Vicia sativa : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   vasectomise
         v 1: remove the vas deferens; "many men choose to be
               vasectomized as a form of safe birth control" [syn:
               {vasectomize}, {vasectomise}]

English Dictionary: Vicia sativa	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vasectomize v remove the vas deferens; "many men choose to be vasectomized as a form of safe birth control" Synonym(s): vasectomize, vasectomise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vasectomy n surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vesicate v get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" Synonym(s): blister, vesicate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vesication n the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin [syn: vesiculation, vesication, blistering]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vesicatory adj causing blisters Synonym(s): vesicatory, vesicant n a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) Synonym(s): vesicant, vesicatory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vice squad n a police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitution
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Vicia sativa n herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil- building Synonym(s): spring vetch, Vicia sativa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vicissitude n a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research" mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
visaged adj having a face or visage as specified; "gloomy-visaged funeral directors"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
viscosity n resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) Synonym(s): viscosity, viscousness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Visigoth n a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vacuist \Vac"u*ist\, n. [Cf. F. vacuiste.] One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vagissate \Vag"is*sate\, v. i. [L. vagari to stroll or wander.] To caper or frolic. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vague \Vague\ (v[amac]g), a. [Compar. {Vaguer} (v[amac]g"[etil]r); superl. {Vaguest}.] [F. vague, or L. vagus. See {Vague}, v. i.] 1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] [bd]To set upon the vague villains.[b8] --Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. --Keats. 2. Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition. This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. --I. Taylor. The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought. --Hawthorne. 3. Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report. Some legend strange and vague. --Longfellow. {Vague year}. See {Sothiac year}, under {Sothiac}. Syn: Unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous; hazy; loose; lax; uncertain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vasectomy \Vasec"tomy\ (v[acr]s[ecr]k"t[osl]m[ycr]), n. [Vas + -ecmoty.] (Surg.) Resection or excision of the vas deferens.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vesicate \Ves"i*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vesicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vesicating}.] [See {Vesicant}.] (Med.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. --Wiseman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vesicate \Ves"i*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vesicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vesicating}.] [See {Vesicant}.] (Med.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. --Wiseman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vesicate \Ves"i*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vesicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vesicating}.] [See {Vesicant}.] (Med.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. --Wiseman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vesication \Ves`i*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. v[82]sication.] (Med.) The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vesicatory \Ves"icato*ry\ (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. v[82]sicatoire.] (Med.) Tending, or having power, to raise a blister. -- n. A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vesicouterine \Ves`icou"ter*ine\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vicine \Vic"ine\, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch ({Vicia sativa}) as a white crystalline substance.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Viciosity \Vi`cios"ity\, n. Vitiosity. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vicissitude \Vicis"situde\, n. [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See {Vicarious}.] 1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. --Milton. 2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation. This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vicissitudinary \Vicis`situ"dinary\, a. Subject to vicissitudes. --Donne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vicissitudinous \Vicis`situ"di*nous\, a. Full of, or subject to, changes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vicissy duck \Vi*cis"sy duck`\ (Zo[94]l.) A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visaged \Vis"aged\, a. Having a visage. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Viscosity \Viscos"ity\, n. [Cf. F. viscosit[82], LL. viscositas.] 1. The quality or state of being viscous. 2. (Physics) A quality analogous to that of a viscous fluid, supposed to be caused by internal friction, especially in the case of gases.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visigoth \Vis"igoth\, n. [L. Visegothae, pl. Cf. {West}, and {Goth}.] One of the West Goths. See the Note under {Goth}. -- {Vis`igoth"ic}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visigoth \Vis"igoth\, n. [L. Visegothae, pl. Cf. {West}, and {Goth}.] One of the West Goths. See the Note under {Goth}. -- {Vis`igoth"ic}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Voice \Voice\, n. [OE. vois, voys, OF. vois, voiz, F. voix, L. vox, vocis, akin to Gr. [?] a word, [?] a voice, Skr. vac to say, to speak, G. erw[84]hnen to mention. Cf. {Advocate}, {Advowson}, {Avouch}, {Convoke}, {Epic}, {Vocal}, {Vouch}, {Vowel}.] 1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice. He with a manly voice saith his message. --Chaucer. Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. --Shak. Thy voice is music. --Shak. Join thy voice unto the angel choir. --Milton. 2. (Phon.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper. Note: Voice, in this sense, is produced by vibration of the so-called vocal cords in the larynx (see Illust. of {Larynx}) which act upon the air, not in the manner of the strings of a stringed instrument, but as a pair of membranous tongues, or reeds, which, being continually forced apart by the outgoing current of breath, and continually brought together again by their own elasticity and muscular tension, break the breath current into a series of puffs, or pulses, sufficiently rapid to cause the sensation of tone. The power, or loudness, of such a tone depends on the force of the separate pulses, and this is determined by the pressure of the expired air, together with the resistance on the part of the vocal cords which is continually overcome. Its pitch depends on the number of a[89]rial pulses within a given time, that is, on the rapidity of their succession. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 146, 155. 3. The tone or sound emitted by anything. After the fire a still small voice. --1 Kings xix. 12. Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? --Job xl. 9. The floods have lifted up their voice. --Ps. xciii. 3. O Marcus, I am warm'd; my heart Leaps at the trumpet's voice. --Addison. 4. The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice. 5. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion. I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. --Gal. iv. 20. My voice is in my sword. --Shak. Let us call on God in the voice of his church. --Bp. Fell. 6. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote. Sic. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? 1 Cit. He has our voices, sir. --Shak. Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice Of holy senates, and elect by voice. --Dryden. 7. Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language. So shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God. --Deut. viii. 20. 8. One who speaks; a speaker. [bd]A potent voice of Parliament.[b8] --Tennyson. 9. (Gram.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses. {Active voice} (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as the agent or doer of the action expressed by it. {Chest voice} (Phon.), a kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and of a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other. {Head voice} (Phon.), a kind of voice of high pitch and of a thin quality ascribed to resonance in the head; voice of the thin register; falsetto. In producing it, the vibration of the cords is limited to their thin edges in the upper part, which are then presented to each other. {Middle voice} (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as both the agent, or doer, and the object of the action, that is, as performing some act to or upon himself, or for his own advantage. {Passive voice}. (Gram.) See under {Passive}, a. {Voice glide} (Pron.), the brief and obscure neutral vowel sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an unaccented syllable (represented by the apostrophe), as in able (a"b'l). See {Glide}, n., 2. {Voice stop}. See {Voiced stop}, under {Voiced}, a. {With one voice}, unanimously. [bd]All with one voice . . . cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.[b8] --Acts xix. 34.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
VAXectomy /vak-sek't*-mee/ n. [by analogy with `vasectomy'] A VAX removal. {DEC}'s Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC. Thus, if one knows one has a replacement coming, VAX removal can be cause for celebration.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
VAXectomy /vak-sek't*-mee/ (By analogy with "vasectomy") Removal of a {VAX}. {DEC}'s {Microvax}en, especially, are much slower than newer {RISC}-based {workstations} such as the {SPARC}. Thus, if one knows one has a replacement coming, VAX removal can be cause for celebration. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-20)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Vajezatha purity; worthy of honour, one of Haman's sons, whom the Jews slew in the palace of Shushan (Esther 9:9).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Vajezatha, sprinkling the chamber