2.  Not affecting show; not showy or prominent; as unambitious ornaments.


Topic: Unanimated
Definition:
UNAN'IMATED, a.  
1.  Not animated; not possessed of life.
2.  Not enlivened; not having spirit; dull.


Topic: Unanimity
Definition:
UNANIM'ITY, n.  [L. unus, one, and animus, mind.]
Agreement of a number of persons in opinion or determination; as, there was perfect unanimity among the members of the council.


Topic: Unanimous
Definition:
UNAN'IMOUS, a.
1.  Being of one mind; agreeing in opinion or determination; as, the house of assembly was unanimous; the members of the council were unanimous.
2.  Formed by unanimity; as a unanimous vote.


Topic: Unanimousness
Definition:
UNAN'IMOUSNESS, n.
1.  The state of being of one mind.
2.  Proceeding from unanimity; as the unanimousness of a vote.


Topic: Unanswerable
Definition:
UN'ANSWERABLE, a.  Not to be satisfactorily answered; not capable of refutation; as an unanswerable argument.


Topic: Unanswered
Definition:
UN'ANSWERED, a.
1.  Not answered; not opposed by a reply.
2.  Not refuted.
3.  Not suitably returned.


Topic: Unappalled
Definition:
UNAPPALL'ED, a.  Not appalled; not daunted; not impressed with fear.
With eyes erect and visage unappall'd.


Topic: Unappealable
Definition:
UNAPPE'ALABLE, a.  Not appealable; admitting no appeal; that cannot be carried to a high court by appeal; as an appealable cause.


Topic: Unappeasable
Definition:
UNAPPE'ASABLE, a. s as z.
1.  Not to be appeased or pacified; as an unappeasable clamor.
2.  Not placable; as unappeasable wrath.


Topic: Unapprehensive
Definition:
UNAPPREHENS'IVE, a.
1.  Not apprehensive; not fearful or suspecting.
2.  Not intelligent; not ready of conception.


Topic: Unappropriated
Definition:
UNAPPRO'PRIATED, a.
1.  Not appropriated; not applied or directed to be applied to any specific object; as money or funds.
2.  Not granted or given to any person, company or corporation; as unappropriated lands.


Topic: Unapt
Definition:
UNAPT', a. 
1.  Not apt; not ready or propense.
A soldier, unapt to weep.
2.  Dull; not ready to learn.
3.  Unfit; not qualified; not disposed; with to, before a verb, and for, before a noun; as unapt to admit a conference with reason.
Unapt for noble, wise, spiritual employments.
4.  Improper; unsuitable.


Topic: Unaptness
Definition:
UNAPT'NESS, n.
1.  Unfitness; unsuitableness.
2.  Dullness; want of quick apprehension.
3.  Unreadiness; disqualification; want of propension.  The mind, by excess of exertion, gets an unaptness to vigorous attempts.


Topic: Unargued
Definition:
UN'ARGUED, a.
1.  Not argued; not debated.
2.  Not disputed; not opposed by argument.
3.  Not censured; a Latinism.  [Not used.]


Topic: Unarmed
Definition:
UN'ARMED, a.
1.  Not having an arms or armor; not equipped.  Man is born unarmed.  It is mean to attack even an enemy unarmed.
2.  Not furnished with scales, prickles or other defense; as animals and plants.


Topic: Unartfully
Definition:
UN'ARTFULLY, adv.  Without art; in an unartful manner.
[In lieu of these words, artless and artlessly are generally used.]


Topic: Unascertainable
Definition:
UNASCERTA'INABLE, a.  That cannot be ascertained, or reduced to a certainty; that cannot be certainly known.
The trustees are unascertainable.


Topic: Unasked
Definition:
UN'ASKED, a.
1.  Not asked; unsolicited; as, to bestow favors unasked; that was an unasked favor.
2.  Not sought by entreaty or care.
The bearded corn ensu'd from earth unask'd.


Topic: Unassayed
Definition:
UNASSA'YED, a.  
1.  Not essayed; not attempted.  [We now use unessayed.]
2.  Not subjected to assay or trial.


Topic: Unassimilated
Definition:
UNASSIM'ILATED, a.  
1.  Not assimilated; not made to resemble.
2.  In physiology, not formed or converted into a like substance; not animalized, as food.


Topic: Unassociated
Definition:
UNASSO'CIATED, a.
1.  Not associated; not united with a society.
2.  In Connecticut, not united with an association; as an unassociated church.


Topic: Unassuming
Definition:
UNASSU'MING, a.  Not assuming; not bold or forward; not making lofty pretensions; not arrogant; modest; as an unassuming youth; unassuming manners.


Topic: Unassured
Definition:
UNASSU'RED, a.  [See Sure.]  
1.  Not assured; not confident; as an unassured countenance.
2.  Not to be trusted; as an unassured foe.
3.  Not insured against loss; as goods unassured.


Topic: Unattached
Definition:
UNATTACH'ED, a.  
1.  Not attached; not arrested.
2.  Not closely adhering; having no fixed interest; as unattached to any party.
3.  Not united by affection.


Topic: Unattended
Definition:
UNATTEND'ED, a.
1.  Not attended; not accompanied; having no retinue or attendance.
2.  Forsaken.
3.  Not medically attended; not dressed; as unattended wounds.


Topic: Unattending
Definition:
UNATTEND'ING, a.  Not attending or listening; not being attentive.
Ill is lost that praise that is address'd to unattending ears.


Topic: Unaugmented
Definition:
UNAUGMENT'ED, a.  Not augmented or increased; in grammar, having no augment, or additional syllable.


Topic: Unavailable
Definition:
UNAVA'ILABLE, a.  Not available; not having sufficient power to produce the intended effect; not effectual; vain; useless.


Topic: Unavailing
Definition:
UNAVA'ILING, a.  Not having the effect desired; ineffectual; useless; vain; as unavailing efforts; unavailing prayers.


Topic: Unavenged
Definition:
UNAVENG'ED, a.  
1.  Not avenged; not having obtained satisfaction; as, a person is unavenged.
2.  Not punished; as, a crime is unavenged.


Topic: Unavoidable
Definition:
UNAVOID'ABLE, a.
1.  That cannot be made null or void.
2.  Not avoidable; not to be shunned; inevitable; as unavoidable evils.
3.  Not to be missed in ratiocination.


Topic: Unawares
Definition:
UNAWA'RES, adv.
1.  Suddenly; unexpectedly; without previous preparation.  The evil came upon us unawares.
2.  Without premeditated design.  He killed the man unawares.
At unawares, unexpectedly.
He breaks at unawares upon our walks.


Topic: Unbacked
Definition:
UNBACK'ED, a.  
1.  Not having been backed; as an unbacked colt.
2.  Not tamed; not taught to bear a rider
3.  Unsupported; left without aid.


Topic: Unbalanced
Definition:
UNBAL'ANCED, a.
1.  Not balanced; not poised; not in equipoise.
Let earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly.
2.  Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as an unbalanced account.
3.  Not restrained by equal power; as unbalanced parties.


Topic: Unballasted
Definition:
UNBAL'LASTED, a.
1.  Freed from ballast.
2.  a.  Not furnished with ballast; not kept steady by ballast or by weight; unsteady; as unballasted wits.
'Unballast vessel,' for unballasted, in Addison, is an unauthorized phrase.


Topic: Unbay
Definition:
UNBA'Y, v.t.  To open; to free from the restraint of mounds.
I ought to unbay the current of my passions.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Unbeaten
Definition:
UNBE'ATEN, a.
1.  Not beaten; not treated with blows.
2.  Untrod; not beaten by the feet; as unbeaten paths.


Topic: Unbecoming
Definition:
UNBECOMING, a.  Unsuitable; improper for the person or character; indecent; indecorous.
My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall.


Topic: Unbecomingness
Definition:
UNBECOMINGNESS, n.  Unsuitableness to the person, character or circumstances; impropriety; indecorousness.


Topic: Unbelief
Definition:
UNBELIE'F, n.  
1.  Incredulity; the withholding of belief; as, unbelief is blind.
2.  Infidelity; disbelief of divine revelation.
3.  In the New Testament, disbelief of the truth of the gospel, rejection of Christ as the Savior of men, and of the doctrines he taught; distrust of God's promises and faithfulness, &c.  Matt. 13.  Mark 16.  Heb. 3.  Rom. 4.
4.  Weak faith.  Mark 9.


Topic: Unbeliever
Definition:
UNBELIE'VER, n.
1.  An incredulous person; one who does not believe.
2.  An infidel; one who discredits revelation, or the mission, character and doctrines of Christ.  2Cor. 6.


Topic: Unbelieving
Definition:
UNBELIE'VING, a.
1.  Not believing; incredulous.
2.  Infidel; discrediting divine revelation, or the mission, character and doctrines of Christ; as the unbelieving Jews.  Acts 14.  Rev. 21.


Topic: Unbend
Definition:
UNBEND', v.t.
1.  To free from flexure; to make straight; as, to unbend a bow.
2.  To relax; to remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; as, to unbend the mind from study or care.
3.  To relax effeminately.
You unbend your noble strength.
4.  In seamanship, to take the sails from their yards and stays; also, to cast loose a cable from the anchors; also, to untie one rope from another.


Topic: Unbending
Definition:
UNBEND'ING, ppr.
1.  Relaxing from any strain; remitting; taking from their yards, &c., as sails.
2.  a.  Not suffering flexure.
3.  Unyielding; resolute; inflexible; applied to persons.
4.  Unyielding; inflexible; firm; applied to things; as unbending truth.
5.  Devoted to relaxation.
I hope it may entertain your lordship at an unbending hour.


Topic: Unbent
Definition:
UNBENT', pp. of unbend.
1.  Relaxed; remitted; relieved from strain or exertion.
2.  In seamen's language, taken from the yards; loosed; as, the sails are unbent; the cable is unbent.
3.  Not strained; unstrung; as a bow unbent.
4.  Not crushed; not subdued; as, the soul is unbent by woes.


Topic: Unbias
Definition:
UNBI'AS, v.t.  To free from bias or prejudice.
The truest service a private man can do his country, is to unbias his mind, as much as possible, between the rival powers.


Topic: Unbiased
Definition:
UNBI'ASED, pp.
1.  Freed from prejudice or bias.
2.  a.  Free from any undue partiality or prejudice; impartial; as an unbiased mind; unbiased opinion or decision.


Topic: Unbind
Definition:
UNBIND, v.t.  To untie; to remove a band from; to unfasten; to loose; to set free from shackles.  Unbind your fillets; unbind the prisoner's arms; unbind the load.


Topic: Unblemished
Definition:
UNBLEM'ISHED, a.
1.  Not blemished; not stained; free from turpitude or reproach; in a moral sense; as an unblemished reputation or life.
2.  Free from deformity.


Topic: Unblown
Definition:
UNBLOWN, a.
1.  Not blown; not having the bud expanded.
2.  Not extinguished.
3.  Not inflated with wind.


Topic: Unbodied
Definition:
UNBOD'IED, a.
1.  Having no material body; incorporeal; as unbodied spirits.
2.  Freed from the body.


Topic: Unbolted
Definition:
UNBOLTED, a.
1.  Freed from fastening by bolts.
2.  Unsifted; not bolted; not having the bran or coarse part separated by a bolter; as unbolted meal.


Topic: Unborrowed
Definition:
UNBOR'ROWED, a.  Not borrowed; genuine; original; native; one's own; as unborrowed beauties; unborrowed gold; unborrowed excellence.


Topic: Unbosom
Definition:
UNBOSOM, v.t. s as z.  
1.  To disclose freely one's secret opinions or feelings.
2.  To reveal in confidence.


Topic: Unbottomed
Definition:
UNBOT'TOMED, a.
1.  Having no bottom; bottomless.
The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss.
2.  Having no solid foundation.


Topic: Unbought
Definition:
UNBOUGHT, a.  unbaut'.
1.  Not bought; obtained without money or purchase.
The unbought dainties of the poor.
2.  Not having a purchaser.


Topic: Unbound
Definition:
UNBOUND', a.
1.  Not bound; loose; wanting a cover; as unbound books.
2.  Not bound by obligation or covenant.
3.  pret. of unbind.


Topic: Unbounded
Definition:
UNBOUND'ED, a.
1.  Having no bound or limit; unlimited in extent; infinite; interminable; as unbounded space; unbounded power.
2.  Having no check or control; unrestrained.  The young man has unbounded license.  His extravagance is unbounded.


Topic: Unbrace
Definition:
UNBRA'CE, v.t.  To loose; to relax; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the arms; to unbrace the nerves.


Topic: Unbred
Definition:
UNBRED',
1.  Not well bred; not polished in manners; ill educated; rude; as unbred minds; unbred servants.
2.  Not taught; as unbred to spinning.


Topic: Unbridled
Definition:
UNBRI'DLED, pp.
1.  Loosed from the bridle.
2.  a.  Unrestrained; licentious; as unbridled lust; unbridled boldness; unbridled passions.


Topic: Unbroke
Definition:
UNBRO'KE,'KEN, a.
1.  Not broken; not violated.  Preserve your vows unbroken.
2.  Not weakened; not crushed; not subdued.
How broad his shoulders spread, by age unbroke.
3.  Not tamed; not taught; not accustomed to the saddle, harness or yoke; as an unbroken horse or ox.


Topic: Unbrotherly
Definition:
UNBROTHERLY, a.  Not becoming a brother; not suitable to the character and relation of a brother; unkind.  [Unbrotherlike is not used.]


Topic: Unbuckle
Definition:
UNBUCK'LE, v.t.  To loose from buckles; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe; to unbuckle a girdle; to unbuckle a helm.


Topic: Unburnt
Definition:
UNBURNT', a.  
1.  Not burnt; not consumed by fire.
2.  Not injured by fire; not scorched.
3.  Not baked, as brick.


Topic: Uncalled
Definition:
UNCALL'ED, a.  Not called; not summoned; not invited.
Uncalled for, not required; not needed or demanded.


Topic: Uncensured
Definition:
UNCEN'SURED, a.  Not censured; exempt from blame or reproach.
Whose right it is uncensur'd to be dull.


Topic: Uncertain
Definition:
UNCER'TAIN, a.
1.  Not certain; doubtful; not certainly known.  it is uncertain who will be the next president.
2.  Doubtful; not having certain knowledge.
man without the protection of a superior Being - is uncertain of every thing that he hopes for.
3.  Not sure in the consequence.
Or whistling slings dismiss'd the uncertain stone.
4.  Not sure; not exact.
Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim.
5.  Unsettled; irregular.


Topic: Uncertainly
Definition:
UNCER'TAINLY, adv.
1.  Not surely; not certainly.
2.  Not confidently.
- Standards that cannot be known at all, or but imperfectly and uncertainly.


Topic: Uncertainty
Definition:
UNCER'TAINTY, n.
1.  doubtfulness; dubiousness.  The truth is not ascertained; the latest accounts have not removed the uncertainty.
2.  Want of certainty; want of precision; as the uncertainty of the signification of words.
3.  Contingency.
Steadfastly grasping the greatest and most slippery uncertainties.
4.  Something unknown.
Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a certainty for an uncertainty.


Topic: Unchangeable
Definition:
UNCHANGEABLE, a.  Not capable of change; immutable; not subject to variation.  god is an unchangeable being.


Topic: Uncharitable
Definition:
UNCHAR'ITABLE, a.  Not charitable; contrary to charity, or the universal love prescribed by christianity; as uncharitable opinions or zeal.


Topic: Uncharitableness
Definition:
UNCHAR'ITABLENESS, n.  Want of charity.  If we hate our enemies we sin; we are guilty of uncharitableness.


Topic: Unchristian
Definition:
UNCHRIS'TIAN, a.
1.  Contrary to the laws of christianity; as an unchristian reflection; unchristian temper or conduct.
2.  Not evangelized; not converted to the christian faith; infidel.
UNCHRIS'TIAN, v.t.  To deprive of the constituent qualities of christianity.


Topic: Unchristianize
Definition:
UNCHRIS'TIANIZE, v.t.  to turn from the christian faith; to cause to degenerate from the belief and profession of christianity.


Topic: Unchristianly
Definition:
UNCHRIS'TIANLY, a.  Contrary to the laws of christianity; unbecoming christians.
UNCHRIS'TIANLY, adv.  In a manner contrary to christian principles.


Topic: Uncial
Definition:
UN'CIAL, a.  [L. uncialis.]  Pertaining to letters of a large size, used in ancient manuscripts.
UN'CIAL, n.  An uncial letter.


Topic: Uncircumscribed
Definition:
UNCIRCUMSCRI'BED, a.  Not circumscribed; not bounded; not limited.
Where the prince is uncircumscribed, obedience ought to be unlimited.


Topic: Uncivil
Definition:
UNCIV'IL, a.  
1.  Not civil; not complaisant; not courteous in manners; applied to persons.
2.  Not polite; rude; applied to manners; as uncivil behavior.


Topic: Uncivilized
Definition:
UNCIV'ILIZED, a.
1.  Not reclaimed from savage life; as the uncivilized inhabitants of Canada or New Zealand.
2.  Coarse; indecent; as he most uncivilized words in our language.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Unclarified
Definition:
UNCLAR'IFIED, a.  Not purified; not fined; not departed by a separation of feculent or foreign matter.


Topic: Unclean
Definition:
UNCLE'AN, a.
1.  Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
2.  In the Jewish law, ceremonially impure; not cleansed by ritual practices.  Num. 19.  Lev. 11.  Rom. 14.
3.  Foul with sin.  Matt. 10.
That holy place where no unclean thing shall enter.
4.  Not in covenant with God.  1Cor. 7.
5.  Lewd; unchaste.
Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate and unclean affections.
No unclean person - hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.  Eph. 5.


Topic: Uncleanly
Definition:
UNCLEANLY, a.  unclen'ly.
1.  Foul; filthy; dirty.
2.  Indecent; unchaste; obscene.
It is a pity that these harmonious writers have indulged any thing uncleanly or impure to defile their paper.


Topic: Uncleanness
Definition:
UNCLE'ANNESS, n.
1.  Foulness; dirtiness; filthiness.
Be not troublesome to thyself or to others by uncleanness.
2.  Want of ritual or ceremonial purity.  Lev. 15.
3.  Moral impurity; defilement by sin; sinfulness.
I will save you from all your uncleanness.  Ezek. 36.
4.  Lewdness; incontinence.  Col. 3.  2Peter 2.


Topic: Unclipped
Definition:
UNCLIP'PED, a.  Not clipped; not out; not diminished or shortened by clipping; as unclipped money; unclipped hair.


Topic: Unclog
Definition:
UNCLOG', v.t.  To disencumber of difficulties and obstructions; to free from incumbrances, or any thing that retards motion.


Topic: Unclose
Definition:
UNCLO'SE, v.t. s as z.
1.  To open; to break the seal of; as, to unclose a letter.
2.  To disclose; to lay open.


Topic: Unclosed
Definition:
UNCLO'SED, pp.  
1.  Opened.
2.  a.  Not separated by inclosures; open.
3.  Not finished; not concluded.
4.  Not closed; not sealed.


Topic: Unclothe
Definition:
UNCLO'THE, v.t.  To strip of clothes; to make naked; to divest.
To have a distinct knowledge of things, we must unclothe them.


Topic: Unclothed
Definition:
UNCLO'THED, pp.  Stripped of clothing or covering.
Nor for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon.  
2Cor. 5.


Topic: Unclouded
Definition:
UNCLOUD'ED, a.  
1.  Not cloudy; free from clouds; clear; as an unclouded sky.
2.  Not darkened; not obscured.


Topic: Uncocked
Definition:
UNCOCK'ED, a.
1.  Not cocked, as a gun.
2.  Not made into cocks, as hay.
3.  Not set up, as the brim of a hat.


Topic: Uncollected
Definition:
UNCOLLECT'ED, a.
1.  Not collected; not received; as uncollected taxes; debts uncollected.
2.  Not collected; not recovered from confusion, distraction or wandering; as the mind yet uncollected.


Topic: Uncollectible
Definition:
UNCOLLECT'IBLE, a.  Not collectible; that cannot be collected or levied, or paid by the debtor; as uncollectible taxes; uncollectible debts.


Topic: Uncomeliness
Definition:
UNCOMELINESS, n.  Want of comeliness; want of beauty or grace; as uncomeliness of person, of dress or behavior.


Topic: Uncomely
Definition:
UNCOMELY, a.  
1.  Not comely; wanting grace; as an uncomely person; uncomely dress; uncomely manners.
2.  Unseemly; unbecoming; unsuitable.


Topic: Uncomfortable
Definition:
UNCOMFORTABLE, a.  
1.  Affording no comfort; gloomy.
Christmas - the most uncomfortable time of the year.
2.  Giving uneasiness; as an uncomfortable seat or condition.


Topic: Uncomfortably
Definition:
UNCOMFORTABLY, adv.  In an uncomfortable manner; without comfort or cheerfulness; in an uneasy state.


Topic: Uncommon
Definition:
UNCOM'MON, a.
1.  Not common; not usual; rare; as an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage.
2.  Not frequent; not often seen or known; as an uncommon production.


Topic: Uncommonness
Definition:
UNCOM'MONNESS, n.  Rareness of occurrence; infrequency.  the uncommonness of a thing often renders it valuable.


Topic: Uncommunicated
Definition:
UNCOMMU'NICATED, a.
1.  Not communicated; not disclosed or delivered to others.
2.  Not imparted to or from another; as the uncommunicated perfections of God.


Topic: Uncompounded
Definition:
UNCOMPOUND'ED, a.  
1.  Not compounded; not mixed.
Harness may be reckoned the property of all uncompounded matter.
2.  Simple; not intricate.


Topic: Unconceivable
Definition:
UNCONCE'IVABLE, a.  Not to be conceived or understood; that cannot be comprehended.
[But inconceivable is chiefly used.]


Topic: Unconcerned
Definition:
UNCONCERN'ED, a.  
1.  Not concerned; not anxious; feeling no solicitude.  He is unconcerned at what has happened.  He is unconcerned about or for the future.
Happy mortals, unconcerned for more.
[It has at sometimes before a past event, but about or for is more generally used before a past or future event.]
2.  Having no interest in.  He is unconcerned in the events of the day.


Topic: Unconcernedly
Definition:
UNCONCERN'EDLY, adv.  Without interest or affection; without anxiety.
And unconcern'dly cast his eyes around.


Topic: Unconcludent
Definition:
UNCONCLU'DENT, a.  Not decisive; not inferring a plain or certain conclusion or consequence.  [Little used.]
[In the place of these, inconclusive is generally used.


Topic: Uncondemned
Definition:
UNCONDEM'NED, a.
1.  Not condemned; not judged guilty.
- A man that is a Roman, and uncondemned.  Act. 22.
2.  Not disapproved; not pronounced criminal; as a practice yet uncondemned.


Topic: Unconditional
Definition:
UNCONDI'TIONAL, a.  Absolute; unreserved; not limited by any conditions.  We are required to make an unconditional surrender of ourselves to our Maker.  The king demanded unconditional submission.
O pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, or bind thy sentence unconditional.


Topic: Unconditionally
Definition:
UNCONDI'TIONALLY, adv.  Without conditions; without terms of limitation; without reservation.  The troops did not surrender unconditionally, but by capitulation.


Topic: Unconfined
Definition:
UNCONFI'NED, a.  
1.  Not confined; free from restraint; free from control.
2.  Having no limits; illimitable; unbounded.


Topic: Unconfirmed
Definition:
UNCONFIRM'ED, a.
1.  Not fortified by resolution; weak; raw; as troops unconfirmed by experience.
2.  Not confirmed; not strengthened by additional testimony.
His witness unconfirm'd.
3.  Not confirmed according to the church ritual.


Topic: Unconformable
Definition:
UNCONFORM'ABLE, a.  Not consistent; not agreeable; not conforming.
Moral evil is an action unconformable to the rule of our duty.


Topic: Unconfutable
Definition:
UNCONFU'TABLE, a.  Not confutable; not to be refuted or overthrown; that cannot be disproved or convicted of error; as an unconfutable argument.


Topic: Unconnected
Definition:
UNCONNECT'ED, a.  
1.  Not connected; not united; separate.
2.  Not coherent; not joined by proper transitions or dependence of parts; loose; vague; desultory; as an unconnected discourse.


Topic: Unconquerable
Definition:
UNCON'QUERABLE, a.  
1.  Not conquerable; invincible; that cannot be vanquished or defeated; that cannot be overcome in contest; as an unconquerable for.
2.  That cannot be subdued and brought under control; as unconquerable passions or temper.


Topic: Unconquered
Definition:
UNCON'QUERED, a.  
1.  Not vanquished or defeated.
2.  Unsubdued; not brought under control.
3.  Invincible; insuperable.


Topic: Unconscionable
Definition:
UNCON'SCIONABLE, a.
1.  Unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; as an unconscionable request or demand.
2.  Forming unreasonable expectations.  You cannot be so unconscionable as to expect this sacrifice on my part.
3.  Enormous; vast; as unconscionable size or strides.  [Not elegant.]
4.  Not guided or influenced by conscience.


Topic: Unconscionably
Definition:
UNCON'SCIONABLY, adv.  Unreasonably; in a manner or degree that conscience and reason do not justify.


Topic: Unconscious
Definition:
UNCON'SCIOUS, a.  
1.  Not conscious; having no mental perception; as unconscious causes.
2.  Not conscious; not knowing; not perceiving; as unconscious of guilt or error.


Topic: Unconsecrated
Definition:
UNCON'SECRATED, a.  Not consecrated; not set apart for a sacred use by religious ceremonies; not dedicated or devoted; as a temple unconsecrated; unconsecrated bread.


Topic: Unconstant
Definition:
UNCON'STANT, a.  Not constant; not steady or faithful; fickle; changeable.  [Inconstant is now used.]


Topic: Unconstitutional
Definition:
UNCONSTITU'TIONAL, a.  Not agreeable to the constitution; not authorized by the constitution; contrary to the principles of the constitution.  It is not unconstitutional for the king of Great Britain to declare war without the consent of parliament; but for the president of the United States to declare war, without an act of congress authorizing it, would be unconstitutional.


Topic: Unconstitutionalit
Definition:
UNCONSTITUTIONAL'ITY, n.  The quality of being unauthorized by the constitution, or contrary to its provisions or principles.  The supreme court has power to decide upon the unconstitutionality of a law.


Topic: Unconstrained
Definition:
UNCONSTRA'INED, a.
1.  Free from constraint; acting voluntarily; voluntary.
2.  Not proceeding from constraint; as actions.


Topic: Uncontrollable
Definition:
UNCONTROLLABLE, a.
1.  That cannot be controlled; ungovernable; that cannot be restrained; as an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable subjects.
2.  That cannot be resisted or diverted; as uncontrollable events.
3.  Indisputable; irrefragable; as an uncontrollable maxim; the king's uncontrollable title to the English throne.


Topic: Uncontrollably
Definition:
UNCONTROLLABLY, adv.  
1.  Without power of opposition.
2.  In a manner or degree that admits of no restraint or resistance; as a stream uncontrollably violent.


Topic: Uncontrolled
Definition:
UNCONTROLLED, a.
1.  Not governed; not subjected to a superior power or authority; not restrained.
2.  Not resisted; unopposed.
3.  Not convinced; not refuted.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Unconversable
Definition:
UNCONVERS'ABLE, a. 
1.  Not free in conversation; not social; reserved.
2.  Not suited to conversation.


Topic: Unconverted
Definition:
UNCONVERT'ED, a.  
1.  Not converted; not changed in opinion; not turned from one faith to another.
2.  Not persuaded of the truth of the christian religion; as unconverted pagans.
3.  Not renewed; not regenerated; not having the natural enmity of the heart subdued, and a principle of grace implanted.
4.  Not turned or changed from one form to another.


Topic: Unconvertible
Definition:
UNCONVERT'IBLE, a.  That cannot be converted or changed in form.  Lead is unconvertible into silver.


Topic: Uncord
Definition:
UNCORD', v.t.  To loose from cords; to unfasten or unbind; as, to uncord a bed; to uncord a package.


Topic: Uncorrected
Definition:
UNCORRECT'ED, a. 
1.  Not corrected; not revised; not rendered exact; as an uncorrected copy of a writing.
2.  Not reformed; not amended; as life or manners uncorrected.


Topic: Uncorrigible
Definition:
UNCOR'RIGIBLE, a.  That cannot be corrected; depraved beyond correction.  [For this, incorrigible is now used.]


Topic: Uncorrupt
Definition:
UNCORRUPT', a.  Not corrupt; not depraved; not perverted; not tainted with wickedness; not influenced by iniquitous interest; as an uncorrupt judgment; uncorrupt manners.


Topic: Uncorrupted
Definition:
UNCORRUPT'ED, a.  Not corrupted; not vitiated; not depraved; as the dictates of uncorrupted reason; uncorrupted records.


Topic: Uncourtliness
Definition:
UNCOURTLINESS, n.  Unsuitableness of manners to a court; inelegance; as uncourtliness of manners or phrases.


Topic: Uncourtly
Definition:
UNCOURTLY, a.
1.  Inelegant of manners; not becoming a court; not refined; unpolite; as uncourtly behavior or language.
2.  Not courteous or civil; as an uncourtly speech.
3.  Not versed in the manners of a court.


Topic: Uncouth
Definition:
UNCOUTH, a. 
Odd; strange; unusual; not rendered pleasing by familiarity; as an uncouth phrase or expression; uncouth manners; uncouth dress.


Topic: Uncouthness
Definition:
UNCOUTHNESS, n.  Oddness; strangeness; want of agreeableness derived from familiarity; as the uncouthness of a word or of dress.


Topic: Uncover
Definition:
UNCOVER, v.t.
1.  To divest of a cover; to remove any covering from; a word of general use.
2.  To deprive of clothes; to strip; to make naked.
3.  To unroof; as a building.
4.  To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head.
5.  To strip of a vail, or of any thing that conceals; to lay open; to disclose to view.


Topic: Uncreated
Definition:
UNCREA'TED, pp.
1.  Reduced to nothing; deprived of existence.
2.  a.  Not yet created; as misery uncreated.
3.  Not produced by creation.  God is an uncreated being.


Topic: Uncreditable
Definition:
UNCRED'ITABLE, a.
1.  Not in good credit or reputation; not reputable.
2.  Not for the credit or reputation.


Topic: Unction
Definition:
UNC'TION, n.  [L. unctio, from ungo, to anoint.]
1.  The act of anointing.
2.  Unguent; ointment.  [Unusual.]
3.  The act of anointing medically; as mercurial unction.
4.  Any thing softening or lenitive.
5.  That which excites piety and devotion.
6.  Richness of gracious affections.
7.  Divine or sanctifying grace.  1John 1.
Extreme unction, the rite of anointing in the last hours; or the application of sacred oil to the parts where the five senses reside.


Topic: Unctuous
Definition:
UNC'TUOUS, a.
1.  Fat; oily; greasy.
2.  Having a resemblance to oil; as the unctuous feel of a stone.


Topic: Uncultivated
Definition:
UNCUL'TIVATED, a.
1.  Not cultivated; not tilled; not used in tillage; as an uncultivated tract of land.
2.  Not instructed; not civilized; rude; rough in manners; as an uncultivated nation or age.


Topic: Uncurl
Definition:
UNCURL', v.t.  To loose from ringlets.
The lion uncurls his angry mane.
UNCURL', v.i.  To fall from a curled state, as ringlets; to become straight.


Topic: Uncustomed
Definition:
UNCUS'TOMED, a.
1.  Not subjected to customs or duty.
2.  That has not paid duty, or been charged with customs.


Topic: Undated
Definition:
UN'DATED, a.  [L. undatus; unda, a wave.]  Waved; rising and falling in waves towards the margin, as a leaf.


Topic: Undecaying
Definition:
UNDECA'YING, a. 
1.  Not decaying; not suffering diminution or decline.
2.  Immortal; as the undecaying joys of heaven.


Topic: Undeceive
Definition:
UNDECE'IVE, v.t.  To free from deception, cheat, fallacy or mistake, whether caused by others or by ourselves.  If we rely on our own works for salvation, the Scriptures may undeceive us.


Topic: Undeceived
Definition:
UNDECE'IVED, pp.  
1.  Disabused of cheat, deception or fallacy.
2.  Not deceived; not misled or imposed on.


Topic: Undeclined
Definition:
UNDECLI'NED, a.
1.  Not deviating; not turned from the right way.
2.  Not varied in termination; as a noun undeclined.


Topic: Undecorated
Definition:
UNDEC'ORATED, a. Not adorned; not embellished; plain.
To leave the character of Christ undecorated, to make its own impression.


Topic: Undeeded
Definition:
UNDEE'DED, a.
1.  Not signalized by any great action.
2.  Not transferred by deed; as undeeded land.  [Local.]


Topic: Undefended
Definition:
UNDEFEND'ED, a.
1.  Not defended; not protected.
2.  Not vindicated.
3.  Open to assault; being without works of defense.


Topic: Undefinable
Definition:
UNDEFI'NABLE, a.  
1.  Not definable; not capable of being described or limited; as the undefinable bounds of space.
2.  That cannot be described by interpretation or definition.
Simple ideas are undefinable.


Topic: Undefined
Definition:
UNDEFI'NED, a.
1.  Not defined; not described by definition or explanation.
2.  Not having its limits described.


Topic: Undelegated
Definition:
UNDEL'EGATED, a.  Not delegated; not deputed; not granted; as undelegated authority; undelegated powers.


Topic: Under
Definition:
UNDER, prep.
1.  Beneath; below; so as to have something over or above.  He stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover.  We may see things under water; we have a cellar under the whole house.
2.  In a state of pupilage or subjection; as a youth under a tutor; a ward under a guardian; colonies under the British government. 
I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me.  Matt. 8.
3.  In a less degree than.  The effect of medicine is sometimes under and sometimes above or over its natural strength.
4.  For less than.  He would not sell the horse under forty pounds.
5.  Less than; below.  There are parishes in England under forty pounds a year.
6.  With the pretense of; with the cover or pretext of.  He does this under the name of love.  This argument is not to be evaded under some plausible distinction.
7.  With less than.
Several young men could never leave the pulpit under half a dozen conceits.
8.  In a degree, state or rank inferior to.
It was too great an honor for any man under a duke.
9.  In a state of being loaded; in a state of bearing or being burdened; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression.
10.  In a state of oppression or subjection to, the state in which a person is considered as bearing or having any thing laid upon him; as, to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a christian under reproaches and injuries.
11.  In a state of liability or obligation.  No man shall trespass but under the pains and penalties of the law.  Attend to the conditions under which you enter upon your office.  We are under the necessity of obeying the laws.  Nuns are under vows of chastity.  We all lie under the curse of the law, until redeemed by Christ.
12.  In the state of bearing and being known by; as men trading under the firm of Wright & Co.
13.  In the state of; in the enjoyment or possession of.  We live under the gospel dispensation.
14.  During the time of.  The American revolution commenced under the administration of lord North.
15.  Not having reached or arrived to; below.  He left three sons under age.
16.  Represented by; in the form of.  Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep.  [But morph, in Ethiopic, signifies cessation, rest.]
17.  In the state of protection or defense.  Under favor of the prince, our author was promoted.  The enemy landed under cover of their batteries.
18.  As bearing a particular character.
The duke may be mentioned under the double capacity of a poet and a divine.
19.  Being contained or comprehended in.
Under this head may be mentioned the contests between the popes and the secular princes.
20.  Attested by; signed by.  Here is a deed under his hand and seal.
He has left us evidence under his own hand.
21.  In a state of being handled, treated or discussed, or of being the subject of.  The bill is now under discussion.  We shall have the subject under consideration next week.
22.  In subordination to.  Under God, this is our only safety.
23.  In subjection or bondage to; ruled or influenced by; in a moral sense; within the dominion of.
They are all under sin.  Rom. 3.
Under a signature, bearing, as a name or title.
Under way, in seamen's language, moving; in a condition to make progress.
To keep under, to hold in subjection or control; to restrain.
I keep under my body.  1Cor. 9.


Topic: Underaction
Definition:
UNDERAC'TION, n. Subordinate action; action not essential to the main story.
The least episodes or underactions - are parts necessary to the main design.


Topic: Underbear
Definition:
UNDERBEAR, v.t.
1.  To support; to endure.
2.  To line; to guard; as cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel.  Obs.


Topic: Underbid
Definition:
UNDERBID', v.t.  To bid or offer less than another; as in auctions, when a contract or service is set up to the lowest bidder.


Topic: Undercroft
Definition:
UN'DERCROFT, n.  A vault under the choir or chancel of a church; also, a vault or secret walk under ground.


Topic: Underfurrow
Definition:
UNDERFUR'ROW, adv.  In agriculture, to sow underforrow, is to plow in seed.  This phrase is applied to other operations, in which something is covered by the furrow-slice.


Topic: Undergo
Definition:
UNDERGO', v.t.  
1.  To suffer; to endure something burdensome or painful to the body or the mind; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain; to undergo grief or anxiety; to undergo the operation of amputation.
2.To pass through.  Bread in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion; it undergoes a material alteration.
3.  To sustain without fainting, yielding or sinking.  Can you undergo the operation, or the fatigue?
4.  To be the bearer of; to possess.
Virtues - as infinite as man may undergo.  [Not in use.]
5.  To support; to hazard.
I have mov'd certain Romans to undergo with me an enterprise.
6.  To be subject to.
Claudio undergoes my challenge.  Obs.


Topic: Undergone
Definition:
UNDERGONE, pp.  undergawn'.  Borne; suffered; sustained; endured.  Who can tell how many evils and pains he has undergone?


Topic: Undergraduate
Definition:
UNDERGRAD'UATE, n.  A student or member of a university or college, who has not taken his first degree.


Topic: Underhand
Definition:
UN'DERHAND, adv.
1.  By secret means; in a clandestine manner.
2.  By fraud; by fraudulent means.
UN'DERHAND, a.  Secret; clandestine; usually implying meanness or fraud, or both.  He obtained the place by underhand practices.


Topic: Underhanded
Definition:
UNDERHAND'ED, a.  Underhand; clandestine.  [This is the word in more general use in the United States.


Topic: Underlaid
Definition:
UNDERLA'ID, pp. or a.  [from underlay.]  Having something lying or laid beneath; as sand underlaid with clay.


Topic: Underlet
Definition:
UNDERLET', v.t.
1.  To let below the value.
2.  To let or lease, as a lessee or tenant; to let under a lease.
It is a matter of much importance - that the tenant should have power to underlet his farms.


Topic: Underletting
Definition:
UNDERLET'TING, ppr.  Letting or leasing under a lease or by a lessee.
UNDERLET'TING, n.  The act or practice of letting lands by lessees or tenants.  [This is called also subletting.]


Topic: Underline
Definition:
UNDERLI'NE, v.t. 
1.  To mark with a line below the words; sometimes called scoring.
2.  To influence secretly.  [Not used.]


Topic: Undermine
Definition:
UNDERMI'NE, v.t.
1.  To sap; to excavate the earth beneath, for the purpose of suffering to fall, or of blowing up; as, to undermine a wall.
2.  To excavate the earth beneath.  Rapid streams often undermine their banks and the trees growing upon them.
3.  To remove the foundation or support of any thing by clandestine means; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state.
He should be warned who are like to undermine him.


Topic: Underminer
Definition:
UNDERMI'NER, n.
1.  One that saps, or excavates the earth beneath any thing.
2.  One that clandestinely removes the foundation or support; one that secretly overthrows; as an underminer of the church.


Topic: Undermining
Definition:
UNDERMI'NING, ppr.  Sapping; digging away the earth beneath; clandestinely removing the supports of.


Topic: Undermost
Definition:
UN'DERMOST, a.  
1.  Lowest in place beneath others.
2.  Lowest in state or condition.
The party that is undermost.


Topic: Underneath
Definition:
UNDERNE'ATH, adv.  [under and neath.  See Nether.]
Beneath; below; in a lower place.
Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath.
The slate did not lie flat upon it, but left a free passage underneath.
UNDERNE'ATH, prep.  Under; beneath.
Underneath this stone doth lie.  As much beauty as could die.


Topic: Underpin
Definition:
UNDERPIN', v.t.
1.  To lay stones under the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.
2.  To support by some solid foundation; or to place something underneath for support.


Topic: Underpinning
Definition:
UNDERPIN'NING, ppr.  Placing stones under the sills for support.
UNDERPIN'NING, n.
1.  The act of laying stones under sills.
2.  The stones on which a building immediately rests.


Topic: Underplot
Definition:
UN'DERPLOT, n.
1.  A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it.
2.  A clandestine scheme.


Topic: Underproportioned
Definition:
UNDERPROPORTIONED, a.  Having too little proportion.
Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility.


Topic: Underrun
Definition:
UNDERRUN', v.t.  To pass under in a boat.
To underrun a tackle, to separate its parts and put them in order.


Topic: Undershot
Definition:
UN'DERSHOT, a.  Moved by water passing under the wheel; opposed to overshot; as an undershot mill or mill-wheel.


Topic: Understand
Definition:
UNDERSTAND',  v.t.  pret. and pp.  understood.  [under and stand.  The sense is to support or hold in the mind.]
1.  To have just and adequate ideas of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration.
2.  To have the same ideas as the person who speaks, or the ideas which a person intends to communicate.  I understood the preacher; the court perfectly understand the advocate or his argument.
3.  To receive or have the ideas expressed or intended to be conveyed in a writing or book; to know the meaning.  It is important that we should understand the sacred oracles.
4.  To know the meaning or signs, or of anything intended to convey ideas; as, to understand a nod, a wink, or a motion.
5.  To suppose to mean.
The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
6.  To know by experience.
7.  To know by instinct.
-Amorous intent, well understood.
8.  To interpret, at least mentally.
9.  To know another's meaning.
10.  To hold in opinion with conviction.
11.  To mean without expressing.
War then, war, open or understood must be resolv'd.
12.  To know what is not expressed.
I bring them to receive from thee their names, and pay thee fealty with low subjection; understand the same of fish.
13.  To learn; to be informed.  I understand that congress have passed the bill.
UNDERSTAND', v.i.
1.  To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent and conscious being.
All my soul be imparadis'd in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see.
2.  To be informed by another; to learn.
I understood of the evil that Eliashib did.  Neh. 13.


Topic: Understanding
Definition:
UNDERSTAND'ING, ppr.  
1.  Comprehending; apprehending the ideas or sense of another, or of a writing; learning or being informed.
2.  a.  Knowing; skillful.  He is an understanding man.
UNDERSTAND'ING, n.
1.  The faculty of the human mind by which it apprehends the real state of things presented to it, or by which it receives or comprehends the ideas which others express and intend to communicate.  The understanding is called also the intellectual faculty.  It is the faculty by means of which we obtain a great part of our knowledge.  Luke 24.  Eph. 1.
By understanding I mean that faculty whereby we are enabled to apprehend the objects of knowledge, generals or particulars, absent or present, and to judge of their truth or falsehood, good or evil.
There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty  giveth him understanding.  Job. 32.
2.  Knowledge; exact comprehension.
Right understanding consists in the perception of the visible or probably agreement or disagreement of ideas.
3.  Intelligence between two or more persons; agreement of minds; union of sentiments.  There is a good understanding between the minister and his people.


Topic: Understandingly
Definition:
UNDERSTAND'INGLY, adv.  Intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension of a question or subject; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.
The gospel may be neglected, but it cannot be understandingly disbelieved.


Topic: Undertake
Definition:
UNDERTA'KE, v.t.  pret.  undertook; pp. undertaken.  [under and take.]
1.  To engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform.  When I undertook this work, I had a very inadequate knowledge of the extent of my labors.
2.  To covenant or contract to perform or execute.  A man undertakes to erect a house, or to make a mile of canal, when he enters into stipulations for that purpose.
3.  To attempt; as when a man undertakes what he cannot perform.
4.  To assume a character.  [Not in use.]
5.  To engage with; to attack.
Your lordship should not undertake every companion you offend.  [Not in use.]
6.  To have the charge of.
- Who undertakes you to your end.  [Not in use.]
UNDERTA'KE, v.i. 
1.  To take upon or assume any business or province.
O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.  Is. 38.
2.  To venture; to hazard.  They dare not undertake.
3.  To promise; to be bound.
I dare undertake they will not lose their labor.
To undertake for, to be bound; to become surety for.


Topic: Undertaker
Definition:
UNDERTA'KER, n.  
1.  One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
2.  One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another.
3.  One who manages funerals.


Topic: Undertaking
Definition:
UNDERTA'KING, ppr.  Engaging in; taking in hand; beginning to perform; stipulating to execute.
UNDERTA'KING, n.  Any business, work or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.  The canal, or the making of the canal, from the Hudson to lake Erie, a distance of almost four hundred miles, was the greatest undertaking of the kind in modern times.  The attempt to find a navigable passage to the Pacific round North America, is a hazardous undertaking, and probably useless to navigation.


Topic: Undervalue
Definition:
UNDERVAL'UE, v.t.
1.  To value, rate or estimate below the real worth.
2.  To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth.
In comparison of the discharge of my duties, I undervalued all designs of authority.
3.  To despise; to hold in mean estimation.
I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.
UNDERVAL'UE, n.  Low rate or price; a price less than the real worth.


Topic: Underworking
Definition:
UNDERWORK'ING, ppr.  Destroying clandestinely; working at a less price than others in the like employment.


Topic: Underwrite
Definition:
UNDERWRI'TE, v.t.  [See Write.]
1.  To write under something else.
The change I have made, I have here underwritten.
2.  To subscribe.  We whose names are underwritten, agree to pay the sums expressed against your respective names.
3.  To subscribe one's name for insurance; to set one's name to a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, for a certain premium per cent.  Individuals underwrite policies of insurance, as well as companies.
The broker who procures insurance, ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.
UNDERWRI'TE, v.i.  To practice insuring.


Topic: Underwriter
Definition:
UN'DERWRITER, n.  One who insures; an insurer; so called because he underwrites his name to the conditions of the policy.


Topic: Underwriting
Definition:
UNDERWRI'TING, ppr.
1.  Writing under something.
2.  Subscribing a policy; insuring.
UNDERWRI'TING, n.  The act or practice of insuring ships, goods, houses, &c.


Topic: Undeserving
Definition:
UNDESERV'ING, a.
1.  Not deserving; not having merit.  God continually supplies the wants of his undeserving creatures.
2.  Not meriting; with of; as a man undeserving of happiness, or of punishment.  [This is rather harsh and unusual.]


Topic: Undesigned
Definition:
UNDESIGNED, a.  Not designed; not intended; not proceeding from purpose; as, to do an undesigned injury.


Topic: Undesigning
Definition:
UNDESIGNING, a.
1.  Not acting with set purpose.
2.  Sincere; upright; artless; having no artful or fraudulent purpose.  It is base to practice on undesigning minds.


Topic: Undeterminate
Definition:
UNDETERM'INATE, a.  Not determinate; not settled or certain.  [But indeterminate is now generally used.


Topic: Undetermination
Definition:
UNDETERMINA'TION, n.  Indecision; uncertainty of mind.  [See indetermination, which is chiefly used.]


Topic: Undetermined
Definition:
UNDETERM'INED, a.
1.  Not determined; not settled; not decided.
2.  Not limited; not defined; indeterminate.


Topic: Undeviating
Definition:
UNDE'VIATING, a.  
1.  Not deviating; not departing from the way, or from a rule, principle or purpose; steady; regular; as an undeviating course of virtue.
2.  Not erring; not wandering; not crooked.


Topic: Undirected
Definition:
UNDIRECT'ED, a.  
1.  Not directed; not guided; left without direction.
2.  Not addressed; not superscribed; as a letter.


Topic: Undiscerned
Definition:
UNDISCERN'ED, a.  Not discerned; not seen; not observed; not descried; not discovered; as truths undiscerned.


Topic: Undiscernible
Definition:
UNDISCERN'IBLE, a.  That cannot be discerned, seen or discovered; invisible; as undiscernible objects or distinctions.


Topic: Undiscerning
Definition:
UNDISCERN'ING, a.  Not discerning; not making just distinctions; wanting judgment or the power of discrimination.
UNDISCERN'ING, n.  Want of discernment.


Topic: Undisciplined
Definition:
UNDIS'CIPLINED, a.  
1.  Not disciplined; not duly exercised and taught; not subdued to regularity and order; raw; as undisciplined troops; undisciplined valor.
2.  Not instructed; untaught; as undisciplined minds.


Topic: Undisguised
Definition:
UNDISGUISED, a.  [See Guise.]
1.  Not disguised; not covered with a mask, or with a false appearance.
2.  Open; frank; candid; plain; artless.


Topic: Undisputed
Definition:
UNDISPU'TED, a.  Not disputed; not contested; not called in question; as an undisputed title; undisputed truth.


Topic: Undissembled
Definition:
UNDISSEM'BLED, a.  Not dissembled; open; undisguised; unfeigned; as undissembled friendship or piety.


Topic: Undissolvable
Definition:
UNDISSOLV'ABLE, a.  [See dissolve.]
1.  That cannot be dissolved or melted.
2.  That may not be loosened or broken; as the undissolvable ties of friendship.


Topic: Undistinguishable
Definition:
UNDISTIN'GUISHABLE, a.
1.  That cannot be distinguished by the eye; not to be distinctly seen.
2.  Not to be known or distinguished by the intellect, by any peculiar property.


Topic: Undistinguishably
Definition:
UNDISTIN'GUISHABLY, adv.  Without distinction; so as not to be known from each other, or to be separately seen.


Topic: Undistinguished
Definition:
UNDISTIN'GUISHED, a.
1.  Not distinguished; not so marked as to be distinctly known from each other.
Undistinguish'd seeds of good and ill.
2.  Not separately seen or descried.
3.  Not plainly discerned.
4.  Having no intervenient space.
5.  Not marked by any particular property.
6.  Not treated with any particular respect.
7.  Not distinguished by any particular eminence.


Topic: Undistinguishing
Definition:
UNDISTIN'GUISHING, a.  Making no difference; not discriminating; as undistinguishing favor.
Undistinguishing distribution of good and evil.


Topic: Undistractedly
Definition:
UNDISTRACT'EDLY, adv.  Without disturbance from contrariety of thoughts or multiplicity of concerns.


Topic: Undistractedness
Definition:
UNDISTRACT'EDNESS, n.  Freedom from disturbance or interruption from contrariety or multiplicity of thoughts and concerns.


Topic: Undisturbed
Definition:
UNDISTURB'ED, a.  
1.  Free from interruption; not molested or hindered; as undisturbed with company or noise.
2.  Free from perturbation of mind; calm; tranquil; placid; serene; not agitated.  To be undisturbed by danger, by perplexities, by injuries received, is a most desirable object.
3.  Not agitated; not stirred; not moved; as the surface of water undisturbed.


Topic: Undivided
Definition:
UNDIVI'DED, a.  
1.  Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; as undivided attention or affections.
2.  In botany, not lobed, cleft or branched.


Topic: Undo
Definition:
UNDO, v.t. pret. undid; pp. undone.
1.  To reverse what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught any transaction.  We can undo many kinds of work; but we cannot undo crimes, errors or faults.
Tomorrow ere the setting sun, she'd all undo what she had done.
2.  To loose; to open; to take to pieces; to unravel; to unfasten; to untie; as, to undo a knot.
3.  To ruin; to bring to poverty; to impoverish.  Many are undone by unavoidable losses; but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence.
4.  To ruin, in a moral sense; to bring to everlasting destruction and misery.
5.  To ruin in reputation.


Topic: Undoer
Definition:
UNDOER, n.  One who undoes or brings destruction; one who reverses what has been done; one who ruins the reputation of another.


Topic: Undoing
Definition:
UNDOING, ppr.  Reversing what has been done; ruining.
UNDOING, n.
1.  The reversal of what has been done.
2.  Ruin; destruction.


Topic: Undone
Definition:
UNDONE, pp.  
1.  Reversed; annulled.
2.  Ruined; destroyed.
When the legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
3.  a.  Not done; not performed; not executed.  We are apt to leave undone what we ought to do.


Topic: Undoubted
Definition:
UNDOUBTED, a.  undout'ed.  Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as undoubted proof; undoubted truth.


Topic: Undoubting
Definition:
UNDOUBTING, a.  undout'ing.  Not doubting; not hesitating respecting facts; not fluctuating in uncertainty; as an undoubting believer; an undoubting faith.


Topic: Undrawn
Definition:
UNDRAWN', a. 
1.  Not drawn; not pulled by an external force.
2.  Not allured by motives or persuasion.
3.  Not taken from the box; as an undrawn ticket.


Topic: Undress
Definition:
UNDRESS', v.t
1.  To divest of clothes; to strip.
2.  To divest of ornaments, or the attire of ostentation; to disrobe.


Topic: Undressed
Definition:
UNDRESS'ED, pp.
1.  Divested of dress; disrobed.
2.  a.  Not dressed; not attired.
3.  Not prepared; as meat undressed.
4.  Not pruned; not trimmed; not put in order; as an undressed vineyard.


Topic: Undried
Definition:
UNDRI'ED, a.
1.  Not dried; wet; moist; as undried cloth.
2.  Not dried; green; as undried hay; undried hops.


Topic: Undue
Definition:
UNDUE, a.
1.  Not due; not yet demandable of right; as a debt, note or bond undue.
2.  Not right; not legal; improper; as an undue proceeding.
3.  Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; not proportioned; excessive; as an undue regard to the externals of religion; an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.


Topic: Undulation
Definition:
UNDULA'TION, n.  [from undulate.]
1.  A waving motion or vibration; as the undulations of a fluid, of water or air; the undulations of sound.  The undulations of a fluid are propagated in concentric circles.
2.  In medicine, a particular uneasy sensation of an undulatory motion in the heart.
3.  In music, a rattling or jarring of sounds, as when discordant notes are sounded together.  It is called also beat.
4.  In surgery, a certain motion of the matter of an abscess when pressed, which indicates its maturity or fitness for opening.


Topic: Undulatory
Definition:
UN'DULATORY, a.  [from undulate.  Moving in the manner of waves; or resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell and fall.  We speak of the undulatory motion of water, of air or other fluid, and this undulatory motion of air is supposed to be the cause of sounds.  This is sometimes called vibratory; but undulatory seems to be most correct.


Topic: Unduly
Definition:
UNDU'LY, adv.  
1.  Not according to duty or propriety.
2.  Not in proper proportion; excessively.  His strength was unduly exerted.


Topic: Unduteous
Definition:
UNDU'TEOUS, a.  Not performing duty to parents and superiors; not obedient; as an unduteous child, apprentice or servant.


Topic: Undutifulness
Definition:
UNDU'TIFULNESS, n.  Want of respect; violation of duty; disobedience; as the undutifulness of children or subjects.


Topic: Undying
Definition:
UNDY'ING, a.
1.  Not dying; not perishing.
2.  Not subject to death; immortal; as the undying souls of men.


Topic: Unearned
Definition:
UNEARNED, a. unern'ed.  Not merited by labor or services.
Hoping heaven will bless thy slighted fruits, and give thee bread unearn'd.


Topic: Uneasily
Definition:
UNE'ASILY, adv.  s as z.  
1.  With uneasiness or pain.
He lives uneasily under the burden.
2.  With difficulty; not readily.


Topic: Uneasiness
Definition:
UNE'ASINESS, n.
1.  A moderate degree of pain; restlessness; want of ease; disquiet.
2.  Unquietness of mind; moderate anxiety or perturbation; disquietude.
3.  That which makes uneasy or gives trouble; ruggedness; as the uneasiness of the road.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Uneasy
Definition:
UNE'ASY, a. s as z.
1.  Feeling some degree of pain; restless; disturbed; unquiet.  The patient is uneasy.
2.  Giving some pain; as an uneasy garment.
3.  Disturbed in mind; somewhat anxious; unquiet.  He is uneasy respecting the success of his project.
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, rests and expatiates in a life to come.
4.  Constraining; cramping; as uneasy rules.
5.  Constrained; stiff; not graceful; not easy; as an uneasy deportment.
6.  Giving some pain to others; disagreeable; unpleasing.
A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those who approach him.
7.  Difficult.
Things - so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Uneath
Definition:
UNE'ATH,  adv.
1.  Not easily.  [Not in use.]
2.  Beneath; below.  [Not in use.  See Neither and Beneath.]


Topic: Unelastic
Definition:
UNELAS'TIC, a.  Not elastic; not having the property of recovering its original state, when bent or forced out of its form.


Topic: Unembarrassed
Definition:
UNEMBAR'RASSED, a.
1.  Not embarrassed; not perplexed in mind; not confused.  The speaker appeared unembarrassed.
2.  Free from pecuniary difficulties or incumbrances.  He or his property is unembarrassed.
3.  Free from perplexing connection; as, the question comes before the court unembarrassed with irrelevant matter.


Topic: Unembodied
Definition:
UNEMBOD'IED, a.
1.  Free from a corporeal body; as unembodied spirits.
2.  Not embodied; not collected into a body; as embodied militia.


Topic: Unemployed
Definition:
UNEMPLOY'ED, a.  
1.  Not employed; not occupied; not busy; at leisure; not engaged.
2.  Not being in use; as unemployed capital or money.


Topic: Unendowed
Definition:
UNENDOW'ED, a.
1.  Not endowed; not furnished; not invested; as a man unendowed with virtues.
2.  Not furnished with funds; as an unendowed college or hospital.


Topic: Unengaged
Definition:
UNENGA'GED, a.  
1.  Not engaged; not bound by covenant or promise; free from obligation to a particular person; as, a lady is unengaged.
2.  Free from attachment that binds; as, her affections are unengaged.
3.  Unemployed; unoccupied; not busy.
4.  Not appropriated; as unengaged revenues.  [We generally say, unappropriated revenue or money.]


Topic: Unequable
Definition:
UNE'QUABLE, a.  Different from itself; different at different times; not uniform; diverse; as unequable motions; unequable months or seasons.


Topic: Unequal
Definition:
UNE'QUAL, a.  [L. inaequalis.]  
1.  Not equal; not even; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, &c.; as men of unequal stature; houses of unequal dimensions.
2.  Not equal in strength, talents, acquirements, &c.; inferior.
3.  Not equal in age or station; inferior.
4.  Insufficient; inadequate.  His strength is unequal to the task.
5.  Partial; unjust; not furnishing equivalents to the different parties; as an unequal peace; an unequal bargain.
6.  Disproportioned; ill matched.
Against unequal arms to fight in pain.
7.  Not regular; not uniform; as unequal pulsations.
8.  In botany, having the parts not corresponding in size, but in proportion only, as a corol; rugged, not even or smooth, as the surface of a leaf or stem.
An unequal leaf, is when the two halves separated by the mid-rib, are unequal in dimensions, and their bases not parallel; called also an oblique leaf.


Topic: Unequaled
Definition:
UNE'QUALED, a.  Not to be equaled; unparalleled; unrivaled; in a good or bad sense; as unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness.


Topic: Unequally
Definition:
UNE'QUALLY, adv.
1.  Not equally; in different degrees; in disproportion to each other.
2.  Not with like sentiments, temper or religious opinions or habits.  2Cor. 6.


Topic: Unequivocal
Definition:
UNEQUIV'OCAL, a.
1.  Not equivocal; not doubtful; clear; evident; as unequivocal evidence.
2.  Not ambiguous; not of doubtful signification; not admitting different interpretations; as unequivocal words or expressions.


Topic: Unerring
Definition:
UNER'RING, a.
1.  Committing no mistake; incapable of error; as, the unerring wisdom of God.
2.  Incapable of failure; certain.  He takes unerring aim.


Topic: Unessential
Definition:
UNESSEN'TIAL, a.
1.  Not essential; not absolutely necessary; not of prime importance.
2.  Not constituting the essence.
3.  Void of real being; as unessential night.
UNESSEN'TIAL, n.  Something not constituting essence, or not of absolute necessity.  Forms are among the unessentials of religion.


Topic: Uneven
Definition:
UNEVEN, a.  une'vn.
1.  Not even; not level; as an uneven road or way; uneven ground.
2.  Not equal; not of equal length.
Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet.
3.  Not uniform; as an uneven temper.


Topic: Unevenness
Definition:
UNE'VENNESS, n.
1.  Surface not level; inequality of surface; as the unevenness of ground or of roads.
2.  Turbulence; change; want of uniformity; as the unevenness of king Edward's reign.  [Unusual.]
3.  Want of uniformity; as unevenness of temper.
4.  Want of smoothness.


Topic: Unexamined
Definition:
UNEXAM'INED, a.
1.  Not examined; not interrogated strictly; as a witness.
2.  Not inquired into; not investigated; as a question.
3.  Not discussed; not debated.


Topic: Unexampled
Definition:
UNEXAM'PLED, a.  Having no example or similar case; having no precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled; as the unexampled love and sufferings of our Savior.


Topic: Unexceptionable
Definition:
UNEXCEP'TIONABLE, a.  Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; as unexceptionable conduct; unexceptionable testimony.


Topic: Unexecuted
Definition:
UNEX'ECUTED, a.
1.  Not performed; not done; as a task, business or project unexecuted.
2.  Not signed or sealed; not having the proper attestations or forms that give validity; as a contract or deed unexecuted.


Topic: Unexhausted
Definition:
UNEXHAUST'ED, a.
1.  Not exhausted; not drained to the bottom, or to the last article.
2.  Not spent; as unexhausted patience or strength.


Topic: Unexperienced
Definition:
UNEXPE'RIENCED, a.
1.  Not experienced; not versed; not acquainted by trial or practice.
2.  Untried; applied to things.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Unexplored
Definition:
UNEXPLO'RED, a.  
1.  Not explored; not searched or examined by the eye; unknown.
2.  Not examined intellectually.


Topic: Unextended
Definition:
UNEXTEND'ED, a.  Occupying no assignable space; having no dimensions; as a spiritual, an unextended substance.


Topic: Unextinguishable
Definition:
UNEXTIN'GUISHABLE, a.
1.  That cannot be extinguished; unquenchable; as unextinguishable fire.
2.  That cannot be annihilated or repressed; as an unextinguishable thirst for knowledge.  [But inextinguishable is more generally used.]


Topic: Unfading
Definition:
UNFA'DING, a.
1.  Not liable to lose strength or freshness of coloring.
2.  Not liable to wither; as unfading laurels.


Topic: Unfailing
Definition:
UNFA'ILING, a.
1.  Not liable to fail; not capable of being exhausted; as an unfailing spring; unfailing sources of supply.
2.  That does not fail; certain; as an unfailing promise.


Topic: Unfair
Definition:
UNFA'IR, a.
1.  Not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using trick or artifice; as an unfair dealer.
2.  Not honest; not just; not equal; as unfair practices.
3.  Proceeding from trick or dishonesty; as unfair advantages.


Topic: Unfairness
Definition:
UNFA'IRNESS, n.
1.  Dishonest or disingenuous conduct or practice; use of trick or artifice; applied to persons.  He is noted for his unfairness in dealing.
2.  Injustice; want of equitableness; as the unfairness of a proceeding.


Topic: Unfaithful
Definition:
UNFA'ITHFUL, a.
1.  Not observant of promises, vows, allegiance or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful husband or wife; an unfaithful servant; an unfaithful bailee or agent.
2.  Not performing the proper duty.
My feet through wine unfaithful to their weight -
3.  Impious; infidel.
4.  Negligent of duty; as an unfaithful workman.


Topic: Unfaithfully
Definition:
UNFA'ITHFULLY, adv.
1.  In violation of promises, vows or duty; treacherously; perfidiously.
2.  Negligently; imperfectly; as work unfaithfully done.


Topic: Unfaithfulness
Definition:
UNFA'ITHFULNESS, n.  Neglect or violation of vows, promises, allegiance or other duty; breach of confidence or trust reposed; perfidiousness; treachery; as the unfaithfulness of a subject to his prince or the state; the unfaithfulness of a husband to his wife, or of a wife to her husband; the unfaithfulness of an agent, servant or officer.


Topic: Unfashionable
Definition:
UNFASH'IONABLE, a. 
1.  Not fashionable; not according to the prevailing mode; as unfashionable dress or language.
2.  Not regulating dress or manners according to the reigning custom; as an unfashionable man.


Topic: Unfashioned
Definition:
UNFASH'IONED, a.  Not modified by art; amorphous; shapeless; not having a regular form; as a lifeless lump unfashioned.


Topic: Unfathomable
Definition:
UNFATH'OMABLE, a.
1.  That cannot be sounded by a line; as an unfathomable lake.
2.  So deep or remote that the limit or extent cannot be found.  The designs of Providence are often unfathomable.


Topic: Unfavorable
Definition:
UNFA'VORABLE, a.
1.  Not favorable; not propitious; not disposed or adapted to countenance or support.  We found the minister's opinion unfavorable to our project.  The committee made a report unfavorable to the petitioner.
2.  Not propitious; not adapted to promote any object; as weather unfavorable for harvest.
3.  Not kind; not obliging.
4.  Discouraging; as unfavorable prospects.


Topic: Unfavorably
Definition:
UNFA'VORABLY, adv.  Unpropitiously; unkindly; so as not to countenance, support or promote; in a manner to discourage.


Topic: Unfeigned
Definition:
UNFEIGNED, a.  Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; as unfeigned piety to God; unfeigned love to man.


Topic: Unfeignedly
Definition:
UNFEIGNEDLY, adv.  Without hypocrisy; really; sincerely.
He pardoneth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy gospel.


Topic: Unfenced
Definition:
UNFEN'CED, pp.
1.  Deprived of a fence.
2.  a.  Not fenced; not inclosed; defenseless; as a tract of land unfenced.


Topic: Unfermented
Definition:
UNFERMENT'ED, a.  
1.  Not fermented; not having undergone the process of fermentation; as liquor.
2.  Not leavened; as bread.


Topic: Unfertile
Definition:
UNFER'TILE, a.
1.  Not fertile; not rich; not having the qualities necessary to the production of good crops.
2.  Barren; unfruitful; bare; waste.
3.  Not prolific.
[This word is not obsolete, but infertile is much used instead of it.]


Topic: Unfetter
Definition:
UNFET'TER, v.t.
1.  To loose from fetters; to unchain; to unshackle.
2.  To free from restraint; to set at liberty; as, to unfetter the mind.


Topic: Unfinished
Definition:
UNFIN'ISHED, a.  Not finished; not complete; not brought to an end; imperfect; wanting the last hand or touch; as an unfinished house; an unfinished painting.


Topic: Unfirm
Definition:
UNFIRM', a.  [See Firm.]
1.  Not firm; weak; feeble; infirm.
[Note.  When we speak of the weakness of the human frame, we use infirm.  When we speak of the weakness of other things, as a bridge, wall and the like, we say, it is unfirm.]
2.  Not stable; not well fixed.
With feet unfirm.


Topic: Unfit
Definition:
UNFIT', a.  
1.  Not fit; improper; unsuitable.
2.  Unqualified; as a man unfit for an office.
UNFIT', v.t.  
1.  To disable; to make unsuitable; to deprive of the strength, skill or proper qualities for any thing.  Sickness unfits a man for labor.
2.  To disqualify; to deprive of the moral or mental qualities necessary for any thing.  Sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.


Topic: Unfitness
Definition:
UNFIT'NESS, n.
1.  Want of suitable powers or qualifications, physical or moral; as the unfitness of a sick man for labor, or of an ignorant man for office; the unfitness of sinners for the enjoyments of heaven.
2.  Want of propriety or adaptation to character or place; as unfitness of behavior or of dress.


Topic: Unfix
Definition:
UNFIX', v.t.
1.  To loosen from any fastening; to detach from any thing that holds; to unsettle; to unhinge; as, to unfix the mind or affections.
2.  To make fluid; to dissolve.
Nor can the rising sun unfix their frosts.


Topic: Unfixed
Definition:
UNFIX'ED, pp.
1.  Unsettled; loosened.
2.  a.  Wandering; erratic; inconstant; having no settled habitation.
3.  Having no settled view or object of pursuit.


Topic: Unflattering
Definition:
UNFLAT'TERING, a.
1.  Not flattering; not gratifying with obsequious behavior; not coloring the truth to please.
2.  Not affording a favorable prospect; as, the weather is unflattering.


Topic: Unfledged
Definition:
UNFLEDG'ED, a.
1.  Not yet furnished with feathers; implumous; as an unfledged bird.
2.  Young; not having attained to full growth.


Topic: Unfold
Definition:
UNFOLD, v.t
1.  To open folds; to expand; to spread out.
2.  To open any thing covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to disclose; to reveal; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.
3.  To declare; to tell; to disclose.
Unfold the passion of my love.
4.  To display; as, to unfold the works of creation.
5.  To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep.


Topic: Unfolding
Definition:
UNFOLDING, ppr.  Opening; expanding; disclosing; displaying; releasing from a fold.
UNFOLDING, n.  The act of expanding, displaying or disclosing; disclosure.


Topic: Unforced
Definition:
UNFORCED, a.
1.  Not forced; not compelled; not constrained.
2.  Not urged or impelled.
3.  Not feigned; not heightened; natural as unforced passions; unforced expressions of joy.
4.  Not violent; easy; gradual; as an easy and unforced ascent.
5.  Easy; natural; as an unforced posture.


Topic: Unfortified
Definition:
UNFOR'TIFIED, a.
1.  Not fortified; not secured from attack by walls or mounds.
2.  Not guarded; not strengthened against temptations or trials; weak; exposed; defenseless; as an unfortified mind.
3.  Wanting securities or means of defense.


Topic: Unfortunate
Definition:
UNFOR'TUNATE, a.  Not successful; not prosperous; as an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate voyage; unfortunate attempts; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business.


Topic: Unfortunately
Definition:
UNFOR'TUNATELY, adv.  Without success; unsuccessfully; unhappily.  the scheme unfortunately miscarried.


Topic: Unfounded
Definition:
UNFOUND'ED, a.
1.  Not founded; not built or established.
2.  Having no foundation; vain; idle; as unfounded expectations.


Topic: Unframed
Definition:
UNFRA'MED, a.
1.  Not framed; not fitted for erection; as unframed timber.
2.  Not formed; not constructed; not fashioned.


Topic: Unfrequent
Definition:
UNFRE'QUENT, a.  Not frequent; not common; not happening often; infrequent.
UNFRE'QUENT, v.t.  To cease to frequent.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Unfrequented
Definition:
UNFRE'QUENTED, a.  Rarely visited; seldom resorted to by human beings; as an unfrequented place or forest.


Topic: Unfriendly
Definition:
UNFRIEND'LY, a.
1.  Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; as an unfriendly neighbor.
2.  Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as weather unfriendly to health.


Topic: Unfruitful
Definition:
UNFRUITFUL, a.
1.  Not producing fruit; barren; as an unfruitful tree.
2.  Not producing off-spring; not prolific; barren; as an unfruitful female.
3.  Not producing good effects or works; as an unfruitful life.
4.  Unproductive; not fertile; as an unfruitful soil.


Topic: Unfunded
Definition:
UNFUND'ED, a.  Not funded; having no permanent funds for the payment of its interest; as an unfunded debt.


Topic: Unfurnished
Definition:
UNFUR'NISHED, a.
1.  Not furnished; not supplied with furniture; as an unfurnished room or house.
2.  Unsupplied with necessaries or ornaments.
3.  Empty; not supplied.


Topic: Ungainly
Definition:
UNGA'INLY, a.  Not expert or dextrous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as an ungainly strut in walking.
[I believe ungain is not used.]


Topic: Ungenerous
Definition:
UNGEN'EROUS, a.
1.  Not of a noble mind; not liberal; applied to persons; as an ungenerous man or prince.
2.  Not noble; not liberal; applied to things; as an ungenerous act.
3.  Dishonorable; ignominious.
The victor never will impose on Cato ungen'rous terms.


Topic: Ungenial
Definition:
UNGE'NIAL, a.  Not favorable to nature or to natural growth; as ungenial air; ungenial soils.
Sullen seas that was th' ungenial pole.


Topic: Ungenteel
Definition:
UNGENTEE'L, a.  Not genteel; used of persons; not consistent with polite manners or good breeding; used of manners.


Topic: Ungentleness
Definition:
UNGEN'TLENESS, n.
1.  Want of gentleness; harshness; severity; rudeness.
2.  Unkindness; incivility.


Topic: Unglazed
Definition:
UNGLA'ZED, a.
1.  Not furnished with glass; as, the windows are unglazed; the house is yet unglazed.
2.  Wanting glass windows.
3.  Not covered with vitreous matter; as unglazed potters' ware.


Topic: Ungodliness
Definition:
UNGOD'LINESS, n.  Impiety; wickedness; disregard of God and his commands and neglect of his worship; or any positive act of disobedience or irreverence.
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.  Rom. 1.


Topic: Ungodly
Definition:
UNGOD'LY, a.
1.  Wicked; impious; neglecting the fear and worship of God, or violating his commands.  1Peter 4.
2.  Sinful; contrary to the divine commands; as ungodly deeds.  Jude 4.
3.  Polluted by wickedness; as an ungodly day.


Topic: Ungovernable
Definition:
UNGOVERNABLE, a.  
1.  That cannot be governed; that cannot be ruled or restrained.
2.  Licentious; wild; unbridled; as ungovernable passions.


Topic: Ungoverned
Definition:
UNGOVERNED, a.
1.  Not being governed.
2.  Not subjected to laws or principles; not restrained or regulated; unbridled; licentious; as ungoverned appetite; ungoverned passions.


Topic: Ungraceful
Definition:
UNGRA'CEFUL, a.  Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; wanting beauty and elegance; as ungraceful manners.  Without politeness, learning is ungraceful.


Topic: Ungracefulness
Definition:
UNGRA'CEFULNESS, n.  Want of gracefulness; want of ease and dignity; want of elegance; awkwardness; as ungracefulness of manners.


Topic: Ungracious
Definition:
UNGRA'CIOUS, a. 
1.  Wicked; odious; hateful.
2.  Offensive; unpleasing; as ungracious manners.
3.  Unacceptable; not well received; not favored.
Any thing of grace towards the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London.


Topic: Ungraciously
Definition:
UNGRA'CIOUSLY, adv.
1.  With disfavor.  The proposal was received ungraciously.
2.  Not in a pleasing manner.


Topic: Ungranted
Definition:
UNGR'ANTED, a.
1.  Not granted; not bestowed; not transferred by deed or gift; as ungranted lands.  
2.  Not granted; not yielded; not conceded in argument.


Topic: Ungrateful
Definition:
UNGRA'TEFUL, a.
1.  Not grateful; not feeling thankful for favors.
2.  Not making returns, or making ill returns for kindness.
3.  Making no returns for culture; as an ungrateful soil
4.  Unpleasing; unacceptable.  Harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.


Topic: Ungratefulness
Definition:
UNGRA'TEFULNESS, n.
1.  Ingratitude; want of due feelings of kindness for favors received; ill return for good.
2.  Disagreeableness; unpleasing quality.


Topic: Ungratified
Definition:
UNGRAT'IFIED, a.
1.  Not gratified; not compensated.
2.  Not pleased.
3.  Not indulged; as ungratified appetite.


Topic: Unguarded
Definition:
UNGU'ARDED, a.
1.  Not guarded; not watched.
2.  Not defended; having no guard.
3.  Careless; negligent; not attentive to danger; not cautious; as, to be unguarded in conversation.
4.  Negligently said or done; not done or spoken with caution; as an unguarded expression or action.


Topic: Unguardedly
Definition:
UNGU'ARDEDLY, adv.  Without watchful attention to danger; without caution; carelessly; as, to speak or promise unguardedly.


Topic: Unguent
Definition:
UN'GUENT, n.  [L. unguentum, from ungo, to anoint.]
Ointment; a soft composition used as a topical remedy, as for sores, burns and the like.  An unguent is stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate.


Topic: Unguicular
Definition:
UNGUIC'ULAR, a.  [L. unguis, the nail.]  In botany, of the length of the human nails, or half an inch.


Topic: Ungula
Definition:
UN'GULA, n.  [L. a hoof.]  In geometry, a section or part of a cylinder, cut off by a plane oblique to the base.


Topic: Unhabitable
Definition:
UNHABITABLE, a.  [L. inhabitabilis, inhabito.]
That cannot be inhabited by human beings; uninhabitable.  [The latter word is generally used.]


Topic: Unhallowed
Definition:
UNHAL'LOWED, pp.
1.  Profaned; deprived of its sacred character.
2.  a.  Profane; unholy; impure; wicked.
In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence - is either necessary or admissible.


Topic: Unhandsome
Definition:
UNHAND'SOME, a.  
1.  Ungraceful; not beautiful.
I cannot admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular in the globe.
2.  Unfair; illiberal; disingenuous.
3.  Uncivil; unpolite.


Topic: Unhandsomely
Definition:
UNHAND'SOMELY, adv. 
1.  Inelegantly; ungracefully.
2.  Illiberally; unfairly.
3.  Uncivilly; unpolitely.


Topic: Unhandsomeness
Definition:
UNHAND'SOMENESS, n.
1.  Want of beauty and elegance.
2.  Unfairness; disingenuousness.
3.  Incivility.


Topic: Unhandy
Definition:
UNHAND'Y, a.
1.  Not dextrous; not skillful; not ready in the use of the hands; awkward; as a person unhandy at his work.
2.  Not convenient; as an unhandy posture for writing.


Topic: Unhang
Definition:
UNHANG', v.t.
1.  To divest or strip of hangings, as a room.
2.  To take from the hinges; as, to unhang a gate.


Topic: Unhappiness
Definition:
UNHAP'PINESS, n.
1.  Misfortune; ill luck.
2.  Infelicity; misery.
It is our great unhappiness, when any calamities fall upon us, that we are uneasy and dissatisfied.
[But it usually expresses less than misery or wretchedness.]
3.  Mischievous prank.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Unhappy
Definition:
UNHAP'PY, a.
1.  Unfortunate; unlucky.  He has been unhappy in his choice of a partner.  Affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
2.  Not happy; in a degree miserable or wretched.  She is unhappy in her marriage.  Children sometimes render their parents unhappy.
3.  Evil; calamitous; marked by infelicity; as an unhappy day.
This unhappy morn.
4.  Mischievous; irregular.


Topic: Unhardened
Definition:
UNH'ARDENED, a.
1.  Not hardened; not indurated; as metal.
2.  Not hardened; not made obdurate; as the heart.


Topic: Unhardy
Definition:
UNH'ARDY, a.
1.  Not hardy; feeble; not able to endure fatigue.
2.  Not having fortitude; not bold; timorous.


Topic: Unharmonious
Definition:
UNHARMO'NIOUS, a.
1.  Not having symmetry or congruity; disproportionate.
2.  Discordant; unmusical; jarring; as sounds.


Topic: Unharness
Definition:
UNH'ARNESS, v.t.
1.  To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear.
2.  To disarm; to divest of armor.


Topic: Unhatched
Definition:
UNHATCH'ED, a.
1.  Not hatched; not having left the egg.
2.  Not matured and brought to light; not disclosed.


Topic: Unhealthful
Definition:
UNHEALTHFUL, a.  unhelth'ful.
1.  Not healthful; injurious to health; insalubrious; unwholesome; noxious; as an unhealthful climate or air.
2.  Abounding with sickness or disease; sickly; as an unhealthful season.


Topic: Unhealthfulness
Definition:
UNHEALTHFULNESS, n. unhelth'fulness.
1.  Unwholesomeness; insalubriousness; noxiousness to health.
2.  The state of being sickly; as the unhealthfulness of the autumn.


Topic: Unhealthiness
Definition:
UNHEALTHINESS, n. unhelth'iness.
1.  Want of health; habitual weakness or indisposition; applied to persons.
2.  Unsoundness; want of vigor; as the unhealthiness of trees or other plants.
3.  Unfavorableness to health; as the unhealthiness of a climate.


Topic: Unhealthy
Definition:
UNHEALTHY, a. unhelth'y.
1.  Wanting health; wanting a sound and vigorous state of body; habitually weak or indisposed; as an unhealthy person.
2.  Unsound; wanting vigor of growth; as an unhealthy plant.
3.  Sickly; abounding with disease; as an unhealthy season or city.
4.  Insalubrious; unwholesome; adapted to generate diseases; as an unhealthy climate or country.
5.  Morbid; not indicating health.


Topic: Unheard
Definition:
UNHE'ARD, a.
1.  Not heard; not perceived by the ear.
2.  Not admitted to audience.
What pangs I feel, unpitied and unheard!
3.  Not known in fame; not celebrated.
Nor was his name unheard.
4.  Unheard of; obscure; not known by fame.
Unheard of, new; unprecedented.


Topic: Unhinge
Definition:
UNHINGE, v.t. unhinj'.
1.  To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.
2.  To displace; to unfix by violence.
3.  To unfix; to loosen; to render unstable or wavering; as, to unhinge the mind; to unhinge opinions.


Topic: Unholiness
Definition:
UNHO'LINESS, n.
1.  Want of holiness; an unsanctified state of the heart.
2.  Impiety; wickedness; profaneness.


Topic: Unholy
Definition:
UNHO'LY, a.  
1.  Not holy; not renewed and sanctified.  2Timothy 3.
2.  Profane; not hallowed; not consecrated; common. Heb. 10.
3.  Impious; wicked.
4.  Not ceremonially purified.  Lev. 10.


Topic: Unhoped
Definition:
UNHO'PED, a.  Not hoped for; not so probable as to excite hope.
With unhop'd success.
Unhoped for, unhoped, as above.


Topic: Unhouse
Definition:
UNHOUSE, v.t. unhouz'. 
1.  To drive from the house or habitation; to dislodge.
2.  To deprive of shelter.


Topic: Unhoused
Definition:
UNHOUS'ED, pp.
1.  Driven from a house or habitation.
2.  a.  Wanting a house; homeless.
3.  Having no settled habitation.
4.  Destitute of shelter or cover.  Cattle in severe weather should not be left unhoused.


Topic: Unhumbled
Definition:
UNHUM'BLED, a.
1.  Not humbled; not affected with shame or confusion; not contrite in spirit.
2.  In theology, not having the will and the natural enmity of the heart to God and his law, subdued.


Topic: Unicapsular
Definition:
UNICAP'SULAR, a.  [L. unus, one, and capsula, chest.]
Having one capsule to each flower, as a pericarp.


Topic: Unicorn
Definition:
U'NICORN, n.  [L. unicornis; unus, one, and cornu, horn.]
1.  an animal with one horn; the monoceros.  this name is often applied to the rhinoceros.
2.  The sea unicorn is a fish of the whale kind, called narwal, remarkable for a horn growing out at his nose.
3.  A fowl.
fossil unicorn, or fossil unicorn's horn, a substance used in medicine, a terrene crustaceous spar.


Topic: Uniflorous
Definition:
UNIF'LOROUS, a.  [L. unus, one, and flos, flower.]
Bearing one flower only; as a uniflorous peduncle.


Topic: Uniform
Definition:
U'NIFORM a.  [L. uniformis; unus, one, and forma, form.]
1.  Having always the same form or manner; not variable.  Thus we say, the dress of the Asiatics is uniform, or has been uniform from early ages.  so we say, it is the uty of a christian to observe a uniform course of piety and religion.
2.  Consistent with itself; not different; as, one's opinions on a particular subject have been uniform.
3.  Of the same form with others; consonant; agreeing with each other; conforming to one rule or mode.
How far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies, is doubted.
4.  Having the same degree or state; as uniform temperature.
Uniform motion.  the motion of a body is uniform, when it passes over equal spaces in equal times.
Uniform matter, is that which is all of the same kind and texture.


Topic: Uniformity
Definition:
UNIFORM'ITY, n.
1.  resemblance to itself at all times; even tenor; as the uniformity of design in a poem.
2.  consistency; sameness; as the uniformity of a man's opinions.
3.  Conformity to a pattern or rule; resemblance, consonance or agreement; as the uniformity of different churches in ceremonies or rites.
4.  Similitude between the parts of a whole; as the uniformity of sides in a regular figure.  Beauty is said to consist in uniformity with variety.
5.  Continued or unvaried sameness or likeness.
Uniformity must tire at last, though it is a uniformity of excellence.
Act of uniformity, in England, the act of parliament by which the form of public prayers, administration of sacraments and other rites, is prescribed to be observed in all the churches.


Topic: Uniformly
Definition:
U'NIFORMLY, adv.
1.  With even tenor; without variation; as a temper uniformly mild.
2.  Without diversity of one from another.


Topic: Unilateral
Definition:
UNILAT'ERAL, a.  [L. unus, one, and latus, side.]
1.  Being on one side or party only.  [Unusual.]
2.  Having one side.
A unilateral raceme, is when the flowers grow only on one side of the common peduncle.


Topic: Unimpassioned
Definition:
UNIMPAS'SIONED, a.
1.  Not endowed with passion.
2.  Free from passion; calm; not violent; as an unimpassioned address.


Topic: Unimpeachable
Definition:
UNIMPE'ACHABLE, a.
1.  That cannot be impeached; that cannot be accused; free from stain, guilt or fault; as an unimpeachable reputation.
2.  That cannot be called in question; as an unimpeachable claim or testimony.


Topic: Unimpeached
Definition:
UNIMPE'ACHED, a.  
1.  Not impeached not charged or accused; fair; as an unimpeached character.
2.  Not called in question; as testimony unimpeached.


Topic: Unimposing
Definition:
UNIMPO'SING, a. s as z. 
1.  Not imposing; not commanding respect.
2.  Not enjoining as obligatory; voluntary.


Topic: Unimprovable
Definition:
UNIMPROVABLE, a.
1.  Not capable of improvement, melioration or advancement to a better condition.
2.  Incapable of being cultivated or tiled.


Topic: Unimproved
Definition:
UNIMPROVED, a.
1.  Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners or excellence.
2.  Not used for a valuable purpose.  How many advantages unimproved have we to regret!
3.  Not used; not employed.
4.  Not tilled; not cultivated; as unimproved land or soil; unimproved lots of ground.
5.  Uncensured; not disapproved.  [This sense, from the L. improbo, is entirely obsolete.]


Topic: Uninchanted
Definition:
UNINCH'ANTED, a.  Not enchanted; not affected by magic or enchantment; not haunted.  [Usually unenchanted.]


Topic: Unincumbered
Definition:
UNINCUM'BERED, a.  
1.  Not incumbered; not burdened.
2.  Free from any temporary estate or interest, or from mortgage, or other charge or debt; as an estate unincumbered with dower.


Topic: Uninfected
Definition:
UNINFECT'ED, a.
1.  Not infected; not contaminated or affected by foul infectious air.
2.  Not corrupted.


Topic: Uninfluenced
Definition:
UNIN'FLUENCED, a.
1.  Not influenced; not persuaded or moved by others, or by foreign considerations; not biased; acting freely.
2.  Not proceeding from influence, bias or prejudice; as uninfluenced conduct or actions.


Topic: Uninhabitable
Definition:
UNINHAB'ITABLE, a.  a.  Not inhabitable; that in which men cannot live; unfit to be the residence of men.


Topic: Uninstructed
Definition:
UNINSTRUCT'ED, a.  
1.  Not instructed or taught; not educated.
2.  Not directed by superior authority; not furnished with instructions.


Topic: Unintelligent
Definition:
UNINTEL'LIGENT, a.
1.  Not having reason or consciousness; not possessing understanding.
2.  Not knowing; not skillful; dull.


Topic: Uninterested
Definition:
UNIN'TERESTED, a.
1.  Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business or calamity.
2.  Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, to be uninterested in a discourse or narration.


Topic: Uninteresting
Definition:
UNIN'TERESTING, a.  Not capable of exiting an interest, or of engaging the mind or passions; as an uninteresting story or poem.


Topic: Uninvested
Definition:
UNINVEST'ED, a.
1.  Not invested; not clothed.
2.  Not converted into some species of property less fleeting than money; as money uninvested.


Topic: Union
Definition:
U'NION, n.  [L. unio, to unite, from unus, one.]
1.  The act of joining two or more things into one, and thus forming a compound body or a mixture; or the junction or coalition of things thus united.  Union differs from connection, as it implies the bodies to be in contact, without an intervening body; whereas things may be connected by the intervention of a third body, as by a cord or chain.
One kingdom, joy and union without end.
2.  Concord; agreement and conjunction of mind, will, affections or interest.  Happy is the family where perfect union subsists between all its members.
3.  The junction or united existence of spirit and matter; as the union of soul and body.
4.  Among painters, a symmetry and agreement between the several parts of a painting.
5.  In architecture, harmony between the colors in the materials of a building.
6.  In ecclesiastical affairs, the combining or consolidating of two or more churches into one.  This cannot be done without the consent of the bishop, the patron, and the incumbent.  Union is by accession, when the united benefice becomes an accessory of the principal; by confusion, where the two titles are suppressed, and a new one created, including both; and by equality, where the two titles subsist, but are equal and independent.
7.  States united.  Thus the United States of America are sometimes call the Union.
8.  A pearl.  [L. unio.  Not in use.]
Union, or Act of union, the act by which Scotland was united to England, or by which the two kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707.
Legislative union, the union of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1800.
Union by the first intention, in surgery, the process by which the opposite surfaces of recent wounds grow together and unite without suppuration, when they are kept in contact with each other; the result of a wonderful self-healing power in living bodies.


Topic: Unison
Definition:
U'NISON, n.  [L. unus, one, and sonur, sound.]
1.  In music, an accordance or coincidence of sounds, proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by a sonorous body.  If two chords of the same matter have equal length, thickness and tension, they are said to be in unison, and their sounds will be in unison.  Sounds of very different qualities and force may be in unison; as the sound of a bell may be in unison with a sound of a flute.  Unison then consists in sameness of degree, or similarity in respect to gravity or acuteness, and is applicable to any sound, whether of instruments or of the human organs, &c.
2.  A single unvaried note.
In unison, in agreement; in harmony.
U'NISON, a.  Sounding alone.
Sounds intermix'd with voice, choral or unison.


Topic: Unisonance
Definition:
UNIS'ONANCE, n.  Accordance of sounds.
What constitutes unisonance is the equality of the number of vibrations of two sonorous bodies, in equal times.


Topic: Unit
Definition:
U'NIT, n.  [L. unus, one; unitas, unity.]
1.  One; a word which denotes a single thing or person; the least whole number.
Units are the integral parts of any large number.
2.  In mathematics, any known determinate quantity, by the constant repetition of which, any other quantity of the same kind is measured.  [See Unity.]


Topic: Unitarian
Definition:
UNITA'RIAN, n.  [L. unitus, unus.]  One who denies the doctrine of the trinity, and ascribes divinity to God the Father only.  The Arian and Socinian are both comprehended in the term Unitarian.
UNITA'RIAN, a.  Pertaining to Unitarians, or to the doctrine of the unity of the Godhead.


Topic: Unitarianism
Definition:
UNITA'RIANISM, n.  The doctrines of Unitarians, who contend for the unity of the Godhead, in opposition to the Trinitarians, and who of course deny the divinity of Christ.


Topic: Unite
Definition:
UNI'TE, v.t.  [L. unio, unitus.]
1.  To put together or join two or more things, which make one compound or mixture.  Thus we unite the parts of a building to make one structure.  The kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland united, form one empire.  So we unite spirit and water and other liquors.  We unite strands to make a rope.  The states of North America united, form one nation.
2.  To join; to connect in a near relation or alliance; as, to unite families by marriage; to unite nations by treaty.
3.  To make to agree or be uniform; as, to unite a kingdom in one form of worship; to unite men in opinions.
4.  To cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks or stones by cement.
5.  To join in interest or fellowship.  Gen. 49.
6.  To tie; to splice; as, to unite two cords or ropes.
7.  To join in affection; to make near; as, to unite hearts in love.
To unite the heart, to cause all its powers and affections to join with order and delight in the same objects.  Ps. 86.
UNI'TE, v.i.
1.  To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert.  All parties united in petitioning for a repeal of the law.
2.  To coalesce; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine; as, bodies unite by attraction or affinity.
3.  To grow together, as the parts of a wound.
The spur of a young cock grafted into the comb, will unite and grow.
4.  To coalesce, as sounds.
5.  To be mixed.  Oil and water will not unite.


Topic: United
Definition:
UNI'TED, pp.  Joined; made to agree; cemented; mixed; attached by growth.
United flowers, are such as have the stamens and pistils in the same flower.


Topic: Unity
Definition:
U'NITY, n.  [L. unitas.]
1.  The state of being one; oneness.  Unity may consist of a simple substance or existing being, as the soul; but usually it consists in a close junction of particles or parts, constituting a body detached from other bodies.  Unity is a thing undivided itself, but separate from ever other thing.
2.Concord; conjunction; as a unity of proofs.
3.  Agreement; uniformity; as unity of doctrine; unity of worship in a church.
4.  In christian theology, oneness of sentiment, affection or behavior.
How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!  Ps. 133.
5.  In mathematics, the abstract expression for any unit whatsoever.  The number 1 is unity, when it is not applied to any particular object; but a unit, when it is so applied.
6.  In poetry, the principle by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation is preserved.  In the drama, there are three unities; the unity of action, that of time, and that of place.  In the epic poem, the great and almost only unity is that of action.
7.  In music, such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
8.  In law, the properties of a joint estate are derived from its unity, which is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint-tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession.
9.  In law, unity of possession, is a joint possession of two rights by several titles, as when a man has a lease of land upon a certain rent, and afterwards buys the fee simple.  This is a unity of possession, by which the lease is extinguished.
Unity of faith, is an equal belief of the same truths of God, and possession of the grace of faith in like form and degree.
Unity of spirit, is the oneness which subsists between Christ and his saints, by which the same spirit dwells in both, and both have the same disposition and aims; and it is the oneness of christians among themselves, united under the same head, having the same spirit dwelling in them, and possessing the same graces, faith, love, hope, &c.


Topic: Univalve
Definition:
U'NIVALVE, a.  [L. unus, one, and valve.]  Having one valve only, as a shell or pericarp.
U'NIVALVE, n.  A shell having one valve only.  The univalves form one of the three divisions into which shells are usually divided.


Topic: Universal
Definition:
UNIVERS'AL, a.  [L. universalis;unus and versor.]
1.  All; extending to or comprehending the whole number, quantity or space; as universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence.
The universal cause acts not by partial, but by general laws.
2.  Total; whole.
From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, this universal frame began.
3.  Comprising all the particulars; as universal kinds.
4.  In botany, a universal umbel, is a primary or general umbel; the first or largest set of rays in a compound umbel; opposed to partial.  A universal involucre is placed at the foot of a universal umbel.
Universal instrument, is one which measures all kinds of distances, lengths, &c.; as the pantometer or holometer.
Universal dial, is a dial by which the hour may be found by the sun in any part of the world, or under any elevation of the pole.
Universal proposition.  [See the noun.]
UNIVERS'AL, n.  [See the adjective.]
1.  In logic, a universal is complex or incomplex.  A complex universal, is either a universal proposition, as 'every whole is greater than its parts,' or whatever raises a manifold conception in the mind, as the definition of a reasonable animal.
An incomplex universal, is what produces one conception only in the mind, and is a simple thing respecting many; as human nature, which relates to every individual in which it is found.
2.  The whole; the general system of the universe.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Universalism
Definition:
UNIVERS'ALISM, n.  In theology, the doctrine or belief that all men will be saved or made happy in a future life.


Topic: Universality
Definition:
UNIVERSAL'ITY, n.  The state of extending to the whole; as the universality of a proposition; the universality of sin; the universality of the deluge.


Topic: Universally
Definition:
UNIVERS'ALLY, adv.  With extension to the whole; in a manner to comprehend all; without exception.  Air is a fluid universally diffused.  God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
[Note - Universal and its derivatives are used in common discourse for general.  This kind of universality is by the schoolmen called moral, as admitting of some exceptions, in distinction from metophysical, which precludes all exceptions.]


Topic: Universe
Definition:
U'NIVERSE, n.  [L. universitas.]
The collective name of heaven and earth, and all that belongs to them; the whole system of created things.


Topic: University
Definition:
UNIVERS'ITY, n.  An assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning, and where degrees are conferred.  A university is properly a universal school, in which are taught all branches of learning, or the four faculties of theology, medicine, law and the sciences and arts.


Topic: Univocal
Definition:
UNIV'OCAL, a.  [L. unus, one, and vox, word.]
1.  Having one meaning only.  A univocal word is opposed to an equivocal, which has two or more significations.
2.  Having unison of sounds; as the octave in music and its replicates.
3.  Certain; regular; pursuing always one tenor.  [Little used.]


Topic: Univocally
Definition:
UNIV'OCALLY, adv.  
1.  In one term; in one sense.  
How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin?
2.  In one tenor.  [Little used.]


Topic: Unjointed
Definition:
UNJOINT'ED, a.
1.  Disjointed; separated.
2.  Having no joint or articulation; as an unjointed stem.


Topic: Unjust
Definition:
UNJUST', a.
1.  Not just; acting contrary to the standard of right established by the divine law; not equitable; as an unjust man.
2.  Contrary to justice and right; wrongful; as an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation.


Topic: Unjustifiable
Definition:
UNJUST'IFIABLE, a.  Not justifiable; that cannot be proved to be right; not to be vindicated or defended; as an unjustifiable motive or action.


Topic: Unkennel
Definition:
UNKEN'NEL, v.t.
1.  To drive from his hole; as, to unkennel a fox.
2.  To rouse from secrecy or retreat.
3.  To release from a kennel.


Topic: Unkindly
Definition:
UNKINDLY, a.
1.  Unnatural; contrary to nature; as an unkindly crime.
2.  Unfavorably; malignant; as an unkindly fog.
UNKINDLY, adv.
1.  Without kindness; without affection; as, to treat one unkindly.
2.  In a manner contrary to nature; unnaturally.
All works of nature, abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mix'd.


Topic: Unkindness
Definition:
UNKINDNESS, n.  
1.  Want of kindness; want of natural affection; want of good will.
2.  Disobliging treatment; disfavor.


Topic: Unknit
Definition:
UNKNIT', v.t.
1.  To separate threads that are knit; to open; to loose work that is knit or knotted.
2.  To open.


Topic: Unknown
Definition:
UNKNOWN, a.
1.  Not known.  The author of the invention is unknown.
2.  Greater than is imagined.
3.  Not having had cohabitation.
4.  Not having communication.


Topic: Unlabored
Definition:
UNLA'BORED, a. 
1.  Not produced by labor; as unlabored harvests.
2.  Not cultivated by labor; not tilled.
3.  Spontaneous; voluntary; that offers without effort; natural.
And from the theme unlabor'd beauties rise.
4.  Easy; natural; not stiff; as an unlabored style.


Topic: Unlace
Definition:
UNLA'CE, v.t  
1.  To loose from lacing or fastening by a cord or strings passed through loops and holes; as, to unlace a helmet or a garment.
2.  To loose a woman's dress.
3.  To divest of ornaments.
4.  In sea language, to loose and take off a bonnet from a sail.


Topic: Unlade
Definition:
UNLA'DE, v.t.
1.  To unload; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship.
2.  To unload; to remove, as a load or burden.  Acts. 21.


Topic: Unlaid
Definition:
UNLA'ID, a. 
1.  Not placed; not fixed.
2.  Not allayed; not pacified; not suppressed.
3.  Not laid out, as a corpse.


Topic: Unlawful
Definition:
UNLAW'FUL, a.  Not lawful; contrary to law; illegal; not permitted by law.
Unlawful assembly, in law, the meeting of three or more persons to commit an unlawful act.


Topic: Unlawfully
Definition:
UNLAW'FULLY, adv.  
1.  In violation of law or right; illegally.
2.  Illegitimately; not in wedlock; as a child unlawfully born.


Topic: Unlearn
Definition:
UNLEARN', v.t. unlern'.  To forget or lose what has been learned.  It is most important to us all to unlearn the errors of our early education.
I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything.


Topic: Unlearned
Definition:
UNLEARN'ED, pp.
1.  Forgotten.
2.  a. Not learned; ignorant; illiterate; not instructed.
3.  Not gained by study; not known.
4.  Not suitable to a learned man; as unlearned verses.


Topic: Unless
Definition:
UNLESS', conj.
Except; that is, remove or dismiss the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows.  'We cannot thrive unless we are industrious and frugal.'  the sense will be more obvious with the clauses of the sentence inverted.  Unless, [remove this fact, suppose it not to exist,] we are industrious and frugal, we cannot thrive.  Unless then answers for a negation.  If we are not industrious, we cannot thrive.


Topic: Unlicensed
Definition:
UNLI'CENSED, a.  Not licensed; not having permission by authority; as an unlicensed innkeeper.
The vending of ardent spirits, in places licensed or unlicensed, is a tremendous evil.


Topic: Unlike
Definition:
UNLI'KE, a.  
1.  Dissimilar; having no resemblance.  Never were two men more unlike.  The cases are entirely unlike.
2.  Improbably; unlikely.  


Topic: Unlikely
Definition:
UNLI'KELY, a.
1.  Improbably; such as cannot be reasonably expected; as an unlikely event.  The thing you mention is very unlikely.
2.  Not promising success.  He employs very unlikely means to effect his object.
UNLI'KELY, adv.  Improbably.


Topic: Unlimited
Definition:
UNLIM'ITED, a.
1.  Not limited; having no bounds; boundless.
2.  Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as unlimited terms.
3.  Unconfined; not restrained.
Ascribe not to God such as unlimited exercise of mercy as may destroy his justice.
Unlimited problem, is one which is capable of infinite solutions.


Topic: Unliquidated
Definition:
UNLIQ'UIDATED, a.
1.  Not liquidated; not settled; not having the exact amount ascertained; as an unliquidated debt; unliquidated accounts.
2.  Unpaid; unadjusted.


Topic: Unload
Definition:
UNLOAD, v.t.
1.  To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; as, to unload a ship; to unload a cart.
2.  To disburden; as, to unload a beast.
3.  To disburden; to relieve from any thing onerous or troublesome.


Topic: Unlocated
Definition:
UNLO'CATED, a.
1.  Not place; not fixed in a place.
2.  In America, unlocated lands are such new or wild lands as have not been surveyed, appropriated or designated by marks, limits or boundaries, to some individual, company or corporation.


Topic: Unlock
Definition:
UNLOCK',
1.  To unfasten what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.
2.  To open, in general; to lay open.
Unlock your springs, and open all your shades.


Topic: Unlocked
Definition:
UNLOCK'ED, pp.  
1.  Opened.
2.  a.  Not locked; not made fast.
Unlocked for, not expected; not foreseen.


Topic: Unloose
Definition:
UNLOOSE, v.t. unloos'.  To loose.  [An ill formed word, as it expresses the same idea as loose.]
UNLOOSE, v.i. unloos'.  To fall in pieces; to lose all connection or union.


Topic: Unlovely
Definition:
UNLOVELY, a.  Not lovely; not amiable; destitute of the qualities which attract love, or possessing qualities that excite dislike.


Topic: Unlucky
Definition:
UNLUCK'Y, a.
1.  Unfortunate; not successful; as an unlucky man.
2.  Unfortunate; not resulting in success; as an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
[This word is usually applied to incidents in which success depends on single events, to games of hazard, &c. rather than to things which depend on a long series of events, or on the ordinary course of providence.  Hence we say, a man is unlucky in play or in a lottery; but not that a farmer is unlucky in his husbandry, or a commander unlucky in the result of a campaign.]
3.  Unhappy; miserable; subject to frequent misfortunes.
4.  Slightly mischievous; mischievously waggish; as an unlucky boy; an unlucky wag.
5.  Ill omened; inauspicious.
Haunt me not with that unlucky face.


Topic: Unmade
Definition:
UNMA'DE, pp.
1.  Deprived of its form or qualities.
2.  a. Not made; not yet formed.
3.  Omitted to be made.


Topic: Unmake
Definition:
UNMA'KE, v.t.
1.  To destroy the form and qualities which constitute a thing what it is.
God does not make or unmake things to try experiments.
2.  To deprive of qualities before possessed.


Topic: Unmalleable
Definition:
UNMAL'LEABLE, a.  Not malleable; not capable of being hammered into a plate, or of being extended by beating.


Topic: Unman
Definition:
UNMAN', v.t.
1.  To deprive of the constitutional qualities of a human being, as reason, &c.
2.  To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.
3.  To emasculate; to deprive of virility.
4.  To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or reduce into irresolution; to dishearten; to deject.
5.  To dispeople; as towns unmanned.


Topic: Unmanageable
Definition:
UNMAN'AGEABLE, a.
1.  Not manageable; not easily restrained, governed or directed; not controllable.
2.  Not easily wielded.


Topic: Unmannerly
Definition:
UNMAN'NERLY, a.
1.  Ill bred; not having good manners; rude in behavior; as an unmannerly youth.
2.  Not according to good manners; as an unmannerly jest.
UNMAN'NERLY, adv.  Uncivilly.


Topic: Unmask
Definition:
UNM'ASK, v.t.  To strip of a mask or of any disguise; to lay open what is concealed.
UNM'ASK, v.i.  To put off a mask.


Topic: Unmastered
Definition:
UNM'ASTERED, a.
1.  Not subdued; not conquered.
2.  Not conquerable.
He cannot his unmaster'd grief sustain.


Topic: Unmeaning
Definition:
UNME'ANING, a.
1.  Having no meaning or signification; as unmeaning words.
2.  Not expressive; not indicating intelligence; as an unmeaning face.
There pride sits blazon'd on the' unmeaning brow.


Topic: Unmeasurable
Definition:
UNMEASURABLE, a.  unmezh'urable.  That cannot be measured; unbounded; boundless.
[For this, immeasurable is generally used.]


Topic: Unmeasured
Definition:
UNMEAS'URED, a.
1.  Not measured; plentiful beyond measure.
2.  Immense; infinite; as unmeasured space.


Topic: Unmechanical
Definition:
UNMECHAN'ICAL, a.  Not mechanical; not according to the laws or principles of mechanics.
Unmeddled with, not meddled with; not touched; not altered.


Topic: Unmerciful
Definition:
UNMER'CIFUL, a.
1.  Not merciful; cruel; inhuman to such beings as are in one's power; not disposed to spare or forgive.
2.  Unconscionable; exorbitant; as unmerciful demands.


Topic: Unmercifulness
Definition:
UNMER'CIFULNESS, n.  Want of mercy; want of tenderness and compassion towards those who are in one's power; cruelty in the exercise of power or punishment.


Topic: Unmerited
Definition:
UNMER'ITED, a.
1.  Not merited; not deserved; obtained without service or equivalent; as unmerited promotion.
2.  Not deserved; cruel; unjust; as unmerited sufferings or injuries.


Topic: Unmindful
Definition:
UNMINDFUL, a.  Not mindful; not heedful; not attentive; regardless; as unmindful of laws; unmindful of health or of duty.


Topic: Unmingled
Definition:
UNMIN'GLED, a.
1.  Not mingled; not mixed; pure.
2.  Pure; not vitiated or alloyed by foreign admixture; as unmingled joy.


Topic: Unmitigated
Definition:
UNMIT'IGATED, a.  Not mitigated; not lessened; not softened in severity or harshness.
UNMIT'IGATED, a.  Not mitigated; not lessened; not softened in severity or harshness.


Topic: Unmodifiable
Definition:
UNMOD'IFIABLE, a.  That cannot be modified or altered in form; that cannot be reduced to a more acceptable or desired form.


Topic: Unmoor
Definition:
UNMOOR', v.t.  
1.  In sea language, to bring to the state of riding with a single anchor, after having been moored by two or more cables.
2.  To loose from anchorage.


Topic: Unmoved
Definition:
UNMOVED, a.
1.  Not moved; not transferred from one place to another.
2.  Not changed in purpose; unshaken; firm.
3.  Not affected; not having the passions excited; not touched or impressed.
4.  Not altered by passion or emotion.


Topic: Unmoving
Definition:
UNMOVING, a.  
1.  Having no motion.
2.  Not exciting emotion; having no power to affect the passions.


Topic: Unmusical
Definition:
UNMU'SICAL, a.  s as z.
1.  Not musical; not harmonious or melodious.
2.  Harsh; not pleasing to the ear.


Topic: Unnatural
Definition:
UNNAT'URAL,  a.
1.  Contrary to the laws of nature; contrary to the natural feelings.
2.  Acting without the affections of our common nature; as an unnatural father or son.
3.  Not in conformity to nature; not agreeable to the real state of persons or things not representing nature; as affected and unnatural thoughts; unnatural images or descriptions.


Topic: Unnaturalized
Definition:
UNNAT'URALIZED, pp.
1.  Divested of natural feelings.
2.  a.  Not naturalized; not made a citizen by authority.


Topic: Unnecessary
Definition:
UNNEC'ESSARY, a.  Not necessary; needless; not required by the circumstances of the case; useless; as unnecessary labor or care; unnecessary rigor.


Topic: Unneighborly
Definition:
UNNEIGHBORLY, a.  Not suitable to the duties of a neighbor; not becoming persons living near each other; not kind and friendly.
UNNEIGHBORLY, adv.  In a manner not suitable to a neighbor; in a manner contrary to the kindness and friendship which should subsist among neighbors.


Topic: Unnerve
Definition:
UNNERVE, v.t.  unnerv'.  To deprive of nerve, force or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.


Topic: Unnoticed
Definition:
UNNO'TICED, a.
1.  Not observed; not regarded.
2.  Not treated with the usual marks of respect; not kindly and hospitably entertained.


Topic: Unobjectionable
Definition:
UNOBJEC'TIONABLE, a.  Not liable to objection; that need not be condemned as faulty, false or improper.


Topic: Unobstructed
Definition:
UNOBSTRUCT'ED, a.  
1.  Not obstructed; not filled with impediments; as an unobstructed stream or channel.


Topic: Unoccupied
Definition:
UNOC'CUPIED, a.  
1.  Not occupied; not possessed; as unoccupied land.
2.  Not engaged in business; being at leisure.  The man is unoccupied.
3.  Not employed or taken up; as time unoccupied.


Topic: Unoffending
Definition:
UNOFFEND'ING, a.  
1.  Not offending; not giving offense.
2.  Not sinning; free from sin or fault.
3.  Harmless; innocent.


Topic: Unoffensive
Definition:
UNOFFENS'IVE, a.  Not offensive; giving no offense; harmless.  [For this, inoffensive is more generally used.


Topic: Unofficial
Definition:
UNOFFI'CIAL, a.  
1.  Not official; not pertaining to office.
2.  Not proceeding from the proper officer or from due authority; as unofficial news or notice.


Topic: Unofficially
Definition:
UNOFFI'CIALLY, adv.  Not officially; not in the course of official duty.  The man was unofficially informed by the sheriff or commander.


Topic: Unopposed
Definition:
UNOPPO'SED, a.  s as z.  Not opposed; not resisted; not meeting with any obstruction; as an army or stream unopposed.


Topic: Unorganized
Definition:
UNOR'GANIZED, a.  Not organized; not having organic structure or vessels for the preparation, secretion and distribution of nourishment, &c.  Metals are unorganized bodies.  [This word is in use, but inorganized is also used.]


Topic: Unoriginated
Definition:
UNORIG'INATED, a.  Not originated; having no birth or creation.
God is underived, unoriginated and self-existent.


Topic: Unostentatious
Definition:
UNOSTENTA'TIOUS, a.
1.  Not ostentatious; not boastful; not making show and parade; modest.
2.  Not glaring; not showy; as unostentatious coloring.


Topic: Unowned
Definition:
UNOWNED, a.  
1.  Not owned; having no known owner; not claimed.
2.  Not avowed; not acknowledged as one's own; not admitted as done by one's self.


Topic: Unpacked
Definition:
UNPACK'ED, pp.
1.  Opened, as goods.
2.  a.  Not packed; not collected by unlawful artifices; as an unpacked  jury.


Topic: Unpaid
Definition:
UNPA'ID, a.
1.  Not paid; not discharged; as a debt.
2.  Not having received his due; as unpaid workmen.
Unpaid for, not paid for; taken on credit.


Topic: Unpalatable
Definition:
UNPAL'ATABLE, a.  
1.  Not palatable; disgusting to the taste.
2.  Not such as to be relished; disagreeable; as an unpalatable law.


Topic: Unparalleled
Definition:
UNPAR'ALLELED, a.  Having no parallel or equal; unequaled; unmatched.
The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle.


Topic: Unpardoned
Definition:
UNP'ARDONED, a. 
1.  Not pardoned; not forgiven; as unpardoned offenses.
2.  Not having received a legal pardon.  The convict returned unpardoned.


Topic: Unparliamentary
Definition:
UNP'ARLIAMENT'ARY, a.
1.  Contrary to the usages or rules of proceeding in parliament.
2.  Contrary to the rules or usages of legislative bodies.


Topic: Unpassable
Definition:
UNP'ASSABLE, a.  
1.  Not admitting persons to pass; impassable; as unpassable roads, rivers or mountains.  [Impassable is more generally used.]
2.  Not current; not received in common payments; as unpassable notes or coins.  [Instead of this, uncurrent and not current are now used.]


Topic: Unpathed
Definition:
UNP'ATHED, a.  
1.  Unmarked by passage; not trodden.
2.  Not being beaten into a path; as unpathed snow.


Topic: Unpen
Definition:
UNPEN', v.t.  To let out or suffer to escape by breaking a dam or opening a pen.
If a man unpens another's water -


Topic: Unpensioned
Definition:
UNPEN'SIONED, a.  
1.  Not pensioned; not rewarded by a pension; as an unpensioned soldier.
2.  Not kept in pay; not held in dependence by a pension.


Topic: Unperfectness
Definition:
UNPER'FECTNESS, n.  Want of perfectness; incompleteness.  [Imperfectness and imperfection are now used.]


Topic: Unperformed
Definition:
UNPERFORM'ED, a.
1.  Not performed; not done; not executed; as, the business remains unperformed.
2.  Not fulfilled; as an unperformed promise.


Topic: Unperplexed
Definition:
UNPERPLEX'ED, a.
1.  Not perplexed; not harassed; not embarrassed.
2.  Free from perplexity or complication; simple.


Topic: Unphilosophically
Definition:
UNPHILOSOPH'ICALLY, adv.  In a manner contrary to the principles of sound philosophy or right reason.


Topic: Unphilosophized
Definition:
UNPHILOS'OPHIZED, ppr. or a.
1.  Degraded from the rank of a philosopher.
2.  Not sophisticated or perverted by philosophy; as unphilosophized revelation.


Topic: Unpin
Definition:
UNPIN', v.t.  To loose from pins; to unfasten what is held together by pins; as, to unpin a frock; to unpin the frame of a building.


Topic: Unplausible
Definition:
UNPLAUS'IBLE, a. s as z.  Not plausible; not having a fair appearance; as arguments not unplausible.


Topic: Unpliant
Definition:
UNPLI'ANT, a.
1.  Not pliant; not easily bent; stiff.
2.  Not readily yielding the will; not compliant.


Topic: Unpoetically
Definition:
UNPOET'ICALLY, adv.  
1.  In a manner not comporting with the nature of poetry.
2.  In a manner unbecoming a poet.


Topic: Unpointed
Definition:
UNPOINT'ED, a.  
1.  Having no point or string.
2.  Not having marks by which to distinguish sentences, members and clauses in writing.
3.  Not having the vowel points or marks; as an unpointed manuscript in Hebrew or Arabic.


Topic: Unpolished
Definition:
UNPOL'ISHED, a.  
1.  Not polished; not made smooth or bright by attrition.
2.  Not refined in manners; uncivilized; rude; plain.


Topic: Unpolite
Definition:
UNPOLI'TE, a.  
1.  Not refined in manners; not elegant.
2.  Not civil; not courteous; rude.  [See Impolite.]


Topic: Unpopular
Definition:
UNPOP'ULAR, a.
1.  Not popular; not having the public favor; as an unpopular magistrate.
2.  Not pleasing the people; as an unpopular law.


Topic: Unpracticed
Definition:
UNPRAC'TICED, a.
1.  Not having been taught by practice; not skilled; not having experience; raw; unskillful.
2.  Not known; not familiar by use.  [Not used.]


Topic: Unprecedented
Definition:
UNPREC'EDENTED, a.  Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example.


Topic: Unprejudiced
Definition:
UNPREJ'UDICED, a.
1.  Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as an unprejudiced mind.
2.  Not warped by prejudice; as an unprejudiced judgment.


Topic: Unpremeditated
Definition:
UNPREMED'ITATED, a.
1.  Not previously meditated or prepared in the mind.
2.  Not previously purposed or intended; not done by design.


Topic: Unprepared
Definition:
UNPREPA'RED, a. 
1.  Not prepared; not ready; not fitted or furnished by previous measures.
2.  Not prepared by holiness of life for the event of death and a happy immortality.


Topic: Unprincipled
Definition:
UNPRIN'CIPLED, a.
1.  Not having settled principles; as souls unprincipled in virtue.
2.  Having no good moral principles; destitute of virtue; not restrained by conscience; profligate.


Topic: Unprinted
Definition:
UNPRINT'ED, a.
1.  Not printed; as a literary work.
2.  Not stamped with figures; white; as unprinted cotton.


Topic: Unproductive
Definition:
UNPRODUC'TIVE, a.
1.  Not productive; barren.
2.  More generally, not producing large crops; not making profitable returns for labor; as unproductive land.
3.  Not profitable; not producing profit or interest; as capital; as unproductive funds or stock.
4.  Not efficient; not producing any effect.


Topic: Unprofitable
Definition:
UNPROF'ITABLE, a.
1.  Bringing no profit; producing no gain beyond the labor, expenses and interest of capital; as unprofitable land; unprofitable stock; unprofitable employment.
2.  Producing no improvement or advantage; useless; serving no purpose; as an unprofitable life; unprofitable study.  Job. 15.
3.  Not useful to others.
4.  Misimproving talents; bringing no glory to God; as an unprofitable servant.  Matt. 25.


Topic: Unprofitably
Definition:
UNPROF'ITABLY, adv.
1.  Without profit; without clear gain; as capital unprofitably employed.
2.  Without any good effect or advantage; to no good purpose.


Topic: Unprolific
Definition:
UNPROLIF'IC, a.
1.  Not prolific; barren; not producing young or fruit.
2.  Not producing in abundance.


Topic: Unpromising
Definition:
UNPROM'ISING, a.  Not promising; not affording a favorable prospect of success, of excellence, of profit, &c.; as an unpromising youth; an unpromising season.


Topic: Unproved
Definition:
UNPROVED, a.
1.  Not proved; not known by trial.
2.  Not established as true by argument, demonstration or evidence.


Topic: Unprovoked
Definition:
UNPROVO'KED, a.
1.  Not provoked; not incited; applied to persons.
2.  Not proceeding from provocation or just cause; as an unprovoked attack.


Topic: Unpunished
Definition:
UNPUN'ISHED, a.  Not punished; suffered to pass without punishment or with impunity; as a thief unpunished; an unpunished crime.


Topic: Unpurified
Definition:
UNPU'RIFIED, a.
1.  Not purified; not freed from recrement or foul matter.
2.  Not cleansed from sin; unsanctified.


Topic: Unqualified
Definition:
UNQUAL'IFIED, a.
1.  Not qualified; not fit; not having the requisite talents, abilities or accomplishments.
2.  Not having taken the requisite oath or oaths.
3.  Not modified or restricted by conditions or exceptions; as unqualified praise.


Topic: Unquenchable
Definition:
UNQUENCH'ABLE, a.  That cannot be quenched; that will never be extinguished; inextinguishable.  Matt. 3.  Luke 3.


Topic: Unquestionable
Definition:
UNQUES'TIONABLE, a.  Not to be questioned; not to be doubted; indubitable; certain; as unquestionable evidence or truth; unquestionable courage.


Topic: Unquestioned
Definition:
UNQUES'TIONED, a.
1.  Not called in question; not doubted.
2.  Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined.
3.  Indisputable; not to be opposed.


Topic: Unquiet
Definition:
UNQUIET, a.
1.  Not quiet; not calm or tranquil; restless; uneasy; as an unquiet person; an unquiet mind.
2.  Agitated; disturbed by continual motion; as the unquiet ocean.
3.  Unsatisfied; restless.


Topic: Unquietness
Definition:
UNQUI'ETNESS, n.  
1.  Want of quiet; want of tranquility; restlessness; uneasiness.
2.  Want of peace; as of a nation.
3.  Turbulence; disposition to make trouble or excite disturbance.


Topic: Unravel
Definition:
UNRAV'EL, v.t.
1.  To disentangle; to disengage or separate threads that are knit.
2.  To free; to clear from complication or difficulty.
3.  To separate connected or united parts; to throw into disorder.
Nature all unravel'd.
4.  To unfold, as the plot or intrigue of a play.
UNRAV'EL, v.i.  To be unfolded; to be disentangled.


Topic: Unreadiness
Definition:
UNREADINESS, n. unred'iness.  
1.  Want of readiness, want of promptness or dexterity.
2.  Want of preparation.


Topic: Unready
Definition:
UNREADY, a. unred'y.  
1.  Not ready; not prepared; not fit.
2.  Not prompt; not quick.
3.  Awkward; ungainly.


Topic: Unreasonable
Definition:
UNRE'ASONABLE, a.  s as z.
1.  Not agreeable to reason.
2.  Exceeding the bounds of reason; claiming or insisting on more than is fit; as an unreasonable demand.
3.  Immoderate; exorbitant; as an unreasonable love of life or of money.
4.  Irrational.  [In this sense, see Irrational.]


Topic: Unreasonableness
Definition:
UNRE'ASONABLENESS, n.
1.  Inconsistency with reason; as the unreasonableness of sinners.
2.  Exorbitance; excess of demand, claim, passion and the like; as the unreasonableness of a proposal.


Topic: Unreasonably
Definition:
UNRE'ASONABLY, adv.
1.  In a manner contrary to reason.
2.  Excessively; immoderately; more than enough.


Topic: Unreave
Definition:
UNRE'AVE, v.t.  [See Reave, Unreeve and Ravel.]  
1.  To unwind; to disentangle; to loose.
2.  Not to rive; not to tear asunder; not to unroof.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Unreceived
Definition:
UNRECE'IVED, a.
1.  Not received; not taken; as sacraments unreceived.
2.  Not come into possession; as a letter unreceived.
3.  Not adopted; not embraced; as opinions unreceived.


Topic: Unreclaimed
Definition:
UNRECLA'IMED. a.  
1.  Not reclaimed; not brought to a domestic state; not tamed; as a wild beast unreclaimed.
2.  Not reformed; not called back from vice to virtue.


Topic: Unreconcilable
Definition:
UNRECONCI'LABLE, 
1.  That cannot be reconciled; that cannot be made consistent with; as two unreconcilable propositions.  [In this sense, irreconcilable is generally used.]
2.  Not reconcilable; not capable of being appeased; implacable.
3.  That cannot be persuaded to lay aside enmity or opposition, and to become friendly or favorable; as unreconcilable neighbors.
[Irreconcilable is generally used.]


Topic: Unreconciled
Definition:
UNRECONCI'LED, a.
1.  Not reconciled; not made consistent.
2.  Not appeased; not having become favorable.
3.  In a theological sense, not having laid aside opposition and enmity to God; not having made peace with God through faith in Christ.


Topic: Unrecorded
Definition:
UNRECORD'ED, a. 
1.  Not recorded; not registered; as an unrecorded deed or lease.
2.  Not kept in remembrance by public monuments.
Not unrecorded in the rolls of fame.


Topic: Unrecovered
Definition:
UNRECOVERED, a.
1.  Not recovered; not recalled into possession; not regained.
2.  Not restored to health.


Topic: Unredeemed
Definition:
UNREDEE'MED, a.
1.  Not redeemed; not ransomed.
2.  Not paid; not recalled into the treasury or bank by payment of the value in money; as unredeemed bills, notes or stock.


Topic: Unredressed
Definition:
UNREDRESS'ED, a.  
1.  Not redressed; not relieved from injustice; applied to persons.
2.  Not removed; not reformed as unredressed evils.


Topic: Unrefined
Definition:
UNREFI'NED, a.
1.  Not refined; not purified; as unrefined sugar.
2.  Not refined or polished in manners.


Topic: Unreformable
Definition:
UNREFORM'ABLE, a.
1.  Not capable of being put into a new form.
2.  That cannot be reformed or amended.


Topic: Unreformed
Definition:
UNREFORM'ED, a.
1.  Not reformed; not reclaimed from vice; as an unreformed youth.
2.  Not amended; not corrected; as unreformed manners; unreformed vices.
3.  Not reduced to truth and regularity; not freed from error; as an unreformed calendar.


Topic: Unrefreshing
Definition:
UNREFRESH'ING, a.  Not refreshing; not invigorating; not cooling; not relieving from depression or toil.


Topic: Unrelative
Definition:
UNREL'ATIVE, a.  Not relative; not relating; having no relation to.
[Irrelative is more generally used.]


Topic: Unrelenting
Definition:
UNRELENT'ING, a.
1.  Not relenting; having no pity; hard; cruel; as an unrelenting heart.
2.  Not yielding to pity; as unrelenting cruelty.
3.  Not yielding to circumstances; inflexibly rigid; as an unrelenting rule.


Topic: Unrelieved
Definition:
UNRELIE'VED, a.
1.  Not relieved; not eased or delivered from pain.
2.  Not succored; not delivered from confinement or distress; as a garrison unrelieved.
3.  Not released from duty; as an unrelieved sentinel.


Topic: Unremarkable
Definition:
UNREM'ARKABLE, a.
1.  Not remarkable; not worthy of particular notice.
2.  Not capable of being observed.


Topic: Unremitted
Definition:
UNREMIT'TED, a.
1.  Not remitted; not forgiven; as punishment unremitted.
2.  Not having a temporary relaxation, as pain unremitted.
3.  Not relaxed; not abated.


Topic: Unremitting
Definition:
UNREMIT'TING, a.  Not abating; not relaxing for a time; incessant; continued; as unremitting exertions.


Topic: Unremoved
Definition:
UNREMOVED, a.
1.  Not removed; not taken away.
2.  Not capable of being removed.
Like Atlas unremov'd.


Topic: Unrenewed
Definition:
UNRENEW'ED, a.
1.  Not made anew; as, the lease is unrenewed.
2.  Not regenerated; not born of the Spirit; as a heart unrenewed.


Topic: Unreserved
Definition:
UNRESERV'ED, a.
1.  Not reserved; not retained when a part is granted.
2.  Not limited; not withheld in part; full; entire; as unreserved obedience to God's commands.
3.  Open; frank; concealing or withholding nothing; free; as an unreserved disclosure of facts.


Topic: Unreservedly
Definition:
UNRESERV'EDLY, adv.
1.  Without limitation or reservation.
2.  With open disclosure; frankly; without concealment.


Topic: Unresisted
Definition:
UNRESIST'ED, a.  [See Resist.]  
1.  Not resisted; not opposed.
2.  Resistless; such as cannot be successfully opposed.


Topic: Unresisting
Definition:
UNRESIST'ING, a.
1.  Not making resistance; yielding to physical force or to persuasion.
2.  Submissive; humble.


Topic: Unresponsible
Definition:
UNRESPONS'IBLE, a. 
1.  Not answerable; not liable.
2.  Not able to answer; not having the property to respond.  [Irresponsible is also used in the like sense.]


Topic: Unrestored
Definition:
UNRESTO'RED, a.
1.  Not restored; not having recovered health.
2.  Not restored to a former place, to favor, or to a former condition.


Topic: Unrestrained
Definition:
UNRESTRA'INED, a.
1.  Not restrained; not controlled; not confined; not hindered.
2.  Licentious; loose.
3.  Not limited; as an unrestrained power; unrestrained truth.


Topic: Unrevenged
Definition:
UNREVENG'ED, a.
1.  Not revenged; as an injury unrevenged.
2.  Not vindicated by just punishment.
Scipio's ghost walks unreveng'd.


Topic: Unreversed
Definition:
UNREVERS'ED, a.  Not reversed; not annulled by a counter decision; as a judgment or decree unreversed.


Topic: Unriddle
Definition:
UNRID'DLE, v.t.
1.  To solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or mystery.
2.  To explain.
And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust.


Topic: Unrighteous
Definition:
UNRIGHTEOUS, a. unri'chus.
1.  Not righteous; not just; not conformed in heart and life to the divine law; evil; wicked; used of persons.
2.  Unjust; contrary to law and equity; as an unrighteous decree or sentence.


Topic: Unrighteousness
Definition:
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, n. unri'chusness.  Injustice; a violation of the divine law, or of the plain principles of justice and equity; wickedness.  Unrighteousness may consist of a single unjust act, but more generally, when applied to persons, it denotes an habitual course of wickedness.  Rom. 1:6.  2Cor. 6.
Every transgression of the law is unrighteousness.


Topic: Unripe
Definition:
UNRI'PE, a.
1.  Not ripe; not mature; not brought to a state of perfection; as unripe fruit.
2.  Not seasonable; not yet proper.
He fix'd his unripe vengeance to defer.
3.  Not prepared; not completed; as an unripe scheme.
4.  Too early; as the unripe death of Dorilaus.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Unroot
Definition:
UNROOT', v.t.  To tear up by the roots; to extirpate; to eradicate; as, to unroot an oak.
UNROOT', v.i.  To be torn up by the roots.


Topic: Unruffled
Definition:
UNRUF'FLED, a.  
1.  Calm; tranquil; not agitated.
Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea.
2.  Not disturbed; not agitated; as an unruffled temper.


Topic: Unruliness
Definition:
UNRU'LINESS, n.  [from unruly.]  
1.  Disregard of restraint; licentiousness; turbulence; as the unruliness of men, or of their passions.
2.  The disposition of a beast to break over fences and wander from an inclosure; the practice of breaking or leaping over fences.


Topic: Unruly
Definition:
UNRU'LY, a.
1.  Disregarding restraint; licentious; disposed to violate laws; turbulent; ungovernable; as an unruly youth.
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.  James. 4.
2.  Accustomed to break over fences and escape from inclosures; apt to break or leap fences; as an unruly ox.
The owner of the unruly ox paid a sum of money, as a civil penalty for the ransom of his life.


Topic: Unsafe
Definition:
UNSA'FE, a. 
1.  Not safe; not free from danger; exposed to harm or destruction.
2.  Hazardous; as an unsafe adventure.


Topic: Unsatisfactoriness
Definition:
UNSATISFAC'TORINESS, n.  The quality or state of not being satisfactory; failure to give satisfaction.


Topic: Unsatisfactory
Definition:
UNSATISFAC'TORY, a.
1.  Not giving satisfaction; not convincing the mind.
2.  Not giving content; as an unsatisfactory compensation.


Topic: Unsatisfied
Definition:
UNSAT'ISFIED, a.
1.  Not satisfied; not having enough; not filled; not gratified to the full; as unsatisfied appetites or desires.
2.  Not content; not pleased; as, to be unsatisfied with the choice of an officer; to be unsatisfied with the wages or compensation allowed.
3.  Not settled in opinion; not resting in confidence of the truth of any thing; as, to be unsatisfied as to the freedom of the will.
4.  Not convinced or fully persuaded.  The judges appeared to be unsatisfied with the evidence.
5.  Not fully paid.
An execution returned unsatisfied.


Topic: Unsatisfying
Definition:
UNSAT'ISFYING, a.  Not affording full gratification of appetite or desire; not giving content; not convincing the mind.


Topic: Unsavory
Definition:
UNSA'VORY, a.
1.  Tasteless; having no taste.  Job. 6.
2.  Having a bad taste or smell.
3.  Unpleasing; disgusting;


Topic: Unsay
Definition:
UNSA'Y, v.t. pret. and pp. unsaid.  To recant or recall what has been said; to retract; to deny something declared.
Say and unsay, feign, flatter or abjure.


Topic: Unscriptural
Definition:
UNSCRIP'TURAL, a.  Not agreeable to the Scriptures; not warranted by the authority of the word of God; as an unscriptural doctrine.


Topic: Unsealed
Definition:
UNSE'ALED, pp.
1.  Opened, as something sealed.
2.  a.  Not sealed; having no seal, or the seal broken.


Topic: Unsearchable
Definition:
UNSEARCHABLE, a. unserch'able.  That cannot be searched or explored; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious.
The counsels of God are to us unsearchable.


Topic: Unsearchableness
Definition:
UNSEARCHABLENESS, n.  unserch'ableness.  The quality or state of being unsearchable, or beyond the power of man to explore.


Topic: Unseasonable
Definition:
UNSEASON'ABLE, a.  unsee'znable.
1.  Not seasonable; not being in the proper season or time.  he called at an unseasonable hour.
2.  Not suited to the time or occasion; unfit; untimely; ill timed; as unseasonable advice; an unseasonable digression.
3.  Late; being beyond the usual time.  He came home at an unseasonable time of night.
4.  Not agreeable to the time of the year; as an unseasonable frost.  The frosts of 1816, in June, July and August, in New England, were considered unseasonable, as they were unusual.


Topic: Unseasonableness
Definition:
UNSE'ASONABLENESS, n.  [supra.]  The quality or state of being unseasonable, ill timed, or out of the usual time.


Topic: Unseasonably
Definition:
UNSE'ASONABLY, adv.  Not seasonably; not in due time, or not in the usual time; not in the time best adapted to success.


Topic: Unseasoned
Definition:
UNSEASONED, a. unsee'znd.
1.  Not seasoned; not exhausted of the natural juices and hardened for use; as unseasoned wood, boards, timber, &c.
2.  Not inured; not accustomed; not fitted to endure any thing by use or habit; as, men unseasoned to tropical climates are exposed to fevers.
3.  Unformed; not qualified by use or experience; as an unseasoned courtier.
4.  Not salted; not sprinkled, filled or impregnated with any thing to give relish; as unseasoned meat.
5.  Unseasonable.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Unseated
Definition:
UNSE'ATED, pp.  
1.  Thrown from the seat.
2.  a.  Not seated; having no seat or bottom.
3.  Not settled with inhabitants; as unseated lands.  [We usually say, unsettled.]


Topic: Unseaworthy
Definition:
UNSE'AWORTHY, a.  Not fit for a voyage; not able to sustain the violence of the sea; as, the ship is unseaworthy.


Topic: Unseconded
Definition:
UNSEC'ONDED, a.
1.  Not seconded; not supported.  The motion was unseconded; the attempt was unseconded.
2.  Not exemplified a second time.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Unsecret
Definition:
UNSE'CRET, a.  Not secret; not close; not trusty.
UNSE'CRET, v.t.  To disclose; to divulge.  [Not used.]


Topic: Unseemly
Definition:
UNSEE'MLY, a.  Not fit or becoming; uncomely; unbecoming; indecent.
My sons, let your unseemly discord cease.
UNSEE'MLY, adv.  Indecently; unbecomingly.


Topic: Unseen
Definition:
UNSEE'N, a.  
1.  Not seen; not discovered.
2.  Invisible; not discoverable; as the unseen God.
3.  Unskilled; inexperienced.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Unsent
Definition:
UNSENT', a.  Not sent; not dispatched; not transmitted.
Unsent for, not called or invited to attend.


Topic: Unserviceable
Definition:
UNSERV'ICEABLE, a.  Not serviceable; not bringing advantage, use, profit or convenience; useless; as an unserviceable utensil or garment; an unserviceable tract of land; unserviceable muskets.


Topic: Unsettle
Definition:
UNSET'TLE, v.t.
1.  To unfix; to move or loosen from a fixed state; to unhinge; to make uncertain or fluctuating; as, to unsettle doctrines and opinions.
2.  To move from a place.
3.  To overthrow.
UNSET'TLE, v.t.  To become unfixed.


Topic: Unsettled
Definition:
UNSET'TLED, pp.
1.  Unfixed; unhinged; rendered fluctuating.
2.  a.  Not settled; not fixed; not determined; as doctrines, questions, opinions and the like.
3.  Not established.
4.  Not regular; unequal; changeable; as an unsettled season; unsettled weather.
5.  Not having a legal settlement in a town or parish.
6.  Having no fixed place of abode.
7.  Not having deposited its fecal matter; turbid; as unsettled liquor.
8.  Having no inhabitants; not occupied by permanent inhabitants; as unsettled lands in America.


Topic: Unsettledness
Definition:
UNSET'TLEDNESS, n.
1.  The state of being unfixed, unsettled or undetermined.
2.  Irresolution; fluctuation of mind or opinions.
3.  Uncertainty.
4.  Want of fixedness; fluctuation.


Topic: Unshackle
Definition:
UNSHACK'LE, v.t.  To unfetter; to loose from bonds; to set free from restraint; as, to unshackle the hands; to unshackle the mind.


Topic: Unshaded
Definition:
UNSHA'DED, a.  
1.  Not shaded; not overspread with shade or darkness.
2.  Not clouded; not having shades in coloring.


Topic: Unshaken
Definition:
UNSHA'KEN, a. 
1.  Not shaken; not agitated; not moved; firm; fixed.
2.  Not moved in resolution; firm; steady.
3.  Not subject to concussion.


Topic: Unship
Definition:
UNSHIP', v.t
1.  To take out of a ship or other water craft; as, to unship goods.
2.  To remove from the place where it is fixed or fitted; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars.


Topic: Unshrinking
Definition:
UNSHRINK'ING, a.  Not shrinking; not withdrawing from danger or toil; not recoiling; as unshrinking firmness.


Topic: Unsifted
Definition:
UNSIFT'ED, a. 
1.  Not sifted; not separated by a sieve.
2.  Not critically examined; untried.
Unsight unseen, a vulgar phrase, denoting unseeing unseen, or unseen repeated; as, to buy a thing unsight unseen, that is, without seeing it.


Topic: Unsincere
Definition:
UNSINCE'RE, a.
1.  Not sincere; hypocritical.  [See Insincere.]
2.  Not genuine; adulterated.
3.  Not sound; not solid.
[Obsolete in the two last significations, and for the first, insincere is generally used.]


Topic: Unskilled
Definition:
UNSKILL'ED, a.
1.  Wanting skill; destitute of readiness or dexterity in performance.
2.  Destitute of practical knowledge.


Topic: Unskillful
Definition:
UNSKILL'FUL, a.  Not skillful; wanting the knowledge and dexterity which are acquired by observation, use and experience; as an unskillful surgeon; an unskillful mechanic; an unskillful logician.


Topic: Unskillfulness
Definition:
UNSKILL'FULNESS, n.  Want of art or knowledge; want of that readiness in action or execution, which is acquired by use, experience and observation.


Topic: Unslaked
Definition:
UNSLA'KED, a.  Not slaked; unquenched; as unslaked thirst.
UNSLA'KED, a.  Not saturated with water; as unslaked lime.


Topic: Unsociable
Definition:
UNSO'CIABLE, a.
1.  Not suitable to society; not having the qualities which are proper for society, and which render it agreeable; as an unsociable temper.
2.  Not apt to converse; not free in conversation; reserved.


Topic: Unsoiled
Definition:
UNSOIL'ED, a.
1.  Not soiled; not stained; unpolluted.
2.  Not disgraced; not tainted; as character.


Topic: Unsolicited
Definition:
UNSOLIC'ITED, a.
1.  Not solicited; not requested; unmasked.
2.  Not asked for; as an unsolicited favor.


Topic: Unsolid
Definition:
UNSOL'ID, a.  
1.  Not solid; not firm; not substantial; as unsolid arguments or reasoning; an unsolid foundation.
2.  Fluid.


Topic: Unsophisticated
Definition:
UNSOPHIS'TICATED, a.  Not adulterated by mixture; not counterfeit; pure; as unsophisticated drugs; unsophisticated arguments.


Topic: Unsorted
Definition:
UNSORT'ED, a.  Not separated into sorts; not distributed according to kinds or classes; as unsorted types; unsorted ideas.


Topic: Unsought
Definition:
UNSOUGHT, a unsaut'.
1.  Not sought; not searched for.
2.  Had without searching; as unsought honor; unsought ideas.


Topic: Unsound
Definition:
UNSOUND', a.
1.  Not sound; defective; as unsound timber.
2.  Infirm; sickly; as unsound in health; an unsound constitution.
3.  Not orthodox; defective; as unsound in faith; unsound doctrine.
4.  Not sound in character; not honest; not faithful; not to be trusted; defective; deceitful.
5.  Not true; not solid; not real; not substantial; as unsound pleasures; unsound delights.
6.  Not close; not compact; as unsound cheese.
7.  Not sincere; not faithful; as unsound love.
8.  Not solid; not material.
9.  Erroneous; wrong; deceitful; sophistical; as unsound arguments.
10.  Not strong; as unsound ice.
11.  Not fast; not calm; as unsound sleep.
12.  Not well established; defective; questionable; as unsound credit.


Topic: Unsoundness
Definition:
UNSOUND'NESS, n.
1.  Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of timber.
2.  Defectiveness of faith; want of orthodoxy.
3.  Corruptness; want of solidity; as the unsoundness of principles.
4.  Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of fruit.
5.  Infirmity; weakness; as of body; as the unsoundness of the body or constitution.


Topic: Unspeakable
Definition:
UNSPE'AKABLE, a.  That cannot be uttered; that cannot be expressed; unuterable; as unspeakable grief or rage.  2Cor. 12.
Joy unspeakable and full of glory.  1Peter 1.


Topic: Unspent
Definition:
UNSPENT', a.
1.  Not spent; not used or wasted; as water in a cistern unspent.
2.  Not exhausted; as strength or force unspent.
3.  Not having lost its force or impulse; as an unspent ball.


Topic: Unspirit
Definition:
UNSPIR'IT, v.t.  To depress in spirits; to dispirit; to dishearten.  [Little used.  The word used is dispirit.]


Topic: Unspoiled
Definition:
UNSPOIL'ED, a.  
1.  Not spoiled; not corrupted; not ruined; not rendered useless.
2.  Not plundered; not pillaged.


Topic: Unspotted
Definition:
UNSPOT'TED, a.
1.  Not stained; free from spot.
2.  Free from moral stain; untainted with guilt; unblemished; immaculate; as unspotted reputation.


Topic: Unstable
Definition:
UNSTA'BLE, a.  [l. instabilis.]  
1.  Not stable; not fixed.
2.  Not steady; inconstant; irresolute; wavering.  James 1.


Topic: Unstaidness
Definition:
UNSTA'IDNESS, n.
1.  Unfixed or volatile state or disposition; mutability; fickleness; indiscretion.
2.  Uncertain motion; unsteadiness.


Topic: Unstained
Definition:
UNSTA'INED, a.
1.  Not stained; not dyed.
2.  Not polluted; not tarnished; not dishonored; as an unstained character.


Topic: Unsteadfast
Definition:
UNSTEADFAST, a. unsted'fast.
1.  Not fixed; not standing or being firm.
2.  Not firmly adhering to a purpose.


Topic: Unsteadily
Definition:
UNSTEADILY, adv. unsted'ily.
1.  Without steadiness; in a wavering, vacillating manner.
2.  Inconstantly; in a fickle manner.
3.  Not in the same manner at different times; variously.


Topic: Unsteadiness
Definition:
UNSTEADINESS, n. unsted'iness.
1.  Unstableness; inconstancy; want of firmness; irresolution; mutableness of opinion or purpose.
2.  Frequent change of place; vacillation.


Topic: Unsteady
Definition:
UNSTEADY, a. unsted'y. 
1.  Not steady; not constant; irresolute.
2.  Mutable; variable; changeable; as unsteady winds.
3.  Not adhering constantly to any fixed plan or business.


Topic: Unsting
Definition:
UNSTING', v.t.  To disarm of a sting.
Elegant dissertations on virtue and vice - will not unsting calamity.


Topic: Unstop
Definition:
UNSTOP', v.t.
1.  To free from a stopple, as a bottle or cask.
2.  To free from any obstruction; to open.


Topic: Unstored
Definition:
UNSTO'RED, a.
1.  Not stored; not laid up in store; not warehoused.
2.  Not supplied with stores; as a fort unstored with provisions.


Topic: Unstrained
Definition:
UNSTRA'INED, a.
1.  Not strained; as unstrained oil.
2.  Easy; not forced; natural; as an unstrained derivation.


Topic: Unstring
Definition:
UNSTRING', v.t.
1.  To relax tension; to loosen; as, to unstring the nerves.
2.  To deprive of strings; as, to unstring a harp.
3.  To loose; to untie.
4.  To take from a string; as, to unstring beads.


Topic: Unstudied
Definition:
UNSTUD'IED, a.
1.  Not studied; not premeditated.
2.  Not labored; easy; natural; as an unstudied style.


Topic: Unsubdued
Definition:
UNSUBDU'ED, a.  Not subdued; not brought into subjection; not conquered; as nations or passions unsubdued.


Topic: Unsufferable
Definition:
UNSUF'FERABLE, a.  Not sufferable; not to be endured; intolerable.  [But the word now used is insufferable.]


Topic: Unsuitable
Definition:
UNSUITABLE, a.
1.  Not suitable; unfit; not adapted; as timber unsuitable for a bridge.
2.  Unbecoming; improper; as a dress unsuitable for a clergyman; unsuitable returns for favors.


Topic: Unsuitably
Definition:
UNSUITABLY, adv.  
1.  In a manner unbecoming or improper.
2.  Incongruously; as a man and wife unsuitably matched.


Topic: Unsullied
Definition:
UNSUL'LIED, a.  
1.  Not sullied; not stained; not tarnished.
2.  Not disgraced; free from imputation of evil.


Topic: Unsusceptible
Definition:
UNSUSCEP'TIBLE, a.  Not susceptible; not capable of admitting or receiving; as a heart unsusceptible of impressions a substance unsusceptible of change or of permanent colors.


Topic: Unsuspected
Definition:
UNSUSPECT'ED, a.  Not suspected; not considered as likely to have done an evil act, or to have a disposition to evil.


Topic: Unsuspicious
Definition:
UNSUSPI'CIOUS, a.
1.  Having no suspicion; not indulging the imagination of evil in others; as an unsuspicious youth.
2.  Not to be suspected; as unsuspicious testimony.


Topic: Unsustainable
Definition:
UNSUSTA'INABLE, a.  Not sustainable; that cannot be maintained or supported; as unsustainable pain; a suit in law unsustainable.


Topic: Unswayed
Definition:
UNSWA'YED, a.
1.  Not swayed; not wielded; as a scepter.
2.  Not biased; not controlled or influenced.


Topic: Untainted
Definition:
UNTA'INTED, a.  
1.  Not rendered impure by admixture; not impregnated with foul matter; as untainted air.
2.  Not sullied; not stained; unblemished; as untainted virtue or reputation.
3.  Not rendered unsavory by putrescence; as untainted meat.
4.  Not charged with a crime; not accused; as, he lived untainted.


Topic: Untaken
Definition:
UNTAKEN, a.  unta'kn.
1.  Not taken; not seized; not apprehended; as a thief untaken.
2.  Not reduced; not subdued; as untaken Troy.
3.  Not swallowed.
Untaken away, not removed.  2Cor. 3.
Untaken up, not occupied; not filled.
Untalked of, not talked of; not made the subject of conversation.


Topic: Untamable
Definition:
UNTA'MABLE, a.
1.  That cannot be tamed or domesticated; that cannot be reclaimed from a wild state.
2.  Not to be subdued or reduced to control.


Topic: Untamed
Definition:
UNTA'MED, a.
1.  Not reclaimed from wildness; not domesticated; not made familiar with man; as an untamed beast.
2.  Not subdued; not brought under control; as a turbulent, untamed mind.
3.  Not softened or rendered mild by culture; as an untamed people.


Topic: Untangle
Definition:
UNTAN'GLE, v.t.  To disentangle; to loose from tangles or intricacy; as, to untangle thread.
Untangle this cruel chain.


Topic: Untarnished
Definition:
UNT'ARNISHED, a.  Not soiled; not tarnished; not stained; unblemished; as untarnished silk; untarnished reputation.


Topic: Untasted
Definition:
UNTASTED, a.
1.  Not tasted; not tried by the taste or tongue.
2.  Not enjoyed; as untasted pleasures.


Topic: Untaught
Definition:
UNTAUGHT, a. untaut'
1.  Not taught; not instructed; not educated; unlettered; illiterate.
2.  Unskilled; new; not having use or practice.
A tongue untaught to plead for favor.


Topic: Unteach
Definition:
UNTE'ACH, v.t. pret. and pp. untaught.  To cause to forget or lose what has been taught.  
Experience will unteach us.


Topic: Untempted
Definition:
UNTEMPT'ED, a.  Not tempted; not tried by enticements or persuasions; not invited by any thing alluring.


Topic: Untenable
Definition:
UNTEN'ABLE, a.
1.  Not tenable; that cannot be held in possession; as an untenable post or fort.
2.  That cannot be maintained or supported; not defensible; as an untenable doctrine; untenable ground in argument.


Topic: Unthanked
Definition:
UNTHANK'ED, a.  
1.  Not thanked; not repaid with acknowledgments.
2.  Not received with thankfulness; as an unthanked reprieve.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Unthankful
Definition:
UNTHANK'FUL, a.  Not thankful; ungrateful; not making acknowledgments for good received.
For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.  Luke 6.


Topic: Unthankfulness
Definition:
UNTHANK'FULNESS, n.  Neglect or omission of acknowledgment for good received; want of a sense of kindness or benefits; ingratitude.
Immoderate favors breed first unthankfulness, and afterwards hate.


Topic: Unthinking
Definition:
UNTHINK'ING, a.
1.  Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as unthinking youth.
2.  Not indicating thought or reflection; as a round unthinking face.


Topic: Unthoughtful
Definition:
UNTHOUGHTFUL, a.  unthaut'ful.  Thoughtless; heedless.
Unthought of, not thought of; not regarded not heeded.


Topic: Unthread
Definition:
UNTHREAD, v.t.  unthred'.  
1.  To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle.
2.  To loose.


Topic: Unthrifty
Definition:
UNTHRIFT'Y, a.
1.  Prodigal; lavish; profuse; spending property without necessity or use.
2.  Not thriving; not gaining property; as un unthrifty farmer.
3.  Not gaining flesh; as an unthrifty ox.
4.  Not vigorous in growth, as a plant.


Topic: Untie
Definition:
UNTI'E, v.t.
1.  To loosen, as a knot; to disengage the parts that form a knot.  Untie the knot.
2.  To unbind; to free from any fastening; as, to untie an iron chain.
3.  To loosen from coils or convolution; as snakes untied.
4.  To loose; to separate something attached; as, to untie the tongue.
5.  To resolve; to unfold; to clear.


Topic: Untied
Definition:
UNTI'ED, pp.
1.  Loosed; as a knot; unbound; separated; resolved.
2.  a. Not tied; not bound or gathered in a knot; loose.
3.  Not fastened with a knot.
4.  Not held by any tie or band.


Topic: Until
Definition:
UNTIL', prep.  [un and till.  See Till.]
1.  To; used of time.
He and his sons were priests of the tribe of Dan, until the day of the captivity.  Judges 18.
2.  To; used of objects.  Obs.
3.  Preceding a sentence or clause, to; that is, to the event mentioned, or the time of it; as, until this hour; until this year.
The scepter shall not depart from Judah - until Shiloh come.  Gen. 49.
4.  To the point or place of.
In open prospect nothing bounds our eye,
Until the earth seems join'd unto the sky.
5.  To the degree that.
Thou shalt push Syria, until they be consumed.  2Chron. 18.
[Note.  Until is always the same part of speech in fact, and has the same signification.  The only difference is, that it is followed sometimes by a single word denoting time, and in other cases by a verb denoting an event, or a word denoting place or degree.  The sense is in all cases to; and till may be used as its substitute, and in modern usage it is most common.]


Topic: Untimbered
Definition:
UNTIM'BERED, a.  
1.  Not furnished with timber.
2.  Not covered with timber trees; as untimbered land.


Topic: Untimely
Definition:
UNTI'MELY, a.  
1.  Happening before the usual time; as untimely frost.
2.  Happening before the natural time; premature; as untimely death; untimely fate.
UNTI'MELY, adv.  Before the natural time.
What is untimely done.


Topic: Untinged
Definition:
UNTING'ED, a.
1.  Not tinged; not stained; not discolored; as water untinged; untinged beams of light.
2.  Not infected.


Topic: Unto
Definition:
UN'TO, prep. a compound of un, [on,] and to; of no use in the language, as it expresses no more than to.  I do not find it in our mother tongue, nor is it ever used in popular discourse.  It is found in writers of former times, but is entirely obsolete.


Topic: Untouched
Definition:
UNTOUCHED, a.  untuch'ed.
1.  Not touched; not reached; not hit.
2.  Not moved; not affected; as the heart untouched.
3.  Not meddled with; as books untouched for years.


Topic: Untoward
Definition:
UNTO'WARD, a.
1.  Froward; perverse; refractory; not easily guided or taught.  Acts 2.
2.  Awkward; ungraceful; as untoward words.
3.  Inconvenient; troublesome; unmanageable; as an untoward vow.


Topic: Untowardly
Definition:
UNTO'WARDLY, adv.  In a froward or perverse manner; perversely; ungainly.
UNTO'WARDLY, a.  Awkward; perverse; froward.


Topic: Untractable
Definition:
UNTRACT'ABLE, a.  [L. intractabilis.]
1.  Not tractable; not yielding to discipline; stubborn; indocile; ungovernable; as an untractable son.
2.  Rough; difficult.
3.  Not yielding to the heat or to the hammer; as an ore.
[Intractable is more generally used.]


Topic: Untractableness
Definition:
UNTRACT'ABLENESS, n.  Refractoriness; stubbornness; unwillingness to be governed; controlled or managed.


Topic: Untrained
Definition:
UNTRA'INED, a.  
1.  Not trained; not disciplined; not skillful.
2.  Not educated; not instructed.
My wit untrained.
3.  Irregular; ungovernable; as untrained hope.


Topic: Untransferable
Definition:
UNTRANSFER'ABLE, a.  That cannot be transferred or passed from one to another; as power or right untransferable.


Topic: Untransferred
Definition:
UNTRANSFER'RED, a.  Not transferred; not conveyed or assigned to another; as titles or rights untransferred.


Topic: Untraveled
Definition:
UNTRAV'ELED, a.
1.  Not traveled; not troden by passengers; as an untraveled forest.
2.  Having never seen foreign countries; as un untraveled Englishman.


Topic: Untried
Definition:
UNTRI'ED, a.
1.  Not tried; not attempted.
2.  Not yet experienced; as untried sufferings.
3.  Not having passed trial; not heard and determined in law.  The cause remains untried.


Topic: Untroubled
Definition:
UNTROUBLED, a. untrub'led.
1.  Not troubled; not disturbed by care, sorrow or business; free from trouble.
2.  Not agitated; not ruffled; not confused; free from passion; as an untroubled mind.
3.  Not agitated; not moved; as an untroubled lake.
4.  Not disturbed or interrupted in the natural course; as untroubled nature.
5.  Not foul; not turbid; clear; as an untroubled stream.


Topic: Untrue
Definition:
UNTRUE, a.
1.  Not true; false; contrary to the fact.  The story is untrue.
2.  Not faithful to another; not fulfilling the duties of a husband, wife, vassal, &c.; false; disloyal.
3.  Inconstant; as a lover.


Topic: Untruth
Definition:
UNTRUTH, n.
1.  Contrariety to truth; falsehood.
2.  Want of veracity.
3.  Treachery; want of fidelity.  Obs.
4.  False assertion.
No untruth can possibly avail the patron and defender long.


Topic: Untunable
Definition:
UNTU'NABLE, a.
1.  Not harmonious; not musical.
2.  Not capable of making music.
3.  Not capable of being tuned or brought to the proper pitch.


Topic: Untune
Definition:
UNTU'NE, v.t.
1.  To make incapable of harmony.
Untune that string.
2.  To disorder.
Untun'd and jarring senses.


Topic: Untwine
Definition:
UNTWI'NE, v.t.
1.  To untwist.
2.  To open; to disentangle.
3.  To separate, as that which winds or clasps.


Topic: Untwist
Definition:
UNTWIST', v.t.
1.  To separate and open, as threads twisted; or to turn back that which is twisted.
2.  To open; to disentangle; as intricacy.


Topic: Unused
Definition:
UNU'SED, a. s as z.
1.  Not put to use; not employed.
2.  That has never been used.
3.  Not accustomed; as hands unused to labor; hearts unused to deceit.


Topic: Unusual
Definition:
UNU'SUAL, a. s as z.  Not usual; not common; rare; as an unusual season; a person of unusual graces or erudition.


Topic: Unusually
Definition:
UNU'SUALLY, adv. s as z.  Not commonly; not frequently; rarely.  This summer, 1828 has been unusually rainy.


Topic: Unutterable
Definition:
UNUT'TERABLE, a.  That cannot be uttered or expressed; ineffable; inexpressible; as unutterable anguish; unutterable joy.


Topic: Unvalued
Definition:
UNVAL'UED, a.  
1.  Not valued; not prized; neglected.
2.  Inestimable; not to be valued.
3.  Not estimated; not having the value set.


Topic: Unvarnished
Definition:
UNV'ARNISHED, a.
1.  Not overlaid with varnish.
2.  Not artificially colored or adorned; not artfully embellished; plain.
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.


Topic: Unviolated
Definition:
UNVI'OLATED, a.
1.  Not violated; not injured; as unviolated honor.
2.  Not broken; not transgressed; as laws unviolated.


Topic: Unwarranted
Definition:
UNWAR'RANTED, a.
1.  Not warranted; not authorized.
2.  Not ascertained; not assured or certain.
3.  Not covenanted to be good, sound, or of a certain quality; as an unwarranted horse.


Topic: Unwary
Definition:
UNWA'RY, a.  
1.  Not vigilant against danger; not cautious; unguarded; precipitate.
2.  Unexpected.  Obs.


Topic: Unwasted
Definition:
UNWASTED, a.  
1.  Not lost by extravagance or negligence; not lavished away; not dissipated.
2.  Not consumed by time or violence.
3.  Not lost by exhaustion, evaporation or other means.


Topic: Unwearied
Definition:
UNWE'ARIED, a.
1.  Not tired; not fatigued.
2.  indefatigable; continual; that does not tire or sink under fatigue; as unwearied perseverance.


Topic: Unweighed
Definition:
UNWEIGHED, a.
1.  Not weighed; not having the weight ascertained.
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed.  1Kings 7.
2.  Not deliberately considered and examined; as, to leave arguments or testimony unweighed.
3.  Not considerate; negligent; as words unweighed.


Topic: Unwelcome
Definition:
UNWEL'COME, a.  Not welcome; not grateful; not pleasing; not well received; as unwelcome news; an unwelcome guest.


Topic: Unwholesome
Definition:
UNWHO'LESOME, a.
1.  Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; insalubrious; as unwholesome air or food.
2.  Pernicious; as unwholesome advice.


Topic: Unwholesomeness
Definition:
UNWHO'LESOMENESS, n.  Insalubrity; state or quality of being injurious or noxious to health; as the unwholesomeness of a climate.


Topic: Unwieldy
Definition:
UNWIE'LDY, a.  That is moved with difficulty; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous; as an unwieldy bulk; an unwieldy rock.


Topic: Unwind
Definition:
UNWIND, v.t. pret. and pp. unwound.
1.  To wind off; to loose or separate what is wound or convolved; as, to unwind thread or a ball.
2.  To disentangle.
UNWIND, v.i.  To admit evolution.


Topic: Unwise
Definition:
UNWI'SE, a. s as z.  
1.  Not wise; not choosing the best means for the end; defective in wisdom; as an unwise man; unwise kings.
2.  Not dictated by wisdom; not adapted to the end; as unwise measures.


Topic: Unwittingly
Definition:
UNWIT'TINGLY, adv.  Without knowledge or consciousness; ignorantly; as, he has unwittingly injured himself, or his neighbor.


Topic: Unwonted
Definition:
UNWONTED, a.
1.  Unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as a child unwonted to strangers; sea calves unwonted to fresh water.
2.  Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as an unwonted meteor; unwonted changes.


Topic: Unworthily
Definition:
UNWORTHILY, adv.  [See Worthy and Worth.]
Not according to desert; without due regard to merit; as, to treat a man unworthily.


Topic: Unworthy
Definition:
UNWORTHY, a.
1.  Not deserving; followed by of.  As sinners, were are utterly unworthy of the divine favor.
2.  Not deserving; wanting merit.  Receive your unworthy son into favor.  One great evil of government is that unworthy men are elected or appointed to fill important offices.
3.  Unbecoming; vile; base; as unworthy usage or treatment.
4.  Not suitable; inadequate.  This opinion is unworthy of its author.


Topic: Unwounded
Definition:
UNWOUND'ED, a.
1.  Not wounded; not hurt; not injured in body; as unwounded enemies.
2.  Not hurt; not offended; as unwounded ears.


Topic: Unwritten
Definition:
UNWRITTEN, a. unrit'n.
1.  Not written; not reduced to writing; verbal.
2.  Blank; containing no writing.
Unwritten doctrines, in religion, are such as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.
Unwritten laws, are such as have been delivered down by tradition or in songs.  Such were the laws of the early nations of Europe.
The unwritten laws of England and of the United States, called common law, are such as have not the authority of statutes, not having originated from any legislative act, or originating from some act not now extant.  These laws are now contained in the reports of judicial decisions.


Topic: Unyielding
Definition:
UNYIE'LDING, a.  
1.  Not yielding to force or persuasion; unbending; unpliant; stiff; firm; obstinate.
2.  Not giving place.


Topic: Unyoke
Definition:
UNYO'KE, v.t  
1.  To loose from a yoke; to free from a yoke.
Unyoke the steers.
2.  To part; to disjoin.


Topic: Unyoked
Definition:
UNYO'KED, pp.  
1.  Freed from the yoke.
2.  a.  Not having worn the yoke.
3.  Licentious; unrestrained.


Topic: Up
Definition:
UP, adv.
1.  Aloft; on high
But up or down -
2.  Out of bed.  He is not up.
3.  Having risen from a seat.
Sir Roger was up.
4.  From a state of concealment or discumbiture.
5.  In a state of being built.
Up with my tent.
6.  Above the horizon.  The sun is up.
7.  To a state of excitement.  He was wrought up to a rage.
8.  To a state of advance or proficiency.
- Till we have wrought ourselves up to this degree of christian indifference.
9.  In a state of elevation or exaltation.
Those that were up, kept others low.
10.  In a state of climbing or ascending.  We went up to the city or town.
11.  In a state of insurrection.
The gentle archbishop of York is up.
My soul is up in arms.
12.  In a state of being increased or raised.  The river is up; the flood is up.
13.  In a state of approaching; as up comes a fox.
14.  In order.  He drew up his regiment.
15.  From younger to elder years; as from his youth up.
1.  Up and down, from one place to another; here and there.
2.  From one state or position to another; backwards and forwards.
1.  Up to, to an equal highth with; as up to the chin in water.
2.  To a degree or point adequate.  Live up to the principles professed.
Up with, raise; life; as, up with the fist; up with the timber.
Up is much used to modify the actions expressed by verbs.  It is very often useful and necessary; very often useless.
To bear up, to sustain.
To go up, to ascend.
To lift up, to raise.
To get up, to rise from bed or a seat.
To bind up, to bind together.
To blow up, to inflate; to distend; to inflame.
To grow up, to grow to maturity.
Up stream, from the mouth towards the head of a stream; against the stream; hence up is in a direction towards the head of a stream or river; as up the country.
Up sound, in the direction from the sea; opposed to down sound, that is, in the direction of the ebb tide.
Up is used elliptically for get up, expressing a command or exhortation.
Up, let us be going.  Judges 19.
UP, prep.  From a lower to a higher place.  Go up the hill.


Topic: Upbear
Definition:
UPBEAR, v.t. pret. upbore; pp. upborne. [up and bear.  See Bear.]
1.  To raise aloft; to life; to elevate.
2.  To sustain aloft; to support in an elevated situation.
Upborne they fly.
3.  To support; to sustain.


Topic: Upbraid
Definition:
UPBRA'ID, v.t.
1.  To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast in the teeth; followed by with or for, before the thing imputed; as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance.
Yet do not upbraid us with our distress.
He upbraided them with their unbelief.  Matt. 16.
[The use of to and of, after upbraid, as to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, has been long discontinued.]
2.  To reproach; to chide.
God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not.  James 1.
3.  To reprove with severity.
Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done - Matt. 11.
4.  To bring reproach on.
How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
5.  To treat with contempt.  Obs.


Topic: Upbraiding
Definition:
UPBRA'IDING, ppr.  Accusing; casting in the teeth; reproaching; reproving.
UPBRA'IDING, n.
1.  A charging with something wrong or disgraceful; the act of reproaching or reproving.
I have too long borne your blunt upbraidings.
2.  The reproaches or accusations of conscience.


Topic: Upcast
Definition:
UP'CAST, a.
1.  Cast up; a term in bowling.
2.  Thrown upwards; as with upcast eyes.
UP'CAST, n.  In bowling, a cast; a throw.


Topic: Uphold
Definition:
UPHOLD, v.t. pret. and pp. upheld.  [Upholden is obsolete.]
1.  To lift on high; to elevate.
2.  To support; to sustain; to keep from falling or slipping.
Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.  Prov. 29.
3.  To keep from declension.
4.  To support in any state.
5.  To continue; to maintain.
6.  To keep from being lost.
Faulconbridge, in spite of spite, along upholds the day.
7.  To continue without failing.
8.  To continue in being.


Topic: Upholder
Definition:
UPHOLDER, n.
1.  One that upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.
2.  An undertaker; one who provides for funerals.


Topic: Upland
Definition:
UP'LAND, n.  [up and land.]  High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry.  It is opposed to meadow, march, swamp, interval, &c.  Uplands are particularly valuable as affording pasture for sheep.
UP'LAND, a.
1.  Higher in situation; being on upland; as upland inhabitants.
2.  Pertaining to uplands; as upland pasturage.


Topic: Uplift
Definition:
UPLIFT', v.t.  To raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm.  It is chiefly used in the participle; as uplifted eyes; uplifted arms.


Topic: Upon
Definition:
UPON', prep.
1.  Resting or being on the top or surface; as being upon a hill, or upon a rock; upon a field; upon a table; upon a river; upon the altar; upon the roof.  He has his coat upon his back; his hat is upon his head.
2.  In a state of resting or dependence; as upon this condition; he will contract with you upon these terms.  Upon our repentance we hope to be forgiven.
3.  Denoting resting, as a burden.  Impose upon yourself this task.
4.  In the direction or part of; as upon the right hand.
5.  Relating to.  They are now engaged upon the affairs of the bank.
6.  In consideration of; as upon the whole matter.
7.  Near to; as a village upon the Thames.
8.  With, or having received.  He came upon an hour's warning.
9.  On the occasion of; engaged in for the execution of.  He sent the officer upon a bold enterprise.
10.  In; during the time of; as upon the seventh day; upon the first of January.
11.  Noting security; as, to borrow money upon lands, or upon mortgage.
12.  Noting approach or attack.
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.  Judges 16.
13.  Noting exposure or incurring some danger or loss.  You do this upon pain of death, or upon the penalties of the law.
14.  At the time of; on occasion of.  What was their conduct upon this event?
15.  By inference from, or pursuing a certain supposition.  Upon his principles, we can have no stable government.
16.  Engaged in.  What is he upon?
17.  Having a particular manner.  The horse is now upon a hard trot.
18.  Resting or standing, as on a condition.  He is put upon his good behavior.
19.  Noting means of subsistence or support.  Cattle live upon grass.
20.  Noting dependence for subsistence; as, paupers come upon the parish or town.
To take upon, to assume.
To assume upon, in law, to promise; to undertake.


Topic: Upper
Definition:
UP'PER, a.  [comp. from up.]  
1.  Higher in place; as the upper lip; the upper side of a thing.  An upper story is a higher one; the upper story is the highest.  So the upper deck of a ship.
2.  Superior in rank or dignity; as the upper house of a legislature.
Upper hand, advantage; superiority.
Upper-works, in a ship, the parts above water when the ship is properly balanced for a voyage; or that part which is above the main wale.


Topic: Uppermost
Definition:
UP'PERMOST, a.  [superl.; upper and most.]
1.  Highest in place; as the uppermost seats.
2.  Highest in power or authority.
Whatever faction happens to be uppermost -
3.  Predominant; most powerful.


Topic: Upright
Definition:
UPRIGHT, a. upri'te or up'rite.  [up and right.  This word is marked in books with the accent on the first syllable.  But it is frequently pronounced with the accent on the second, and the accent on the first syllable of its derivatives is inadmissible.]
1.  Erect; perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; as an upright tree; an upright post.  Among mechanics, plumb.
2.  Erected; pricked up; shooting directly from the body.
All have their ears upright -
With chatt'ring teeth and bristling hair upright.
3.  Honest; just; adhering to rectitude in all social intercourse; not deviating from correct moral principles; as an upright man.  Job. 1.
4.  Conformable to moral rectitude.
Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure.


Topic: Uprightly
Definition:
UPRIGHTLY, adv.
1.  In a direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; in an erect position.
2.  Honestly; with strict observance of rectitude; as, to live uprightly.
He that walketh uprightly, walketh surely.  Prov. 10.


Topic: Uprightness
Definition:
UPRIGHTNESS, n.
1.  Perpendicular erection.
2.  Honesty; integrity in principle or practice; conformity to rectitude and justice in social dealings.
The truly upright man is inflexible in his uprightness.


Topic: Uprise
Definition:
UPRI'SE, v.i. s as z. pret uprose; pp. uprisen.
1.  To rise from bed or from a seat.
Uprose the virgin with the morning light.
2.  To ascend above the horizon.
Uprose the sun.
3.  To ascend, as a hill.  Obs.
UPRI'SE, n.  A rising; appearance above the horizon.  Obs.


Topic: Uprising
Definition:
UPRI'SING, ppr.  Rising; ascending.
UPRI'SING, n.  The act of rising.
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising.  Ps. 139.


Topic: Uproar
Definition:
UP'ROAR, n.
Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; bustle and clamor.
The Jews who believed not - set all the city in an uproar.  Act. 17.
Horror thus prevail'd, and wild uproar.


Topic: Uproot
Definition:
UPROOT', v.t.  [up and root.]  To root up; to tear up by the roots; as, to uproot the hills or trees.


Topic: Upshot
Definition:
UP'SHOT, n.  [up and shot.]  Final issue; conclusion; end; as the upshot of the matter.
Here is the upshot and result of all.
Upside down, the upper part undermost.  As a phrase, this denotes in confusion; in complete disorder.


Topic: Upward
Definition:
UP'WARD, a.  [up and ward,  L. versus.]
Directed to a higher place; as with upward eye; with upward speed.
UP'WARD, n.  The top.  [Not in use.]
UP'WARD,


Topic: Upwards
Definition:
UP'WARDS, adv.  
1.  Toward a higher place; opposed to downward. 
Upward I lift my eye.
2.  Toward heaven and God.
Looking inward, we are struck dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.
3.  With respect to the higher part.
Upward man, downward fish.
4.  More than, indefinitely.  Upwards of ten years have elapsed; upwards of a hundred men were present.
5.  Toward the source.  Trace the stream upwards.
And trace the muses upwards to their spring.


Topic: Uran-ocher
Definition:
URAN-O'CHER, n.  Pechblend, an ore of uranium, containing the metal in an oxydized state.  It is brown, grayish, black, and brownish black; occurring massive globular, reniform, disseminated, and pulverulent.


Topic: Uranite
Definition:
U'RANITE, n.  An ore or phosphate of uranium, called also uran-glimmer, and uran-mica.  It is of a lemon yellow gold color, or yellowish brown, sometimes of an apple green or emerald color.  It occurs crystallized in rectangular prisms, in imperfect octahedrons, &c.  Its structure is lamellar, and it yields to the knife.
Uranite is found in primitive earths, in three states, crystallized, compact, and pulverulent.


Topic: Uranium
Definition:
URA'NIUM, n.  [Gr. heaven, or a planet so called.]
A metal discovered in 1789 by Klaproth, in the mineral called pechblend.  It is occasionally found native in uran-ocher and uran-mica; but more generally it is obtained from pechblend, in which it exists with iron, copper, lead, and sometimes with arsenic, cobalt and zink.


Topic: Urbanity
Definition:
URBAN'ITY, n.  [L. urbanitas, from urbs, a city.]
1.  That civility or courtesy of manners which is acquired by associating with well bred people; politeness; polished manners.
2.  Facetiousness.


Topic: Urceolate
Definition:
UR'CEOLATE, a.  [L. urceolus, urceus, a pitcher.
In botany, shaped like a pitcher; swelling out like a pitcher; as a calyx or corol.


Topic: Urchin
Definition:
UR'CHIN, n.  
1.  A name given to the hedgehog.
2.  A name of slight anger given to a child; as, the little urchin cried.


Topic: Ureter
Definition:
U'RETER, n.  [Gr.  See Urine.]
A tube conveying the urine from the kidney to the bladder.  There are two ureters, one on each side.


Topic: Urethra
Definition:
URE'THRA, n.  [Gr.  See Urine.]
The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.


Topic: Urge
Definition:
URGE, v.t  [L. urgeo.  This belongs probably to the family of Gr. and L. arceo.]
1.  To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to apply force to, in almost any manner.
And great Achilles urge the Trojan fate.
2.  To press the mind or will; to press by motives, arguments, persuasion or importunity.
My broth did urge me in his act.
3.  To provoke; to exasperate.
Urge not my father's anger.
4.  To follow close; to impel.
Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
5.  To labor vehemently; to press with eagerness.
Through the thick deserts headlong urg'd his flight.
6.  To press; as, to urge an argument; to urge a petition; to urge the necessity of a case.
7.  To importune; to solicit earnestly.  He urged his son to withdraw.
8.  To apply forcibly; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
URGE, v.i.  To press forward; as, he strives to urge upward.


Topic: Urgency
Definition:
URG'ENCY, n.
1.  Pressure; importunity; earnest solicitation; as the urgency of a request.
2.  Pressure of necessity; as the urgency of want or distress; the urgency of the occasion.


Topic: Urgent
Definition:
URG'ENT, a.  
1.  Pressing with importunity.  Ex. 12.
2.  Pressing with necessity; violent; vehement; as an urgent case or occasion.


Topic: Urim
Definition:
U'RIM, n.  [Heb.]  The Urim and Thummim, among the Israelites, signify lights and perfections.  These were a kind of ornament belonging to the habit of the high priest, in virtue of which he gave oracular answers to the people; but what they were has not been satisfactorily ascertained.


Topic: Urinal
Definition:
U'RINAL, n.  [L. urinalis, from urina, urine.]
1.  A bottle in which urine is kept for inspection.
2.  A vessel for containing urine.
3.  In chimistry, an oblong glass vessel, used in making solutions.


Topic: Urinary
Definition:
U'RINARY, a.  [from urine.]  Pertaining to urine; as the urinary bladder; urinary calculi; urinary abscesses.
U'RINARY,


Topic: Urinator
Definition:
URINA'TOR, n.  [L. from urino, to dive.]  A diver; one who plunges and sinks in water in search of something, as for pearls.


Topic: Urine
Definition:
U'RINE, n.  [L. urina;  Gr.]
An animal fluid or liquor secreted by the kidneys, whence it is conveyed into the bladder by the ureters, and through the urethra discharged.  The urine of beasts is sometimes called stale.
U'RINE, v.i.  [supra.]  To discharge urine.


Topic: Urn
Definition:
URN, n.  [L. urna.]
1.  A kind of vase of a roundish form, largest in the middle; used as an ornament.
2.  A vessel for water.
3.  A vessel in which the ashes of the dead were formerly kept.
4.  A Roman measure for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure.  It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.


Topic: Ursuline
Definition:
UR'SULINE, a.  Denoting an order of nuns who observe the rule of St. Austin; so called from their institutress, St. Ursula.


Topic: Usage
Definition:
U'SAGE, n s as z.  [See Use.]
1.  Treatment; an action or series of actions performed by one person towards another, or which directly affect him; as good usage; ill usage; hard usage.  Gentle usage will often effect what harsh usage will not.  The elephant may be governed by mild usage.
2.  Use, or long continued use; custom; practice.  Uninterrupted usage for a long time, or immemorial usage constitutes prescription.  Custom is a local usage; prescription is a personal usage.  In language, usage is the foundation of all rules.
Of things once received and confirmed by use, long usage is a law sufficient.
3.  Manners; behavior.  Obs.


Topic: Usance
Definition:
U'SANCE, n.  s as z.  
1.  Use; proper employment.
2.  Usury; interest paid for money.
3.  In commerce, a determinate time fixed for the payment of bills of exchange, reckoned either from the day of their date, or the day of their acceptance.  It is thus called because this time is settled by usage, or the custom of places on which the bills are drawn.  In France, the usance for bills drawn from Spain and Portugal, is sixty days.  At London, the usance for bills drawn from Holland, Germany or France is one month.  The usance is very different in different countries and cities.


Topic: Use
Definition:
USE, n.  [L. urus.]
1.  The act of handling or employing in any manner, and for any purpose, but especially for a profitable purpose; as the use of a pen in writing; the use of books in study; the use of a spade in digging.  Use is of two kinds; that which employs a thing, without destroying it or its form, as the use of a book or of a farm; or it is the employment of a thing which destroys or wastes it, as the use of bread for provision; the use of water for turning a mill.
2.  Employment; application of any thing to a purpose, good or bad.  It is our duty to make a faithful use of our opportunities and advantages for improvement.
Books can never teach the use of books.
3.  Usefulness; utility; advantage; production of benefit.  the value of a thing is to be estimated by its use.  His friendship has been of use to me.
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense.
4.  Need of employment, or occasion to employ.  I have no further use for this book.
5.  Power of receiving advantage.  [Usual.]
6.  Continued practice or employment.
Sweetness, truth, and every grace, which time and use are wont to teach.
7.  Custom; common occurrence.
O Cesar, these things are beyond all use.  [Usual.]
8.  Interest; the premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money.
9.  In law, the benefit or profit of lands and tenements.  use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands.  He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended, shall enjoy the profits.  An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.
Cestuy que use, in law, the person who has the use of lands and tenements.
Contingent use, in law.  A contingent or springing use, is where the use is suspended on a future event.
Resulting use, is one which, being limited by the deed, expires or cannot vest, and results or returns to him who raised it, after such expiration.
Secondary or shifting use, is that which though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances.
1.  In use, in employment; as, the book is now in use.
2.  In customary practice or observance.  Such words, rites and ceremonies, have long been in use.
USE, v.t. s as z.  [L. uter, usus; Gr.]
1.  To employ; to handle, hold, occupy or move for some purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use a book; to use time.  Most men use the right hand with more convenience than the left, and hence its name, right.
2.  To waste, consume or exhaust by employment; as, to use flour for food; to use beer for drink; to use water for irrigation, or for turning the wheel of a mill.
3.  To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; as men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
4.  To treat; as, to use one well or ill; to use people with kindness and civility; to use a beast with cruelty.
Cato has us'd me ill.
5.  To practice customarily.
Use hospitality one to another.  1Peter 4.
To use one's self, to behave.  Obs.
USE, v.i. s as z.  
1.  To be accustomed; to practice customarily.
They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone.
2.  To be wont.
Fears use to be represented in an imaginary fashion.
3.  To frequent; to inhabit.
Where never foot did use.


Topic: Useful
Definition:
U'SEFUL, a.  Producing or having power to produce good; beneficial; profitable; helpful towards advancing any purpose; as vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.


Topic: Usefully
Definition:
U'SEFULLY, adv.  In such a manner as to produce or advance some end; as instruments or time usefully employed.


Topic: Usefulness
Definition:
U'SEFULNESS, n.  Conduciveness to some end, properly to some valuable end; as the usefulness of canal navigation; the usefulness of machinery in manufactures.


Topic: Useless
Definition:
U'SELESS, a.  Having no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; as a useless garment; useless pity.


Topic: Uselessness
Definition:
U'SELESSNESS, n.  Unserviceableness; unfitness for any valuable purpose, or for the purpose intended; as the uselessness of pleasure.


Topic: Usher
Definition:
USH'ER, n.
1.  Properly, an officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber or the like; hence, an officer whose business is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank.  In the king's household there are four gentlemen-ushers of the privy chamber.  There is also an usher of the exchequer, who attends the barons, sheriffs, juries, &c.
2.  An under-teacher or assistant to the preceptor of a school.
USH'ER, v.t.  To introduce, as a forerunner or harbinger; to forerun.
The stars that usher evening, rose.
The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author.


Topic: Ustulation
Definition:
USTULA'TION, n.  [L. ustulatus.]
1.  The act of burning or searing.
2.  In metallurgy, ustulation is the operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur and arsenic from ores, in a muffle.
3.  In pharmacy, the roasting or drying of moist substances so as to prepare them for pulverizing; also, the burning of wine.


Topic: Usual
Definition:
U'SUAL, a. s as z.  Customary; common; frequent; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events.  Rainy weather is not usual in this climate.
Consultation with oracles was formerly a thing very usual.


Topic: Usually
Definition:
U'SUALLY, adv. s as z.  Commonly; customarily; ordinarily.  Men usually find some excuse for their vices.  It is usually as cold in North America in the fortieth degree of latitude, as it is in the west of Europe in the fiftieth.


Topic: Usucaption
Definition:
USUCAP'TION, n.  [L. usus, use, and capio, to take.]
In the civil law, the same as prescription in the common law; the acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted and undisputed possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law.


Topic: Usufruct
Definition:
U'SUFRUCT, n.  [L. usus, use, and fructus, fruit.]
The temporary use and enjoyment of lands or tenements; or the right of receiving the fruits and profits of lands or other thing, without having the right to alienate or change the property.


Topic: Usufructuary
Definition:
USUFRUCT'UARY, n.  A person who has the use and enjoyment of property for a time, without having the title or property.


Topic: Usurer
Definition:
U'SURER, n. s as z.  [See Usury.]
1.  Formerly, a person who lent money and took interest for it.
2.  In present usage, one who lends money at a rate of interest beyond the rate established by law.


Topic: Usurious
Definition:
USU'RIOUS, a. s as z.  
1.  Practicing usury; taking exorbitant interest for the use of money; as a usurious person.
2.  Partaking of usury; containing usury; as a usurious contract, which by statute is void.


Topic: Usurp
Definition:
USURP', v.t. s as z.  [L. usurpo.]
To seize and hold in possession by force or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power.  To usurp the right of a patron, is to oust or dispossess him.
Vice sometimes usurps the place of virtue.
[Usurp is not applied to common dispossession of private property.]


Topic: Usurpation
Definition:
USURPA'TION, n.  [supra.]  The act of seizing or occupying and enjoying the property of another, without right; as the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.  Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, denotes the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who is thereupon admitted and instituted.


Topic: Usurper
Definition:
USURP'ER, n.  One who seizes or occupies the property of another without right; as the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.


Topic: Usurping
Definition:
USURP'ING, ppr.  Seizing or occupying the power or property of another without right.
The worst of tyrants, an usurping crowd.


Topic: Usury
Definition:
U'SURY, n.  s as z.  [L. usura, from utor, to use.]
1.  Formerly, interest; or a premium paid or stipulated to be paid for the use of money.
[Usury formerly denoted any legal interest, but in this sense, the word is no longer in use.]
2.  In present usage, illegal interest; a premium or compensation paid or stipulated to be paid for the use of money borrowed or retained, beyond the rate of interest established by law.
3.  The practice of taking interest.  Obs.


Topic: Utensil
Definition:
UTEN'SIL, n.  [This seems to be formed on the participle of the L. utor.]
An instrument; that which is used; particularly, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.


Topic: Uterine
Definition:
U'TERINE, a.  [L. uterinus, from uterus.]
Pertaining to the womb.  Uterine brother or sister, is one born of the same mother, but by a different father.


Topic: Utility
Definition:
UTIL'ITY, n.  [L. utilas, from utor, to use.]
Usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as the utility of manures upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.


Topic: Utmost
Definition:
UT'MOST, a.
1.  Extreme; being at the furthest point or extremity; as the utmost limit of North America; the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge.
2.  Being in the greatest or highest degree; as the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness; the utmost peril.
UT'MOST, n.  The most that can be; the greatest power, degree or effort.  He has done his utmost.  Try your utmost.
I will be free even to the utmost as I please in words.


Topic: Utricle
Definition:
U'TRICLE, a.  [L. utriculus, a little bag or bottle.]
1.  A little bag or bladder; a little cell; a reservoir in plants to receive the sap.
2.  A capsule of one cell, and containing a solitary seed, often very thin and semitransparent, constantly destitute of valves, and falling with the seed.


Topic: Utter
Definition:
UT'TER, a.  
1.  Situated on the outside or remote from the center.
2.  Placed or being beyond any compass; out of any place; as the utter deep.
3.  Extreme; excessive; utmost; as utter darkness.
4.  Complete; total; final; as utter ruin.
5.  Peremptory; absolute; as an utter refusal or denial.
6.  Perfect; mere; quite; as utter strangers.
UT'TER, v.t.
1.  To speak; to pronounce; to express; as, to utter words; to utter sounds.
2.  To disclose; to discover; to divulge; to publish.  He never utters a syllable of what I suppose to be intended as a secret.
3.  To sell; to vend; as, to utter wares.  [This is obsolete, unless in the law style.]
4.  To put or send into circulation; to put off, as currency, or cause to pass in commerce; as, to utter coin or notes.  A man utters a false note, who gives it in payment, knowing it to be false.


Topic: Utterance
Definition:
UT'TERANCE, n.  
1.  The act of uttering words; pronunciation; manner of speaking; as a good or bad utterance.
They began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance.  Acts 2.
2.  Emission from the mouth; vocal expression; as the utterance of sounds.
3.  Extremity; furthest part.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Utterer
Definition:
UT'TERER, n.
1.  One who utters; one who pronounces.
2.  One who divulges or discloses.
3.  One who puts into circulation.
4.  A seller; a vender.


Topic: Utterly
Definition:
UT'TERLY, adv.  To the full extent; fully; perfectly; totally; as utterly tired; utterly debased; utterly lost to all sense of shame; It is utterly vain; utterly out of my power.


Topic: Uttermost
Definition:
UT'TERMOST, a.  [utter and most.]  Extreme; being in the furthest, greatest or highest degree; as the uttermost extent or end; the uttermost distress.
UT'TERMOST, n.  The greatest.  the uttermost we can do is to be patient.
To the uttermost, in the most extensive degree; fully.  
Heb. 8.


Topic: Uveous
Definition:
U'VEOUS, a.  [L. uva, a grape.  Resembling a grape.  The uveous coat of the eye, or uvea, is the posterior lamin of the iris; so called by the ancients, because in the animals which they dissected, it resembles an unripe grape.


Topic: Uvula
Definition:
U'VULA, n.  [L.]  A soft round spungy body, suspended from the palate near the foramina of the nostrils, over the glottis.
The small conical body projecting from the middle of the soft palate.


Topic: V
Definition:
V is the twenty second letter of the English Alphabet, and a labial articulation, formed by the junction of the upper teeth with the lower lip, as in pronouncing av, ev, ov, vain.  It is not a close articulation, but one that admits of some sound.  It is nearly allied to F, being formed by the same organs; but V is vocal, and F is aspirate, and this constitutes the principal difference between them.  V and U were formerly the same letter, derived no doubt from the oriental vau or waw, but they have now as distinct uses as any two letters in the alphabet, and are therefore to be considered as different letters.  V has one sound only, as in ver, vote, lavish.
As a numeral, V stand for 5.  With a dash over it, in old books, it stands for 5000.
V.R. among the Romans, stood for uti rogas, as you desire; V.C. for vir consularis; V.G. for verbi gratia; V.L. for videlicet.
In music for instruments, V. stands for violin; V.V. for violins.


Topic: Vacancy
Definition:
VA'CANCY, n.  [L. vacans, from vaco, to be empty;  Heb. to empty.]
1.  Empty space; vacuity.  [In this sense, vacuity is now generally used.]
2.  Chasm; void space between bodies or objects; as a vacancy between two beams or boards in a building; a vacancy between two buildings; a vacancy between words in a writing.
3.  The state of being destitute of an incumbent; want of the regular officer to officiate in a place.  Hence also it signifies the office, post or benefice which is destitute of an incumbent; as a vacancy in a parish; vacancies in the treasury of war office.  There is no vacancy on the bench of the supreme court.
4.  Time of leisure; freedom from employment; intermission of business.
Those little vacancies from toils are sweet.
5.  Listlessness; emptiness of thought.
6.  A place or office not occupied, or destitute of a person to fill it; as a vacancy in a school.


Topic: Vacant
Definition:
VA'CANT, a.  [L. vacans.]
1.  Empty; not filled; void of every substance except air; as a vacant space between houses; vacant room.
2.  Empty; exhausted of air; as a vacant receiver.
3.  Free; unincumbered; unengaged with business or care.
Philosophy is the interest of those only who are vacant from the affairs of the world.
4.  Not filled or occupied with an incumbent or possessor; as a vacant throne; a vacant parish.
5.  Being unoccupied with business; as vacant hours; vacant moments.
6.  Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as a vacant mind.
7.  Indicating want of thought.
The duke had a pleasant and vacant face.
8.  In law, abandoned; having no heir; as vacant effect or goods.


Topic: Vacate
Definition:
VA'CATE, v.t.
1.  To annul; to made void; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a charter.
The necessity of observing the Jewish sabbath was vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's day.
2.  To make vacant; to quit possession and leave destitute.  It was resolved by parliament that James had vacated the throne of England.
3.  To defeat; to put an end to.
He vacates my revenge.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Vacation
Definition:
VACA'TION, n.  [L. vacatio.]
1.  The act of making void, vacant, or of no validity; as the vacation of a charter.
2.  Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; non-term.
3.  The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of a college or other seminary, when the students have a recess.
4.  Intermission of a stated employment.
5.  The time when a see or other spiritual dignity is vacant.
During the vacation of a bishopric, the dean and chapter are guardians of the spiritualities.
6.  Leisure; freedom from trouble or perplexity.  [Now little used.]


Topic: Vaccary
Definition:
VAC'CARY, n.  [L. vacca, a cow.]  An old word signifying a cow house, dairy house, or a cow pasture.


Topic: Vaccinate
Definition:
VAC'CINATE, v.t.  [L. vacca, a cow.]  To inoculate with the cow-pox, or a virus originally taken from cows, called vaccine matter.


Topic: Vaccine
Definition:
VAC'CINE, a.  [L. vaccinus, from vacca, a cow.]
Pertaining to cows; originating with or derived from cows; as the vaccine disease or cow-pox.


Topic: Vacillancy
Definition:
VAC'ILLANCY, n.  [L. vacillans, from vacillo, to waver,  Eng. to waggle, from the root of wag, which see.]
A state of wavering; fluctuation; inconstancy.


Topic: Vacillate
Definition:
VAC'ILLATE, v.i.  [L. vacillo; Eng. to waggle, a diminutive of wag.  See Wag.]
1.  To waver; to move one way and the other; to reel or stagger.
2.  To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to waver; to be unsteady or inconstant.


Topic: Vacillation
Definition:
VACILLA'TION, n.  [L. vacillatio.]
1.  A wavering; a moving one way and the other; a reeling or staggering.
2.  Fluctuation of mind; unsteadiness; change from one object to another.


Topic: Vacuist
Definition:
VAC'UIST, n.  [from vacuum.]  One who holds to the doctrine of a vacuum in nature; opposed to a plenist.


Topic: Vacuity
Definition:
VACU'ITY, n.  [L. vacuitas, from vacuus.]
1.  Emptiness; a state of being unfilled.
Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply.
2.  Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only.
3.  Emptiness; void.
God only can fill every vacuity of the soul.
4.  Inanity; emptiness; want of reality.
5.  Vacuum, which see.


Topic: Vacuum
Definition:
VAC'UUM, n.  [L.]  Space empty or devoid of all matter or body.  Whether there is such a thing as an absolute vacuum in nature, is a question which has been much controverted.  The Peripatetics assert that nature abhors a vacuum.
Torricellian vacuum, the vacuum produced by filling a tube with mercury, and allowing it to descend till it is counterbalanced by the weight of the atmosphere, as in the barometer invented by Torricelli.


Topic: Vade-mecum
Definition:
VADE-ME'CUM, n.  [L. go with me.]  A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual.


Topic: Vagabond
Definition:
VAG'ABOND, a.  [L. vagabundus, from vagor, to wander; from the root of wag.]
1.  Wandering; moving from place to place without any settled habitation; as a vagabond exile.
2.  Wandering; floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream.
VAG'ABOND, n.  [supra.]  A vagrant; one who wanders from town to town or place to place, having no certain dwelling, or not abiding in it.  By the laws of England and of the United States, vagabonds are liable to be taken up and punished.


Topic: Vagary
Definition:
VAGA'RY, n.  [L. vagus, wandering.]  A wandering of the thoughts; a wild freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose.
They chang'd their minds, flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.


Topic: Vaginal
Definition:
VAG'INAL, a.  [L. vagina, a sheath.  See Wain.]
Pertaining to a sheath, or resembling a sheath; as a vaginal membrane.


Topic: Vaginant
Definition:
VAG'INANT, a.  [L. vagina.]  In botany, sheathing; as a vaginant leaf, one investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.


Topic: Vaginopennous
Definition:
VAGINOPEN'NOUS, a.  [L. vagina and penna.]
Having the wings covered with a hard case or sheath, as insects.


Topic: Vagrancy
Definition:
VA'GRANCY, n.  [from vagrant.]  A state of wandering without a settled home.  Vagrancy in idle strollers or vagabonds, is punishable by law.


Topic: Vagrant
Definition:
VA'GRANT, a.  [L. vagor.]
1.  Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as a vagrant beggar.
2.  Wandering; unsettled; moving without any certain direction.
That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
VA'GRANT, n.  An idle wanderer; a vagabond; one who strolls from place to place; a sturdy beggar; one who has no settled habitation, or who does not abide in it.
Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view.


Topic: Vague
Definition:
VAGUE, a. vag.  [L. vagus, wandering.]
1.  Wandering; vagrant; vagabond; as vague villains.  [In this literal sense, not used.]
2.  Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite.  He appears to have very vague ideas of this subject.
3.  Proceeding from no known authority; flying; uncertain; as a vague report.


Topic: Vail
Definition:
VAIL, n.  [L. velum, from velo, to cover, to spread over.  It is correctly written vail for e, in Latin, is our a.]
1.  Any kind of cloth which is used for intercepting the view and hiding something; as the vail of the temple among the Israelites.
2.  A piece of thin cloth or silk stuff, used by females to hide their faces.  In some eastern countries, certain classes of females never appear abroad without vails.
3.  A cover; that which conceals; as the vail of oblivion.
4.  In botany, the membranous covering of the germen in the Musci and Hepaticae; the calypter.
5.  Vails, money given to servants.  [Not used in America.]
VAIL, v.t.  [L. velo.]  To cover; to hide from the sight; as, to vail the face.
VAIL, v.t.  
1.  To let fall.
They stiffly refused to vail their bonnets.
[I believe wholly obsolete.]
2.  To let fall; to lower; as, to vail the topsail.  Obs.
3.  To let fall; to sink.  Obs.
VAIL, v.i.  To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding.
Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.  Obs.


Topic: Vain
Definition:
VAIN, a.  [L. vanus; Eng. wan, wane, want.]
1.  Empty; worthless; having no substance, value or importance.  1Peter 1.
To your vain answer will you have recourse.
Every man walketh in a vain show.  Ps. 39.
Why do the people imagine a vain thing?  Ps. 2.
2.  Fruitless; ineffectual.  All attempts, all efforts were vain.
Vain is the force of man.
3.  Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; elated with a high opinion of one's own accomplishments, or with things more showy than valuable; conceited.
The minstrels play'd on every side, vain of their art -
4.  Empty; unreal; as a vain chimers.
5.  Showy; ostentatious.
Load some vain church with old theatric state.
6.  Light; inconstant; worthless.  Prov. 12.
7.  Empty; unsatisfying.  The pleasures of life are vain.
8.  False; deceitful; not genuine; spurious.  James 1.
9.  Not effectual; having no efficacy
Bring no more vain oblations.  Is. 1.
In vain, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectual.
In vain they do worship me.  Matt. 15.
To take the name of God in vain, to use the name of God with levity or profaneness.


Topic: Vainglorious
Definition:
VAINGLO'RIOUS, a.  [vain and glorious.]
1.  Vain to excess of one's own achievements; elated beyond due measure; boastful.
Vainglorious man.
2.  Boastful; proceeding from vanity.
Arrogant and vainglorious expression.


Topic: Vainglory
Definition:
VAINGLO'RY, n.  [vain and glory.]  Exclusive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind.
He hath nothing of vainglory.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory.  Phil. 2.


Topic: Vainly
Definition:
VA'INLY, adv.
1.  Without effect; to no purpose; ineffectually; in vain.
In weak complaints you vainly waste your breath.
2.  Boastingly; with vaunting; proudly; arrogantly.
Humility teaches us not to think vainly nor vauntingly of ourselves.
3.  Idly; foolishly.
Nor vainly hope to be invulnerable.


Topic: Vainness
Definition:
VA'INNESS, n. 
1.  The state of being vain; inefficacy; ineffectualness; as the vainness of efforts.
2.  Empty pride; vanity.


Topic: Vair
Definition:
VAIR, n.  In heraldry, a kind of fur or doubling, consisting of divers little picees, argent and azure, resembling a bell-glass.
VAIR,


Topic: Vairy
Definition:
VA'IRY, a.  In heraldry, charged with vair; variegated with argent and azure colors, when the term is vairy proper; and with other colors, when it is vair or vairy composed.


Topic: Vaivode
Definition:
VA'IVODE, n.  A prince of the Dacian provinces; sometimes written waiwode, for this is the pronunciation.


Topic: Valance
Definition:
VAL'ANCE, n.  
The fringes of drapery hanging round the tester and head of a bed.
VAL'ANCE, v.t.  To decorate with hanging fringes.


Topic: Vale
Definition:
VALE, n.  [L. vallis; Eng. to fall.]
1.  A tract of low ground or of land between hills; a valley.  [Vale is used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse.]
In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please.
2.  A little trough or canal; as a pump vale to carry off the water from a ship's pump.
3.  Vales, money given to servants.  [avails.]  [Not used in America.]


Topic: Valedictory
Definition:
VALEDIC'TORY, a.  Bidding farewell; as a valedictory oration.
VALEDIC'TORY, n.  An oration or address spoken at commencement, in American colleges, by a member of the class which receive the degree of bachelor of arts, and take their leave of college and of each other.


Topic: Valentine
Definition:
VAL'ENTINE, n.
1.  A sweetheart or choice made on Valentine's day.
2.  A letter sent by one young person to another on Valentine's day.


Topic: Valet
Definition:
VAL'ET, n.
1.  A waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person.
2.  In the manege, a kind of goad or stick armed with a point of iron.


Topic: Valiant
Definition:
VALIANT, a.  val'yant.  [L. valeo, to be strong.]
1.  Primarily, strong; vigorous in body; as a valiant fencer.
2.  Brave; courageous; intrepid in danger; heroic; as a valiant soldier.
Be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lord's battles.  
1Sam.  18.
3.  Performed with valor; bravely conducted; heroic; as a valiant action or achievement; a valiant combat.


Topic: Valiantly
Definition:
VAL'IANTLY, adv.
1.  Stoutly; vigorously; with personal strength.
2.  Courageously; bravely; heroically.


Topic: Valiantness
Definition:
VAL'IANTNESS, n.  
1.  Stoutness; strength.
2.  Most generally, valor; bravery; intrepidity in danger.
Achimetes, having won the top of the walls, by the valiantness of the defendants was forced to retire.


Topic: Valid
Definition:
VAL'ID, a.  [L. validus, from valeo, to be strong.  The primary sense of the root is to strain or stretch.]
1.  Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; sound; just; good; that can be supported; not weak or defective; as a valid reason; a valid argument; a valid objection.
2.  Having legal strength or force; efficacious; executed with the proper formalities; that cannot be rightfully overthrown or set aside; supportable by law or right; as a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.
3.  Strong; powerful; in a literal sense; as valid arms.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Validity
Definition:
VALID'ITY, n.
1.  Strength or force to convince; justness; soundness; as the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.
2.  Legal strength or force; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law or equity; as the validity of a will; the validity of a grant; the validity of a claim or of a title.  Certain forms and solemnities are usually requisite to give validity to contracts and conveyances of rights.
3.  Value.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Valley
Definition:
VAL'LEY, n. plu. valleys.  [L. vallis.  See Vale.]
1.  A hollow or low tract of land between hills or mountains.
2.  A low extended plain, usually alluvial, penetrated or washed by a river.  The valley of the Connecticut is remarkable for its fertility and beauty.
Ye mountains, sink; ye valleys, rise; prepare the Lord his way.
3.  In building, a gutter over the sleepers in the roof of a building.


Topic: Valor
Definition:
VAL'OR, n.  [L. valor, valeo, to be strong, to be worth.]
Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; intrepidity; prowess.
When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.  
For contemplation he and valor form'd.
Ad valorem, in commerce, according to the value; as an ad valorem duty.


Topic: Valuable
Definition:
VAL'UABLE, a.  
1.  Having value or worth; having some good qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; as a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable house.
2.  Worthy estimable; deserving esteem; as a valuable friend; a valuable companion.


Topic: Valuation
Definition:
VALUA'TION, n.  [from value.]  
1.  The act of estimating the value or worth; the act of setting a price; as the just valuation of civil and religious privileges.
2.  Apprizement; as a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.
3.  Value set upon a thing; estimated worth.
So slight a valuation.


Topic: Value
Definition:
VALUE, n.  val'u.  [L. valor, from valeo, to be worth.]
1.  Worth; that property or those properties of a thing which render it useful or estimable; or the degree of that property or of such properties.  The real value of a thing is its utility, its power or capacity of procuring or producing good.  Hence the real or intrinsic value of iron, is far greater than that of gold.  But there is, in many things, an estimated value, depending on opinion or fashion, such as the value of precious stones.  The value of land depends on its fertility, or on its vicinity to a market, or on both.
2.  Price; the rate of worth set upon a commodity, or the amount for which a thing is sold.  We say, the value of a thing is what it will bring in market.
3.  Worth; applied to persons.
Ye are all physicians of no value.  Job. 13.
Ye are of more value than many sparrows.  Matt. 10.
4.  High rate.
Caesar is well acquainted with your virtue, and therefore sets this value on your life.
5.  Importance; efficacy in producing effects; as considerations of no value.
Before events shall have decided on the value of the measures.
6.  Import; precise signification; as the value of a word or phrase.
VALUE, v.t.  val'u. 
1.  To estimate the worth of; to rate at a certain price; to apprise; as, to value lands or goods.
2.  To rate at a high price; to have in high esteem; as a valued poem or picture.  A man is apt to value his own performances at too high a rate; he is even disposed to value himself for his humility.
3.  To esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; as, to value one for his works or virtues.
4.  To take account of.
The mind doth value every moment.
5.  To reckon or estimate with respect to number or power.
The queen is valu'd thirty thousand strong.
6.  To consider with respect to importance.
The king must take it ill, so slightly valu'd in his messenger.
Neither of them valued their premises according to the rules of honor or integrity.
7.  To raise to estimation.
Some value themselves to their country by jealousies to the crown.  [Not in use.]
8.  To be worth.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Valve
Definition:
VALVE, n.  valv.  [L. valvae, folding doors; coinciding with valvo.]
1.  A folding door.
Swift through the valves the visionary fair repass'd.
2.  A lid or cover so formed as to open a communication in one direction, and close it in the other.  Thus the valve of a common pump opens upwards to admit the water, and closes downwards to prevent its return.
3.  In anatomy, a membranous partition within the cavity of a vessel, which opens to allow the passage of a fluid in one direction, and shuts to prevent its regurgitation.
4.  In botany, the outer coat, shell or covering of a capsule or other pericarp, or rather one of the pieces which compose it; also, one of the leaflets composing the calyx and corol in grasses.
5.  One of the pieces or divisions in bivalve and multivalve shells.


Topic: Vamp
Definition:
VAMP, n.  The upper leather of a shoe.
VAMP, v.t.  To piece an old thing with a new part; to repair.
I had never much hopes of your vamped play.


Topic: Vampire
Definition:
VAMP'IRE, n.
1.  In mythology, an imaginary demon, which was fabled to suck the blood of persons during the night.
2.  In zoology, a species of large bat, the Vespertilio vampyrus of Linne, called also the ternate bat.  It inhabits Guinea, Madagascar, the East India Isles, New Holland and New Caledonia.  These animals fly in flocks, darkening the air by their numbers.  It is said that this bat will insinuate his tongue into the vein of an animal imperceptibly, and suck his blood while asleep.  This name is also given by Buffon to a species of large bat in South America, the V. spectrum of Linne.


Topic: Van
Definition:
VAN, n.  [Eng. advance, advantage.  It is from the root of L. venio, the primary sense of which is to pass.]
1.  The front of an army; or the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
2.  Among farmers, a fan for winnowing grain.  [This in New England is always pronounced fan, which see.  But the winnowing machine has nearly superseded the use of it.
3.  In mining, the cleansing of ore or tin stuff by means of a shovel.
4.  A wing with which the air is beaten.
He wheel'd in air, and stretch'd his vans in vain.
VAN, v.t.  To fan.  [Not in use.]  [See Fan.]


Topic: Van-couriers
Definition:
VAN-COURIERS, n.  In armies, light armed soldiers sent before armies to beat the road upon the approach of an enemy; precursors.


Topic: Vandalic
Definition:
VANDAL'IC, a.  Pertaining to the Vandals; designating the south shore of the Baltic where once lived the Vandals, a nation of ferocious barbarians; hence, ferocious; rude; barbarous.


Topic: Vane
Definition:
VANE, n. 
A plate placed on a spindle, at the top of a spire, for the purpose of showing by its turning and direction, which way the wind blows.  In ships, a piece of bunting is used for the same purpose.


Topic: Vang
Definition:
VANG, n.
1.  The vangs of a ship are a sort of braces to steady the mizen-gaff.
2.  The thin membranous part or web of a feather.


Topic: Vanilla
Definition:
VANIL'LA, n.  A genus of plants which have an unctuous aromatic taste, and a fragrant smell; natives of South America and the West Indies.


Topic: Vanish
Definition:
VAN'ISH, v.i.  [L. vanesco, vanus, vain, or its root; Eng. to wane.  The primary sense is to withdraw or depart.
1.  To disappear; to pass from a visible to an invisible state; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated.  Light vanishes, when the rays of the illuminating body are intercepted; darkness vanishes before the rising sun.
2.  To disappear; to pass beyond the limit of vision; as, a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
3.  To disappear; to pass away; to be annihilated or lost.  How cheering is the well founded hope of enjoying delights which can never vanish!


Topic: Vanity
Definition:
VAN'ITY, n.  [L. vanitas, from vanus, vain.]
1.  Emptiness; want of substance to satisfy desire; uncertainty; inanity.
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.  Eccles. 1.
2.  Fruitless desire or endeavor.
Vanity possesseth many who are desirous to know the certainty of things to come.
3.  Trifling labor that produces no good.
4.  Emptiness; untruth
Here I may well show the vanity of what is reported in the story of Walsingham.
5.  Empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment.
Sin with vanity had fill'd the works of men.
Think not when woman's transient breath is fled, that all her vanities at once are dead; succeeding vanities she still regards.
6.  Ostentation; arrogance.
7.  Inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride, inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations.  Fops cannot be cured of their vanity.
Vanity is the food of fools.
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.


Topic: Vanquish
Definition:
VAN'QUISH, v.t.  [L. vinco, vincio, to bind.]
1.  To conquer; to overcome; to subdue in battle; as an enemy.
They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
2.  To defeat in any contest; to refute in argument.
VAN'QUISH, n.  A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.


Topic: Vantage-ground
Definition:
V'ANTAGE-GROUND, n.  Superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another.


Topic: Vapid
Definition:
VAP'ID, a.  [L. vapidus.  The radical verb is not in the Latin, but the sense must be to pass or fly off, to escape; or to strike down.  L. vapulo.  It is probably allied to vapor.]
1.  Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; flat; as vapid beer; a vapid state of the blood.
2.  Dull; unaminated.


Topic: Vapidness
Definition:
VAP'IDNESS, n.  
1.  The state of having lost its life or spirit; deadness; flatness; as the vapidness of ale or cider.
2.  Dullness; want of life or spirit.


Topic: Vapor
Definition:
VA'POR,  n.  [L. vapor.]
1.  In a general sense, an invisible elastic fluid, rendered aeriform by heat, and capable of being condensed, or brought back to the liquid or solid state, by cold.  The vapor of water is distinguished by the name of steam, which see.
2.  A visible fluid floating in the atmosphere.  All substances which impair the transparency of the atmosphere, as smoke, fog, &c. are in common language called vapors, though the term vapor is technical applied only to an invisible and condensible substance, as in No. 1; fog, &c. being vapor condensed, or water in a minute state of division.  Vapor rising into the higher regions of the atmosphere, and condensed in large volumes, forms clouds.
3.  Substances resembling smoke, which sometimes fill the atmosphere, particularly in America during the autumn.
4.  Wind; flatulence.
5.  Mental fume; vain imagination; unreal fancy.
6.  Vapors, a disease of nervous debility, in which a variety of strange images float in the brain, or appear as if visible.  Hence hypochondriacal affections and spleen are called vapors.
7.  Something unsubstantial, fleeting or transitory.
For what is your life?  It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.  James 4.
VA'POR, v.i.  [L. veporo.]  
1.  To pass off in fumes or a moist floating substance; to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.  [In this sense, evaporate is generally used.]
2.  To emit fumes.
Running water vapors not so much as standing water.  [Little used.]
3.  To bully; to boast or vaunt with a vain ostentatious display of worth; to brag.
[This is the most usual signification of the word.]
And what in real value's wanting, supply with vaporing and ranting.
VA'POR, v.t.  To emit, cast off or scatter in fumes or stream; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
Another sighing vapors forth his soul.


Topic: Vapor-bath
Definition:
VA'POR-BATH, n.  [vapor and bath.]  
1.  The application of vapor to the body in a close place.
2.  In chimistry, an apparatus for heating bodies by the fumes of hot water.


Topic: Vaporation
Definition:
VAPORA'TION, n.  [L. vaporatio.]  The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor.


Topic: Vaporific
Definition:
VAPORIF'IC, a.  [L. vapor and facio, to make.]
Forming into vapor; converting into steam, or expelling in a volatile form, as fluids.


Topic: Vaporize
Definition:
VAP'ORIZE, v.t.  To convert into vapor by the application of heat or artificial means.
VAP'ORIZE, v.i.  To pass off in vapor.


Topic: Vaporous
Definition:
VA'POROUS, a.  
1.  Full of vapors or exhalations; as the vaporous air of valleys.
2.  Vain; unreal; proceeding from the vapors.
3.  Windy; flatulent; as, vaporous food is the most easily digested.


Topic: Vari
Definition:
VA'RI, n.  In zoology, a species of quadruped, the maucauco or Lemur catta of Linne, having its tail marked with rings of black and white; a native of Madagascar.  The vari of Buffon is the black maucauco, L. macaco of Linne, with the neck bearded, like a ruff.


Topic: Variable
Definition:
VA'RIABLE, a.  
1.  That may vary or alter; capable of alteration in any manner; changeable; as variable winds or seasons; variable colors.
2.  Susceptible of change; liable to change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
His heart I know, how variable and vain.
3.  In mathematics, subject to continual increase or decrease; in opposition to constant, retaining the same value.
VA'RIABLE, n.  In mathematics, a quantity which is in a state of continual increase or decrease.  The indefinitely small quantity by which a variable is continually increased or diminished, is called its differential, and the method of finding these quantities, the differential calculus.


Topic: Variableness
Definition:
VA'RIABLENESS, n.
1.  Susceptibility of change; liableness or aptness to alter; changeableness; as the variableness of the weather.
2.  Inconstancy; fickleness; unsteadiness; levity; as the variableness of human passions.


Topic: Variance
Definition:
VA'RIANCE, n.  [See Vary.]  
1.  In law, an alteration of something formerly laid in a writ; or a difference between a declaration and a writ, or the deed on which it is grounded.
2.  Any alteration or change of condition.
3.  Difference that produces dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord.  A mere variance may become a war.  Without a spirit of condescension, there will be an everlasting variance.
1.  At variance, in disagreement; in a state of difference or want of agreement.
2.  In a state of dissension or controversy; in a state of enmity.


Topic: Variation
Definition:
VARIA'TION, n.  [L. variatio.  See Vary.]
1.  Alteration; a partial change in the form, position, state or qualities of the same thing; as a variation of color in different lights; a variation in the size of a plant from day to day; the unceasing, though slow variation of language; a variation in a soil from year to year.  Our opinions are subject to continual variations.
The essences of things are conceived not capable of such variation.
2.  Difference; change from one to another.
In some other places are born more females than males; which, upon this variation of proportion, I recommend to the curious.
3.  In grammar, change of termination of nouns and adjectives, constituting what is called case, number and gender; as the variation of words.
4.  Deviation; as a variation of a transcript from the original.
5.  In astronomy, the variation of the moon is the third inequality in her motion; by which, when out of the quadratures, her true place differs from her place twice equated.
6.  In geography and navigation, the deviation of the magnetic needle from the true north point; called also declination.
The variation of the needle at New Haven, in 1820, as ascertained from the mean of numerous observations made by Professor Fisher, was 4 degrees 25.42' west.
7.  In music, the different manner of singing or playing the same air or tune, by subdividing the notes into several others of less value, or by adding graces, yet so that the tune itself may be discovered through all its embellishments.


Topic: Varicocele
Definition:
VAR'ICOCELE, n.  [L. varix, a dilated vein, and Gr. a tumor.]
In surgery, a varicous enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; or more generally, a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum.


Topic: Variegate
Definition:
VA'RIEGATE, v.t.  [L. vario, varius.  See Vary.]
To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone.
Ladies like variegated tulips show.


Topic: Variegated
Definition:
VA'RIEGATED,  pp.  Diversified in colors or external appearance.  Variegated leaves, in botany, are such as are irregularly marked with white or yellow spots.


Topic: Variegation
Definition:
VARIEGA'TION, n.  The act of diversifying, or state of being diversified by different colors; diversity of colors.


Topic: Variety
Definition:
VARI'ETY, n.  [L. varietas, from vario, to vary.]
1.  Intermixture of different things, or of things different in form; or a succession of different things.
Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty.
The variety of colors depends on the composition of light.
2.  One thing of many which constitute variety.  In this sense, it has a plural; as the varieties of a species.
3.  Difference; dissimilitude.
There is a variety in the tempers of good men.
4.  Variation; deviation; change from a former state.  [Little used.]
5.  Many and different kinds.  The shopkeeper has a great variety of cottons and silks.
He wants to do a variety of good things.
6.  In natural history, a difference not permanent or invariable, but occasioned by an accidental change; as a variety of any species of plant.
Naturalists formerly erred very much in supposing an accidental variety of plants, animals or minerals, to be a distinct species.  Ray has established a good test for varieties in botany.  A plant is distinct, which propagates itself in its own form by its seed; but when the difference disappears in the new plant, it is only a variety.  Variety then is a difference between individuals, not permanent nor important enough to constitute a distinct species; such as in size, color, fullness, curling, &c.
7.  Different sort; as varieties of soil or land.


Topic: Variolite
Definition:
VA'RIOLITE, n.  [L. varius and Gr. stone.]
In mineralogy, a kind of porphyritic rock, in which the imbedded substances are imperfectly crystallized, or are rounded, giving the stone a spotted appearance.
Variolites are fragments of primitive gladular rocks.


Topic: Varioloid
Definition:
VA'RIOLOID, n.  [L. variolae and Gr. form.
The name recently given to a disease resembling the small pox.


Topic: Variolous
Definition:
VA'RIOLOUS, a.  [L. variolae, from vario, to diversify.]  Pertaining to or designating the small pox.


Topic: Various
Definition:
VA'RIOUS, a.  [L. varius, See Vary.]
1.  different; several; manifold; as men of various names and various occupations.
2.  Changeable; uncertain; unfixed.
The names of mixed modes - are very various and doubtful.
3.  Unlike each other; diverse.
So many and so various laws are giv'n.
4.  Variegated; diversified.


Topic: Variously
Definition:
VA'RIOUSLY, adv.  In different ways; with change; with diversity; as objects variously represented; flowers variously colored.  The human system is variously affected by different medicines.


Topic: Varix
Definition:
VA'RIX, n.  [L.]  
1.  An uneven swelling of a dilated vein.
2.  In beasts, a sort of puffy dilatation or enlargement in some part of a vein, forming a kind of knot.


Topic: Varlet
Definition:
V'ARLET, n.  [See Valet.]
1.  Anciently, a servant or footman.
2.  A scoundrel; a rascal; as an impudent varlet.


Topic: Varnish
Definition:
V'ARNISH, n.  [Low L. vernix.]
1.  A thick, viscid, glossy liquid, laid on work by painters and others, to give it a smooth hard surface and a beautiful gloss.  Varnishes are made of different materials and for different purposes.  amber varnish is made of amber, lintseed oil, litharge and turpentine.  Black varnish, for japanning wood and leather, is made by mixing lampblack with a proper quantity of a strong solution of gum-lac in spirit of wine.
2.  An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct.
V'ARNISH, v.t.
1.  To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid, for giving any thing a glossy surface; as, to varnish a sideboard or table.
2.  To cover with something that gives a fair external appearance.
Close ambition, varnish'd o'er with zeal.
3.  To give a fair external appearance in words; to give a fair coloring to; as, to varnish errors or deformity.
Cato's voice was ne'er employ'd to clear the guilty, and to varnish crimes.
And bow the knee to pomp that loves to varnish guilt.


Topic: Varnisher
Definition:
V'ARNISHER, n.  
1.  One who varnishes, or whose occupation is to varnish.
2.  One who disguises or palliates; one who gives a fair external appearance.


Topic: Vascular
Definition:
VAS'CULAR, a.  [L. vasculum, a vessel, from vas, id.]
1.  Pertaining to the vessels of animal or vegetable bodies; as the vascular functions.
2.  Full of vessels; consisting of animal or vegetable vessels, as arteries, veins, lacteals and the like; as the vascular system.  Animal flesh is all vascular, none of it parenchymous.


Topic: Vasculiferous
Definition:
VASCULIF'EROUS, a.  [L. vasculum and fero, to bear.]
Vasculiferous plants are such as have seed vessels divided into cells.


Topic: Vase
Definition:
VASE, n.  [L. vas, vasa, a vessel.]
1.  A vessel for domestic use, or for use in temples; as a vase for sacrifice, an urn, &c.
2.  An ancient vessel dug out of the ground or from rubbish, and kept as a curiosity.
3.  In architecture, an ornament of sculpture, placed on socles or pedestals, representing the vessels of the ancients, as incensepots, flower-pots, &c.  They usually crown or finish facades or frontispieces.
4.  The body of the Corinthian and Composite capital; called also the tambor or drum.
5.  Among florists, the calyx of a plant, as of a tulip.
6.  Among goldsmiths, the middle of a church candlestick.
7.  A solid piece of ornamental marble.


Topic: Vassal
Definition:
VAS'SAL, n.  
1.  A feudatory; a tenant; one who holds land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him.  A rear vassal is one who holds of a lord who is himself a vassal.
2.  A subject; a dependant.
3.  A servant.
4.  In common language, a bondman; a political slave.  We will never be the vassals of a foreign prince.
VAS'SAL, v.t.  To subject to control; to enslave.


Topic: Vassalage
Definition:
VAS'SALAGE,
1.  The state of being a vassal or feudatory.
2.  Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery.  The Greeks were long held in vassalage by the Turks.


Topic: Vast
Definition:
V'AST, a.  [L. vastus.  The primary sense of the root must be a part or spread, as this is connected with the verb to waste.]
1.  Being of great extent; very spacious or large; as the vast ocean; a vast abyss; the vast empire of Russia; the vast plains of Syria; the vast domains of the Almighty.
2.  Huge in bulk and extent; as the vast mountains of Asia; the vast range of the Andes.
3.  Very great in numbers or amount; as a vast army; vast numbers or multitudes were slain; vast sums of money have been expended to gratify pride and ambition.
4.  Very great in force; mighty; as vast efforts; vast labor.
5.  Very great in importance; as a subject of vast concern.

V'AST, n.  An empty waste.
Through the vast of heav'n it sounded.
The watery vast.


Topic: Vastation
Definition:
VASTA'TION, n.  [L. vastatio, from vasto, to waste.]
A laying waste; waste; depopulation.  [Devastation is generally used.]


Topic: Vastly
Definition:
V'ASTLY, adv.  Very greatly; to a great extent or degree; as a space vastly extended.  Men differ vastly in their opinions and manners.


Topic: Vastness
Definition:
V'ASTNESS, n.
1.  Great extent; immensity; as the vastness of the ocean or of space.
2.  Immense bulk and extent; as the vastness of a mountain.
3.  Immense magnitude or amount; as the vastness of an army, or of the sums of money necessary to support it.
4.  Immense importance.


Topic: Vasty
Definition:
V'ASTY, a.  Being of great extent; very spacious.
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.  [Little used.]


Topic: Vat
Definition:
VAT, n.  
1.  A large vessel or cistern for holding liquors in an immature state; as vats for wine.
Let him produce his vats and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards.
2.  A square box or cistern in which hides are laid for steeping in tan.
3.  An oil measure in Holland; also, a wine measure.
4.  A square hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.


Topic: Vatican
Definition:
VAT'ICAN, n.  In Rome, the celebrated church of St. Peter; and also, a magnificent palace of the pope; situated at the foot of one of the seven hills on which Rome was built.  Hence the phrase, the thunders of the Vatican, meaning the anathemas or denunciations of the pope.


Topic: Vaticinate
Definition:
VATIC'INATE, v.i.  [L. vaticinor, from vates, a prophet.]
To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction.  [Little used.]


Topic: Vault
Definition:
VAULT, n.  [L. vultus; a derivative of L. volvo, volutus.]
1.  A continued arch, or an arched roof.  Vaults are of various kinds, circular, elliptical, single, double, cross, diagonal, Gothic, &c.
2.  A cellar.
To banish rats that haunt our vault.
3.  A cave or cavern.
The silent vaults of death, unknown to light.
4.  A repository for the dead.
5.  In the manege, the leap or a horse.
VAULT, v.t.  To arch; to form with a vault; or to cover with a vault; as, to vault a passage to a court.
VAULT, v.i.
1.  To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself -
Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree.
Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth.
2.  To tumble; to exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping.


Topic: Vaulted
Definition:
VAULT'ED, pp. 
1.  Arched; concave; as a vaulted roof.
2.  Covered with an arch or vault.
3.  a.  In botany, arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.


Topic: Vaulting
Definition:
VAULT'ING, ppr.
1.  Arching; covering with an arch.
2.  Leaping; tumbling; exhibiting feats of leaping.


Topic: Vaunt
Definition:
V'AUNT, v.i.  [L. vanus.  This ought to be written vant.]
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments or decorations; to talk with vain ostentation; to brag.
Pride - prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is.
V'AUNT, v.t.  To boast of; to make a vain display of.
My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil.
Charity vaunteth not itself.  1Cor. 13.
V'AUNT, n.  Boast; a vain display of what one is or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity.
Him I seduc'd with other vaunts and other promises.
V'AUNT, n.  The first part.  [Not used.]


Topic: Vavasor
Definition:
VAV'ASOR, n.  [This word in old books is variously written, valvasor, vavasour, valvasour.  It is said to be from vassal.  But qu.]
Camden holds that the vavasor was next below a baron.  Du Cange maintains that there were two sorts of vavasors; the greater, who held of the king, such as barons and counts; and the lesser, called valvasini, who held of the former.  The dignity or rank is no longer in use, and the name is known only in books.


Topic: Vection
Definition:
VEC'TION, n.  [L. vectio, from veho, to carry.]
The act of carrying, or state of being carried.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Vector
Definition:
VEC'TOR, n.  [L. from veho, to carry.]  In astronomy, a line supposed to be drawn from any planet moving round a center or the focus of an ellipsis, to that center or focus.


Topic: Vecture
Definition:
VEC'TURE, n.  [L. vectura, from veho, supra.]
A carrying; carriage; conveyance by carrying.  [Little used.]


Topic: Veda
Definition:
VEDA, n.  vedaw'.  The name of the collective body of the Hindoo sacred writings.  These are divided into four parts or vedas.  the word is sometimes written vedam.


Topic: Veer
Definition:
VEER, v.i.  [L. vario and verto.  See Ware.]
To turn; to change direction; as, the wind veers to the west or north.
And as he leads, the following navy veers.
And turn your veering heart with ev'ry gale.
To veer and haul, as wind, to alter its direction.
VEER, v.t.  To turn; to direct to a different course.
To veer out, to suffer to run or to let out to a greater length; as, to veery out a rope.
To veer away, to let out; to slacken and let run; as, to veer away the cable.  this is called also paying out the cable.
To veer and haul, to pull tight and slacken alternately.


Topic: Vegetable
Definition:
VEG'ETABLE, n.  [L. vigeo, to grow.]
1.  A plant; an organized body destitute of sense and voluntary motion, deriving its nourishment through pores or vessels on its outer surface, in most instances adhering to some other body, as the earth, and in general, propagating itself by seeds.  some vegetables have spontaneous motion, as the sunflower.  Vegetables alone have the power of deriving nourishment from inorganic matter, or organic matter entirely decomposed.
2.  In a more limited sense, vegetables are such plants as are used for culinary purposes and cultivated in gardens, or are destined for feeding cattle and sheep.  Vegetables for these uses are such as are of a more soft and fleshy substance than trees and shrubs; such as cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, potatoes, peas, beans, &c.
VEG'ETABLE, a.
1.  Belonging to plants; as a vegetable nature; vegetable qualities; vegetable juices.
2.  Consisting of plants; as the vegetable kingdom.
3.  having the nature of plants; as a vegetable body.


Topic: Vegetate
Definition:
VEG'ETATE, v.i.  [L. vegeto, vigeo, to flourish.]
To sprout; to germinate; to grow; as plants; to grow and be enlarged by nutriment imbibed from the earth, air or water, by means of roots and leaves.  Plants will not vegetate without a certain degree of heat; but some plants vegetate with less heat than others.  Potatoes will vegetate after they are pared.
See dying vegetables life sustain, see life dissolving vegetate again.


Topic: Vegetation
Definition:
VEGETA'TION, n.  
1.  The process of growing; as plants, by means of nourishment derived from the earth, or from water and air, and received through roots and leaves.  We observe that vegetation depends on heat as the moving principle, and on certain substances which constitute the nutriment of plants.  Rapid vegetation is caused by increased heat and a rich soil.
2.  Vegetables or plants in general.  In June, vegetation in our climate wears a beautiful aspect.
Vegetation of salts, so called, consists in certain concretions formed by salts, after solution in water, when set in the air for evaporation.  these concretions appear round the surface of the liquor, affixed to the sides of the vessel.


Topic: Vegetative
Definition:
VEG'ETATIVE, a.
1.  Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants.
2.  Having the power to produce growth in plants; as the vegetative properties of soil.


Topic: Vegetive
Definition:
VEG'ETIVE, a.  [L. vegeto, vigeo.]  Vegetable; having the nature of plants; as vegetive life.  [Little used.]
VEG'ETIVE, n.  a vegetable.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Vegeto-animal
Definition:
VEG'ETO-ANIMAL, a.  Vegeto-animal matter, is a term formerly applied to vegetable gluten, which is found in the seeds of certain plants, in a state of union with farina or starch.  It is remarkably elastic, and when dry, semi-transparent.  By distillation it affords, like animal substances, alkaline water, concrete volatile alkali, and an empyreumatic oil.


Topic: Vehement
Definition:
VE'HEMENT, a.  [L. vehemens.]
1.  Violent; acting with great force; furious; very forcible; as a vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.
2.  Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; as a vehement affection or passion; vehement desire; vehement eloquence.


Topic: Vehemently
Definition:
VE'HEMENTLY, adv. 
1.  With great force and violence.
2.  Urgently; forcibly; with great zeal or pathos.


Topic: Vehicle
Definition:
VE'HICLE, n.  [L. vehiculum, from veho, to carry.]
1.  That in which any thing is or may be carried; any kind of carriage moving on land, either on wheels or runners.  This word comprehends coaches, chariots, gigs, sullies, wagons, carts of every kind, sleighs and sleds.  These are all vehicles.  But the word is more generally applied to wheel carriages, and rarely I believe to water craft.
2.  That which is used as the instrument of conveyance.  Language is the vehicle which conveys ideas to others.  Letters are vehicles of communication.
A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to a popular assembly.


Topic: Veil
Definition:
VEIL, n.  [L. velum.
1.  A cover; a curtain; something to intercept the view and lude an object.
2.  A cover; a disguise.  [See Vail.  The latter orthography gives the Latin pronunciation as well as the English, and is to be preferred.
VEIL, v.t.
1.  To cover with a veil; to conceal.
2.  To invest; to cover.
3.  To hide.  [See Vail.]


Topic: Vein
Definition:
VEIN, n.  [L. vena, from the root of venio, to come, to pass.  The sense is a passage, a conduit.]
1.  A vessel in animal bodies, which receives the blood from the extreme arteries, and returns it to the heart.  The veins may be arranged in three divisions.  1.  Those that commence from the capillaries all over the body, and return the blood to the heart.  2.  The pulmonary veins.  3.  The veins connected with the vena portarum, in which the blood that has circulated through the organs of digestion, is conveyed to the liver.
2.  In plants, a tube or an assemblage of tubes, through which the sap is transmitted along the leaves.  The term is more properly applied to the finer and more complex ramifications, which interbranch with each other like net-work; the larger and more direct assemblages of vessels being called ribs and nerves.  Veins are also found in the calyx and corol of flowers.
The vessels which branch or variously divide over the surface of leaves are called veins.
3.  In geology, a fissure in rocks or strata, filled with a particular substance.  Thus metallic veins intersect rocks or strata of other substances.  Metalliferous veins have been traced in the earth for miles; some in South America are said to have been traced eighty miles.  Many species of stones, as granite, porphyry, &c. are often found in veins.
4.  A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, marble, and other stones; variegation.
5.  A cavity or fissure in the earth or in other substance.
6.  Tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; as a rich vein of wit or humor; a satirical vein
Invoke the muses, and improve my vein.
7.  Current.
He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
8.  Humor; particular temper.
9.  Strain; quality; as my usual vein.


Topic: Veined
Definition:
VEINED, a.  [from vein.]
1.  Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as veined marble.
2.  In botany, having vessels branching over the surface, as a leaf.


Topic: Velleity
Definition:
VELLE'ITY, n.  [L. velle, to will.]
A term by which the schools express the lowest degree of desire.


Topic: Vellicate
Definition:
VEL'LICATE, v.t.  [L. vellico, from vello, to pull.  It may be from the root of pull.]
To twitch; to stimulate; applied to the muscles and fibers of animals; to cause to twitch convulsively.


Topic: Vellication
Definition:
VELLICATION, n.
1.  The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.
2.  A twitching or convulsive  motion of a muscular fiber.


Topic: Velocity
Definition:
VELOC'ITY, n.  [L. velositas, from velox, swift, allied to volo, to fly.]
1.  Swiftness; celerity; rapidity; as the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.  In these phrases, velocity is more generally used than celerity.  We apply celerity to animals; as, a horse or an ostrich runs with celerity, and a stream runs with rapidity or velocity; but bodies moving in the air or in etherial space, move with greater or less velocity, not celerity.  This usage is arbitrary, and perhaps not universal.
2.  In philosophy, velocity is that affection of motion by which a body moves over a certain space in a certain time.  Velocity is in direct proportion to the space over which a body moves.  Velocity is absolute or relative; absolute, when a body moves over a certain space in a certain time; relative, when it has respect to another moving body.  Velocity is also uniform or equal; or it is unequal, that is, retarded or accelerated.


Topic: Velvet
Definition:
VEL'VET, n.  [L. vellus, hair, nap.]
A rich silk stuff, covered on the outside with a close, short, fine, soft shag or nap.  The name is given also to cotton stuffs.
VEL'VET, v.t.  To paint velvet.
VEL'VET,


Topic: Venal
Definition:
VE'NAL, a.  [L. vena, a vein.]  Pertaining to a vein or to veins; contained in the veins; as venal blood.  [See Venous, which is generally used.]
VE'NAL, a.  [L. venalis, from venco, to be sold.]
1.  Mercenary; prostitute; that may be bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; as a venal muse; venal services.
2.  That may be sold; set to sale; as, all offices are venal in a corrupt government.
3.  Purchased; as a venal vote.


Topic: Venality
Definition:
VENAL'ITY, n.  Mercenariness; the state of being influenced by money; prostitution of talents, offices or services for money or reward; as the venality of a corrupt court.


Topic: Venation
Definition:
VENA'TION, n.  [L. venatio, from venor, to hunt.]
1.  The act or practice of hunting.
2.  The state of being hunted.


Topic: Vend
Definition:
VEND, v.t.  [L. vendo.]
To sell; to transfer a thing and the exclusive right of possessing it, to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; as, to vend goods; to vend meat and vegetables in market.  Vending differs from barter.  We vend for money; we barter for commodities.  Vend is applicable only to wares, merchandize, or other small articles, not to lands and tenements.  We never say, to vend a farm, a lease, or a bond, a right or a horse.


Topic: Vender
Definition:
VEND'ER, n.  A seller; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent.  Auctioneers are the venders of goods for other men.


Topic: Vendue-master
Definition:
VENDUE-M'ASTER, n.  One who is authorized to make sale of any property to the highest bidder, by notification and public outcry; an auctioneer.


Topic: Veneer
Definition:
VENEE'R, v.t.  
To inlay; to lay thin slices or leaves of fine wood of different kinds on a ground of common wood.
VENEE'R, n.  Thin slices of wood for inlaying.


Topic: Veneering
Definition:
VENEE'RING, ppr.  Inlaying; adorning with inlaid work.
VENEE'RING, n.  The act or art of inlaying, of which there are two kinds; one, which is the most common, consists in making compartments of different woods; the other consists in making representations of flowers, birds and other figures.  The first is more properly veneering; the last is marquetry.


Topic: Venerable
Definition:
VEN'ERABLE, a.  [L. venerabilis, from veneror, to honor, to worship.]
1.  Worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; as a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent.
2.  Rendered sacred by religious associations, or being consecrated to God and to his worship; to be regarded with awe and treated with reverence; as the venerable walls of a temple or church.
The places where saints have suffered for the testimony of Christ - rendered venerable by their death.


Topic: Venerate
Definition:
VEN'ERATE, v.t.  [L. veneror.]
To regard with respect and reverence; to reverence; to revere.  We venerate parents and elders; we venerate men consecrated to sacred offices.  We venerate old age or gray hairs.  We venerate, or ought to venerate, the gospel and its precepts.
And seem'd to venerate the sacred shade.


Topic: Veneration
Definition:
VENERA'TION, n.  [L. veneratio.]
The highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with some degree of awe; a feeling or sentiment excited by the dignity and superiority of a person, or by the sacredness of his character, and with regard to place, by its consecration to sacred services.
We find a secret awe and veneration for one who moves above us in a regular and illustrious course of virtue.


Topic: Venereal
Definition:
VENE'REAL, a.  [L. venereus, from Venus.  See Venus.]
1.  Pertaining to the pleasures of sexual commerce.  A venereal person is one addicted to sexual pleasures or venery.
2.  Proceeding from sexual intercourse; as the venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.
3.  Adapted to the cure of the lues venerea; as venereal medicines.
4.  Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac; provocative.
5.  Consisting of copper, called by chimists formerly Venus.  Obs.


Topic: Venery
Definition:
VEN'ERY, n.  [from Venus.]  The pleasures of the bed.
Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity.
VEN'ERY, n.  [L. venor, to hunt, that is, to drive or rush.]
The act or exercise of hunting; the sports of the chase.
Beasts of venery and fishes.


Topic: Venesection
Definition:
VENESEC'TION, n.  [L. vena, vein, and sectio, a cutting.]
The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; blood-letting; phlebotomy.


Topic: Veney
Definition:
VEN'EY, n.  A bout; a thrust; a hit; a turn at fencing.
Three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes.  Obs.


Topic: Vengeance
Definition:
VENGEANCE, n.  venj'ance.  [L. vindico.]
The infliction of pain on another, in return for an injury or offense.  Such infliction, when it proceeds from malice or more resentment, and is not necessary for the purposes of justice, is revenge, and a most heinous crime.  When such infliction proceeds from a mere love of justice, and the necessity of punishing offenders for the support of the laws, it is vengeance, and is warrantable and just.  In this case, vengeance is a just retribution, recompense or punishment.  In this latter sense the word is used in Scripture, and frequently applied to the punishments inflicted by God on sinners.
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense.  Deut. 32.
The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries.  Nah. 1.
With a vengeance, in familiar language, signifies with great violence or vehemence; as, to strike one with a vengeance.
Formerly, what a vengeance, was a phrase used for what emphatical.
But what a vengeance makes thee fly?


Topic: Venial
Definition:
VE'NIAL, a.  [L. venia, pardon, leave to depart, from the root of venio, and signifying literally a going or passing.]
1.  That may be forgiven; pardonable; as a venial fault or transgression.  The reformed churches hold all sins to be venial, through the merits of the Redeemer; but the most trifling sins not to be venial, except through the righteousness and atonement of Christ.
2.  In familiar language, excusable; that may be allowed or permitted to pass without censure; as a venial slip or fault.
3.  Allowed.
Permitting him the while venial discourse unblam'd.


Topic: Venialness
Definition:
VE'NIALNESS, n.  State of being excusable or pardonable.
Venire facias, or venire, in law, a writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to summon twelve men, to try an issue between parties.  It is also a writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statue, to appear.


Topic: Venison
Definition:
VENISON, n.  ven'izn, or ven'zn.  [L. venactio, a hunting, from venor, to hunt.]
The flesh of beasts of game, or of such wild animals as are taken in the chase.  It is however, in the United States, applied exclusively to the flesh of the deer or cervine genus of animals.


Topic: Venom
Definition:
VEN'OM, n.  [L. venenum, venor, to hunt, to drive or chase; venio, to come.  See Venus, &c.]
1.  Poison; matter fatal or injurious to life.  Venom is generally used to express noxious matter that is applied externally, or that is discharged from animals, as that of bites and stings of serpents, scorpions, &c.; and poison, to express substances taken into the stomach.
2.  Spite; malice.
VEN'OM, v.t.  To poison; to infect with venom.  [Little used, but envenom is in use and elegant.  Venom may be elegantly used in poetry.]


Topic: Venomous
Definition:
VEN'OMOUS, a.
1.  Poisonous; noxious to animal life; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.  The sack at the base of the rattlesnake's teeth, contains venomous matter.
2.  Noxious; mischievous; malignant; as a venomous progeny.
3.  Spiteful; as a venomous writer.


Topic: Venous
Definition:
VE'NOUS, a.  [L. venosus, from vena, a vein.]
1.  Pertaining to a vein or to veins; contained in veins; as venous blood, which is distinguishable from arterial blood by its darker color.
2.  In botany, veined.  A venous leaf, has vessels branching, or variously divided, over its surface.


Topic: Vent
Definition:
VENT, n.  [L. venio, Eng. wind, &c.; properly a passage.]
1.  A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or other fluid to escape; as the vent of a cask.
2.  The opening in a cannon or other piece of artillery, by which fire is communicated to the charge.
3.  Passage from secrecy to notice; publication.
4.  The act of opening.
5.  Emission; passage; escape from confinement; as, his smothered passions urge for vent.
6.  Discharge; utterance; means of discharge.
Had like grief been dew'd in tears, without the vent of words -;
7.  Sale; as the vent of a thousand copies of a treatise.
8.  Opportunity to sell; demand.
There is no vent for any commodity except wool.
9.  An inn, a baiting place.  [Not in use.]
To give vent to, to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth.
VENT, v.t. 
1.  To let out at a small aperture.
2.  To let out; to suffer to escape from confinement; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
The queen of heav'n did thus her fury vent.
3.  To utter; to report.  [Not in use.]
4.  To publish.
The sectators did greatly enrich their inventions by venting the stolen treasures of divine letters.  [Not used.]
5.  To sell.
Therefore did those nations vent such spice.  [Not in use.]
[Instead of vent in the latter sense, we use vend.
VENT, v.i.  To snuff.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Ventail
Definition:
VENT'AIL, n.  That part of a helmet made to be lifted up; the part intended for the admission of air, or for breathing.


Topic: Ventiduct
Definition:
VEN'TIDUCT, n.  [L. ventus, wind, and ductus, a canal.]
In building, a passage for wind or air; a subterraneous passage or spiracle for ventilating apartments.


Topic: Ventilate
Definition:
VEN'TILATE, v.t.  [L. ventilo, from ventus, wind.]
1.  To fan with wind; to open and expose to the free passage of air or wind; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar.
2.  To cause the air to pass through; as, to ventilate a mine.
3.  To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.
4.  To examine; to discuss; that is, to agitate; as, to ventilate questions of policy.  [Not now in use.]


Topic: Ventilation
Definition:
VENTILA'TION, n.  [L. ventilatio.]
1.  The act of ventilating; the act or operation of exposing to the free passage of air, or of causing the air to pass through any place, for the purpose of expelling impure air and dissipating any thing noxious.
2.  The act of fanning or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust.
3.  Vent; utterance.  [Not in use.]
4.  Refrigeration.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Ventilator
Definition:
VEN'TILATOR, n.  An instrument or machine for expelling foul or stagnant air from any close place or apartment, and introducing that which is fresh and pure.  Ventilators are of very different constructions and sizes.


Topic: Ventiloquous
Definition:
VENTIL'OQUOUS, a.  Speaking in such a manner as to make the sound appear to come from a place remote from the speaker.


Topic: Ventral
Definition:
VEN'TRAL, a.  [from L. venter, belly.]  Belonging to the belly.
The ventral fins, in fishes, are placed between the anus and the throat.


Topic: Ventricle
Definition:
VEN'TRICLE, n.  [L. ventriculus, from venter, belly.]
In a general sense, a small cavity in an animal body.  It is applied to the stomach.  It is also applied to two cavities of the heart, which propel the blood into the arteries.  The word is also applied to cavities in different parts of the brain.


Topic: Ventricous
Definition:
VEN'TRICOUS, a.  [L. ventricosus, from venter, belly.]
In botany, bellied; distended; swelling out in the middle; as a ventricous perianth.


Topic: Ventriloquy
Definition:
VENTRIL'OQUY, n.  [L. venter, belly, and loquor, to speak.]
The act, art or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come not from the person, but from some distant place, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, &c.


Topic: Venture
Definition:
VEN'TURE, n.  [L. venio, ventus, venturus, to come.]
1.  A hazard; an undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which cannot be foreseen with tolerable certainty.
I, in this venture, double gains pursue.
2.  Chance; hap; contingency; luck; an event that is not or cannot be foreseen.
3.  The thing put to hazard; particularly, something sent to sea in trade.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; or without foreseeing the issue.
A bargain at a venture made.
A certain man drew a bow at a venture.  1Kings 22.
VEN'TURE, v.i.
1.  To dare; to have courage or presumption to do, undertake or say.  A man ventures to mount a ladder; he ventures into battle; he ventures to assert things which he does not know.
2.  To run a hazard or risk.
Who freights a ship to venture on the seas.

To venture at,
To venture on or upon,  To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.  It is rash to venture upon such a project.
And when I venture at the comic style.
VEN'TURE, v.t. 
1.  To expose to hazard; to risk; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
2.  To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.


Topic: Venturing
Definition:
VEN'TURING, ppr.  Putting to hazard; daring.
VEN'TURING, n.  The act of putting to risk; a hazarding.


Topic: Venturous
Definition:
VEN'TUROUS, a.  Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; intrepid; adventurous; as a venturous soldier.
With vent'rous arm he pluck'd, he tasted.


Topic: Venturousness
Definition:
VEN'TUROUSNESS, n.  Boldness; hardiness; fearlessness; intrepidity.  The event made then repent of their venturousness.


Topic: Venus
Definition:
VE'NUS, n.  [L. ventus, venenum; Eng. venom to poison, to fret or irritate. These affinities lead to the true origin of these words.  The primary sense of the root is to shoot or rush, as light or wind.  From light is derived the sense of white, fair, Venus, or it is from opening, parting; and from rushing, moving, comes wind, and the sense of raging, fury, whence L. venenum, poison, that which frets or causes to rage.  These words all coincide with L. venio, which signifies to rush, to fall, to happen; venor, to hunt, &c.  The Greeks had the same idea of the goddess of love, viz. that her name signified fairness, whiteness, and hence the fable that she sprung from froth, whence her Green name.]
1.  In mythology, the goddess of beauty and love; that is, beauty or love deified; just as the Gaelic and Irish diana, swiftness, impetuosity, is denominated the goddess of hunting.
2.  In astronomy, one of the inferior planets, whose orbit is between the earth and Mercury; a star of brilliant splendor.
3.  In the old chimistry, a name given to copper.


Topic: Veracious
Definition:
VERA'CIOUS, a.  [L. verax, from verus, true.]
1.  Observant of truth; habitually disposed to speak truth.
2.  True.  [Little used.]


Topic: Veracity
Definition:
VERAC'ITY, n.  [L. verax, from verus, true.]
1.  Habitual observance of truth, or habitual truth; as a man of veracity.  His veracity is not called in question.  The question of the court is, whether you know the witness to be a man of veracity.  We rely on history, when we have confidence in the veracity and industry of the historian.
'The veracity of facts.' is not correct language.  Truth is applicable to men and to facts; veracity to men only, or to sentient beings.
2.  Invariable expression of truth; as the veracity of our senses.


Topic: Veranda
Definition:
VERAN'DA, n.  An oriental word denoting a kind of open portico, formed by extending a sloping roof beyond the main building.


Topic: Veratria
Definition:
VERA'TRIA, n.  [L. veratrum, hellebore.]  A newly discovered vegetable alkali, extracted from the white hellebore.


Topic: Verb
Definition:
VERB, n.  [L. verbum, fero.]
1.  In grammar, a part of speech that expresses action, motion, being, suffering, or a request or command to do or forbear any thing.  The verb affirms, declares, asks or commands; as, I write; he runs; the river flows; they sleep; we see; they are deceived; depart; go; come; write; does he improve?
When the action expressed by a verb is exerted on an object, or terminates upon it, the act is considered as passing to that object, and the verb is called transitive; as, I read Livy.  When the act expressed by the verb, terminates in the agent or subject, the verb is called intransitive; as, I run; I walk, I sleep.
When the agent and object change places, and the agent is considered as the instrument by which the object is affected, the verb is called passive; as, Goliath was slain by David.
2.  A word.


Topic: Verbal
Definition:
VERB'AL, a.  [L. verbalis.]
1.  Spoken; expressed to the ear in words; not written; as a verbal message; a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
2.  Oral; uttered by the mouth.
3.  Consisting in mere words; as a verbal reward.
4.  Respecting words only; as a verbal dispute.
5.  Minutely exact in words, or attending to words only; as a verbal critic.
6.  Literal; having word answering to word; as a verbal translation.
7.  In grammar, derived from a verb; as a verbal noun.
8.  Verbose; abounding with words.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Verbally
Definition:
VER'BALLY, adv.
1.  In words spoken; by words uttered; orally.
2.  Word for word; as, to translate verbally.


Topic: Verbatim
Definition:
VERBA'TIM adv.  [L.]  Word for word; in the same words; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.


Topic: Verbose
Definition:
VERBO'SE, a.  [L. verbosus.]  Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; prolix; tedious by a multiplicity of words; as a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.


Topic: Verboseness
Definition:
VERBO'SENESS, n.  
1.  Employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; as the verbosity of a speaker.
2.  Superabundance of words; prolixity; as the verbosity of a discourse or argument.


Topic: Verdant
Definition:
VER'DANT, a.  [L. vividans, from viridis, from vireo, to be green.]  The radical sense of the verb is to grow or advance with strength.]
1.  Green; fresh; covered with growing plants or grass; as verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
2.  Flourishing.


Topic: Verdict
Definition:
VER'DICT, n.  [L. verum dictum, true declaration.]
1.  The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of face in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their trial and examination.  In criminal causes, the jury decide the law as well as the fact.  Verdicts are general or special; general, when they decide in general terms, or in the terms of the general issue, as no wrong, no disseisin; special, when the jury find and state the facts at large, and as to the law, pray the judgment of the court.
2.  Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.
These enormities were condemned by the verdict of common humanity.


Topic: Verdigris
Definition:
VER'DIGRIS, n.  
Rust of copper, or an acetate of copper, formed by the combination of an acid with copper.


Topic: Verditer
Definition:
VER'DITER, n.  [verde-terre, green earth; terre-verde.]
A preparation of copper sometimes used by painters, &c. for a blue, but more generally mixed with a yellow for a green color.  It is a factitious substance of blue pigment, obtained by adding chalk or whiting to a solution of copper in nitric acid or aqua fortis.


Topic: Verdure
Definition:
VER'DURE, n.  [L. vireo.]  Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as the verdure of the meadows in June; the verdure of spring.


Topic: Verdurous
Definition:
VER'DUROUS, a. Covered with green; clothed with the fresh color of vegetables; as verdurous pastures. 


Topic: Verge
Definition:
VERGE, n.  verj.  [L. virga, a rod, that is, a shoot.]
1.  A rod, or something in the form of a rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; the mace of a dean.
2.  The stick or wand with which persons are admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord.  On this account, such tenants are called tenants by the verge.
3.  In law, the compass or extent of the king's court, within which is bounded the jurisdiction of the lord steward of the king's household; so called from the verge or staff which the marshal bears.
4.  The extreme side or end of any thing which has some extent of length; the brink; edge; border; margin.  [This seems to be immediately connected with the L. vergo.]
5.  Among gardeners, the edge or outside of a border; also, a slip of grass adjoining to gravel-walks, and dividing them from the borders in the parterre-garden.
6.  A part of a time piece.
VERGE, v.i.  [L. vergo.]
1.  To tend downwards; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
2.  To tend; to incline; to approach.
I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow.


Topic: Verger
Definition:
VERG'ER, n.  
1.  He that carries the mace before the bishop, dean, &c.
2.  An officer who carries a white wand before the justices of either bend in England.


Topic: Verifiable
Definition:
VER'IFIABLE, a.  [from verify.]  That may be verified; that may be proved or confirmed by incontestable evidence.


Topic: Verification
Definition:
VERIFICA'TION, n.  [See Verify.]  The act of verifying or proving to be true; the act of confirming or establishing the authenticity of any powers granted, or of any transaction, by legal or competent evidence.


Topic: Verify
Definition:
VER'IFY, v.t.  [L. verus, true, and facio, to make.]
1.  To prove to be true; to confirm.
This is verified by a number of examples.
2.  To fulfill, as a promise; to confirm the truth of a prediction; to show to be true.  The predictions of this venerable patriot have been verified.  Gen. 42.  1Kings 8.
3.  To confirm or establish the authenticity of any thing by examination or competent evidence.  The first act of the house of representatives is to verify their powers, by exhibiting their credentials to a committee of the house, or other proper authority.


Topic: Verily
Definition:
VER'ILY, adv.  [from very.] 
1.  In truth; in fact; certainly.
2.  Really; truly; with great confidence.  It was verily thought the enterprise would succeed.


Topic: Verisimilar
Definition:
VERISIM'ILAR, a.  [L. verisimilis; verus, true, and similis, like.]  having the appearance of truth; probable; likely.


Topic: Verisimilitude
Definition:
VERISIMIL'ITUDE, n.  [L. verisimilitudo.]  the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.
Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult.


Topic: Verity
Definition:
VER'ITY, n.  [L. veritas, from verus, true.]
1.  Truth; consonance of a statement, proposition or other thing to fact.  1Tim. 2.
It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised.
2.  A true assertion or tenet.
By this it seems to be a verity.
3.  Moral truth; agreement of the words with the thoughts.


Topic: Verjuice
Definition:
VER'JUICE, n.  
A liquor expressed from wild apples, sour grapes, &c. used in sauces, ragouts and the like.  it is used also in the purification of wax for candles, in poultices, &c.


Topic: Vermeology
Definition:
VERMEOL'OGY, n.  [L. vermes, worms, and Gr. discourse.]
A discourse or treatise on vermes, or that part of natural history which treats of vermes.  [Little used.]


Topic: Vermicelli
Definition:
VERMICEL'LI, n.  [L. vermiculus, from vermis, a worm.]
A cookery, little rolls or threads of paste, or a composition of flour, eggs, sugar and saffron, used in soups and pottages.


Topic: Vermicular
Definition:
VERMIC'ULAR, a.  [L. vermiculus, a little worm, from vermis, a worm.]
Pertaining to a worm; resembling a worm; particularly, resembling the motion of a worm;  as the vermicular motion of the intestines, called also peristaltic.
Vermicular or vermiculated work, in sculpture, a sort of ornament consisting of frets or knobs, in Mosaic pavements, winding and representing the tracks of worms.


Topic: Vermiculate
Definition:
VERMIC'ULATE, v.t.  [L. vermiculatus.]  To inlay; to form work by inlaying, resembling the motion or the tracks of worms.


Topic: Vermiculation
Definition:
VERMICULA'TION, n.
1.  The act or operation of moving in the form of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another, as in the peristaltic motion of the intestines.
2.  The act of forming so as to resemble the motion of a worm.


Topic: Vermiform
Definition:
VERM'IFORM, a.  [L. vermis, a worm, and forma, form.]
Having the form or shape of a worm; as the vermiform process of the cerebellum.


Topic: Vermifuge
Definition:
VERM'IFUGE, n.  [L. vermis, a worm, and fugo, to expel.]
A medicine or substance that destroys or expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.


Topic: Vermin
Definition:
VERM'IN, n. sing, and plu; used chiefly in the plural.  [L. vermes, worms.]
1.  All sorts of small animals which are destructive to grain or other produce; all noxious little animals or insects, as squirrels, rats, mice, worms, grubs, flies, &c.
These vermin do great injuries in the field.
2.  Used of noxious human beings in contempt; as base vermin.


Topic: Vermivorous
Definition:
VERMIV'OROUS, a.  [L. vermes, worms, and voro, to devour.]
Devouring worms; feeding on worms.  Vermivorous birds are very useful to the farmer.


Topic: Vernacular
Definition:
VERNAC'ULAR, a.  [L. vernaculus, born in one's house, from verns, a servant.]
1.  Native; belonging to the country of one's birth.  English is our vernacular language.  The vernacular idiom is seldom perfectly acquired by foreigners.
2.  Native; belonging to the person by birth or nature.
A vernacular disease, is one which prevails in a particular country or district; more generally called endemic.


Topic: Vernal
Definition:
VER'NAL, a.  [L. vernalis, from ver, spring.]
1.  Belonging to the spring; appearing in spring; as vernal bloom.
Vernal flowers are preparatives to autumnal fruits.
2.  Belonging to youth, the spring of life.
Vernal signs, the signs in which the sun appears in the spring.
Vernal equinox, the equinox in spring or March; opposed to the autumnal equnox, in September.


Topic: Vernation
Definition:
VERNA'TION, n.  [L. verno.]  In botany, the disposition of the nascent leaves within the bud.  it is called also foliation or leafing.


Topic: Vernier
Definition:
VER'NIER, n.  [from the inventor.]  A graduated index which subdivides the smallest divisions on a straight or circular scale.


Topic: Vernility
Definition:
VERNIL'ITY, n.  [L. vernilis, from verna, a slave.]  Servility; fawning behavior, like that of a slave.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Veronica
Definition:
VERON'ICA, n.  [vera-icon, true image.]
1.  A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on handkerchiefs.
2.  In botany, a genus of plants, Speedwell.


Topic: Verrucous
Definition:
VER'RUCOUS, a.  [L. verruca, a wart; verrucosus, full of warts.]
Warty; having little knobs or warts on the surface; as a verrucous capsule.


Topic: Versatile
Definition:
VERS'ATILE, a.  [L. versatilis, from versor, to turn.]
1.  That may be turned round; as a versatile boat or spindle.
2.  Liable to be turned in opinion; changeable; variable; unsteady; as a man of versatile disposition.
3.  Turning with ease from one thing to another; readily applied to a new task, or to various subjects; as a man of versatile genius.
4.  In botany, a versatile anther is one fixed by the middle on the point of the filament, and so poised as to turn like the needle of a compass; fixed by its side, but freely movable.


Topic: Versatility
Definition:
VERSATIL'ITY, n. 
1.  The quality of being versatile; aptness to change; readiness to be turned; variableness.
2.  The faculty of easily turning one's mind to new tasks or subjects; as the versatility of genus.


Topic: Verse
Definition:
VERSE, n.  vers.  [L. versus; verto, to turn.]
1.  In poetry, a line, consisting of a certain number of long and short syllables, disposed according to the rules of the species of poetry which the author intends to compose.  Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter, and tetrameter, &c. according to the number of feet in each.  A verse of twelve syllables is called an Alexandrian or Alexandrine.  Two or more verses form a stanza or strophe.
2.  Poetry; metrical language.
Virtue was taught in verse.
Verse embalms virtue.
3.  A short division of any composition, particularly of the chapters in the Scriptures.  The author of the division of the Old Testament into verses, is not ascertained.  The New Testament was divided into verses by Robert Stephens.
4.  A piece of poetry.
5.  A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
6.  In a song or ballad, a stanza is called a verse.
Blank verse, poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes.
Heroic verse, usually consists of ten syllables, or in English, of five accented syllables, constituting five feet.
VERSE, v.t.  To tell in verse; to relate poetically.
Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love.
To be versed, [L. vesor.] to be well skilled; to be acquainted with; as, to be versed in history or in geometry.


Topic: Versification
Definition:
VERSIFICA'TION, n.  The act, art or practice of composing poetic verse.  Versification is the result of art, labor and rule, rather than of invention or the fire of genius.  It consists in adjusting the long and short syllables, and forming feet into harmonious measure.


Topic: Versifier
Definition:
VERS'IFIER, n.
1.  One who makes verses.  Not every versifier is a poet.
2.  One who converts into verse; or one who expresses the ideas of another, written in prose; as, Dr. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.


Topic: Versify
Definition:
VERS'IFY, v.i.  To make verses.
I'll versify in spite, and do my best.
VERS'IFY, v.t.
1.  To relate or describe in verse.
I'll versify the truth.
2.  To turn into verse; as, to versify the Psalms.


Topic: Version
Definition:
VER'SION, n.  [L. versio.]
1.  A turning; a change or transformation; as the version of air into water.  [Unusual.]
2.  Change of direction; as the version of the beams of light.  [Unusual.]
3.  The act of translating; the rendering of thoughts or ideas expressed in one language, into words of like signification in another language.  How long was Pope engaged in the version of Homer?
4.  Translation; that which is rendered from another language.  We have a good version of the Scriptures.  There is a good version of Pentateuch in Samaritan.  The Septuagint version of the Old Testament was made for the benefit of the Jews in Alexandria.


Topic: Verst
Definition:
VERST, n.  A Russian measure of length, containing 1166 2/3 yards, or 3500 feet; about three quarters of an English mile.


Topic: Vert
Definition:
VERT, n.  [L. viridis.]  
1.  In the forest laws, every thing that grows and bears a green leaf within the forest.  To preserve vert and venison, is the duty of the verderer.
2.  In heraldry, a green color.


Topic: Vertebral
Definition:
VERT'EBRAL, a.
1.  Pertaining to the joints of the spine or backbone.
2.  Having a backbone or spinal joints; as vertebral animals.
VERT'EBRAL, n.  An animal of the class which have a backbone.


Topic: Vertebrated
Definition:
VERT'EBRATED, a.  [L. vertebratus.]  Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as an animal; as man, quadrupeds, fowls, amphibia, and fishes.


Topic: Vertex
Definition:
VERT'EX, n.  [L. from veto, to turn; primarily a round point.]
1.  The crown or top of the head.
2.  The top of a hill or other thing; the point of a cone, pyramid, angle or figure; the pole of a glass, in optics.  The vertex of a curve, is the point from which the diameter is drawn, or the intersection of the diameter and the curve.
3.  In astronomy, the zenith; the point of the heavens perpendicularly over the head.


Topic: Vertical
Definition:
VERT'ICAL, a.  [L. vertex.]
1.  Placed or being in the zenith, or perpendicularly over the head.  The sun is vertical to the inhabitants within the tropics at certain times every year.
2.  Being in a position perpendicular to the plane of the horizon.
Vertical leaves, in botany, are such as stand so erect, that neither of the surfaces can be called the upper or under.
Vertical anthers, are such as terminate the filaments, and being inserted by their base, stand no less upright than the filaments themselves.
Vertical circle, in astronomy, a great circle passing through the zenith and the nadir.  The meridian of any place is a vertical circle.  The vertical circles are called azimuths.
Vertical line, in conics, is a right line drawn on the vertical plane, and passing through the vertex of the cone.
Vertical plane, in conics, is a plane passing through the vertex of a cone, and through its axis.
Prime vertical, a great circle of the sphere, perpendicular to the horizon, and passing through the zenith and the east and west points.


Topic: Verticalness
Definition:
VERT'ICALNESS, n.  The state of being in the zenith or perpendicularly over the head.  [Verticality is not used.]


Topic: Verticil
Definition:
VERT'ICIL, n.  [L. verticillus, from vertex, supra.]
In botany, a little whirl; a mode of inflorescence, in which the flowers surround the stem in a kind of ring.


Topic: Verticillate
Definition:
VERTIC'ILLATE, a.  [supra.]  In botany, verticillate flowers are such as grow in a whirl, or round the stem in rings, one above another, at each joint.  The term is also applied in this sense to leaves and branches.  Verticillate plants are such as bear whirled flowers.


Topic: Verticity
Definition:
VERTIC'ITY, n.  [from vertex, supra.]
1.  The power of turning; revolution; rotation.
2.  That property of the lodestone by which it turns to some particular point.
The attraction of the magnet was known long before its verticity.


Topic: Vertiginous
Definition:
VERTIG'INOUS, a.  [L. vertiginousus.]
1.  Turning round; whirling; rotary; as a vertiginous motion.
2.  Giddy; affected with vertigo.


Topic: Vertigo
Definition:
VERT'IGO, n.  [L. from verto, to turn.]  Giddiness; dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head, in which objects appear to move in various directions, though stationary, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture.


Topic: Very
Definition:
VER'Y, a.  [L. verus.]  True; real.
Whether thou be my very son Esau or not.  Gen. 27.
He that repeateth a matter, separateth very friends.  
Prov. 17.
VER'Y, adv.  As an adverb, or modifier of adjectives and adverbs, very denotes in a great degree, an eminent or high degree, but not generally the highest; as a very great mountain; a very bright sun; a very cold day; a very pernicious war; a very benevolent disposition; the river flows very rapidly.


Topic: Vesation
Definition:
VESA'TION, n.  [L. vesatio.]  
1.  The act of irritating, or of troubling, disquieting and harassing.
2.  State of being irritated or disturbed in mind.
3.  Disquiet; agitation; great uneasiness.
Passions too violent - afford us vexation and pain.
4.  The cause of trouble or disquiet.
Your children were vexation to your youth.
5.  Afflictions; great troubles; severe judgments.
The Lord shall send on thee cursing, vexation and rebuke.  Deut. 28.
6.  A harassing by law.
7.  A slight teasing trouble.


Topic: Vesicate
Definition:
VES'ICATE, v.t.  [L. vesica, a little bladder.  Gr. from to inflate.]
To blister; to raise little bladders, or separate the cuticle by inflaming the skin.  Celsus recommends to vesicate the external parts of wounds.


Topic: Vesicatory
Definition:
VES'ICATORY, n.  A blistering application or plaster; an epispastic.  Vesicatories made of cantharides, are more powerful than sinapisms, or preparations of mustard.


Topic: Vesicle
Definition:
VES'ICLE, n.  [. vesicula.  See Vesicate.]
1.  A little bladder, or a portion of the cuticle separated from the skin and filled with some humor.
2.  Any small membranous cavity in animals or vegetables.  The lungs consist of vesicles admitting air.


Topic: Vesiculous
Definition:
VESIC'ULOUS, a.
1.  Pertaining to vesicles; consisting of vesicles.
2.  Hollow; full of interstices.
3.  Having little bladders or glands on the surface, as the leaf of a plant.


Topic: Vesper
Definition:
VES'PER, n.  [L.  This word and Hesperus are probably of one origin, and both from the root of west.]
1.  The evening star; Venus; also, the evening.
2.  Vespers, in the plural, the evening song or evening service in the Romish church.
Sicilian vespers, the era of the general massacre of the French in Sicily, or Easter evening, 1282, at the toll of the bell for vespers.


Topic: Vespertine
Definition:
VES'PERTINE, a.  [L. vespertinus.  See Vesper.]
Pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening.


Topic: Vessel
Definition:
VES'SEL, n.  [L. vas, vasis.  This word is probably the English vat.]
1.  A cask or utensil proper for holding liquors and other things, as a tun, a pipe, a puncheon, a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a dish, &c.
2.  In anatomy, any tube or canal, in which the blood and other humors are contained, secreted or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, spermatics, &c.
3.  In the physiology of plants, a canal or tube of very small bore, in which the sap is contained and conveyed; also, a bag or utricle, filled with pulp, and serving as a reservoir for sap; also, a spiral canal, usually of a larger bore, for receiving and distributing air.
4.  Any building used in navigation, which carries masts and sails, from the largest ship of war down to a fishing sloop.  In general however, vessel is used for the smaller ships, brigs, sloops, schooners, luggers, scows, &c.
5.  Something containing.
Vessels of wrath, in Scripture, are such persons as are to receive the full effects of God's wrath and indignation, as a punishment for their sins.
Vessels of mercy, are persons who are to receive the effects of God's mercy, or future happiness and glory.
Chosen vessels, ministers of the gospel, as appointed to bear the glad news of salvation to others; called also earthen vessels, on account of their weakness and frailty.
VES'SEL, v.t.  To put into a vessel.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Vest
Definition:
VEST, n.  [L. vestis, a coat or garment; vestio, to cover or clothe.]
1.  An outer garment.
Over his lucid arms a military vest of purple flow'd.
2.  In common speech, a man's under garment; a short garment covering the body, but without sleeves, worn under the coat; called also waistcoat.
VEST, v.t.  
1.  To clothe; to cover, surround or encompass closely.
With ether vested and a purple sky.
2.  To dress; to clothe with a long garment; as the vested priest.
To vest with, to clothe; to furnish with; to invest with; as, to vest a man with authority; to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death; to vest one with the right of seizing slave ships.
Had I been vested with the monarch's pow'r.
To vest in, to put in possession of; to furnish with; to clothe with.  The supreme executive power in England is vested in the king; in the United States, it is vested in the president.
2.  To clothe with another form; to convert into another substance or species of property; as, to vest money in goods; to vest money in land or houses; to vest money in bank stock, or in six per cent stock; to vest all one's property in the public funds.
VEST, v.i.  To come or descend to; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right.  Upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.


Topic: Vestal
Definition:
VEST'AL, a.  [L. vestalis, from Vesta, the goddess of fire,  Gr.]
1.  Pertaining to Vesta, the goddess of fire among the Romans, and a virgin.
2.  Pure; chaste.
VEST'AL, n.  A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.  The Vestals were six in number, and they made a vow of perpetual virginity.


Topic: Vested
Definition:
VEST'ED, pp. 
1.  Clothed; covered; closely encompassed.
2.  a.  Fixed; not in a state of contingency or suspension; as vested rights.
Vested legacy, in law, a legacy the right to which commences in presenti, and does not depend on a contingency, as a legacy to one, to be paid when he attains to twenty one years of age.  This is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it.
Vested remainder, is where the estate is invariably fixed, to remain to a determinate person, after the particular estate is spent.  This is called a remainder executed, by which a present interest passes to the party, though to be enjoyed in future.


Topic: Vestibule
Definition:
VES'TIBULE, n.  [L. vestibulum.]
1.  The porch or entrance into a house, or a large open space before the door, but covered.  Vestibules for magnificence are usually between the court and garden.
2.  A little antechamber before the entrance of an ordinary apartment.
3.  An apartment in large buildings, which presents itself into a hall or suit of rooms or offices.  An area in which a magnificent staircase is carried up is sometimes called a vestibule.
4.  In anatomy, a cavity belonging to the labyrinth of the ear.


Topic: Vestige
Definition:
VES'TIGE, n.  [L. vestigium.  This word and vestibule, show that some verb signifying to tread, from which they are derived, is lost.]
A track or footstep; the mark of the foot left on the earth; but mostly used for the mark or remains of something else; as the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.


Topic: Vesting
Definition:
VEST'ING, ppr.  [from vest.]  Clothing; covering; closely encompassing; descending to and becoming permanent, as a right or title; converting into other species of property, as money.
VEST'ING, n.  Cloth for vests; vest patterns.


Topic: Vestment
Definition:
VEST'MENT, n.  [L. vestimentum, from vestio, to clothe.]
A garment; some part of clothing or dress; especially some part of outer clothing; but it is not restricted to any particular garment.
The sculptor could not give vestments suitable to the quality of the persons represented.


Topic: Vestry
Definition:
VEST'RY, n.  [L. vestiarium.]
1.  A room appendant to a church, in which the sacerdotal vestments, in which the sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are kept, and where parochial meetings are held.
2.  A parochial assembly, so called because held in the vestry.
The council are chosen by the vestry.


Topic: Vestry-clerk
Definition:
VEST'RY-CLERK, n.  [vestry and clerk.]  An officer chosen by the vestry, who keeps the parish accounts and books.


Topic: Vestry-man
Definition:
VEST'RY-MAN, n.  [vestry and man.]  In London, vestry-men are a select number of principal persons of every parish, who choose parish officers and take care of its concerns.


Topic: Vesture
Definition:
VEST'URE, n.  [See Vest.]
1.  A garment; a robe.
There polish'd chests embroider'd vesture grac'd.
2.  Dress; garments in general; habit; clothing; vestment; as the vesture of priests.
3.  Clothing; covering.
Rocks, precipices and gulfs appareled with a vesture of plants.
- And gild the humble vestures of the plain.
4.  In old law books, the corn with which land was covered; as the vesture of an acre.
5.  In old books, seisin; possession.  Obs.


Topic: Vesuvian
Definition:
VESU'VIAN, a.  Pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.
VESU'VIAN, n.  In mineralogy, a subspecies of pyramidical garnet, a mineral found in the vicinity of Vesuvius, classed with the family of garnets; called by Hauy idocrase.  It is generally crystallized in four sided prisms, the edges of which are truncated, forming prisms of eight, fourteen or sixteen sides.  it sometimes occurs massive.  It is composed chiefly of silex, lime and alumin, with a portion of oxyd of iron, and oxyd of manganese.


Topic: Vetch
Definition:
VETCH, n.  [L. vicia.  We see vetch if from the root of weigh, wag, wiggle, and signifies a little roller.]
A plant of the leguminous kind, with papilionaceous flowers, of the genus Vicia.  It is a common name of most species of the genus.  The name is also applied, with various epithets, to many other leguminous plants of different genera; as the chichling vetch, of the genus Lathyrus; the horseshoe vetch, of the genus Hippocrepis; the milk vetch, of the genus Astragalus, &c.


Topic: Vetchling
Definition:
VETCH'LING, n.  [from vetch.]  In botany, a name of the Lathyrus aphaca, expressive of its diminutive size.  The meadow vetchling is a wild plant common in meadows, which makes good hay.


Topic: Veteran
Definition:
VET'ERAN, a.  [L. veteranus, from vetero, to grow old, from vetus, old.]
Having been long exercised in any thing; long practiced or experienced; as a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.
VET'ERAN, n.  One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has grown old in service and has had much experience.
Ensigns that pierc'd the foe's remotest lines, the hardy veteran with tears resigns.


Topic: Veterinary
Definition:
VET'ERINARY, a.  [supra.]  Pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, &c.  A veterinary college was established in England in 1792, at St. Pancras, in the vicinity of London.  The improvement of the vetrinary art is of great importance to the agricultural interest.


Topic: Veto
Definition:
VE'TO, n.  [L. veto, I forbid.]  A forbidding; prohibition; or the right of forbidding; applied to the right of a king or other magistrate or officer to withhold his assent to the enactment of a law, or the passing of a decree.  Thus the king of Great Britain has a veto upon every act of parliament; he sometimes prevents the passing of a law by his vet.


Topic: Vex
Definition:
VEX, v.t.  [L. vexo.]
1.  To irritate; to make angry by little provocations; a popular use of the word.
2.  To plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict.
Ten thousand torments vex my heart.
3.  To disturb; to disquiet; to agitate.
White curl the waves, and the vex'd ocean roars.
4.  To trouble; to distress.
I will also vex the hearts of many people.  Ezek. 32.
5.  To persecute.  Act. 12.
6.  To stretch, as by hooks.  [Not in use.]
VEX, v.i.  To fret; to be teased or irritated.


Topic: Vexatious
Definition:
VEXA'TIOUS, a.
1.  Irritating; disturbing or agitating to the mind; causing disquiet; afflictive; as a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.
2.  Distressing; harassing; as vexatious wars.
3.  Full of trouble and disquiet.
He leads a vexatious life.
4.  Teasing; slightly troublesome; provoking.
A vexatious suit, in law, is one commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, or without cause.


Topic: Vexil
Definition:
VEX'IL, n.  [L. vexillum, a standard.]  A flag or standard.  In botany, the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower.


Topic: Vial
Definition:
VI'AL, n.  [L. phiala.]  A phial; a small bottle of thin glass, used particularly by apothecaries and druggists.
Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head.  
1Sam. 10.
Vials of God's wrath, in Scripture, are the execution of his wrath upon the wicked for their sins.  Rev. 16.
VI'AL, v.t.  To put in a vial.


Topic: Viand
Definition:
VI'AND, n.  [L. vivendus, vivo, to live.]  Meat dressed; food.
Viands of various kinds allure the taste.
[It is used chiefly in the plural.]


Topic: Viaticum
Definition:
VIAT'ICUM, n.  [L. supra.]
1.  Provisions for a journey.
2.  Among the ancient Romans, an allowance to officers who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service, also to the officers and soldiers of the army.
3.  In the Romish church, the communion or eucharist given to persons in their last moment.


Topic: Vibration
Definition:
VIBRA'TION, n.  [L. vibro.]  
1.  The act of brandishing; the act of moving or state of being moved one way and the other in quick succession.
2.  In mechanics, a regular reciprocal motion of a body suspended; a motion consisting of continual reciprocations or returns; as of the pendulum of a chronometer.  This is frequently called oscillation.  The number of vibrations in a given time depends on the length of the vibrating body; a pendulum three feet long, makes only ten vibrations while one of nine inches makes twenty.  The vibrations of a pendulum are somewhat slower at or near the equator than in remote latitudes.  The vibrations of a pendulum are isochronal in the same climate.
3.  In physics, alternate or reciprocal motion; as the vibrations of the nervous fluid, by which sensation has been supposed to be produced, by impressions of external objects propagated thus to the brain.
4.  In music, the motion of a chord, or the undulation of any body, by which sound is produced.  The acuteness, elevation and gravity of sound, depend on the length of the chord and its tension.


Topic: Vibratory
Definition:
VI'BRATORY, a.
1.  Vibrating; consisting in vibration or oscillation; as a vibratory motion.
2.  Causing to vibrate.


Topic: Vibrion
Definition:
VIB'RION, n.  [L. vibrans.]  A name given to the ichneumon fly, from the continual vibration of its antennae.


Topic: Vicar
Definition:
VIC'AR, n.  [L. vicarius, from vicis, a turn, or its root.]
1.  In a general sense, a person deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office.  The pope pretends to be vicar of Jesus Christ on earth.  He has under him a grand vicar, who is a cardinal, and whose jurisdiction extends over all priests, regular and secular.
2.  In the canon law, the priest of a parish, the predial tithes of which are impropriated or appropriated, that is, belong to a chapter or religious house, or to a layman, who receives them, and only allows the vicar the smaller tithes or a salary.
Apostolical vicars, are those who perform the functions of the pope in churches or provinces committed to their direction.


Topic: Vicar-general
Definition:
VICAR-GEN'ERAL, n.  A title given by Henry VIII to the earl of Essex, with power to oversee all the clergy, and regulate all church affairs.  It is now the title of an office, which, as well as that of official principal, is united in the chancellor of the diocese.  The business of the vicar-general is to exercise jurisdiction over matters purely spiritual.


Topic: Vicarage
Definition:
VIC'ARAGE, n.  The benefice of a vicar.  A vicarage by endowment, becomes a benefice distinct from the parsonage.


Topic: Vicarious
Definition:
VICA'RIOUS, a.  [L. vicarius.]
1.  Deputed; delegated; as vicarious power or authority.
2.  Acting for another; filling the place of another; as a vicarious agent or officer.
3.  Substituted in the place of another; as a vicarious sacrifice.  The doctrine of vicarious punishment has occasioned much controversy.


Topic: Vice
Definition:
VICE, n.  [L. vitium.]
1.  Properly, a spot or defect; a fault; a blemish; as the vices of a political constitution.
2.  In ethics, any voluntary action or course of conduct which deviates from the rules of moral rectitude, or from the plain rules of propriety; any moral unfitness of conduct, either from defect of duty, or from the transgression of known principles of rectitude.  Vice differs from crime, in being less enormous.  We never call murder or robbery a vice; but every act of intemperance, all falsehood, duplicity, deception, lewdness and the like, is a vice.  The excessive indulgence of passions and appetites which in themselves are innocent, is a vice.  The smoking of tobacco and the taking of snuff, may in certain cases be innocent and even useful, but these practices may be carried to such an excess as to become vices.  This word is also used to denote a habit of transgressing; as a life of vice.  Vice is rarely a solitary invader; it usually brings with it a frightful train of followers.
3.  Depravity or corruption of manners; as an age of vice.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway.
The post of honor is a private station.
4.  A fault or bad trick in a horse.
5.  The fool or punchinello of old shows.
His face made of brass, like a vice in a game.
6.  An iron press.  [This should be written vise.]
7.  A gripe or grasp.  [Not in use.]
VICE, v.t.  To draw by a kind of violence.  [Not in use.  See Vise.]
VICE, L. vice, in the turn or place, is used in composition to denote one qui vicem gerit, who acts in the place of another, or is second in authority.


Topic: Vice-admiral
Definition:
VICE-AD'MIRAL, n.
1.  In the navy, the second officer in command.  His flag is displayed at the fore top-gallant-mast head.
2.  A civil officer in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty, for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts.


Topic: Vice-chancellor
Definition:
VICE-CH'ANCELLOR, n.  An officer in a university in England, a distinguished member, who is annually elected to manage the affairs in the absence of the chancellor.


Topic: Vice-legate
Definition:
VICE-LEG'ATE, n.  An officer employed by the pope to perform the office of spiritual and temporal governor in certain cities, when there is no legate or cardinal to command there.


Topic: Vicegerency
Definition:
VICEGE'RENCY, n.  [See Vicegerent.]  The office of a vicegerent; agency under another; deputed power; lieutenancy.


Topic: Vicegerent
Definition:
VICEGE'RENT, n.  [L. vicem gereus, acting in the place of another.]
A lieutenant; a vicar; an officer who is deputed by a superior or by proper authority to exercise the powers of another.  Kings are sometimes called God's vicegerents.  It is to be wished they would always deserve the appellation.
VICEGE'RENT, a.  Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.


Topic: Viceroy
Definition:
VI'CEROY, n.  The governor of a kingdom or country, who rules in the name of the king with regal authority, as the king's substitute.


Topic: Viciate
Definition:
VI'CIATE, v.t.  [L. vitio.  This veb is usually written vitiate; but as vice, from L. vitius, is established, it would be well to write the verb viciate, as we write appreciate and depreciate, from L. pretium.]
1.  to injure the substance or properties of a thing so as to impair its value, and lessen or destroy its use; to make less pure, or wholly impure; to deprave, in a physical or moral sense; as, to viciate the blood; to viciate taste or style; to viciate morals.
2.  To render defective and thus destroy the validity of; to invalidate by defect; as, to viciate a deed or bond.


Topic: Vicinage
Definition:
VIC'INAGE, n.  [from L. vicinia, neighborhood; vicinus, near.]
Neighborhood; the place or places adjoining or near.  A jury must be of the vicinage, or body of the country.
In law, common because of vicinage, is where the inhabitants of two townships contiguous to each other, have usually intercommoned with one another; the beasts of one straying into the other's fields without molestation from either.


Topic: Vicinity
Definition:
VICIN'ITY, n.  [L. vicinitas.]
1.  Nearness in place; as the vicinity of two country seats.
2.  Neighborhood; as a seat in the vicinity of the metropolis.
3.  Neighboring country.  Vegetables produced in the vicinity of the city, are daily brought to market.  the vicinity is full of gardens.


Topic: Vicious
Definition:
VI'CIOUS, a.  [L. vitiosus.]
1.  Defective; imperfect; as a system of government vicious and unsound.
2.  Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; habitually transgressing the moral law; as a vicious race of men; vicious parents; vicious children.
3.  Corrupt; contrary to moral principles or to rectitude; as vicious examples; vicious conduct.
4.  Corrupt, in a physical sense; foul; impure; insalubrious; as vicious air.
5.  Corrupt; not genuine or pure; as vicious language; vicious idioms.
6.  Unruly; refractory; not well tamed or broken; as a vicious horse.


Topic: Viciously
Definition:
VI'CIOUSLY, adv.  
1.  Corruptly; in a manner contrary to rectitude, moral principles, propriety or purity.
2.  Faultily; not correctly.


Topic: Viciousness
Definition:
VI'CIOUSNESS, n. 
1.  Addictedness to vice; corruptness of moral principles or practice; habitual violation of the moral law, or of moral duties; depravity in principles or in manners.
What makes a governor justly despised, is viciousness and ill morals.
2.  Unruliness; refractoriness; as of a beast.


Topic: Vicissitude
Definition:
VICIS'SITUDE, n.  [L. vicissitudo; from vicis, a turn.]
1.  Regular change or succession of one thing to another; as the vicissitudes of day and night, and of winter and summer; the vicissitudes of the seasons.
2.  Change; revolution; as in human affairs.  We are exposed to continual vicissitudes of fortune.


Topic: Vicontiel
Definition:
VICON'TIEL, a.  [vice-comitalia.  See Viscount.]
In old law books, pertaining to the sheriff.
Vicontiel rents, are certain rents for which the sheriff pays a rent to the king.
Vicontiel writs, are such as are triable in the county or sheriff court.


Topic: Vicontiels
Definition:
VICON'TIELS, n.  Things belonging to the sheriff; particularly, farms for which the sheriff pays rent to the king.


Topic: Vicount
Definition:
VI'COUNT, n.  [vice-comes.]
1.  In law books, the sheriff.
2.  A degree of nobility next below a count or earl.  [See Viscount.]


Topic: Victim
Definition:
VIC'TIM n.  [L. victima.]
1.  A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; usually, some beast slain in sacrifice; but human beings have been slain by some nations, for the purpose of appeasing the wrath or conciliating the favor of some deity.
2.  Something destroyed; something sacrificed in the pursuit of an object.  How many persons have fallen victims to jealousy, to lust, to ambition!


Topic: Victor
Definition:
VIC'TOR, n.  [L. from vinco, victus, to conquer, or the same root.]  
1.  One who conquers in war; a vanquisher; one who defeats an enemy in battle.  Victor differs from conqueror.  We apply conqueror to one who subdues countries, kingdoms or nations; as, Alexander was the conqueror of Asia or India, or of many nations, or of the world.  In such phrases, we cannot substitute victor.  But we use victor, when we speak of one who overcomes a particular enemy, or in a particular battle; as, Cesar was victor at Pharsalia.  The duke of Wellington was victor at Waterloo.  Victor then is not followed by the possessive case; for we do not say, Alexander was the victor of Darius, though we say, he was victor at Arbela.
2.  One who vanquishes another in private combat or contest; as a victor in the Olympic games.
3.  One who wins, or gains the advantage.
In love, the victors from the vanquish'd fly;
They fly that wound, and they pursue that die.
4.  Master; lord.
These, victor of his health, his fortune, friends.  [Not usual nor legitimate.]


Topic: Victorious
Definition:
VICTO'RIOUS, a.  
1.  Having conquered in battle or contest; having overcome an enemy or antagonist; conquering; vanquishing; as a victorious general; victorious troops; a victorious admiral or navy.
2.  That produces conquest; as a victorious day.
3.  Emblematic of conquest; indicating victory; as brows bound with victorious wreaths.


Topic: Victoriously
Definition:
VICTO'RIOUSLY, adv.  With conquest; with defeat of an enemy or antagonist; triumphantly; as, grace will carry us victoriously through all difficulties.


Topic: Victory
Definition:
VIC'TORY, n.  [L. victoria, from vinco, victus, to conquer.]
1.  Conquest; the defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in contest; a gaining of the superiority in war or combat.  Victory supposes the power of an enemy or an antagonist to prove inferior to that of the victor.  Victory however depends not always on superior skill or valor; it is often gained by the fault or mistake of the vanquished.
Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels of a nation.
2.  The advantage or superiority gained over spiritual enemies, over passions and appetites, or over temptations, or in any struggle or competition.
Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.  1Cor. 15.


Topic: Victualer
Definition:
VICTUALER, n.  vit'ler. 
1.  One who furnishes provisions.
2.  One who keeps a house of entertainment.
3.  A provision-ship; a ship employed to carry provisions for other ships, or for supplying troops at a distance.


Topic: Victuals
Definition:
VICTUALS, n. vit'lz.  [L. victus, food, from the root of vivo, which was vigo or vico, coinciding with vigeo.  Basque, vicia life.  This word is now never used in the singular.]
Food for human beings, prepared for eating; that which supports human life; provisions; meat; sustenance.  We never apply this word to that on which beasts or birds feed, and we apply it chiefly to food for men when cooked or prepared for the table.  We do not now give this name to flesh, corn or flour, in a crude state; but we say, the victuals are well cooked or dressed, and in great abundance.  We say, a man eats his victuals with a good relish.
Such phrases as to buy victuals for the army or navy, to lay in victuals for the winter, &c. are now obsolete.  We say, to buy provisions; yet we use the verb, to victual an army or ship.


Topic: Vie
Definition:
VIE, v.i.  [See Victor.]
To strive for superiority; to contend; to use effort in a race, contest, competition, rivalship or strife.  How delightful it is to see children vie with each other in diligence and in duties of obedience.
In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in a way of life to vie with the best of their family.
VIE, v.t.  
1.  To show or practice in competition; as, to vie power; to vie charities.  [Not legitimate.]
2.  To urge; to press.
She hung about my neck, and kiss and kiss she vied so fast.  [Not in use.]


Topic: View
Definition:
VIEW, v.t. vu.  [L. videre.  The primary sense is to reach or extend to.]
1.  To survey; to examine with the eye; to look on with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to inspect; to explore.  View differs from look, see, and behold, in expressing more particular or continued attention to the thing which is the object of sight.  We ascended mount Holyoke, and viewed the charming landscape below.  We viewed with delight the rich valleys of the Connecticut about the town of Northhampton.
Go up and view the country.  Josh. 7.
I viewed the walls of Jerusalem.  Neh. 7.
2.  To see; to perceive by the eye.
3.  To survey intellectually; to examine with the mental eye; to consider.  View the subject in all its aspects.
VIEW, n. vu.
1.  Prospect; sight; reach of the eye.
The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.
2.  The whole extent seen.  Vast or extensive views present themselves to the eye.
3.  Sight; power of seeing, or limit of sight.
The mountain was not within our view.
4.  Intellectual or mental sight.  These things give us a just view of the designs of providence.
5.  Act of seeing.  The facts mentioned were verified by actual view.
6.  Slight; eye.
Objects near our view are thought greater than those of larger size, that are more remote.
7.  Survey; inspection; examination by the eye.  The assessors took a view of the premises.
Surveying nature with too nice a view.
8.  Intellectual survey; mental examination.
On a just view of all the arguments in the case, the law appears to be clear.
9.  Appearance; show.
10.  Display; exhibition to the sight or mind.
To give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty. -
11.  Prospect of interest.
No man sets himself about any thing, but upon some view or other, which serves him for a reason.
12.  Intention; purpose; design.  With that view he began the expedition.  With a view to commerce, he passed through Egypt.
13.  Opinion; manner of seeing or understanding.  These are my views of the policy which ought to be pursued.
View of frankpledge, in law, a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship or manor, before the stewart of the leet.
Point of view, the direction in which a thing is seen.


Topic: Viewer
Definition:
VIEWER, n. vu'er.
1.  One who views, surveys or examines.
2.  In New England, a town officer whose duty is to inspect something; as a viewer of fences, who inspects them to determine whether they are sufficient in law.


Topic: Viewing
Definition:
VIEWING, ppr.  vu'ing.  Surveying; examining by the eye or by the mind; inspecting; exploring.
VIEWING, n. vu'ing.  The act of beholding or surveying.


Topic: Viewless
Definition:
VIEWLESS, a. vu'less.  That cannot be seen; not being perceivable by the eye; invisible; as viewless winds.
Swift through the valves the visionary fair repass'd and viewless mix'd with common air.


Topic: Vigil
Definition:
VIG'IL, n.  [L. vigilia, vigil, walking, watchful; vigilo, to watch.  This is formed on the root of Eng. wake.  The primary sense is to stir or excite, to rouse, to agitate.]
1.  Watch; devotion performed in the customary hours of rest or sleep.
So they in heav'n their odes and vigils tun'd.
2.  In church affairs, the eve or evening before any feast, the ecclesiastical day beginning at 6:00 in the evening, and continuing till the same hour the following evening; hence, a religious service performed in the evening preceding a holiday.
3.  A fast observed on the day preceding a holiday; a wake.
4.  Watch; forbearance of sleep; as the vigils of the card table.
Vigils or watchings of flowers, a term used by Linne to express a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers  of certain plants, of opening and closing their petals at certain hours of the day


Topic: Vigilance
Definition:
VIG'ILANCE, n.  [L. vigilans.  See Vigil.]
1.  Forbearance of sleep; a state of being awake.
2.  Watchfulness; circumspection; attention of the mind in discovering and guarding against danger, or providing for safety.  Vigilance is a virtue of prime importance in a general.  The vigilance of the dog is no less remarkable than his fidelity.
3.  Guard; watch.
In at this gate none pass the vigilance here plac'd.


Topic: Vigilant
Definition:
VIG'ILANT, a.  [L. vigilans.]  Watchful; circumspect; attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety.
Take your places and be vigilant.  Be sober, be vigilant.  
1Peter 5.


Topic: Vigilantly
Definition:
VIG'ILANTLY, adv.  [supra.]  Watchfully; with attention to danger and the means of safety; circumspectly.


Topic: Vignet
Definition:
VIGNET', n.  An ornament placed at the beginning of a book, preface or dedication; a head piece.  Those vignets are of various forms; often they are wreaths of flowers or sprigs.


Topic: Vigorous
Definition:
VIG'OROUS, a.
1.  Full of physical strength or active force; strong; lusty; as a vigorous youth; a vigorous body.
2.  Powerful; strong; made by strength, either of body or mind; as a vigorous attack; vigorous exertions.  The enemy expects a vigorous campaign.
The beginnings of confederacies have been vigorous and successful.


Topic: Vigorously
Definition:
VIG'OROUSLY, adv.  With great physical force or strength; forcibly; with active exertions; as, to prosecute an enterprise vigorously.


Topic: Vigorousness
Definition:
VIG'OROUSNESS, n.  The quality of being vigorous or possessed of active strength.
[Vigor and all its derivatives imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.]


Topic: Vilely
Definition:
VI'LELY, adv.
1.  Basely; meanly; shamefully; as Hector vilely dragged about the walls of Troy.
2.  In a cowardly manner.  2Sam. 1.
The Volscians vilely yielded the town.


Topic: Vileness
Definition:
VI'LENESS, n.
1.  Baseness; meanness; despicableness.
His vileness us shall never awe.
2.  Moral baseness or depravity; degradation by sin; extreme wickedness; as the vileness of mankind.


Topic: Vilify
Definition:
VIL'IFY, v.t.  [from vile.]  
1.  To make vile; to debase; to degrade.
Their Maker's image forsook them, when themselves they vilified to serve ungovern'd appetite.
2.  To defame; to traduce; to attempt to degrade by slander.
Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind.
[This is the most usual sense of the verb.]


Topic: Vill
Definition:
VILL, n.  [L. villa.]  A village; a small collection of houses.
The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I mentions entire-vills, demi-vills, and hamlets.


Topic: Villa
Definition:
VIL'LA, n.  [L. villa.]
A country seat or a farm, furnished with a mansion and convenient out-houses.


Topic: Village
Definition:
VIL'LAGE, n.  A small assemblage of houses, less than a town or city, and inhabited chiefly by farmers and other laboring people.  In England, it is said that a village is distinguished from a town by the want of a market.
In the United States, no such distinction exists, and any small assemblage of houses in the country is called a village.


Topic: Villainy
Definition:
VIL'LAINY, n.  
1.  Extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as the villany of the thief or the robber; the villany of the seducer.
The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany.
2.  A crime; an action of deep depravity.  In this sense, the word has a plural.
Such villanies roused Horace into wrath.


Topic: Villan
Definition:
VIL'LAN, n.  
1.  In feudal law, a villain or villein is one who holds lands by a base or servile tenure, or in villenage.  Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that is, annexed to the manor, adscriptitii glebae; or villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of their lord, and transferable from one to another.
2.  A vile wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes.  We call by the name of villain, the thief, the robber, the burglarian, the murderer, the incendiary, the ravisher, the seducer, the cheat, the swindler.  &c.  
Calm thinking villains, whom no faith could fix.


Topic: Villanage
Definition:
VIL'LANAGE, n.
1.  The state of a villain; base servitude.
2.  A base tenure of lands; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord; usually written villenage.
3.  Baseness; infamy.  [See Villany.]


Topic: Villanize
Definition:
VIL'LANIZE, v.t.  to debase; to degrade; to defame; to revile.
Were virtue by descent, a noble name could never villanize his father's fame.


Topic: Villous
Definition:
VIL'LOUS, a.  [l. villosus, from villus, hair, Eng. wool.]
1.  Abounding with fine hairs or wooly substance; nappy shaggy; rough; as a villous coat.
The villous coat of the stomach and intentines is the inner mucous membrane, so called from the innumerable villi or fine fibrils with which its internal surface is covered.
2.  In botany, pubescent; covered with soft hairs.


Topic: Vimineous
Definition:
VIMIN'EOUS, a.  [L. vimineus, from vimen, a twig.  Made of twigs or shoots.
In the hive's vimineous dome.


Topic: Vincible
Definition:
VIN'CIBLE, a.  [from L. vinco, to conquer.  See Victor.
Conquerable; that may be overcome or subdued.
He not vincible in spirit - 


Topic: Vindemial
Definition:
VINDE'MIAL, a.  [L. vindemialis, from vindemia, vintage; vinea and demo.]  Belonging to a vintage or grape harvest.


Topic: Vindicate
Definition:
VIN'DICATE, v.t.  [L. vindico.]  
1.  To defend; to justify; to support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure or objections.
When the respondent denies any proposition, the opponent must vindicate it.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; but vindicate the ways of God to man.
2.  To assert; to defend with success; to maintain; to prove to be just or valid; as, to vindicate a claim or title.
3.  To defend with arms, or otherwise; as, to vindicate our rights.
4.  to avenge; to punish; as a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.
God is more powerful to exact subjection and to vindicate rebellion.
[This latter use is entirely obsolete.]


Topic: Vindicating
Definition:
VIN'DICATING, ppr.  Defending; supporting against denial, censure, charge or impeachment; proving to be true or just; defending by force.


Topic: Vindication
Definition:
VINDICA'TION, n.  [L. vindico.]
1.  The defense of any thing, or a justification against denial or censure, or against objections or accusations; as the vindication of opinions or of a creed; the vindication of the Scriptures against the objections and cavils of infidels.
2.  The act of supporting by proof or legal process; the proving of any thing to be just; as the vindication of a title, claim or right.
3.  Defense by force or otherwise; as the vindication of the rights of man; the vindication of our liberties or the rights of conscience.


Topic: Vindicatory
Definition:
VIN'DICATORY, a.  
1.  Punitory; inflicting punishment; avenging.
The afflictions of Job were not vindicatory punishments.
2.  Tending to vindicate; justificatory.


Topic: Vine
Definition:
VINE, n.  [L. vinca.  See Wine.]
1.  A plant that produces grapes, of the genus Vitis, and of a great number of varieties.
2.  The long slender stem of any plant, that trails on the ground, or climbs and supports itself by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers.  Thus we speak of the hop vine, the bean vine, the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other encurbitaceous plants.


Topic: Vinegar
Definition:
VIN'EGAR, n.  
1.  Vegetable acid; an acid liquor obtained from wine, cider, beer or other liquors, by the second or acetous fermentation.  Vinegar may differ indefinitely in the degree of its acidity.  When highly concentrated, it is called radical vinegar.
2.  Any thing really or metaphorically sour.  [Not in use.]
Vinegar of lead, a liquor formed by digesting ceruse or litharge with a sufficient quantity of vinegar to dissolve it.


Topic: Vinery
Definition:
VI'NERY, n.  In gardening, an erection for supporting vines and exposing them to artificial heat, consisting of a wall with stoves and flues.


Topic: Vinous
Definition:
VI'NOUS, a.  [L. vinum, wine.]
Having the qualities of wine; pertaining to wine; as a vinous taste; a vinous flavor; vinous fermentation.


Topic: Vintage
Definition:
VINT'AGE, n.  [L. vindemia.]
1.  The produce of the vine for the season.  The vintage is abundant.
2.  The time of gathering the crop of grapes.
3.  The wine produced by the crop of grapes in one season.


Topic: Vinyard
Definition:
VIN'YARD, n.  
A plantation of vines producing grapes; properly, an inclosure or yard for grape-vines.


Topic: Viol
Definition:
VI'OL, n.  A stringed musical instrument, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having formerly six strings, to be struck with a bow.  Viols are of different kinds.  The largest of all is the base viol, whose tones are deep, soft and agreeable.  The violin now takes the place of the old viol.
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings of lute, or viol, still more apt for mournful things.


Topic: Violate
Definition:
VI'OLATE, v.t.  [L. violo.]
1.  To injure; to hurt; to interrupt; to disturb; as, to violate sleep.
Kindness for man, and pity for his fate, may mix with bliss and yet not violate.
2.  To break; to infringe; to transgress; as, to violate the laws of the state, or the rules of good breeding; to violate the divine commands; to violate one's vows or promises.  Promises and commands may be violated negatively, by non-observance.
3.  To injure; to do violence to.
Forbid to violate the sacred fruit.
4.  To treat with irreverence; to profane; as, to violate the sanctity of a holy place.
5.  To ravish; to compress by force.


Topic: Violation
Definition:
VIOLA'TION, n. 
1.  The act of violating or injuring; interruption, as of sleep or peace.
2.  Infringement; transgression; non-observance; as the violation of law or positive command; a violation of covenants, engagements and promises; a violation of vows.
3.  Act of irreverence; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as the violation of a church.
4.  Ravishment; rape.


Topic: Violator
Definition:
VI'OLATOR, n.
1.  One who violates, injures, interrupts or disturbs; as a violator of repose.
2.  One who infringes or transgresses; as a violator of law.
3.  One who profanes or treats with irreverence; as a violator of sacred things.
4.  A ravisher.


Topic: Violence
Definition:
VI'OLENCE, n.  [L. violentia.]
1.  Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.
2.  Moral force; vehemence.  The critic attacked the work with violence.
3.  Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds.
The earth was filled with violence.  Gen. 6.
4.  Eagerness; vehemence.
You ask with violence.
5.  Injury; infringement.  Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.
6.  Injury; hurt.
Do violence to no man.  Luke 3.
7.  Ravishment; rape.
To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder.
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure.  He does violence to his own opinions.
VI'OLENCE, v.t.  To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence.  [Little used.]


Topic: Violent
Definition:
VI'OLENT, a.  [L. violentus.
1.  Forcible; moving or acting with physical strength; urged or driven with force; as a violent wind; a violent stream; a violent assault or blow; a violent conflict.
2.  Vehement; outrageous; as a violent attack on the minister.
3.  Produced or continued by force; not spontaneous or natural.
No violent state can be perpetual.
4.  Produced by violence; not natural; as a violent death.
5.  Acting by violence; assailant; not authorized.
Some violent hands were laid on Humphry's life.
6.  Fierce; vehement; as a violent philippic; a violent remonstrance.  
We might be reckoned fierce and violent.
7.  Severe; extreme; as violent pains.
8.  Extorted; not voluntary.
Vows made in pain, are violent and void.
Violent presumption, in law, is presumption that arises from circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.  Such circumstances being proved, the mind infers with confidence that the fact has taken place, and this confidence is a violent presumption, which amounts to proof.
VI'OLENT, n.  An assailant.  [Not in use.]
VI'OLENT, v.t.  To urge with violence.  [Not used.]


Topic: Violently
Definition:
VI'OLENTLY, adv.  With force; forcibly; vehemently; as, the wind blows violently.
Forfeitures must not be exacted violently.


Topic: Violin
Definition:
VI'OLIN, n.  
A musical instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle; one of the most perfect and most powerful instruments that has been invented.


Topic: Violoncello
Definition:
VIOLONCEL'LO, n.  A stringed instrument of music; a base viol of four strings, or a little base violin with long large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the base violin.


Topic: Viper
Definition:
VI'PER, n.  [L. vipera.]
1.  A serpent, a species of coluber, whose bite is remarkably venomous.
A viper came out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.  Acts 29.
2.  A person or thing mischievous or malignant.


Topic: Viperous
Definition:
VI'PEROUS, a.  [L. viperus.]  Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as a viperous tongue.


Topic: Virago
Definition:
VIRA'GO, n.  [L. from vir, a man.]  
1.  A woman of the extraordinary stature, strength and courage; a female who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries.
2.  In common language, a bold, impudent, turbulent woman; a termagant.


Topic: Virelay
Definition:
VI'RELAY n.
A song or little poem among the Provencal poets in France; a roundelay.  It sometimes consisted of two rhymes only, and short verses, with stops.
To which a lady sung a virelay.


Topic: Virgate
Definition:
VIR'GATE, a.  nearly vurgate.  [L. virga, a rod.]
In botany, having the shape of a rod or wand; as a virgate stem.
VIR'GATE, n.  A yardland.


Topic: Virgin
Definition:
VIR'GIN, n. nearly vur'gin.  [L. virgo.]
1.  A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man.
2.  A woman not a mother.  [Unusual.]
3.  The sign Virgo.  [See Virgo.]
VIR'GIN, a.  
1.  Pure; untouched; as virgin gold.
2.  Fresh; new; unused; as virgin soil.
VIR'GIN, v.i.  To play the virgin; a cant word.


Topic: Virginal
Definition:
VIR'GINAL, a.  Pertaining to a virgin; maidenly; as virginal chastity.
VIR'GINAL, n.  A keyed instrument of one string, jack and quill to each note, like a spinet, but in shape resembling the forte piano; out of use.
VIR'GINAL, v.i.  To pat; to strike as on a virginal  [A cant word.]


Topic: Virgo
Definition:
VIR'GO, n.  [L.]  A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters in August; a constellation, containing according to the British catalogue, one hundred and ten stars.


Topic: Viridity
Definition:
VIRID'ITY, n.  [L. virditas, from vireo, to be green.]
Greenness; verdure; the color of fresh vegetables.


Topic: Virile
Definition:
VI'RILE, a.  [L. virilis, from vir, a man, vireo.]
1.  Pertaining to a man, in the eminent sense of the word, [not to man, in the sense of the human race;] belonging to the male sex; as virile age.
2.  Masculine; not puerile or feminine; as virile strength or vigor.


Topic: Virility
Definition:
VIRIL'ITY, n.  [L. virilitas.]
1.  Manhood; the state of the male sex, which has arrived to the maturity and strength of a man, and to the power of procreation.
2.  The power of procreation.
3.  Character of man.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Virtual
Definition:
VIR'TUAL, a.  [See Virtue.]
1.  Potential; having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the material or sensible part.
Every kind that lives, fomented by his virtual power, and warm'd.
Neither an actual nor virtual intention of the mind, but only that which may be gathered from the outward acts.
2.  Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.


Topic: Virtually
Definition:
VIR'TUALLY, adv.  In efficacy or effect only; by means of some virtue or influence, or the instrumentality of something else.  Thus the sun is virtually on earth by its light and heat.  The citizens of an elective government are virtually present in the legislature by their representatives.  A man may virtually agree to a proposition by silence or withholding objections.


Topic: Virtue
Definition:
VIRTUE, n. vur'tu.  [L. virtus, from vireo, or its root.  See Worth.]  The radical sense is strength, from straining, stretching, extending.  This is the primary sense of L. vir, a man.]
1.  Strength; that substance or quality of physical bodies, by which they act and produce effects on other bodies.  In this literal and proper sense, we speak of the virtue or virtues of plants in medicine, and the virtues of drugs.  In decoctions, the virtues of plants are extracted.  By long standing in the open air, the virtues are lost.
2.  Bravery valor.  This was the predominant signification of virtus among the Romans.
Trust to thy single virtue.
[This sense is nearly or quite obsolete.]
3.  Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law.  In this sense, virtue may be, and in many instances must be, distinguished from religion.  The practice of moral duties merely from motives of convenience, or from compulsion, or from regard to reputation, is virtue, as distinct from religion.  The practice of moral duties from sincere love to God and his laws, is virtue and religion.  In this sense it is true,
That virtue only makes our bliss below.
Virtue is nothing but voluntary obedience to truth.
4.  A particular moral excellence; as the virtue of temperance, of chastity, of charity.
Remember all his virtues.
5.  Acting power; something efficacious.
Jesus, knowing that virtue had gone out of him, turned - Mark 3.
6.  Secret agency; efficacy without visible or material action.
She moves the body which she doth possess,
Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch.
7.  Excellence; or that which constitutes value and merit.
- Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable, the sticking in of sentences.
8.  One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
9.  Efficacy; power.
He used to travel through Greece by virtue of this fable, which procured him reception in all the towns.
10.  Legal efficacy or power; authority.  A man administers the laws by virtue of a commission.
In virtue, in consequence; by the efficacy or authority.
This they shall attain, partly in virtue of the promise of God, and partly in virtue of piety.


Topic: Virtueless
Definition:
VIR'TUELESS, a.
1.  Destitute of virtue.
2.  Destitute of efficacy or operating qualities.
Virtueless she wish'd all herbs and charms.


Topic: Virtuoso
Definition:
VIRTUO'SO, n.  A man skilled in the fine arts, particularly in music; or a man skilled in antiquities, curiosities and the like.
Virtuoso the Italians call a man who loves the nobel arts, and is a critic in them.


Topic: Virtuous
Definition:
VIR'TUOUS, a.
1.  Morally good; acting in conformity to the moral law; practicing the moral duties, and abstaining from vice; as a virtuous man.
2.  Being in conformity to the moral or divine law; as a virtuous action; a virtuous life.
The mere performance of virtuous actions does not denominate an agent virtuous.
3.  Chaste; applied to women.
4.  Efficacious by inherent qualities; as virtuous herbs; virtuous drugs.  [Not in use.]
5.  Having great or powerful properties; as virtuous steel; a virtuous staff; a virtuous ring.  [Not in use.]
6.  Having medicinal qualities.  [Not used.]


Topic: Virtuously
Definition:
VIR'TUOUSLY, adv.  In a virtuous manner; in conformity with the moral law or with duty; as a life virtuously spent.
A child virtuously educated.


Topic: Virulent
Definition:
VIR'ULENT, a.  [L. virulentus, from virus, poison, that is, strength, from the same root as vir, vireo.  See Venom.]
1.  Extremely active in doing injury; very poisonous or venomous.  No poison is more virulent than that of some species of serpents.
2.  Very bitter in enmity; malignant; as a virulent invective.


Topic: Visage
Definition:
VIS'AGE, n. s as z.  [L. visus, video.]
The face; the countenance or look of a person, or of other animal; chiefly applied to human beings; as a wolfish visage.
Love and beauty still that visage grace.
His visage was so marred, more than any man.  Is. 52.


Topic: Viscera
Definition:
VIS'CERA, n.  [L.]  The bowels or intestines; the contents of the abdomen and thorax.
In its most general sense, the organs contained in any cavity of the body, particularly in the three venters, the head, thorax and abdomen.


Topic: Visceral
Definition:
VIS'CERAL, a.  [L. viscera.]
1.  Pertaining to the viscera or intestines.
2.  Feeling; having sensibility.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Viscerate
Definition:
VIS'CERATE, v.t.  [supra.]  To exenterate; to embowel; to deprive of the entrails or viscera.  [Eviscerate is generally used.]


Topic: Viscid
Definition:
VIS'CID, a.  [L. viscidus; viscus, birdlime.]  Glutinous; sticky; tenacious; not readily separating; as, turpentine, tar, gums, &c. are more or less viscid.


Topic: Viscous
Definition:
VIS'COUS, a.  [L. viscus, birdlime.]
Glutinous; clammy; sticky; adhesive; tenacious; as a viscous juice.


Topic: Viscousness
Definition:
VIS'COUSNESS, n.  Glutinousness; tenacity; viscidity; that quality of soft substances which makes them adhere so as not to be easily parted.


Topic: Vise
Definition:
VISE, n.  An engine or instrument for griping and holding things, closed by a screw; used by artificers.


Topic: Vishnu
Definition:
VISH'NU, n.  In the Hindoo mythology, the name of one of the chief deities of the trimurti or triad.  He is the second person of this unity, and a personification of the preserving powers.


Topic: Visibility
Definition:
VISIBIL'ITY, n. s as z.  
1.  The state or quality of being perceivable to the eye; as the visibility of minute particles, or of distant objects.
2.  The state of being discoverable or apparent; conspicuousness; as the perpetual visibility of the church.


Topic: Visible
Definition:
VIS'IBLE, a. s as z.  [L. visibilis.]
1.  Perceivable by the eye; that can be seen; as a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper; air agitated by heat becomes visible; as the air near a heated stove, or over a dry sandy plain, appears like pellucid waves.
Virtue made visible in outward grace.
2.  Discovered to the eye; as visible spirits.
3.  Apparent; open; conspicuous.  Factions at court became more visible.
Visible church, in theology, the apparent church of Christ; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the real or invisible church, consisting of sanctified persons.
Visible horizon, the line that bounds the sight.


Topic: Visibly
Definition:
VIS'IBLY, adv.  In a manner perceptible to the eye.  The day is visibly governed by the sun; the tides are visibly governed by the moon.


Topic: Vision
Definition:
VI'SION, n. s as z.  [L. visio, from video, visus.]
1.  The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
Faith here is turned into vision there.
2.  The faculty of seeing; sight.  Vision is far more perfect and acute in some animals than in man.
3.  Something imagined to be seen, though not real; a phantom; a specter.
No dreams, but visions strange.
4.  In Scripture, a revelation from God; an appearance or exhibition of something supernaturally presented to the minds of the prophets, by which they were informed of future events.  Such were the visions of Isaiah, of Amos, of Ezekiel, &c.
5.  Something imaginary; the production of fancy.
6.  Any thing which is the object of sight.


Topic: Visionary
Definition:
VI'SIONARY, a.  
1.  Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination.
Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
2.  Imaginary; existing in imagination only; not real; having no solid foundation; as a visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project.
VI'SIONARY, n. 
1.  One whose imagination is disturbed.
2.  One who forms impracticable schemes; one who is confident of success in a project which others perceive to be idle and fanciful.  [Visionist, in a like sense, is not used.]


Topic: Visit
Definition:
VIS'IT, v.t.  [L. visito, viso, to go to see.  We see the sense is to go, to move to.]
1.  To go or come to see; to attend.  The physician visits his patient and prescribes.  One friend visits another from respect or affection.  Paul and Barnabas visited the churches they had planted, to know their state and confirm their faith.  Men visit England, France or Italy in their travels.
2.  To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, &c.; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits those persons or works which are under his care.
3.  To salute with a present.
Samson visited his wife with a kid.  Judges 15.
4.  To go to and to use; as, to visit the springs.
To visit in mercy, in Scriptural language, to be propitious; to grant requests; to deliver from trouble; to support and comfort.
It is thus God visits his people.  Gen. 21.  Zech. 10. 
Luke 12.
To visit with the rod, to punish.  Ps. 89.
To visit in wrath, or visit iniquity or sings upon, to chastise; to bring judgments on; to afflict.  Ex. 20.
To visit the fatherless and widow, or the sick and imprisoned, to show them regard and pity, and relieve their wants.  Matt. 25.  James 1.
VIS'IT, v.i.  To keep up the interchange of civilities and salutations; to practice going to see others.  We ought not to visit for pleasure or ceremony on the sabbath.
VIS'IT, n.
1.  The act of going to see another, or of calling at his house; a waiting on; as a visit of civility or respect; a visit of ceremony; a short visit; a long visit; a pleasant visit.
2.  The act of going to see; as a visit to Saratoga or to Niagara.
3.  A going to see or attending on; as the visit of a physician.
4.  The act of going to view or inspect; as the visit of a trustee or inspector.


Topic: Visitable
Definition:
VIS'ITABLE, a.  Liable or subject to be visited.  all hospitals built since the reformation are visitable by the king or lord chancellor.


Topic: Visitant
Definition:
VIS'ITANT, n.  One that goes or comes to see another; one who is a guest in the house of a friend.
When the visitant comes again he is no more a stranger.


Topic: Visitation
Definition:
VISITA'TION, n.  [L. visito.]  
1.  The act of visiting.
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
2.  Object of visit.
My early visitation and my last.  [Unusual.]
3.  In law, the act of a superior or superintending officer, who visits a corporation, college, church or other house, to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed.  In England, the visitation of the diocese belongs to the bishop; parochial visitation belongs peculiarly to the archdeacons.
4.  In Scripture, and in a religious sense, the sending of afflictions and distresses on men to punish them for their sins, or to prove them.  Hence afflictions, calamities and judgments are called visitations.
What will ye do in the day of visitation?  Is. 10.
5.  Communication of divine love; exhibition of divine goodness and mercy.


Topic: Visited
Definition:
VIS'ITED, pp.  Waited on; attended; inspected; subjected to sufferings; favored with relief or mercy.


Topic: Visiting
Definition:
VIS'ITING, ppr.  
1.  Going or coming to see; attending on, as  a physician; inspecting officially; afflicting; showing mercy to.
2.  a.  Authorized to visit and inspect; as a visiting committee.
VIS'ITING, n.  The act of going to see or of attending; visitation.


Topic: Visitor
Definition:
VIS'ITOR, n.
1.  One who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.
2.  A superior or person authorized to visit a corporation or any institution, for the purpose of seeing that the laws and regulations are observed, or that the duties and conditions prescribed by the founder or by law, are duly performed and executed.
The king is the visitor of all lay corporations.


Topic: Visitorial
Definition:
VISITO'RIAL, a.  [from visitor; written improperly visitatorial.]
Belonging to a judicial visitor or superintendent.
An archdeacon has visitorial power in parishes.


Topic: Visive
Definition:
VI'SIVE, a.  [from L. visus.]  Pertaining to the power of seeing; formed in the act of seeing.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Visne
Definition:
VISNE, n.  [L. vicinia.]  In law, a neighborhood or near place; the place where an action is laid.  In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue.
The twelve men who are to try the cause, must be of the same venue where the demand is made.


Topic: Visor
Definition:
VI'SOR, n. s as z.  [L. visus, video; written also visard, visar, vizard.]
1.  A head piece or mask used to disfigure and disguise.
My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor.
Swarms of knaves the visor quite disgrace.
2.  A perforated part of a helmet.


Topic: Vista
Definition:
VIS'TA, n.  [L. visus, video.]  A view or prospect through an avenue, as between rows of trees; hence, the trees or other things that form the avenue.
The finish'd garden to the view its vistas opens and its alleys green.


Topic: Visual
Definition:
VIS'UAL, a. s as z.  [L. visus.]
Pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as the visual nerve.
The air, no where so clear, sharpen'd his visual ray.
Visual point, in perspective, a point in the horizontal line, in which all the ocular rays unite.
Visual rays, lines of light, imagined to come from the object to the eye.


Topic: Vital
Definition:
VI'TAL, a.  [L. vitalis, from vita, life.  This must be a contraction of victa, for vivo forms vixi, victus; Gr. contracted.]
1.  Pertaining to life, either animal or vegetable; as vital energies; vital powers.
2.  Contributing to life; necessary to life; as vital air; vital blood.
3.  Containing life.
Spirits that live throughout, vital in every part - and vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth.
4.  Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
The dart flew on, and pierc'd a vital part.
5.  Very necessary; highly important; essential.  Religion is a business of vital concern.  Peace is of vital importance to our country.
6.  So disposed as to live.
Pythagoras and Hippocrates affirm the birth of the seventh month to be vital.  [Little used.]
Vital air, pure air or oxygen gas, which is essential to animal life.


Topic: Vitality
Definition:
VITAL'ITY, n.  [from vital.]
1.  Power of subsisting in life; the principle of animation, or of life; as the vitality of vegetable seeds or of eggs.
2.  The act of living; animation.


Topic: Vitally
Definition:
VI'TALLY, adv.  
1.  In such a manner as to give life.
The organic structure of human bodies, by which they are fitted to live and move, and to be vitally informed by the soul, is the workmanship of a most wise and beneficent maker.
2.  Essentially; as vitally important.


Topic: Vitals
Definition:
VI'TALS, n. plu.  
1.  Parts of animal bodies essential to life, such as the viscera.
2.  The part essential to life, or to a sound state.  Corruption of manners preys upon the vitals of a state.


Topic: Vitellary
Definition:
VIT'ELLARY, n.  [L. vitellus, the yolk of an egg.]
The place where the yolk of an egg swims in the white.  [Little used.]


Topic: Vitiate
Definition:
VI'TIATE, v.t.  [L. vitio.  See vice and Viciate.]
1.  To injure the substance or qualities of a thing, so as to impair or spoil its use and value.  Thus we say, luxury vitiates the humors of the body; evil examples vitiate the morals of youth; language is vitiated by foreign idioms.
This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers.
2.  To render defective; to destroy; as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction.  Any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict.  Fraud vitiates a contract.


Topic: Vitiation
Definition:
VITIA'TION, n.  
1.  The act of vitiating; depravation; corruption; as the vitiation of the blood.
2.  A rendering invalid; as the vitiation of a contract.


Topic: Vitilitigate
Definition:
VITILIT'IGATE, v.i.  [L. vitiosus and litigo.]  To contend in law litigiously or cavilously.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Vitilitigation
Definition:
VITILITIGA'TION, n.  Cavilous litigation.  [Not in use.]
Vitious, vitiously, vitiousness.  [See vicious and its derivatives.]


Topic: Vitreo-electric
Definition:
VITREO-ELEC'TRIC, a.  Containing or exhibiting positive electricity, or that which is excited by rubbing glass.


Topic: Vitreous
Definition:
VIT'REOUS, a.  [L. vitreus, from vitrum, glass or woad.]
1.  Pertaining to glass.
2.  Consisting of glass; as a vitreous substance.
3.  Resembling glass; as the vitreous humor of the eye, so called from its resembling melted glass.  [See Humor.]


Topic: Vitrescence
Definition:
VITRES'CENCE, n.  [from L. vitrum, glass.]  Glassiness; or the quality of being capable of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass.


Topic: Vitrifaction
Definition:
VITRIFAC'TION, n.  [See vitrify.]  The act, process or operation of converting into glass by heat; as the vitrifaction of sand, flint and pebbles with alkaline salts.


Topic: Vitrifiable
Definition:
VIT'RIFIABLE, a.  [from vitrify.]  Capable of being converted into glass by heat and fusion.  Flint and alkaline salts are vitrifiable.


Topic: Vitrify
Definition:
VIT'RIFY, v.t.  [L. vitrum, glass, and facio, to make.]
To convert into glass by fusion or the action of heat; as, to vitrify sand and alkaline salts.
VIT'RIFY, v.i.  To become glass; to be converted into glass.
Chimists make vessels of animal substances calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire.


Topic: Vitriol
Definition:
VIT'RIOL,  n.  [L. vitrum, glass; perhaps from its color.]
1.  In mineralogy, native vitriol is a substance of a grayish or yellowish white color, apple green, or sky blue, and when decomposed, covered with an ochery crust.  It occurs in masses, disseminated, stalactical, or capillary.  Externally, it is dull and rough; internally, it is more or less shining, with a vitreous silky structure.  It is called by manufacturers copperas, a name derived from the flower or efflorescence of copper.  This substance is seem only in cabinets.
2.  In chimistry, a combination of the acid of sulphur with any metallic substance; but chiefly green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper, and white vitriol, or sulphate of zink.
All metals may be converted into vitriols, by dissolving them with acid spirits, and suffering them to stand and crystallize.


Topic: Vitriolate
Definition:
VIT'RIOLATE, v.t.  To convert, as sulphur in any compound, into sulphuric acid, formerly called vitriolic acid.  Thus the sulphuret of iron vitriolated, becomes sulphate of iron, or green vitriol.


Topic: Vitriolic
Definition:
VITRIOL'IC, a.  Pertaining to vitriol; having the qualities of vitriol, or obtained from vitriol.
Vitriolic acid, in modern chimistry is denominated sulphuric acid, the base of it being sulphur; sulphur completely saturated with oxygen.


Topic: Vivacious
Definition:
VIVA'CIOUS, a.  [L. vivax, from vivo, to live.]
1.  Lively; active; sprightly in temper or conduct.
2.  Long lived.  [Not in use.]
3.  Having vigorous powers of life; as vivacious plants.


Topic: Vivaciousness
Definition:
VIVA'CIOUSNESS, n.
1.  Activity; liveliness; sprightliness of temper or behavior; vivacity.
2.  Power of living; also, long life.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Vivacity
Definition:
VIVAC'ITY, n.  [L. vivacitas.]
1.  Liveliness; sprightliness of temper or behavior; as a lady of great vivacity.
2.  Air of life and activity; as vivacity of countenance.
3.  Life; animation; spirits; as the vivacity of a discourse.
4.  Power of living.  [Not used.]
5.  Longevity.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Vivary
Definition:
VI'VARY, n.  [L. vivarium, from vivo, to live.]
A warren; a place for keeping living animals, as a pond, a park, &c.
Viva voce,  [L.] by word of mouth; as, to vote viva voce.


Topic: Vives
Definition:
VIVES, n.  A disease of animals, particularly of horses, seated in the glads under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.


Topic: Vivid
Definition:
VIV'ID, a.  [L. vividus, from vivo, to live.]
1.  Lively; sprightly; active.
Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly vivid faculties to exert themselves in.
2.  Lively; sprightly; forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; as a vivid imagination.
3.  Bright; strong; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; as the vivid colors of the rainbow; the vivid green of flourishing vegetables.
Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine.


Topic: Vividly
Definition:
VIV'IDLY, adv. 
1.  With life; with strength.
Sensitive objects affect a man much more vividly than those which affect only his mind.
2.  With brightness; in bright colors.
3.  In glowing colors; with animated exhibition to the mind.  The orator vividly represented the miseries of his client.


Topic: Vivificate
Definition:
VIV'IFICATE, v.t.  [L. vivifico, vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]
1.  to give life to; to animate.  [See Vivify.]
2.  In chimistry, to recover from such a change of form as seems to destroy the essential qualities; or to give to natural bodies new luster, force and figor.


Topic: Vivification
Definition:
VIVIFICA'TION, n.
1.  The act of giving life; revival.
2.  Among chimists, the act of giving new luster, force and vigor; as the vivification of mercury.


Topic: Vivify
Definition:
VIV'IFY, v.t.  [L. vivfico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]
To endue with life; to animate; to make to be living.
Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish.


Topic: Viviparous
Definition:
VIVIP'AROUS, a.  [L. vivus, alive, and pario, to bear.]
1.  Producing young in a living state, as all mammifers; as distinguished from oviparous, producing eggs, as fowls.  If fowls were viviparous, it is difficult to how the female would fly during preganancy.
2.  In botany, producing its offspring alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instread of falling, as they usually do; as a viviparous plant.


Topic: Vocabulary
Definition:
VOCAB'ULARY, n.  [L. vocabulum, a word.]
A list or collection of the words of a language, arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary_webster1828 or lexicon.  We often use vocabulary in a sense somewhat different from that of dictionary_webster1828, restricting the signification to the list of words; as when we say, the vocabulary of Johnson is more full or extensive than that of Entick.  We rarely use the word as synonymous with dictionary_webster1828, but in the other countries the corresponding word is used and this may be so used in English.


Topic: Vocal
Definition:
VO'CAL, a.  [L. vocalis.  See Voice.]
1.  Having a voice.
To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, made vocal by my song.
2.  Uttered or modulated by the voice; as vocal melody; vocal prayer; vocal praise.
Vocal music, music made by the voice, in distinction from instrumental music; hence, music or tunes set to words, to be performed by the human voice.
VO'CAL, n.  Among the Romanists, a man who has a right to vote in certain elections.


Topic: Vocality
Definition:
VOCAL'ITY, n.  [L. vocalitas.]  Quality of being utterable by the voice; as the vocality of the letters.


Topic: Vocalize
Definition:
VO'CALIZE, v.t.  to form into voice; to make vocal.
It is one thing to give impulse to breath alone, and another to vocalize that breath.


Topic: Vocation
Definition:
VOCA'TION, n.  [L. vocatio, from voco, to call.  See Voice.]
1.  Among divines, a calling by the will of God; or the bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.
2.  Summons; call; inducement.
What can be urged for them who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous!
3.  Designation or destination to a particular state or profession.
None is to enter the ecclesiastic or monastie state, without a particular vocation.
4.  Employment; calling; occupation; trade; a word that includes professions as well as mechanical occupations.  Let every divine, every physician, every lawyer, and every mechanic, be faithful and diligent in his vocation.


Topic: Vocative
Definition:
VOC'ATIVE, a.  [L. vocativus.]  Relating to calling; as the vocative case in grammar.
VOC'ATIVE, n.  In grammar, the fifth case or state of nouns in the Latin language; or the case in any language, in which a word is placed when the person is addressed: as Domine, O Lord.


Topic: Vociferate
Definition:
VOCIF'ERATE, v.i.  [L. vocifero, vex and fero.]  To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim.
VOCIF'ERATE, v.t.  To utter with a loud voice.


Topic: Vogue
Definition:
VOGUE, n.  vig.  [The sense of vogue is way, or the going of the world.]
The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom or practice; popular reception for the time.  We say, a particular form of dress is now in vogue; an amusing writer is now in vogue; such opinions are now in vogue.  The phrase, the vogue of the world, used by good writers formerly, is nearly or quite obsolete.
Use may revive the obsoletest word, and banish those that now are most in vogue.


Topic: Voice
Definition:
VOICE, n.  [L. vox; voco.  The sense of the verb  is to throw, to drive out sound; and voice is that which is driven out.]
1.  Sound or audible noise uttered by the mouth, either of human beings or of other animals.  We say, the voice of a man is loud or clear; the voice of a woman is soft or musical; the voice of a dog is loud or harsh; the voice of a bird is sweet or melodious.  The voice of human beings is articulate; that of beasts, inarticulate.  The voices of men are different, and when uttered together, are often dissonant.
2.  Any sound made by the breath; as the trumpet's voice.
3.  A vote; suffrage; opinion or choice expressed.  Originally voice was the oral utterance of choice, but it now signifies any vote however given.
Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice of holy senates, and elect by voice.
I have no words; my voice is in my sword.
4.  Language; words; expression.
Let us call on God in the voice of his church.
5.  In Scripture, command; precept.
Ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.  Deut. 8.
6.  Sound.
After the fire, a still small voice.  1Kings 19.
Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?  Job. 40.
The floods have lifted up their voice.  Ps. 93.
7.  Language; tone; mode of expression.
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice.  Gal. 4.
8.  In grammar, a particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs; as the active voice; the passive voice.
VOICE, v.t.
1.  To rumor; to report.
It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.  [Little used.]
2.  To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
3.  To vote.
VOICE, v.i.  To clamor; to exclaim.  Obs.


Topic: Void
Definition:
VOID, a.  [L. viduus, divido.  Gr.]
1.  Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as a void space or place.  1Kings 22.
2.  Empty; without inhabitants or furniture.  Gen. 1.
3.  Having no legal or binding force; null; not effectual to bind parties, or to convey or support a right; not sufficient to produce its effect.  Thus a deed not duly signed and sealed, is void.  A fraudulent contract is void, or may be rendered void.
My word shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.  Is. 55.
I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place.  Jer. 19.
4.  Free; clear; as a conscience void of offense.  Acts 24.
5.  Destitute; as void of learning; void of reason or common sense.
He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor.  
Prov.  11.
6.  Unsupplied; vacant; unoccupied; having no incumbent.
Divers offices that had been long void.
7.  Unsubstantial; vain.
Lifeless idol, void and vain.
Void space, in physics, a vacuum.
1.  To make void; to violate; to transgress.
They have made void thy law.  Ps. 119.
2.  To render useless or of no effect.  Rom. 4.
VOID, n.  An empty space; a vacuum.
Pride, where wit falls, steps in to our defense, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Th' illimitable void.

VOID, v.t.
1.  To quit; to leave.
Bid them come down, or void the field.
2.  To emit; to send out; to evacuate; as, to void excrementitious matter; to void worms.
3.  To vacate; to annul; to nullify; to render of no validity or effect.
It had become a practice - to void the security given for money borrowed.
4.  To make or leave vacant.
VOID, v.i.  To be emitted or evacuated.


Topic: Voidable
Definition:
VOID'ABLE, a.  That may be annulled or made void, or that may be adjudged void, invalid or of no force.
- Such administration is not void, but voidable by sentence.


Topic: Voidance
Definition:
VOID'ANCE, n.
1.  The act of emptying.
2.  The act of ejecting from a benefice; ejection.
3.  Vacancy; want of an incumbent.
4.  Evasion; subterfuge.


Topic: Voided
Definition:
VOID'ED, pp.
1.  Thrust out; evacuated.
2.  a.  In heraldry, having the inner or middle part cut out, as an ordinary.


Topic: Voider
Definition:
VOID'ER, n.
1.  A basket in which broken meat is carried from the table.
2.  One who evacuates.
3.  One who nullifies.
4.  In heraldry, one of the ordinaries, whose figure is much like that of the flanch or flasque.
5.  In agriculture, a provincial name of a kind of shallow basket of open work.


Topic: Voiding
Definition:
VOID'ING, ppr.
1.  Ejecting; evacuating.
2.  Making or declaring void, or of no force.
3.  Quitting; leaving.
4.  a.  Receiving what is ejected; as a voiding lobby.


Topic: Voidness
Definition:
VOID'NESS, n.  
1.  Emptiness; vacuity; destitution.
2.  Nullify; inefficacy; want of binding force.
3.  Want of substantiality.


Topic: Volant
Definition:
VO'LANT, a.  [L. volo, to fly.]
1.  Flying; passing through the air; as volant automata.
2.  Nimble; active; as volant touch.
3.  In heraldry, represented as flying or having the wings spread.


Topic: Volatile
Definition:
VOL'ATILE, a.  [L. volatilis, from volo, to fly.]
1.  Flying; passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere.
2.  Having the power to fly; as birds are volatile animals.
3.  Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state.  Thus substances which affect the smell with pungent or fragrant odors, as musk, hartshorn and essential oils, are called volatile substances, because they waste away on exposure to the atmosphere.  Alcohol and ether are called volatile liquids for a similar reason, and because they easily pass into the state of vapor on the application of heat.  On the contrary, gold is a fixed substance, because it does not suffer waste even when exposed to the heat of a furnace; and oils are called fixed, when they do not evaporate on simple exposure to the atmosphere.
4.  Lively; gay; full of spirit; airy; hence, fickle; apt to change; as a volatile temper.
You are as giddy and volatile as ever.
VOL'ATILE, n.  A winged animal.  [little used.]


Topic: Volatilization
Definition:
VOLATILIZA'TION, n.  [from volatilize.]  The act or process of rendering volatile, or rather of causing to rise and float in the air.


Topic: Volatilize
Definition:
VOL'ATILIZE, v.t.  To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor or invisible effluvia, and to rise and float in the air.
The water - dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action.


Topic: Volcanic
Definition:
VOLCAN'IC, a.  [from volcano.]  
1.  Pertaining to volcanoes; as volcanic heat.
2.  Produced by a volcano; as volcanic tufa.
3.  Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.


Topic: Volcanist
Definition:
VOL'CANIST, n.  [from volcano.]
1.  One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.
2.  One who believes in the effects of eruptions of fire in the formation of mountains.


Topic: Volcanization
Definition:
VOLCANIZA'TION, n.  [from volcanize.]  The process of undergoing volcanic heat and being affected by it.


Topic: Volcano
Definition:
VOLCA'NO, n.  
1.  In geology, an opening in the surface of the earth or in a mountain, from which smoke, flames, stones, lava or other substances are ejected.  Such are seen in Etna and Vesuvius in Sicily and Italy, and Hecla in Iceland.  It is vulgarly called a burning mountain.  Herschel has discovered a volcano in the moon.
2.  The mountain that ejects fire, smoke, &c.


Topic: Volition
Definition:
VOLI'TION, n.  [L. volitio, from volo, to will.  See Will.]
1.  The act of willing the act of determining choice, or forming a purpose.  There is a great difference between actual volition, and approbation of judgment.
Volition is the actual exercise of the power which the mind has of considering or forbearing to consider an idea.
2.  The power of willing or determining.


Topic: Volitive
Definition:
VOL'ITIVE, a.  Having the power to will.
They not only perfect the intellectual faculty, but the volitive.


Topic: Volley
Definition:
VOL'LEY, n. plu. volleys.  [L. volo.]
1.  A flight of shot; the discharge of many small arms at once.
2.  A burst or emission of many things at once; as a volley of words.
But rattling nonsense to full volleys breaks.
VOL'LEY, v.t.  to discharge with a volley.
VOL'LEY, v.i.  To throw out or discharge at once.


Topic: Volt
Definition:
VOLT, n.  [L. volutus, volvo.]
1.  a round or circular tread; a gait of two treads, made by a horse going sideways round a center.
2.  In fencing, a sudden movement or leap to avoid a thrust.
Volta, in Italian music, signifies that the part is to be repeated one, two or more times.


Topic: Voltaic
Definition:
VOLTA'IC, a.  Pertaining to Volta, the discoverer of voltaism; as the voltaic pile.
Volatic apparatus, the apparatus used for accumulating galvanic electricity.  the agent itself is denominated galvanism, after its discoverer Galvani, while the instruments used for exciting and accumulating it, are called voltaic, in honor of Volta, who first contrived this kind of apparatus.
Voltaic pile, a column formed by successive pairs of metallic disks, as silver and zink, with moistened cloth between every two contiguous pairs.
Voltaic battery, the larger forms of voltaic apparatus, used for accumulating galvanic electricity.


Topic: Voltaism
Definition:
VOL'TAISM, n.  That branch of electrical science which has its source in the chimical action between metals and different liquids.  it is more properly called galvanism, from Galvani, who first proved or brought into notice its remarkable influence on animals.


Topic: Volubility
Definition:
VOLUBIL'ITY, n.  [L. volubilitas, from volvo, to roll.]
1.  The capacity of being rolled; aptness to roll; as the volubility of a bowl.
2.  The act of rolling.
By irregular volutibility.
3.  Ready motion of the tongue in speaking; fluency of speech.
She ran over the catalogue of diversions with such a volubility of tongue, as drew a gentle reprimand from her father.
4.  Mutability; liableness to revolution; as the volubility of human affairs.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Voluble
Definition:
VOL'UBLE, a.  [L. volubilis.]  
1.  Formed so as to roll with ease, or to be easily set in motion; apt to roll; as voluble particles of matter.
2.  Rolling; having quick motion.
This less voluble earth.
3.  Nimble; active; moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; fluent; as a flippant, voluble tongue.
4.  Fluent; flowing with ease and smoothness; as a voluble speech.
5.  Having fluency of speech.
Cassio, a knave very voluble.


Topic: Volume
Definition:
VOL'UME, n.  [L. volumen, a roll; volvo, to roll.  to make u long, in this word, is palpably wrong.]
1.  Primarily a roll, as the ancients wrote on long strips of bark, parchment or other material, which they formed into rolls or folds.  Of such volumes, Ptolemy's library in Alexandria contained 3 or 700,000.
2.  A roll or turn; as much as is included in a roll or coil; as the volume of a serpent.
3.  Dimensions; compass; space occupied; as the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
4.  A swelling or spherical body.
The undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
5.  A book; a collection of sheets of paper, usually printed or written paper, folded and bound, or covered.  A book consisting of sheets once folded, is called a folio, or a folio volume; of sheets twice folded, a quarto; and thus according to the number of leaves in a sheet, it is called an octavo, or a duodecimo.  The Scriptures or sacred writings, bound in a single volume, are called the Bible.  The number of volumes in the Royal Library, in rue de Richlieu, at Paris, is variously estimated.  It is probable it may amount to 400,000.
An odd volume of a set of books, bears not the value of its proportion to the set.
6.  In music, the compass of a voice from grave to acute; the tone or power of voice.


Topic: Voluminous
Definition:
VOLU'MINOUS, a.
1.  Consisting of many coils or complications.
The serpent roll'd voluminous and vast.
2.  Consisting of many volumes or books.
The collections of Muratori and of the Byzantine history, are very voluminous.
3.  Having written much, or made many volumes; as a voluminons writer.
4.  Copious; diffusive.  He was too voluminous in discourse.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Voluntarily
Definition:
VOL'UNTARILY, adv.  [from voluntary.]  Spontaneously; of one's own will; without being moved, influenced or impelled by others.
To be agents voluntarily in our own destruction, is against God and nature.


Topic: Voluntary
Definition:
VOL'UNTARY, a.  [L. voluntarius, from voluntas, will, from volo.]
1.  Acting by choice or spontaneously; acting without being influenced or impelled by another.
2.  Free, or having power to act by choice; not being under restraint; as, man is a voluntary agent.
3.  Proceeding from choice or free will.
That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action, is the true principle of orthodoxy.
4.  Willing; acting with willingness.
She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
5.  Done by design; purposed; intended.  If a man kills another by lopping a tree, here is no voluntary murder.
6.  Done freely, or of choice; proceeding from free will.  He went into voluntary exile.  He made a voluntary surrender.
7.  Acting of his own accord; spontaneous; as the voluntary dictates of knowledge.
8.  Subject to the will; as the voluntary motions of an animal.  Thus the motion of a leg or an arm is voluntary, but the motion of the heart is involuntary.
A voluntary escape, in law, is the escape of a prisoner by the express consent of the sheriff.
Voluntary jurisdiction, is that which is exercised in doing that which no one opposes; as in granting dispensations, &c.
Voluntary affidavit or oath, is one made in an extra-judicial matter.
Voluntary waste, is that which is committed by positive acts.
VOL'UNTARY, n.
1.  One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer.  [In this sense, volunteer is now generally used.]
2.  In music, a piece played by a musician extemporarily, according to his fancy.  In the Philosophical Transactions, we have a method of writing voluntaries, as fast as the musician plays the notes.  This is by a cylinder turning under the keys of the organ.
3.  A composition for the organ.


Topic: Volunteer
Definition:
VOLUNTEE'R, n.  A person who enters into military or other service of his own free will.  In military affairs, volunteers enter into service voluntarily, but when in service they are subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers.  They sometimes serve gratuitously, but often receive a compensation.
VOLUNTEE'R, a.  Entering into service of free will; as volunteer companies.
VOLUNTEE'R, v.t.  To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
VOLUNTEE'R, v.i.  To enter into any service of one's free will, without solicitation or compulsion.  He volunteered in that undertaking.
[These verbs are in respectable use.]


Topic: Voluptuary
Definition:
VOLUP'TUARY, n.  [L. volupturius, from voluptas, pleasure.]
A man addicted to luxury or the gratification of the appetite, and to other sensual pleasures.


Topic: Voluptuous
Definition:
VOLUP'TUOUS, a.  [L. voluptuoosus.]
Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
Soften'd with pleasure and voluptuous life.


Topic: Voluptuously
Definition:
VOLUP'TUOUSLY, adv.  Luxuriously; with free indulgence of sensual pleasures; as, to live voluptuously.


Topic: Voluptuousness
Definition:
VOLUP'TUOUSNESS, n.  Luxuriousness; addictedness to pleasure or sensual gratification.
Where no voluptuousness, yet all delight.


Topic: Volutation
Definition:
VOLUTA'TION, n.  [L. volutatio, from voluto, from volvo, Eng. to wallow.]
A wallowing; a rolling of the body on the earth.  [See Wallow.]


Topic: Volute
Definition:
VOLU'TE, n.  [L. volutus, volvo.]
1.  In architecture, a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and composite capitals, of which it is a principal ornament.  The number of volutes in the Ionic order, is four; in the Composite, eight.  There are also eight angular volutes in the Corinthian capital, accompanied with eight smaller ones, called helices.
2.  In natural history, a genus of shells.


Topic: Vomic
Definition:
VOM'IC, a.  The vomic nut, nux vomica, is the seed of the Strychnos nux vomica, a native of the East Indies.  It is a very active poison.


Topic: Vomit
Definition:
VOM'IT, v.i.  [L. vomo.  probably the Gr. is the same word, with the loss of its first letter.]
To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth.  Some persons vomit with ease, as do cats and dogs.  But horses do not vomit.
VOM'IT, v.t. 
1.  To throw up or eject from the stomach; to discharge from the stomach through the mouth.  It is followed often by up or out, but without necessity and to the injury of the language.  In the yellow fever, the patients often vomit dark colored matter, like coffee grounds.
The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.  Jonah 2.
2.  To eject with violence from any hollow place.  Volcanoes vomit flames, ashes, stones and liquid lava.
VOM'IT, n.
1.  The matter ejected from the stomach.
2.  That which excites the stomach to discharge its contents; an emetic.
Black vomit, the dark colored matter ejected from the stomach in the last stage of the yellow fever or other malignant disease; hence, the yellow fever, vulgarly so called.


Topic: Vomited
Definition:
VOM'ITED, pp.  Ejected from the stomach through the mouth, or from any deep place through an opening.


Topic: Vomiting
Definition:
VOM'ITING, ppr.  Discharging from the stomach through the mouth, or ejecting from any deep place.
VOM'ITING, n.
1.  The act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Vomiting is an inverted action of the stomach.
2.  The act of throwing out substances with violence from a deep hollow, as a volcano, &c.


Topic: Vomitory
Definition:
VOM'ITORY, a.  [L. vomitorius.]  Procuring vomits; causing to eject from the stomach; emetic.
VOM'ITORY, n. 
1.  An emetic.
2.  A door.


Topic: Voracious
Definition:
VORA'CIOUS, a.  [L. vorax, from voro, to devour;  Heb. to clear away, to consume; Gr. food.]
1.  Greedy for eating; ravenous; very hungry; as a voracious man or appetite.
2.  Rapacious; eager to devour; as voracious animals.
3.  Ready to swallow up; as a voracious gulf or whirlpool.


Topic: Voracity
Definition:
VORAC'ITY, n.  Greediness of appetite; voraciousness.
Creatures by their voracity pernicious, have commonly fewer young.


Topic: Vortex
Definition:
VOR'TEX, n. plu. vortices or vortexes.  [L. from verto.]
1.  A whirlpool; a whirling or circular motion of water, forming a kind of cavity in the center of the circle, and in some instances, drawing in water or absorbing other things.
2.  A whirling of the air; a whirlwind.
3.  In the  Cartesian system, the circular motion originally impressed on the particles of matter, carrying them around their own axes, and around a common center.  By means of these vortices.  Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe.


Topic: Votaress
Definition:
VO'TARESS, n.  A female devoted to any service, worship or state of life.
No rosary this votaress needs.


Topic: Votarist
Definition:
VO'TARIST, n.  [See votary.]  One devoted or given up to any person or thing, to any service, worship or pursuit.
I am no idle votarist.
[Votary is now used.]


Topic: Votary
Definition:
VO'TARY, a.  [from L. votus, from voveo.  See Vow.]
Devoted; promised; consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow.
Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.
VO'TARY, n.  One devoted, consecrated or engaged by a vow or promise; hence more generally, one devoted, given or addicted to some particular service, worship, study or state of life.  Every goddess of antiquity had her votaries.  Every pursuit or study has now its votaries.  One is a votary to mathematics, another is a votary to music, and alas, a great portion of the world are votaries of sensual pleasures.
It was the coldness of the votary, not the prayer, which was in fault.


Topic: Vote
Definition:
VOTE, n.  [L. votum, from voveo, to vow.  Votum is properly wish or will.]
1.  Suffrage; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a man to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations and the like.  This vote or expression of will may be given by holding up the hand, by rising and standing up, by the voice, [viva voce.] by ballot, by a ticket or otherwise.  All these modes and others are used.  Hence,
2.  That by which will or preference is expressed in elections or in deciding propositions; a ballot; a ticket, &c.; as a written vote.
3.  Expression of will be a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous.
4.  United voice in public prayer.


Topic: Voting
Definition:
VOTING, ppr. Expressing the mind, will or preference in election, or in determining questions proposed; giving a vote or suffrage; electing, deciding, giving or enacting by vote.


Topic: Votive
Definition:
VOTIVE, a. Given by vow; devoted; as votive offereings.  
Votive medals, are those on which vows of the peoplefor emperors or empresses 
are expressed.
Venus, take my votive glass.
, v.t. 
1. To call to witness; to obtest.
And vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.
2. To declare; to affirm; to attest; to warrant; to maintain by affirmations.
They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afetrward to credit 
it.
2. To warrant; to confirm; to establish proof.
The consistency of the discoursevouches it to be worthy of the great apostle.
4. In law, to call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee.


Topic: Vouch
Definition:
VOUCH, v.i. To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation. I canot vouch for the truth of 
                       the report.
He declares he will not believe her, till the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the 
truth of what she so solemnly affirmed.
VOUCH, n. Warrant; attestation.


Topic: Vouched
Definition:
VOUCHED, pp. Called to witness; affirmed or fully attested; called into court to make good a warranty.


Topic: Vouchee
Definition:
VOUCHEE, n. In law, the person who is vouched or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.


Topic: Voucher
Definition:
VOUCHER, n. 
1. One who gives witness or full attestation to any thing.
The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for each others reputation.
2. In law, the act of calling in a person to make god his warranty of title.
3. A book, paper or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm 
or establish facts of any kind. The merchants books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts. Notes, bonds receipts and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.
VOUCHER, 


Topic: Vouching
Definition:
VOUCHING, ppr. Calling to witness; attesting by affirmation; calling in to maintain warranty of title.


Topic: Vouchor
Definition:
VOUCHOR, n. In law, the tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title . In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher, or double vouchers.


Topic: Vouchsafe
Definition:
VOUCHSAFE, v.t [vouch and safe; to vouch or answer for safety.]
1. To permit to be done without danger.
2. To condescend to grant.
Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?
It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathen the means of salvation.
VOUCHSAFE, v.i. To condescend; to deign; to yield.
Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What powr the charms of 
beauty had of old.


Topic: Vow
Definition:
VOW, n.
1. A solemn promisemade to God, or by a pagan to his deity. The Roman generals when they went to war, sometimes made a vow that they would build a temple to some favorite deity, if he would give them victory. A vow is a promise of something to be given or done hereafter.
   A person is constituted a religious by taking three vows, of chastity, of poverty, and of obedience. Among the Isrealites, the vows of children were not binding, unless ratified by the express or tacit consent of their father. Num. 30.
2. A solemn promise; as the vows of unchangeable love and fidelity. In a moral and religious sense, vows are promises to God, as they appeal to God to witness their sincerity, and the violation of them is a most heinous offense.
VOW, v.t. 
1. To give, consecrate or dedicate to God by a solemn promise. When Jacob went to Mesopotamia, he vowed to God a tenth of this substance, and his own future devotion to his service. Gen. 28. 
When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Eccles. 5.
2. To devote.
VOW, v.i. To make vows or solemn promises. He that vows, must be careful to perform.


Topic: Vowel
Definition:
VOWEL, n.
1. In grammer, a simple sound; a sound utterd by simply opening the mouth or organs; as the sound of a, e, o.
2. The letter or character which represents a simple sound.
VOWEL, a. Pertaining to a vowel; vocal.


Topic: Voyage
Definition:
VOYAGE, n.
1. A passing by sea or water from one place, port or country to another, especially a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. Captain L. made more than a hundred voyages to the West Indies. A voyage over lake Superior is like a voyage to Bermuda.
2. The practice of traveling. [Not in use.]
VOYAGE, v.i. To sail or pass by water.
VOYAGE, v.t.  To travel; to pass over.
I with pain Voyagd th unreal, vast, unbounded deep.


Topic: Vulgar
Definition:
VULGAR , a. 
1. Pertaining to the common unlettered people; as vulgar life.
2. Used or practiced by common people; as vulgar sports.
3. Vernacular; national.
It might be more useful to the English reader, to write in our vulgar language.
4. Common; used by all classes of people; as the vulgar version of the scriptures.
5. Public; as vulgar report.
6. Mean; rustic; rude; low; unrefined; as vulgar ninds; vulgar manners.
7. Consisting of common persons.
In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter.
Vulgar fractions, in arithmetic, fractions expressed by a numerator and denominator; thus 2/5.
VULGAR, n. The common people. [It has no plural termination, but has often a plural verb.]
The vulgar imagine the pretender to have been a child imposed on the nation.


Topic: Vulgarism
Definition:
VULGARISM, n. 
1. Grossness of manners; vulgarity. [Little used.]
2. A vulgar phrase or expression. [This is the usual sense of the word.]


Topic: Vulgarity
Definition:
VULGARITY, n. 
1. Mean condition in life; the state of the lower classes of society.
2. Grossness or clownishness of manners or language; as vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity of expression or language.


Topic: Vulgarly
Definition:
VULGARLY, adv. 
1. Commonly; in the ordinary manner among the common people. 
Such an one we vulgarly call call a desperate person.
2. Meanly; rudely; clownishly.


Topic: Vulgate
Definition:
VULGATE, n. A very ancient Latin version of the scriptures, one the only one which the Romish church admits to be authentic. It is so called from its common use in the Latin church.
VULGATE, a. Pertaining to the old Latin version of the scriptures.


Topic: Vulnerable
Definition:
VULNERABLE, a.
1. That may be wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as a vulnerable body.
Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will never be wanting a Paris to infix the dart.
2. Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; as a vulnerable reputation.


Topic: Vulnerary
Definition:
VULNERARY, a. Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as vulnerary plants or potions.
VULNERARY, a. Any plant, drug or composition, useful in the cure of wounds. Certain unguents, balsams and the like, are used as vulneraries.


Topic: Vulpinite
Definition:
VULPINITE, n. A mineral of a grayish white color, splendent and  massive; its fracture foliated. It consists of the sulphate of lime and silica.


Topic: Vulture
Definition:
VULTURE, n. A genus of fowls, belonging to the order of Accipiters. The bill is straight, but hooked at the end, and covered at the base by a cere of skin. The head is naked. There are thirteen species, all carnivorous and rapacious. The vultur is one of the largest kinds of fowls, and the Condor of South America, one of this family, is the largest species of flying animals that has been discovered.


Topic: Vulturine
Definition:
VULTURINE, a. Belonging to the Vultur; having the qualities of the Vultur; resembling the Vultur; rapacious.


Topic: W
Definition:
W is the twenty third letter of the English Alphabet. It takes its written form and its name from the union of two Vs, this being the form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. The name, double u, being given to it from its form or composition, and not from its sound, especially the vowels. W is properly a vowel, a simple sound, formed by opening the mouth with a close circular configuration of the lips. it is precisely the ou of the French, and the u of the Spaniards, Italians and Germans. With the oter vowels it forms diphthongs, which are of easy pronunciation; as in well, want, will, dwell; pronouced ooell, ooant, ooill, dooell. In English, it is always followed by another vowel, except when followed by h, as is when; but this case is an exception only in writing, and not in pronunciation, for h precedes w in utterance; when being pronounced hooen. In Welsh, w, which is sounded as in English is used without another vowel, as in fwl, a fool; dwn, dun; dwb, mortar; gwn, a gun, and a gown.
It is not improbable that the Romans pronouced v as we do w, for their volvo is our wallow; and volo, velle, is the English will, G. wollen. But this is uncertain.The German v has the sound of the English f, and w that of the English v.
W, at the end of words is often silent after a and o, as in law, saw, low, sow. In many words of this kind, w represents the Saxon g; in other cases, it helps to form a diphthong, as in now, vow, new, strew.


Topic: Wabble
Definition:
WABBLE, v.i. To move from one side to the other; to vacillate; as a turning or whirling body. So it is said a top wabbles, when it is in motion, and deviates from a perpendicular direction; a spindle wabbles, when it moves one way and the other. [This word is applied chiefly to bodies when turning with a circular motion, and its place canot be supplied by any other word in the language. It is neither low nor barbarous.] 


Topic: Wacky
Definition:
WACKY,n. A rock nearly allied to basalt, of which it may be regarded as a more soft and earthy variety. Its color is a greenish gray, brown or black. It is opake, yields easily to the knife, and has a greasy feel. Its principal ingredient is silex. Gray wacky is a different species of rock, being a kind of sandstone. Wacky is a mineral sunstance intermediate between clay and basalt.


Topic: Wad
Definition:
WAD, n.
1. A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old ropeyarn, used for stopping the charge of powder in a gun and pressing it close to the shot, or for keeping the powder and shot close.
2. A little mass, tuft or bundle, as of hay or peas.
WAD,


Topic: Wadd
Definition:
WADD, n. In mineralogy, a black wadd is a species of ore of manganese, of which there are four kinds; fibrous, ochery, pulverulent ochery, and dendritic. In some places, plumbago or black lead is called wad or wadd.


Topic: Wadding
Definition:
WADDING, n. 
1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
2. A kind of soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing garments.


Topic: Waddle
Definition:
WADDLE, v.i.
1. To move one way and the other in walking; to deviate to one side and the other; to vacillate; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; very fat peole walk with a kind of waddling pace. So we say, a duck or a goose waddles.
2. To walk with a waddling motion.
And hardly waddles forth to cool


Topic: Wade
Definition:
WADE, v.i.
1. To walk through any substance that yields to the feet; as, to wade through water; to wade through sand or snow;. To wade over a river, is to walk through on the bottom. Fowls that wade have long legs.
2. To move or pass with difficulty or labor; as, judges wade through an intriccate law case. it is not my purpose to wade through these controversies.
The kings admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
And wades through fumes and gropes his way.
WADE, v.t.To pass by walking on the bottom; as, to wade a river. [this is a common expression, but elliptical for to wade through a river.]


Topic: Wadsett
Definition:
WADSETT, n. An ancient tenure or lease of land in the highlands of Scotland, which seems to have been a kind of mortgage.


Topic: Wafer
Definition:
WAFER, n.
1. A thin cake or leaf; as a wafer of bread given by the Romanists in the Eucharist.
2. A thin leaf of paste, or a composition of flour, the white of eggs, isinglass and yeast, spread over with gumwater and dried; used in sealing letters.
WAFER, v.t. To seal or close with a wafer.


