VATICIDE
VAT'ICIDE, noun [Latin vates, a prophet, and caedo, to kill.]The murderer of a prophet.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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VATICINAL
VATIC'INAL, adjective [Latin vaticinor, to prophesy.] Containing prophecy.
VATICINATE
VATIC'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin vaticinor, from vates, a prophet.]To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction. [Little used.]
VATICINATION
VATICINA'TION, noun Prediction; prophecy.
VAULT
VAULT, noun [Latin vultus; a derivative of Latin volvo, volutus.]1. A continued arch, or an arched roof. Vaults are of various kinds, circular, elliptical, single, double, cross...
VAULTAGE
VAULT'AGE, noun Vaulted work; an arched cellar. [Not in use.]
VAULTED
VAULT'ED, participle passive1. Arched; concave; as a vaulted roof.2. Covered with an arch or vault.3.adjective In botany, arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of ...
VAULTER
VAULT'ER, noun One that vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.
VAULTING
VAULT'ING, participle present tense1. Arching; covering with an arch.2. Leaping; tumbling; exhibiting feats of leaping.
VAULTY
VAULT'Y, adjective Arched; concave. [Not in use.]
VAUNT
V'AUNT, verb intransitive [Latin 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 ostenta...
VAUNT-COURIER
VAUNT-COURIER, noun A precursor.
VAUNT-MURE
V'AUNT-MURE, noun A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall.
VAUNTED
V'AUNTED, participle passive Vainly boasted of or displayed.
VAUNTER
V'AUNTER, noun A vain conceited boaster; a braggart; a man given to vain ostentation.
VAUNTFUL
V'AUNTFUL, adjective Boastful; vainly ostentatious.
VAUNTING
V'AUNTING, participle present tense Vainly boasting; ostentatiously setting forth what one is or has.
VAUNTINGLY
V'AUNTINGLY, adverb Boastfully; with vain ostentation.
VAVASOR
VAV'ASOR, noun [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 ...
VAVASORY
VAV'ASORY, noun The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor.
VAWARD
VA'WARD, noun [van and ward.] The fore part. obsolete
VEAL
VEAL, noun [Latin vitellus.]The flesh of a calf killed for the table.
VECTION
VEC'TION, noun [Latin vectio, from veho, to carry.]The act of carrying, or state of being carried. [Not in use.]
VECTITATION
VECTITA'TION, noun [Latin vectito.] A carrying. [Not in use.]
VECTOR
VEC'TOR, noun [Latin 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.
VECTURE
VEC'TURE, noun [Latin vectura, from veho, supra.]A carrying; carriage; conveyance by carrying. [Little used.]
VEDA
VEDA, noun 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.