English Dictionary: Vladimir Nabokov | by the DICT Development Group |
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Validness \Val"id*ness\, n. The quality or state of being valid. | |
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Vallation \Val*la"tion\, n. [L. vallatio, fr. vallare to surround with a rampart, fr. vallum rampart. See {Wall}, n.] A rampart or intrenchment. | |
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Valuation \Val`u*a"tion\, n. 1. The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation. 2. Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation. Since of your lives you set So slight a valuation. --Shak. | |
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Vault \Vault\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vaulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vaulting}.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. vo[96]ter. See {Vault} an arch.] 1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court. The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. --Sir W. Scott. 2. [See {Vault}, v. i.] To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence. I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. --Webster (1623). | |
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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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Velutina \Vel`u*ti"na\, n. [NL. See {Velvet}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to {Velutina} and allied genera. | |
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Velutinous \Ve*lu"ti*nous\, a. [It. velluto velvet. See {Velvet}.] (Bot.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf. | |
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Violate \Vi"o*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Violates}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Violating}.] [L. violatus, p. p. of violare to violate, fr. vis strength, force. See {Violent}.] 1. To treat in a violent manner; to abuse. His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape. --Milton. 2. To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe. Violated vows 'Twixt the souls of friend and friend. --Shak. Oft have they violated The temple, oft the law, with foul affronts. --Milton. 3. To disturb; to interrupt. [bd]Employed, it seems, to violate sleep.[b8] --Milton. 4. To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage. Syn: To injure; disturb; interrupt; infringe; transgress; profane; deflour; debauch; dishonor. | |
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Violation \Vi`o*la"tion\, n. [L. violatio: cf. F. violation.] The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. Specifically: (a) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. [bd]The violation of my faith.[b8] --Shak. (b) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church. --Udall. (c) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance. (d) Ravishment; rape; outrage. --Shak. | |
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Volitient \Vo*li"tient\, a. [See {Volition}.] Exercising the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will. [bd]What I do, I do volitient, not obedient.[b8] --Mrs. Browning. | |
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Volition \Vo*li"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. volo I will, velle to will, be willing. See {Voluntary}.] 1. The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will. Volition is the actual exercise of the power the mind has to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it. --Locke. Volition is an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action. --Locke. 2. The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice. 3. The power of willing or determining; will. Syn: Will; choice; preference; determination; purpose. Usage: {Volition}, {Choice}. Choice is the familiar, and volition the scientific, term for the same state of the will; viz., an [bd]elective preference.[b8] When we have [bd]made up our minds[b8] (as we say) to a thing, i. e., have a settled state of choice respecting it, that state is called an immanent volition; when we put forth any particular act of choice, that act is called an emanent, or executive, or imperative, volition. When an immanent, or settled state of, choice, is one which controls or governs a series of actions, we call that state a predominant volition; while we give the name of subordinate volitions to those particular acts of choice which carry into effect the object sought for by the governing or [bd]predominant volition.[b8] See {Will}. | |
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Volitional \Vo*li"tion*al\, a. Belonging or relating to volition. [bd]The volitional impulse.[b8] --Bacon. | |
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Volt amp8are \Volt amp[8a]re\ (Elec.) A unit of electric measurement equal to the product of a volt and an ampere. For direct current it is a measure of power and is the same as a watt; for alternating current it is a measure of apparent power. | |
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Voltameter \Vol*tam"e*ter\, n. [Voltaic + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte. | |
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Voltammeter \Volt*am"me`ter\, n. A wattmeter. | |
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Voltmeter \Volt"me`ter\, n. [2d volt + -meter.] (elec.) An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit. | |
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{Music box}. See {Musical box}, under {Musical}. {Music hall}, a place for public musical entertainments. {Music loft}, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church. {Music of the spheres}, the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres. {Music paper}, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. {Music pen}, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff. {Music shell} (Zo[94]l.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell ({Voluta musica}) found in the East Indies; -- so called because the color markings often resemble printed music. Sometimes applied to other shells similarly marked. {To face the music}, to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang] | |
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Volution \Vo*lu"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. volutio an arch, vault.] 1. A spiral turn or wreath. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A whorl of a spiral shell. |