Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Vaticine

Vat″i‐cine (?), n. [L. vaticinium.] A prediction; a vaticination. Holinshed.

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Vaudeville

‖Vaude″ville (?), n. [F., fr. Vau-de-vire, a village in Normandy, where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such songs.] [Written also vaudevil.]1. A kind...

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Vaudeville (2)

Vaude″ville, n. Loosely, and now commonly, variety (see above), as, to play in vaudeville; a vaudeville actor.

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Vaudois

‖Vau‐dois″ (vō‐dwä″), n. sing. & pl. 1. An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.2. A modern name of the Waldenses.

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Vaudoux

Vau‐doux″ (?), n. & a. See Voodoo.

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Vault

Vault (va̤lt; see Note, below), n. [OE. voute, OF. voute, volte, F. voûte, LL. volta, for voluta, volutio, fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about. See Voluble, and cf. ...

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Vault (2)

Vault (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Vaulted; p. pr. & vb. n.Vaulting.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. voûter. See Vault an arch.]1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault...

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Vault (3)

Vault, v. i. [Cf. OF. volter, F. voltiger, It. voltare to turn. See Vault, n., 4.]1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. Shak.Leanin...

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Vaultage

Vault″age (?), n. Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. Shak.

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Vaulted

Vault″ed, a. 1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.2. Covered with an arch, or vault.3. (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.

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Vaulter

Vault″er (?), n. One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. B. Jonson.

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Vaulting

Vault″ing, n. 1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.

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Vaulty

Vault″y (?), a. Arched; concave. “The vaulty heaven.” Shak.

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Vaunce

Vaunce (?), v. i. [See Advance.] To advance. Spenser.

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Vaunt

Vaunt (vänt or va̤nt; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Vaunted; p. pr. & vb. n.Vaunting.] [F. vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See Vain.] To boast; to make a vain display of one...

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Vaunt (2)

Vaunt, v. t. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 1 Cor. xiii. 4.My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaun...

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Vaunt (3)

Vaunt, n. A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.The spirits beneath, whom I seducedWith other promises and other vaunts. M...

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Vaunt (4)

Vaunt, n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.] The first part. Shak.

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Vaunt (5)

Vaunt, v. t. [See Avant, Advance.] To put forward; to display. “Vaunted spear.” Spenser.And what so else his person most may vaunt. Spenser.

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Vaunt-courier

Vaunt″–cou′ri‐er (?), n. See Van-courier. Shak.

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Vaunter

Vaunt″er (?), n. One who vaunts; a boaster.

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Vauntful

Vaunt″ful (?), a. Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.

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Vauntingly

Vaunt″ing‐ly, adv. In a vaunting manner.

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Vauntmure

Vaunt″mure′ (?), n. [F. avant-mur. See Vanguard, and Mure.] (Fort.) A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall. [Written also vaimure, and vamure.] Camden.

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Vauquelinite

Vauque″lin‐ite (?), n. [So called after the French chemist Vauquelin, who died in 1829: cf. F. vauquelinite.] (Min.) Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.

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Vaut

Vaut (?), v. i. To vault; to leap. Spenser.

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Vaut (2)

Vaut, n. A vault; a leap. Spenser.