English Dictionary: vagal | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vacuole \Vac"u*ole\, n. [L. vacuus empty: cf. F. vacuole.] (Biol.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm. {Contractile vacuole}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Contractile}, and see Illusts. of {Infusoria}, and {Lobosa}. {Food vacuole}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Food}, and see Illust. of {Infusoria}. | |
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Vagal \Va"gal\, a. [See {Vagus}.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric. | |
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Vaguely \Vague"ly\, adv. In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. --Hawthorne. | |
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d8Vasculum \[d8]Vas"cu*lum\, n.; pl. {Vascula}. [L., a small vessel.] 1. (Bot.) Same as {Ascidium}, n., 1. 2. A tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in collecting plants. | |
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Vassal \Vas"sal\, v. t. To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Vassal \Vas"sal\, n. [F., fr. LL. vassallus, vassus; of Celtic origin; cf. W. & Corn. gwas a youth, page, servant, Arm. gwaz a man, a male. Cf. {Valet}, {Varlet}, {Vavasor}.] 1. (Feud. Law) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. --Burrill. 2. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. [bd]The vassals of his anger.[b8] --Milton. {Rear vassal}, the vassal of a vassal; an arriere vassal. | |
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Vassal \Vas"sal\, a. Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. The sun and every vassal star. --Keble. | |
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Vehicle \Ve"hi*cle\, n. [L. vehiculum, fr. vehere to carry; akin to E. way, wain. See {Way}, n., and cf. {Convex}, {Inveigh}, {Veil}, {Vex}.] 1. That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land. 2. That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy. A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to a popular assembly. --Wirt. 3. (Pharm.) A substance in which medicine is taken. 4. (Paint.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it. Note: Water is used in fresco and in water-color painting, the colors being consolidated with gum arabic; size is used in distemper painting. In oil painting, the fixed oils of linseed, nut, and poppy, are used; in encaustic, wax is the vehicle. --Fairholt. | |
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Vehicle \Ve"hi*cle\, n. (Chem.) A liquid used to spread sensitive salts upon glass and paper for use in photography. | |
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Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. {Vascular}, {Vase}.] 1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc. [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer. 2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel. [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton. 3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy. He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15. [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter. --Milton. 4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. 5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[91]), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct. {Acoustic vessels}. See under {Acoustic}. {Weaker vessel}, a woman; -- now applied humorously. [bd]Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.[b8] --1 Peter iii. 7. [bd]You are the weaker vessel.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t. To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Mortar \Mor"tar\, n. [OE. morter, AS. mort[c7]re, L. mortarium: cf. F. mortier mortar. Cf. sense 2 (below), also 2d {Mortar}, {Martel}, {Morter}.] 1. A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle. 2. [F. mortier, fr. L. mortarium mortar (for trituarating).] (Mil.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45[deg], and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. {Mortar bed} (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar. {Mortar boat} [or] {vessel} (Naut.), a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch. {Mortar piece}, a mortar. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}. | |
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Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. {Vascular}, {Vase}.] 1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc. [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer. 2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel. [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton. 3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy. He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15. [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter. --Milton. 4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. 5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[91]), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct. {Acoustic vessels}. See under {Acoustic}. {Weaker vessel}, a woman; -- now applied humorously. [bd]Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.[b8] --1 Peter iii. 7. [bd]You are the weaker vessel.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t. To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Mortar \Mor"tar\, n. [OE. morter, AS. mort[c7]re, L. mortarium: cf. F. mortier mortar. Cf. sense 2 (below), also 2d {Mortar}, {Martel}, {Morter}.] 1. A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle. 2. [F. mortier, fr. L. mortarium mortar (for trituarating).] (Mil.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45[deg], and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. {Mortar bed} (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar. {Mortar boat} [or] {vessel} (Naut.), a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch. {Mortar piece}, a mortar. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}. | |
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Vexil \Vex"il\, n. A vexillum. | |
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d8Vexillum \[d8]Vex*il"lum\, n.; pl. {Vexilla}. [L., a standard, a flag.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A flag or standard. (b) A company of troops serving under one standard. 2. (Eccl.) (a) A banner. (b) The sign of the cross. 3. (Bot.) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane. | |
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Vigil \Vig"il\, n. [OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See {Wake}, v. i., and cf. {Reveille}, {Surveillance}, {Vedette}, {Vegetable}, {Vigor}.] 1. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. [bd]Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months.[b8] --Macaulay. Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them. --Addison. 2. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises. So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned. --Milton. Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate. --Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard). 3. (Eccl.) (a) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast. (b) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say, [bd]To-morrow is St. Crispian.[b8] --Shak. (c) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. {Vigils, [or] Watchings}, {of flowers} (Bot.), a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals as certain hours of the day. [R.] | |
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Vigily \Vig"i*ly\, n. [L. vigilia.] A vigil. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Visual \Vis"u*al\, a. [L. visualis, from visus a seeing, sight: cf. F. visuel. See {Vision}.] 1. Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve. The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray. --Milton. 2. That can be seen; visible. [R.] {Visual angle}. (Opt.) See under {Angle}. {Visual cone} (Persp.), a cone whose vertex is at the point of sight, or the eye. {Visual plane}, any plane passing through the point of sight. {Visual point}, the point at which the visual rays unite; the position of the eye. {Visual purple} (Physiol.), a photochemical substance, of a purplish red color, contained in the retina of human eyes and in the eyes of most animals. It is quickly bleached by light, passing through the colors, red, orange, and yellow, and then disappearing. Also called {rhodopsin}, and {vision purple}. See {Optography}. {Visual ray}, a line from the eye, or point of sight. {Visual white} (Physiol.), the final product in the action of light on visual purple. It is reconverted into visual purple by the regenerating action of the choroidal epithelium. {Visual yellow} (Physiol.), a product intermediate between visual purple and visual white, formed in the photochemical action of light on visual purple. | |
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Vocal \Vo"cal\, n. [Cf. F. vocal, LL. vocalis.] 1. (Phon.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal. 2. (R. C. Ch.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vocal \Vo"cal\, a. [L. vocalis, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F. vocal. See {Voice}, and cf. {Vowel}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices. To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song. --Milton. 2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer. [bd]Vocal worship.[b8] --Milton. 3. Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, [?]poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds. 4. (Phon.) (a) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See {Voice}, and {Vowel}, also Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 199-202. (b) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel. {Vocal cords} [or] {chords}. (Anat.) See {Larynx}, and the Note under {Voice}, n., 1. {Vocal fremitus} [L. fremitus a dull roaring or murmuring] (Med.), the perceptible vibration of the chest wall, produced by the transmission of the sonorous vibrations during the act of using the voice. {Vocal music}, music made by the voice, in distinction from {instrumental music}; hence, music or tunes set to words, to be performed by the human voice. {Vocal tube} (Anat.), the part of the air passages above the inferior ligaments of the larynx, including the passages through the nose and mouth. | |
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Vocally \Vo"cal*ly\, adv. 1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound. 2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally. | |
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Vocule \Voc"ule\, n. [L. vocula, dim. of vox, vocis, voice.] (Phon.) A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b. --Rush. -- {Voc"u*lar}, a. | |
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Vogle \Vo"gle\, n. (Mining) Same as {Vugg}. | |
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Vugg \Vugg\, Vugh \Vugh\, n. (Mining) A cavity in a lode; -- called also {vogle}. | |
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Vogle \Vo"gle\, n. (Mining) Same as {Vugg}. | |
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Vugg \Vugg\, Vugh \Vugh\, n. (Mining) A cavity in a lode; -- called also {vogle}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Vauxhall, NJ Zip code(s): 07088 | |
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Veseli, MN Zip code(s): 55046 | |
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Visalia, CA (city, FIPS 82954) Location: 36.32540 N, 119.32057 W Population (1990): 75636 (27154 housing units) Area: 60.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 93277, 93291 Visalia, KY (city, FIPS 79878) Location: 38.91501 N, 84.45125 W Population (1990): 190 (65 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
VCL {Visual Component Library} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
voxel The smallest distinguishable box-shaped part of a three-dimensional space. A particular voxel will be identified by the x, y and z coordinates of one of its eight corners, or perhaps its centre. The term is used in three dimensional modelling. (1995-03-10) |