Webster's Dictionary 1913

1756

Volunteer (4)

Vol′un‐teer″, v. i. To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.

1757

Volunteer navy

Vol′un‐teer″ na″vy. A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regular navy and subject to naval discipline. Prussia in 1870, in the Fr...

1758

Volunteer State

Volunteer State. Tennessee; — a nickname.

1759

Volunteers of America

Vol′un‐teers″ of America. A religious and philanthropic organization, similar to the Salvation Army, founded (1896) by Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth.

1760

Volupere

Vol″u‐pere (?), n. [Cf. Envelop.] A woman's cap. Chaucer.

1761

Voluptuary

Vo‐lup″tu‐a‐ry (?; 135), n.; pl.Voluptuaries (#). [L. voluptuarius or voluptarius, fr. voluptas pleasure.] A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief ca...

1762

Voluptuary (2)

Vo‐lup″tu‐a‐ry, a. Voluptuous; luxurious.

1763

Voluptuous

Vo‐lup″tu‐ous (?), a. [F. voluptueux, L. voluptuosus, fr. voluptas pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully; probably akin to Gr. � to hope, � hope, and to L. velle to wish. See ...

1764

Volupty

Vo‐lup″ty (?), n. [Cf. F. volupté pleasure. See Voluptuous.] Voluptuousness.

1765

Voluta

Vo‐lu″ta (?), n.; pl. E. Volutas (#), L. Volutæ (#). [L., a spiral scroll. See Volute.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Vol...

1766

Volutation

Vol′u‐ta″tion (?), n. [L. volutatio, from volutare to roll, wallow, verb freq. volvere, volutum, to roll.] A rolling of a body; a wallowing. Sir T. Browne.

1767

Volute

Vo‐lute″ (?), n. [F. volute (cf. It. voluta), L. voluta, from volvere, volutum, to roll. See Voluble.]1. (Arch.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capit...

1768

Voluted

Vo‐lut″ed, a. Having a volute, or spiral scroll.

1769

Volution

Vo‐lu″tion (?), n. [Cf. LL. volutio an arch, vault.]1. A spiral turn or wreath.2. (Zoöl.) A whorl of a spiral shell.

1770

Volva

‖Vol″va (?), n. [L. volva, vulva, covering.] (Bot.) A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.

1771

Volvox

‖Vol″vox (?), n.(Bot.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by m...

1772

Volvulus

‖Vol″vu‐lus (?), n. [NL., fr. L. volvere to turn about, to roll.] (Med.) (a) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic. (b) Any twisting or displacement of ...

1773

Volyer

Vol″yer (?), n.(Zoöl.) A lurcher.

1774

Vomer

‖Vo″mer (?), n.(Anat.) (a) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and oth...

1775

Vomerine

Vo″mer‐ine (?), a. Of or pertaining to the vomer.

1776

Vomic nut

Vom″ic nut′ (?). [Cf. F. noix vomique.] Same as Nux vomica.

1777

Vomica

‖Vom″i‐ca (?), n. [L., fr. vomere to throw up, vomit.] (Med.) (a) An abscess cavity in the lungs. (b) An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.

1778

Vomicine

Vom″i‐cine (?), n. [From nux vomica.] (Chem.) See Brucine.

1779

Vomit

Vom″it (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Vomited; p. pr. & vb. n.Vomiting.] [Cf. L. vomere, vomitum, and v. freq. vomitare. See Vomit, n.] To eject the contents of the stomach by the mout...

1780

Vomit (2)

Vom″it, v. t. 1. To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; — often followed by up or out.The fish... vomited out Jonah upon th...

1781

Vomit (3)

Vom″it, n. [L. vomitus, from vomere, vomitum, to vomit; akin to Gr. �, Skr. vam, Lith. vemiti. Cf. Emetic, Vomito.]1. Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stoma...

1782

Vomiting

Vom″it‐ing, n. The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.