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   valgus
         n 1: a deformity in which there is an abnormal displacement of
               part of a limb away from the midline of the body [ant:
               {varus}]

English Dictionary: Velazquez by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
value-system
n
  1. the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; "the Puritan ethic"; "a person with old-fashioned values"
    Synonym(s): ethic, moral principle, value-system, value orientation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Velazquez
n
  1. Spanish painter (1599-1660) [syn: Velazquez, {Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
village green
n
  1. a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Volgaic
n
  1. a group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Volgograd
n
  1. a city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43
    Synonym(s): Volgograd, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vowel system
n
  1. the system of vowels used in a particular language [syn: vowel system, vocalism]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Village \Vil"lage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. L. villaticus belonging
      to a country house or villa. See {Villa}, and cf.
      {Villatic}.]
      A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town
      or city.
  
      {Village cart}, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage
            without a top.
  
      Syn: {Village}, {Hamlet}, {Town}, {City}.
  
      Usage: In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses,
                  too small to have a parish church. A village has a
                  church, but no market. A town has both a market and a
                  church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an
                  incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the
                  place of a bishop's see. In the United States these
                  distinctions do not hold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Violaceous \Vi`o*la"ceous\, a. [L. violaceus, fr. viola a
      violet.]
      1. Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
  
      2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of
            which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty
            genera and two hundred and fifty species.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Saint \Saint\ (s[amac]nt), n. [F., fr. L. sanctus sacred,
      properly p. p. of sancire to render sacred by a religious
      act, to appoint as sacred; akin to sacer sacred. Cf.
      {Sacred}, {Sanctity}, {Sanctum}, {Sanctus}.]
      1. A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent
            for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being
            redeemed and consecrated to God.
  
                     Them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to
                     be saints.                                          --1 Cor. i. 2.
  
      2. One of the blessed in heaven.
  
                     Then shall thy saints, unmixed, and from the impure
                     Far separate, circling thy holy mount, Unfeigned
                     hallelujahs to thee sing.                  --Milton.
  
      3. (Eccl.) One canonized by the church. [Abbrev. St.]
  
      {Saint Andrew's cross}.
            (a) A cross shaped like the letter X. See Illust. 4, under
                  {Cross}.
            (b) (Bot.) A low North American shrub ({Ascyrum
                  Crux-Andre[91]}, the petals of which have the form of
                  a Saint Andrew's cross. --Gray.
  
      {Saint Anthony's cross}, a T-shaped cross. See Illust. 6,
            under {Cross}.
  
      {Saint Anthony's fire}, the erysipelas; -- popularly so
            called because it was supposed to have been cured by the
            intercession of Saint Anthony.
  
      {Saint Anthony's nut} (Bot.), the groundnut ({Bunium
            flexuosum}); -- so called because swine feed on it, and
            St. Anthony was once a swineherd. --Dr. Prior.
  
      {Saint Anthony's turnip} (Bot.), the bulbous crowfoot, a
            favorite food of swine. --Dr. Prior.
  
      {Saint Barnaby's thistle} (Bot.), a kind of knapweed
            ({Centaurea solstitialis}) flowering on St. Barnabas's
            Day, June 11th. --Dr. Prior.
  
      {Saint Bernard} (Zo[94]l.), a breed of large, handsome dogs
            celebrated for strength and sagacity, formerly bred
            chiefly at the Hospice of St. Bernard in Switzerland, but
            now common in Europe and America. There are two races, the
            smooth-haired and the rough-haired. See Illust. under
            {Dog}.
  
      {Saint Catharine's flower} (Bot.), the plant love-in-a-mist.
            See under {Love}.
  
      {Saint Cuthbert's beads} (Paleon.), the fossil joints of
            crinoid stems.
  
      {Saint Dabeoc's heath} (Bot.), a heatherlike plant
            ({Dab[d2]cia polifolia}), named from an Irish saint.
  
      {Saint Distaff's Day}. See under {Distaff}.
  
      {Saint Elmo's fire}, a luminous, flamelike appearance,
            sometimes seen in dark, tempestuous nights, at some
            prominent point on a ship, particularly at the masthead
            and the yardarms. It has also been observed on land, and
            is due to the discharge of electricity from elevated or
            pointed objects. A single flame is called a {Helena}, or a
            {Corposant}; a double, or twin, flame is called a {Castor
            and Pollux}, or a {double Corposant}. It takes its name
            from St. Elmo, the patron saint of sailors.
  
      {Saint George's cross} (Her.), a Greek cross gules upon a
            field argent, the field being represented by a narrow
            fimbriation in the ensign, or union jack, of Great
            Britain.
  
      {Saint George's ensign}, a red cross on a white field with a
            union jack in the upper corner next the mast. It is the
            distinguishing badge of ships of the royal navy of
            England; -- called also {the white ensign}. --Brande & C.
  
      {Saint George's flag}, a smaller flag resembling the ensign,
            but without the union jack; used as the sign of the
            presence and command of an admiral. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
  
      {Saint Gobain glass} (Chem.), a fine variety of soda-lime
            plate glass, so called from St. Gobain in France, where it
            was manufactured.
  
      {Saint Ignatius's bean} (Bot.), the seed of a tree of the
            Philippines ({Strychnos Ignatia}), of properties similar
            to the nux vomica.
  
      {Saint James's shell} (Zo[94]l.), a pecten ({Vola
            Jacob[91]us}) worn by pilgrims to the Holy Land. See
            Illust. under {Scallop}.
  
      {Saint James's-wort} (Bot.), a kind of ragwort ({Senecio
            Jacob[91]a}).
  
      {Saint John's bread}. (Bot.) See {Carob}.
  
      {Saint John's-wort} (Bot.), any plant of the genus
            {Hypericum}, most species of which have yellow flowers; --
            called also {John's-wort}.
  
      {Saint Leger}, the name of a race for three-year-old horses
            run annually in September at Doncaster, England; --
            instituted in 1776 by Col. St. Leger.
  
      {Saint Martin's herb} (Bot.), a small tropical American
            violaceous plant ({Sauvagesia erecta}). It is very
            mucilaginous and is used in medicine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scallop \Scal"lop\ (?; 277), n. [OF. escalope a shell, probably
      of German or Dutch origin, and akin to E. scale of a fish;
      cf. D. schelp shell. See {Scale} of a fish, and cf.
      {Escalop}.] [Written also {scollop}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve
            mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the
            family {Pectinid[91]}. The shell is usually radially
            ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a
            characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some
            the species is much used as food. One species ({Vola
            Jacob[91]us}) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its
            shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they
            had been to the Holy Land. Called also {fan shell}. See
            {Pecten}, 2.
  
      Note: The common edible scallop of the Eastern United States
               is {Pecten irradians}; the large sea scallop, also used
               as food, is {P. Clintonius, [or] tenuicostatus}.
  
      2. One of series of segments of circles joined at their
            extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of
            a scallop shell.
  
      3. One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a
            scallop shell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Volacious \Vo*la"cious\, a. [L. volare to fly.]
      Apt or fit to fly. [R.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Village Green, NY (CDP, FIPS 77513)
      Location: 43.13330 N, 76.31344 W
      Population (1990): 4198 (2095 housing units)
      Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Village Green-Green Ridge, PA (CDP, FIPS 80218)
      Location: 39.86390 N, 75.42486 W
      Population (1990): 9026 (3276 housing units)
      Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Village Shires, PA (CDP, FIPS 80229)
      Location: 40.20300 N, 74.97085 W
      Population (1990): 4364 (1770 housing units)
      Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Village St. George, LA (CDP, FIPS 78680)
      Location: 30.36205 N, 91.06712 W
      Population (1990): 6242 (2264 housing units)
      Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Villages of Oriole, FL (CDP, FIPS 74494)
      Location: 26.46202 N, 80.15316 W
      Population (1990): 5698 (4249 housing units)
      Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Volusia County, FL (county, FIPS 127)
      Location: 29.06759 N, 81.13850 W
      Population (1990): 370712 (180972 housing units)
      Area: 2864.2 sq km (land), 846.0 sq km (water)

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Villages
      (Judg. 5:7, 11). The Hebrew word thus rendered (perazon) means
      habitations in the open country, unwalled villages (Deut. 3:5; 1
      Sam. 6:18). Others, however, following the LXX. and the Vulgate
      versions, render the word "rulers."
     
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