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   valve-in-head engine
         n 1: internal-combustion engine having both inlet and exhaust
               valves located in the cylinder head

English Dictionary: vulpine by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Velban
n
  1. periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division
    Synonym(s): vinblastine, Velban
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vilipend
v
  1. belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"
    Synonym(s): deprecate, depreciate, vilipend
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vol-au-vent
n
  1. puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vowel point
n
  1. a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vulpine
adj
  1. resembling or characteristic of a fox; "vulpine cunning"
    Synonym(s): vulpine, vulpecular
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hellebore \Hel"le*bore\, n. [L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. [?],
      [?]; cf. F. hell[82]bore, ell[82]bore.]
      1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs ({Helleborus}) of the
            Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and
            even poisonous qualities. {H. niger} is the European black
            hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or
            earliest spring. {H. officinalis} was the officinal
            hellebore of the ancients.
  
      2. (Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous
            liliaceous genus {Veratrum}, especially {V. album} and {V.
            viride}, both called {white hellebore}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Grapevine \Grape"vine`\, n. (Bot.)
      A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus {Vitis}, having small
      green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called
      {grapes}.
  
      Note: The common grapevine of the Old World is {Vitis
               vinifera}, and is a native of Central Asia. Another
               variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly
               called {Zante currants}. The northern {Fox grape} of
               the United States is the {V. Labrusca}, from which, by
               cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The
               southern {Fox grape}, or {Muscadine}, is the {V.
               vulpina}. The {Frost grape} is {V. cordifolia}, which
               has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early
               frosts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Valve \Valve\, n. [L. valva the leaf, fold, or valve of a door:
      cf. F. valve.]
      1. A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one
            of the leaves of such a door.
  
                     Swift through the valves the visionary fair
                     Repassed.                                          --Pope.
  
                     Heavily closed, . . . the valves of the barn doors.
                                                                              --Longfellow.
  
      2. A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by
            its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling,
            sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the
            aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.
  
      Note: A valve may act automatically so as to be opened by the
               effort of a fluid to pass in one direction, and closed
               by the effort to pass in the other direction, as a
               clack valve; or it may be opened or closed by hand or
               by mechanism, as a screw valve, or a slide valve.
  
      3. (Anat.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or
            folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a
            vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the
            flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral,
            and semilunar valves.
  
      4. (Bot.)
            (a) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally
                  separates when it bursts.
            (b) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a
                  diatom.
            (c) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a
                  trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the
                  barberry.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or
            multivalve shells.
  
      {Air valve}, {Ball valve}, {Check valve}, etc. See under
            {Air}. {Ball}, {Check}, etc.
  
      {Double-beat valve}, a kind of balance valve usually
            consisting of a movable, open-ended, turban-shaped shell
            provided with two faces of nearly equal diameters, one
            above another, which rest upon two corresponding seats
            when the valve is closed.
  
      {Equilibrium valve}.
            (a) A balance valve. See under {Balance}.
            (b) A valve for permitting air, steam, water, etc., to
                  pass into or out of a chamber so as to establish or
                  maintain equal pressure within and without.
  
      {Valve chest} (Mach.), a chamber in which a valve works;
            especially (Steam Engine), the steam chest; -- called in
            England {valve box}, and {valve casing}. See {Steam
            chest}, under {Steam}.
  
      {Valve face} (Mach.), that part of the surface of a valve
            which comes in contact with the {valve seat}.
  
      {Valve gear}, [or] {Valve motion} (Steam Engine), the system
            of parts by which motion is given to the valve or valves
            for the distribution of steam in the cylinder. For an
            illustration of one form of valve gear, see {Link motion}.
           
  
      {Valve seat}. (Mach.)
            (a) The fixed surface on which a valve rests or against
                  which it presses.
            (b) A part or piece on which such a surface is formed.
  
      {Valve stem} (Mach.), a rod attached to a valve, for moving
            it.
  
      {Valve yoke} (Mach.), a strap embracing a slide valve and
            connecting it to the valve stem.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vilify \Vil"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vilified}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Vilifying}.] [L. vilis vile + -fly; cf. L. vilificare to
      esteem of little value.]
      1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.]
  
                     When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned
                     appetite.                                          --Milton.
  
      2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to
            calumniate. --I. Taylor.
  
                     Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the
                     merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      3. To treat as vile; to despise. [Obs.]
  
                     I do vilify your censure.                  --Beau. & Fl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vilipend \Vil"i*pend\, v. t. [L. vilipendere; vilis vile +
      pendere to weigh, to value: cf. F. vilipender.]
      To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.
  
               To vilipend the art of portrait painting. --Longfellow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vilipendency \Vil"i*pend"en*cy\, n.
      Disesteem; slight; disparagement. [R.] --E. Waterhouse.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vowel \Vow"el\, n. [F. voyelle, or an OF. form without y, L.
      vocalis (sc. littera), from vocalis sounding, from vox,
      vocis, a voice, sound. See {Vocal}.] (Phon.)
      A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by
      resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each
      case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character
      or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a
      {consonant} in that the latter, whether made with or without
      vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind
      of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or
      character which represents such a sound. See Guide to
      Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 146-149.
  
      Note: In the English language, the written vowels are a, e,
               i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. The spoken vowels are
               much more numerous.
  
      {Close vowel}. See under {Close}, a.
  
      {Vowel point}. See under {Point}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Point \Point\, n. [F. point, and probably also pointe, L.
      punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See
      {Pungent}, and cf. {Puncto}, {Puncture}.]
      1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything,
            esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle
            or a pin.
  
      2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle
            used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others;
            also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point;
            -- called also {pointer}.
  
      3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined
            termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a
            tract of land extending into the water beyond the common
            shore line.
  
      4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument,
            as a needle; a prick.
  
      5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or
            supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither
            parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has
            neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes
            conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of
            which a line is conceived to be produced.
  
      6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant;
            hence, the verge.
  
                     When time's first point begun Made he all souls.
                                                                              --Sir J.
                                                                              Davies.
  
      7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the
            divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed
            in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a
            stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence,
            figuratively, an end, or conclusion.
  
                     And there a point, for ended is my tale. --Chaucer.
  
                     Commas and points they set exactly right. --Pope.
  
      8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative
            position, or to indicate a transition from one state or
            position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position
            or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of
            depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by
            tenpoints. [bd]A point of precedence.[b8] --Selden.
            [bd]Creeping on from point to point.[b8] --Tennyson.
  
                     A lord full fat and in good point.      --Chaucer.
  
      9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or
            character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a
            peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as,
            the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story,
            etc.
  
                     He told him, point for point, in short and plain.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                     In point of religion and in point of honor. --Bacon.
  
                     Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ?
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an
            argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp.,
            the proposition to be established; as, the point of an
            anecdote. [bd]Here lies the point.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     They will hardly prove his point.      --Arbuthnot.
  
      11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a
            punctilio.
  
                     This fellow doth not stand upon points. --Shak.
  
                     [He] cared not for God or man a point. --Spenser.
  
      12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or
            time; as:
            (a) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or
                  characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of
                  perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a
                  tune. [bd]Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a
                  flourish, but a point of war.[b8] --Sir W. Scott.
            (b) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note,
                  to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half,
                  as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a
                  half note equal to three quarter notes.
  
      13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or
            zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the
            intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere,
            and named specifically in each case according to the
            position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the
            solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points,
            etc. See {Equinoctial Nodal}.
  
      14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the
            escutcheon. See {Escutcheon}.
  
      15. (Naut.)
            (a) One of the points of the compass (see {Points of the
                  compass}, below); also, the difference between two
                  points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.
            (b) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See
                  {Reef point}, under {Reef}.
  
      16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together
            certain parts of the dress. --Sir W. Scott.
  
      17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels
            point. See Point lace, below.
  
      18. pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.]
  
      19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
            [Cant, U. S.]
  
      20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side,
            about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in
            advance of, the batsman.
  
      21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game;
            as, the dog came to a point. See {Pointer}.
  
      22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of
            type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica
            type. See {Point system of type}, under {Type}.
  
      23. A tyne or snag of an antler.
  
      24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
  
      25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as,
            tierce point.
  
      Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the
               sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics,
               perspective, and physics, but generally either in the
               geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition
               of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or
               qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the
               specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon
               point, dry point, freezing point, melting point,
               vanishing point, etc.
  
      {At all points}, in every particular, completely; perfectly.
            --Shak.
  
      {At point}, {In point}, {At}, {In}, [or] On, {the point}, as
            near as can be; on the verge; about (see {About}, prep.,
            6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of
            speaking. [bd]In point to fall down.[b8] --Chaucer.
            [bd]Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken,
            recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his
            side.[b8] --Milton.
  
      {Dead point}. (Mach.) Same as {Dead center}, under {Dead}.
  
      {Far point} (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at
            which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the
            nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either
            with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with
            each eye separately (monocular near point).
  
      {Nine points of the law}, all but the tenth point; the
            greater weight of authority.
  
      {On the point}. See {At point}, above.
  
      {Point lace}, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished
            from that made on the pillow.
  
      {Point net}, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels
            lace (Brussels ground).
  
      {Point of concurrence} (Geom.), a point common to two lines,
            but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for
            instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base.
  
      {Point of contrary flexure}, a point at which a curve changes
            its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and
            concavity change sides.
  
      {Point of order}, in parliamentary practice, a question of
            order or propriety under the rules.
  
      {Point of sight} (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the
            point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the
            spectator.
  
      {Point of view}, the relative position from which anything is
            seen or any subject is considered.
  
      {Points of the compass} (Naut.), the thirty-two points of
            division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the
            corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is
            supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the
            directions of east, west, north, and south, are called
            cardinal points, and the rest are named from their
            respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N.,
            N. E., etc. See Illust. under {Compass}.
  
      {Point paper}, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil
            for transferring a design.
  
      {Point system of type}. See under {Type}.
  
      {Singular point} (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses
            some property not possessed by points in general on the
            curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc.
  
      {To carry one's point}, to accomplish one's object, as in a
            controversy.
  
      {To make a point of}, to attach special importance to.
  
      {To make}, [or] {gain}, {a point}, accomplish that which was
            proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or
            position.
  
      {To mark}, [or] {score}, {a point}, as in billiards, cricket,
            etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run,
            etc.
  
      {To strain a point}, to go beyond the proper limit or rule;
            to stretch one's authority or conscience.
  
      {Vowel point}, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and
            ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the
            consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or
            vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vulpine \Vul"pine\ (?; 277), a. [L. vulpinus, from vulpes a
      fox.]
      Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy;
      cunning; crafty; artful.
  
      {Vulpine phalangist} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian carnivorous
            marsupial ({Phalangista, [or] Trichosurus, vulpina}); --
            called also {vulpine phalanger}, and {vulpine opossum}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vulpine \Vul"pine\ (?; 277), a. [L. vulpinus, from vulpes a
      fox.]
      Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy;
      cunning; crafty; artful.
  
      {Vulpine phalangist} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian carnivorous
            marsupial ({Phalangista, [or] Trichosurus, vulpina}); --
            called also {vulpine phalanger}, and {vulpine opossum}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vulpine \Vul"pine\ (?; 277), a. [L. vulpinus, from vulpes a
      fox.]
      Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy;
      cunning; crafty; artful.
  
      {Vulpine phalangist} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian carnivorous
            marsupial ({Phalangista, [or] Trichosurus, vulpina}); --
            called also {vulpine phalanger}, and {vulpine opossum}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vulpine \Vul"pine\ (?; 277), a. [L. vulpinus, from vulpes a
      fox.]
      Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy;
      cunning; crafty; artful.
  
      {Vulpine phalangist} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian carnivorous
            marsupial ({Phalangista, [or] Trichosurus, vulpina}); --
            called also {vulpine phalanger}, and {vulpine opossum}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vulpinic \Vul*pin"ic\, a. (Chem.)
      Same as {Vulpic}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vulpinism \Vul"pin*ism\, n.
      The quality of being cunning like the fox; craft; artfulness.
      [R.]
  
               He was without guile, and had no vulpinism at all.
                                                                              --Carlyle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vulpinite \Vul"pi*nite\, n. [So called after Vulpino, in Italy.]
      (Min.)
      A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white
      color, used for ornamental purposes.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Valley Bend, WV
      Zip code(s): 26293

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Velpen, IN
      Zip code(s): 47590
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