| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| vocule | noun | A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b. |
| voiced | imp. & past participle | of Voice, Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice., Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; — said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed. |
| voided | imp. & past participle | of Void, Emptied; evacuated., Annulled; invalidated., Having the inner part cut away, or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; — said of a charge. |
| voider | noun | One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls., A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc., A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal., One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller. |
| volage | adjective | Light; giddy. |
| volant | adjective | Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current., Nimble; light and quick; active; rapid., Represented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant. |
| volary | noun | See Volery. |
| volery | noun | A flight of birds., A large bird cage; an aviary. |
| volley | noun | A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms., A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words., A return of the ball before it touches the ground., A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket., To discharge with, or as with, a volley., To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys., To return the ball before it touches the ground., To send the ball full to the top of the wicket. |
| volume | noun | A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients., Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes., Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil., Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant’s body; a volume of gas., Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. |
| voluta | noun | Any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera. |
| volute | noun | A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale., A spiral turn, as in certain shells., Any voluta. |
| volvox | noun | 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 minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule. |
| volyer | noun | A lurcher. |
| vomica | noun | An abscess cavity in the lungs., An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ. |
| vomito | noun | The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit. |
| voodoo | noun | See Voodooism., One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer., Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations. |
| vortex | noun | A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy., A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices., Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| votary | adjective | Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised., One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life. |
| voting | present participle & vb. noun | of Vote, a. & n. from Vote, v. |
| votist | noun | One who makes a vow. |
| votive | adjective | Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet. |
| vowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Vow |
| voyage | noun | Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country., The act or practice of traveling., Course; way., To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water., To travel; to pass over; to traverse. |