English Dictionary: vest | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vacate \Va"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vacated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vacating}.] [L. vacare, vacatum, to be empty. See {Vacant}.] 1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. 2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause. That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. --Eikon Basilike. The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was Vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. --R. Nelson. 3. To defeat; to put an end to. [R.] He vacates my revenge. --Dryden. | |
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Vacuate \Vac"u*ate\, v. t. [L. vacuatus, p. p. of vacuare to empty, from vacuus empty. See {Vacant}.] To make void, or empty. [R.] | |
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Vacuity \Va*cu"i*ty\, n. [L. vacuitas. See {Vacuous}.] 1. The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance. Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply of aliment. --Arbuthnot. 2. Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum. A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter. --Bentley. God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul. --Rogers. 3. Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [R.] Their expectations will meet with vacuity. --Glanvill. | |
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Vast \Vast\, a. [Compar. {Vaster}; superl. {Vastest}.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See {Waste}, and cf. {Devastate}.] 1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. --Shak. 2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia. Through the vast and boundless deep. --Milton. 3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money. 4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern. Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty. | |
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Vast \Vast\, n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. [bd]The watery vast.[b8] --Pope. Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. --Milton. | |
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Vasty \Vas"ty\, a. [From {Vast}.] Vast; immense. [R.] I can call spirits from the vasty deep. --Shak. | |
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Vegete \Ve*gete"\, a. [L. vegetus. See {Vegetable}.] Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous. [Obs.] Even her body was made airy and vegete. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Vest \Vest\, n. [L. vestis a garment, vesture; akin to Goth. wasti, and E. wear: cf. F. veste. See {Wear} to carry on the person, and cf. {Divest}, {Invest}, {Travesty}.] 1. An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe. In state attended by her maiden train, Who bore the vests that holy rites require. --Dryden. 2. Any outer covering; array; garb. Not seldom clothed in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the morn. --Wordsworth. 3. Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat. Syn: Garment; vesture; dress; robe; vestment; waistcoat. Usage: {Vest}, {Waistcoat}. In England, the original word waistcoat is generally used for the body garment worn over the shirt and immediately under the coat. In the United States this garment is commonly called a vest, and the waistcoat is often improperly given to an under-garment. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vest \Vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vesting}.] [Cf. L. vestire, vestitum, OF. vestir, F. v[88]tir. See {Vest}, n.] 1. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. --Milton. With ether vested, and a purple sky. --Dryden. 2. To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death. Had I been vested with the monarch's power. --Prior. 3. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts. Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him. --Locke. 4. To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses. [R.] 5. (Law) To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession. --Bouvier. | |
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Vest \Vest\, v. i. To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law. | |
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Vesta \Ves"ta\, n. [L. Vesta, akin to Gr. [?] Vesta, [?] the hearth of the house, and perhaps to Skr. ush to burn (see East), or perhaps to Skr. vas to dwell, and E. was.] 1. (Rom. Myth.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it. 2. (Astron.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807. 3. A wax friction match. --Simmonds. | |
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Vex \Vex\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vexed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vexing}.] [F. vexer, L. vexare, vexatum, to vex, originally, to shake, toss, in carrying, v. intens. fr. vehere, vectum, to carry. See {Vehicle}.] 1. To to[?]s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet. White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars. --Pope. 2. To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease. [bd]I will not vex your souls.[b8] --Shak. Then thousand torments vex my heart. --Prior. 3. To twist; to weave. [R.] Some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom. --Dryden. Syn: See {Tease}. | |
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Vexed \Vexed\, a. 1. Annoyed; harassed; troubled. 2. Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question. | |
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Vice \Vice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Viced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vicing}.] To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. --Shak. The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh. --De Quincey. | |
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Viced \Viced\, a. Vicious; corrupt. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Vicety \Vi"ce*ty\, n. [From {Vice} a fault.] Fault; defect; coarseness. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Viciate \Vi"ci*ate\, v. t. See {Vitiate}. [R.] | |
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Vitiate \Vi"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vitiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vitiating}.] [L. vitiatus, p. p. vitiare to vitiate, fr. vitium a fault, vice. See {Vice} a fault.] [Written also {viciate}.] 1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion. --South. Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds. --Burke. This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers. --Garth. 2. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract. | |
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Viciate \Vi"ci*ate\, v. t. See {Vitiate}. [R.] | |
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Vitiate \Vi"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vitiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vitiating}.] [L. vitiatus, p. p. vitiare to vitiate, fr. vitium a fault, vice. See {Vice} a fault.] [Written also {viciate}.] 1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion. --South. Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds. --Burke. This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers. --Garth. 2. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract. | |
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Vis82 \Vi*s[82]"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vis[82]ed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vis[82]ing}.] To examine and indorse, as a passport; to visa. | |
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Visa \Vi"sa\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Visaed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Visaing}.] To indorse, after examination, with the word vis[82], as a passport; to vis[82]. | |
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Viscid \Vis"cid\, a. [L. viscidus, fr. viscum the mistletoe, birdlime made from the berries of the mistletoe; akin to Gr. [?]: cf. F. viscide.] Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid. | |
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Visit \Vis"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Visited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Visiting}.] [F. visiter, L. visitare, fr. visere to go to see, to visit, fr. videre, visum to see. See {Vision.}] 1. To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient. 2. Specifically: To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge. 3. (Script.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath. [God] hath visited and redeemed his people. --Like i. 68. | |
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Visit \Vis"it\, v. i. To make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others. | |
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Visit \Vis"it\, n. [Cf. F. visite. See {Visit}, v. t., and cf. {Visite}.] 1. The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician. 2. The act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector. {Right of visit} (Internat. Law), the right of visitation. See {Visitation}, 4. | |
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Visite \Vi*site"\, n. [F. See {Visit}, n.] A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer. | |
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Vista \Vis"ta\, n.; pl. {Vistas}. [It., sight, view, fr. vedere, p. p. visto, veduto, to see, fr. L. videre, visum. See {View}, {Vision}.] A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue. The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its alleys green. --Thomson. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. --Burke. The shattered tower which now forms a vista from his window. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Visto \Vis"to\, n. A vista; a prospect. [R.] --Gay. Through the long visto of a thousand years. --Young. | |
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Voice \Voice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Voiced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Voicing}.] 1. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation. [bd]Rather assume thy right in silence and . . . then voice it with claims and challenges.[b8] --Bacon. It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet. --Bacon. 2. (Phon.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper. 3. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ. 4. To vote; to elect; to appoint. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Voiced \Voiced\, a. 1. Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice. 2. (Phon.) Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed. {Voiced stop}, {Voice stop} (Phon.), a stopped consonant made with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are closed at some point; a sonant mute, as b, d, g hard. | |
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Vouch \Vouch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vouched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vouching}.] [OE. vouchen, OF. vochier to call, fr. L. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See {Voice}, and cf. {Avouch}.] 1. To call; to summon. [Obs.] [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers. --Sir T. Elyot. 2. To call upon to witness; to obtest. Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon. --Dryden. 3. To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch. They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it. --Atterbury. 4. To back; to support; to confirm; to establish. Me damp horror chilled At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold. --Milton. 5. (Law) To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title. He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee. --Blackstone. Syn: To obtest; declare; affirm; attest; warrant; confirm; asseverate; aver; protest; assure. | |
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Voyage \Voy"age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Voyaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Voyaging}.] [Cf. F. voyager.] To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water. A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. --Wordsworth. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Veguita, NM Zip code(s): 87062 | |
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Vest, KY Zip code(s): 41772 | |
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Vesta, MN (city, FIPS 66982) Location: 44.50645 N, 95.41371 W Population (1990): 302 (140 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56292 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Vista, CA (city, FIPS 82996) Location: 33.18878 N, 117.23822 W Population (1990): 71872 (27418 housing units) Area: 46.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92083, 92084 Vista, MO (village, FIPS 76390) Location: 37.98879 N, 93.66383 W Population (1990): 50 (25 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
VAXset A set of software development tools from DEC, including a language-sensitive editor, compilers etc. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
VCID {Virtual Circuit Identifier} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
VCODE 1. The {intermediate language} used in the compilation of {NESL}. ["Implementation of a Portable Nested Data-Parallel Language", Guy Blelloch et al, in Fourth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Princ and Practice of Parallel Programming, ACM, 1993]. 2. The {intermediate language} used in the compilation of {C+@}. (1995-01-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
V.FAST {V.34} | |
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vhost {virtual host} | |
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visit {graph}. (2001-09-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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VxD {Virtual Device Driver} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Vashti beautiful, the queen of Ahasuerus, who was deposed from her royal dignity because she refused to obey the king when he desired her to appear in the banqueting hall of Shushan the palace (Esther 1:10-12). (See {ESTHER}.) | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Vashti, that drinks; thread |