VAPORIZING
VAP'ORIZING, participle present tense Converting into vapor.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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VAPOROUS
VA'POROUS, adjective1. 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 mo...
VAPOROUSNESS
VA'POROUSNESS, noun State of being full of vapors.
VAPORY
VA'PORY, adjective1. Vaporous; full of vapors.2. Hypochondriac; splenetic; peevish.
VAPULATION
VAPULA'TION, noun [Latin vapulo.] The act of beating or shipping. [Not in use.]
VARE
VARE, noun A wand or staff of justice. [Not in use.]
VAREC
VAR'EC, noun The French name for kelp or incinerated sea weed; wrack.
VARI
VA'RI, noun 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 B...
VARIABLE
VA'RIABLE, adjective1. 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...
VARIABLENESS
VA'RIABLENESS, noun1. Susceptibility of change; liableness or aptness to alter; changeableness; as the variableness of the weather.2. Inconstancy; fickleness; unsteadiness; levi...
VARIABLY
VA'RIABLY, adverb Changeably; with alteration; in an inconstant or fickle manner.
VARIANCE
VA'RIANCE, noun [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...
VARIATE
VA'RIATE, verb transitive1. To alter; to make different.2. To vary. [A bad word.]
VARIATION
VARIA'TION, noun [Latin 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 lig...
VARICOCELE
VAR'ICOCELE, noun [Latin 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 ...
VARICOSE
VAR'ICOSE,VAR'ICOUS, adjective [Latin varicosus, having enlarged veins.]1. Preternaturally enlarged, or permanently dilated, as a vein.2. Swelled; puffy; as an ulcer on the legs...
VARICOUS
VAR'ICOUS, a. [L. varicosus, having enlarged veins.]1. Preternaturally enlarged, or permanently dilated, as a vein.2. Swelled; puffy; as an ulcer on the legs of beasts.
VARIED
VA'RIED, participle passive of vary. Altered; partially changed; changed.
VARIEGATE
VA'RIEGATE, verb transitive [Latin vario, varius. See Vary.]To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different...
VARIEGATED
VA'RIEGATED, participle passive Diversified in colors or external appearance. variegated leaves, in botany, are such as are irregularly marked with white or yellow spots.
VARIEGATING
VA'RIEGATING, participle present tense Diversifying with colors.
VARIEGATION
VARIEGA'TION, noun The act of diversifying, or state of being diversified by different colors; diversity of colors.
VARIETY
VARI'ETY, noun [Latin 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 ...
VARIOLITE
VA'RIOLITE, noun [Latin varius and Gr. stone.]In mineralogy, a kind of porphyritic rock, in which the imbedded substances are imperfectly crystallized, or are rounded, giving th...
VARIOLOID
VA'RIOLOID, noun [Latin variolae and Gr. form.The name recently given to a disease resembling the small pox.
VARIOLOUS
VA'RIOLOUS, adjective [Latin variolae, from vario, to diversify.] Pertaining to or designating the small pox.
VARIOUS
VA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin varius, See Vary.]1. different; several; manifold; as men of various names and various occupations.2. Changeable; uncertain; unfixed.The names of mixe...