Webster's Dictionary 1828

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VILIPENDENCY

VILIPEND'ENCY, noun Disesteem; alight. [Not in use.]

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VILITY

VIL'ITY, noun Vileness; baseness. [Not in use.]

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VILL

VILL, noun [Latin villa.] A village; a small collection of houses.The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I mentions entire-vills, demi-vills, and hamlets.

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VILLA

VIL'LA, noun [Latin villa]A country seat or a farm, furnished with a mansion and convenient out-houses.

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VILLAGE

VIL'LAGE, noun 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 disti...

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VILLAGER

VIL'LAGER, noun An inhabitant of a village.

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VILLAGERY

VIL'LAGERY, noun a district of villages.

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VILLAIN

VIL'LAIN,VIL'LAINOUS, adjective [from villain]1. Base; very vile.2. Wicked; extremely depraved; as a villanous person or wretch.3. Proceeding from extreme depravity; as a villan...

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VILLAINOUS

VIL'LAINOUS, a. [from villain.]1. Base; very vile.2. Wicked; extremely depraved; as a villanous person or wretch.3. Proceeding from extreme depravity; as a villanous action.4. S...

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VILLAINY

VIL'LAINY, noun1. 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 v...

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VILLAKIN

VIL'LAKIN, noun A little village; a word used by Gay.

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VILLAN

VIL'LAN, noun1. 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,...

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VILLANAGE

VIL'LANAGE, noun1. 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....

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VILLANIZE

VIL'LANIZE, verb transitive to debase; to degrade; to defame; to revile.Were virtue by descent, a noble name could never villanize his father's fame.

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VILLANIZED

VIL'LANIZED, participle passive Defamed; debased. [Little used.

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VILLANIZING

VIL'LANIZING, participle present tense Defaming; debasing. [Little used.]

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VILLANOUS

VIL'LANOUS,VIL'LANOUSLY, adverb Basely; with extreme wickedness or depravity.

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VILLANOUSNESS

VIL'LANOUSNESS, noun Baseness; extreme depravity.

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VILLANY

VIL'LANY,VILLAT'IC, adjective [Latin villaticus.] Pertaining to a village.Tame villatic fowl.

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VILLATIC

VILLAT'IC, a. [L. villaticus.] Pertaining to a village.Tame villatic fowl.

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VILLENAGE

VIL'LENAGE, noun [from villain.] a tenure of lands and tenements by base services.

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VILLOUS

VIL'LOUS, adjective [Latin 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 th...

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VIMINAL

VIM'INAL, adjective [Latin viminalis.] Pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

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VIMINEOUS

VIMIN'EOUS, adjective [Latin vimineus, from vimen, a twig. Made of twigs or shoots.In the hive's vimineous dome.

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VINACEOUS

VINA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin vinacceus.] Belonging to wine or grapes.

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VINCIBLE

VIN'CIBLE, adjective [from Latin vinco, to conquer. See Victor.Conquerable; that may be overcome or subdued.He not vincible in spirit -

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VINCIBLENESS

VIN'CIBLENESS, noun the capacity of being conquered; conquerableness.