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   venality
         n 1: prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward

English Dictionary: vinyl ether by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vinyl ether
n
  1. a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
    Synonym(s): ether, ethoxyethane, divinyl ether, vinyl ether, diethyl ether, ethyl ether
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Vinylite
n
  1. any of various vinyl resins
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Monitor \Mon"i*tor\, n. [L., fr. monere. See {Monition}, and cf.
      {Mentor}.]
      1. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of
            duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or
            caution.
  
                     You need not be a monitor to the king. --Bacon.
  
      2. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the
            school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the
            absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a
            division or class.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus
            {Varanus}; esp., the Egyptian species ({V. Niloticus}),
            which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of
            the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
  
      4. [So called from the name given by Captain Ericson, its
            designer, to the first ship of the kind.] An ironclad war
            vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more
            heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
  
      5. (Mach.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low
            turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot
            so as to bring successively the several tools in holds
            into proper position for cutting.
  
      {Monitor top}, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of
            a car roof, having low windows along its sides.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vanillate \Va*nil"late\, n. (Chem.)
      A salt of vanillic acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Veinlet \Vein"let\, n.
      A small vein.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Venality \Ve*nal"i*ty\, n. [L. venalitas: cf. F.
      v[82]nalit[82].]
      The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable;
      mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services,
      for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the
      venality of an official.
  
               Complaints of Roman venality became louder. --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Veniality \Ve`ni*al"i*ty\, n.
      The quality or state of being venial; venialness. --Jer.
      Taylor.
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