vedalia
         n 1: native to Australia; introduced elsewhere to control scale
               insects [syn: {vedalia}, {Rodolia cardinalis}]

English Dictionary: Vidal	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Vidal n United States writer (born in 1925) [syn: Vidal, {Gore Vidal}, Eugene Luther Vidal]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Vidalia n a town in central Georgia; the origin of Vidalia onions
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vital adj urgently needed; absolutely necessary; "a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest" Synonym(s): critical, vital performing an essential function in the living body; "vital organs"; "blood and other vital fluids"; "the loss of vital heat in shock"; "a vital spot"; "life-giving love and praise" Synonym(s): vital, life-sustaining full of spirit; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world" Synonym(s): full of life, lively, vital manifesting or characteristic of life; "a vital, living organism"; "vital signs"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vitally adv to a vital degree; "this is vitally important"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vidual \Vid"u*al\, a. [L. vidualis, fr. vidua a widow, fr.       viduus widowed. See {Widow}.]       Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed. [R.]       --Jer. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vitaille \Vi*taille\, n. [See {Victuals}.]       Food; victuals. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vital \Vi"tal\, a. [F., fr. L. vitalis, fr. vita life; akin to       vivere to live. See {Vivid}.]       1. Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable;             as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.          2. Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life;             as, vital blood.                         Do the heavens afford him vital food? --Spenser.                         And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth.                                                                               --Milton.          3. Containing life; living. [bd]Spirits that live throughout,             vital in every part.[b8] --Milton.          4. Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends;             mortal.                         The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part. --Pope.          5. Very necessary; highly important; essential.                         A competence is vital to content.      --Young.          6. Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. [R.]                         Pythagoras and Hippocrates . . . affirm the birth of                      the seventh month to be vital.            --Sir T.                                                                               Browne.          {Vital air}, oxygen gas; -- so called because essential to             animal life. [Obs.]          {Vital capacity} (Physiol.), the breathing capacity of the             lungs; -- expressed by the number of cubic inches of air             which can be forcibly exhaled after a full inspiration.          {Vital force}. (Biol.) See under {Force}. The vital forces,             according to Cope, are nerve force (neurism), growth force             (bathmism), and thought force (phrenism), all under the             direction and control of the vital principle. Apart from             the phenomena of consciousness, vital actions no longer             need to be considered as of a mysterious and unfathomable             character, nor vital force as anything other than a form             of physical energy derived from, and convertible into,             other well-known forces of nature.          {Vital functions} (Physiol.), those functions or actions of             the body on which life is directly dependent, as the             circulation of the blood, digestion, etc.          {Vital principle}, an immaterial force, to which the             functions peculiar to living beings are ascribed.          {Vital statistics}, statistics respecting the duration of             life, and the circumstances affecting its duration.          {Vital tripod}. (Physiol.) See under {Tripod}.          {Vital vessels} (Bot.), a name for latex tubes, now disused.             See {Latex}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vital \Vi"tal\, n.       A vital part; one of the vitals. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vitally \Vi"tal*ly\, adv.       In a vital manner.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Vetal, SD       Zip code(s): 57551
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Vidal, CA       Zip code(s): 92280
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Vidalia, GA (city, FIPS 79388)       Location: 32.21227 N, 82.40336 W       Population (1990): 11078 (4544 housing units)       Area: 45.4 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 30474    Vidalia, LA (town, FIPS 78470)       Location: 31.56832 N, 91.44047 W       Population (1990): 4953 (1911 housing units)       Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 71373
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
VDL          {Vienna Definition Language}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
VHDL          Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware       Description Language.   A large high-level {VLSI} design       language with Ada-like syntax.   The DoD standard for hardware       description, now standardised as IEEE 1076.          ["VHSIC Hardware Description Language", M.R. Shahdad et al,       IEEE Computer 18(2):94-103 (Feb 1985)].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
VITAL          A {semantics} language using {FSL}, developed by Mondshein in       1967.          [Sammet 1969, p. 641].          (1995-02-23)