Webster's Dictionary 1913

1837

Vowel (2)

Vow″el, a. Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

1838

Voweled

Vow″eled (?), a. Furnished with vowels. [Written also vowelled.] Dryden.

1839

Vowelish

Vow″el‐ish (?), a. Of the nature of a vowel. “The power [of w] is always vowelish.” B. Jonson.

1840

Vowelism

Vow″el‐ism (?), n. The use of vowels.

1841

Vowelize

Vow″el‐ize (?), v. t. To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.

1842

Vower

Vow″er (?), n. One who makes a vow. Bale.

1843

Vox

‖Vox (?), n. [L. See Voice.] A voice.Vox humana (�) (Mus.), a reed stop in an organ, made to imitate the human voice.

1844

Vox angelica

‖Vox′ an‐gel″i‐ca (?). [L. angelica angelic.] (Music) An organ stop of delicate stringlike quality, having for each finger key a pair of pipes, of which one is tuned slightly sh...

1845

Voyage

Voy″age (?; 48), n. [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belongi...

1846

Voyage (2)

Voy″age, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Voyaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Voyaging (?).] [Cf. F. voyager.] To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.A mind foreverVoyaging through st...

1847

Voyage (3)

Voy″age, v. t. To travel; to pass over; to traverse.With what painvoyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep. Milton.

1848

Voyageable

Voy″age‐a‐ble (?), a. [Cf. F. voyageable.] That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable.

1849

Voyager

Voy″a‐ger (?), n. [Cf. F. voyager traveling.] One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water.

1850

Voyageur

‖Voy′a′geur″ (?), n. [F., fr. voyager to travel. See Voyage.] A traveler; — applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and acro...

1851

Voyol

Voy″ol (?), n.(Naut.) (a) See Viol, 2. (b) The block through which a messenger passes. [Written also viol, and voyal.]

1852

Vraisemblance

‖Vrai′sem′blance″ (?), n. The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.

1853

Vugg

{ Vugg, Vugh } (?), n.(Mining) A cavity in a lode; — called also vogle.

1854

Vulcan

Vul″can (?), n. [L. Vulcanus, Volcanus: cf. Skr. ulkā a firebrand, meteor. Cf. Volcano.] (Rom. Myth.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; — answering to th...

1855

Vulcan powder

Vul″can pow″der. A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin (30 parts), sodium nitrate (52.5), charcoal (10.5), and sulphur (7), used in mining and blasting.

1856

Vulcanian

Vul‐ca″ni‐an (?), a. [L. Vulcanius.]1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals.Ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian ...

1857

Vulcanic

Vul‐can″ic (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.2. Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, ...

1858

Vulcanicity

Vul′can‐ic″i‐ty (?), n. Volcanicity.

1859

Vulcanism

Vul″can‐ism (?), n. Volcanism.

1860

Vulcanist

Vul″can‐ist, n. A volcanist.

1861

Vulcanite

Vul″can‐ite (?), n. Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.

1862

Vulcanization

Vul′can‐i‐za″tion (?), n. [See Vulcan.] The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sul...

1863

Vulcanize

Vul″can‐ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Vulcanized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Vulcanizing (?).] To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization...