vapor
         n 1: a visible suspension in the air of particles of some
               substance [syn: {vapor}, {vapour}]
         2: the process of becoming a vapor [syn: {vaporization},
            {vaporisation}, {vapor}, {vapour}, {evaporation}]

English Dictionary: Vipera	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vapour n a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance Synonym(s): vapor, vapour the process of becoming a vapor Synonym(s): vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour, evaporation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vibrio n curved rodlike motile bacterium Synonym(s): vibrio, vibrion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
viper n venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom- conducting fangs in the upper jaw
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Vipera n type genus of the Viperidae Synonym(s): Vipera, genus Vipera
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Viverra n type genus of the family Viverridae [syn: Viverra, {genus Viverra}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Vouvray n a dry white French wine (either still or sparkling) made in the Loire valley
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vapor \Va"por\, n. [OE. vapour, OF. vapour, vapor, vapeur, F.       vapeur, L. vapor; probably for cvapor, and akin to Gr. [?]       smoke, [?] to breathe forth, Lith. kvepti to breathe, smell,       Russ. kopote fine soot. Cf. {Vapid}.] [Written also       {vapour}.]       1. (Physics) Any substance in the gaseous, or a[89]riform,             state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a             liquid or solid.          Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended                sense, as identical with gas; and the difference                between the two is not so much one of kind as of                degree, the latter being applied to all permanently                elastic fluids except atmospheric air, the former to                those elastic fluids which lose that condition at                ordinary temperatures. The atmosphere contains more or                less vapor of water, a portion of which, on a reduction                of temperature, becomes condensed into liquid water in                the form of rain or dew. The vapor of water produced by                boiling, especially in its economic relations, is                called steam.                            Vapor is any substance in the gaseous condition                         at the maximum of density consistent with that                         condition. This is the strict and proper meaning                         of the word vapor.                        --Nichol.          2. In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused             substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its             transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.                         The vapour which that fro the earth glood [glided].                                                                               --Chaucer.                         Fire and hail; snow and vapors; stormy wind                      fulfilling his word.                           --Ps. cxlviii.                                                                               8.          3. Wind; flatulence. [Obs.] --Bacon.          4. Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal             fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.                         For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that                      appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth                      away.                                                --James iv.                                                                               14.          5. pl. An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the             blues. [bd]A fit of vapors.[b8] --Pope.          6. (Pharm.) A medicinal agent designed for administration in             the form of inhaled vapor. --Brit. Pharm.          {Vapor bath}.             (a) A bath in vapor; the application of vapor to the body,                   or part of it, in a close place; also, the place                   itself.             (b) (Chem.) A small metallic drying oven, usually of                   copper, for drying and heating filter papers,                   precipitates, etc.; -- called also {air bath}. A                   modified form is provided with a jacket in the outside                   partition for holding water, or other volatile liquid,                   by which the temperature may be limited exactly to the                   required degree.          {Vapor burner}, a burner for burning a vaporized hydrocarbon.                      {Vapor density} (Chem.), the relative weight of gases and             vapors as compared with some specific standard, usually             hydrogen, but sometimes air. The vapor density of gases             and vaporizable substances as compared with hydrogen, when             multiplied by two, or when compared with air and             multiplied by 28.8, gives the molecular weight.          {Vapor engine}, an engine worked by the expansive force of a             vapor, esp. a vapor other than steam.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vapor \Va"por\, v. t.       To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a       heated fluid. [Written also {vapour}.]                   He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, Another,                sighing, vapor forth his soul.               --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vapor \Va"por\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vapored}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Vaporing}.] [From {Vapor}, n.: cf. L. vaporare.] [Written       also {vapour}.]       1. To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance,             whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to             evaporate.          2. To emit vapor or fumes. [R.]                         Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters.                                                                               --Bacon.          3. To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.                         Poets used to vapor much after this manner.                                                                               --Milton.                         We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten                      them.                                                --Walpole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vapory \Va"por*y\, a.       1. Full of vapors; vaporous.          2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vapor \Va"por\, n. [OE. vapour, OF. vapour, vapor, vapeur, F.       vapeur, L. vapor; probably for cvapor, and akin to Gr. [?]       smoke, [?] to breathe forth, Lith. kvepti to breathe, smell,       Russ. kopote fine soot. Cf. {Vapid}.] [Written also       {vapour}.]       1. (Physics) Any substance in the gaseous, or a[89]riform,             state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a             liquid or solid.          Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended                sense, as identical with gas; and the difference                between the two is not so much one of kind as of                degree, the latter being applied to all permanently                elastic fluids except atmospheric air, the former to                those elastic fluids which lose that condition at                ordinary temperatures. The atmosphere contains more or                less vapor of water, a portion of which, on a reduction                of temperature, becomes condensed into liquid water in                the form of rain or dew. The vapor of water produced by                boiling, especially in its economic relations, is                called steam.                            Vapor is any substance in the gaseous condition                         at the maximum of density consistent with that                         condition. This is the strict and proper meaning                         of the word vapor.                        --Nichol.          2. In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused             substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its             transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.                         The vapour which that fro the earth glood [glided].                                                                               --Chaucer.                         Fire and hail; snow and vapors; stormy wind                      fulfilling his word.                           --Ps. cxlviii.                                                                               8.          3. Wind; flatulence. [Obs.] --Bacon.          4. Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal             fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.                         For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that                      appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth                      away.                                                --James iv.                                                                               14.          5. pl. An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the             blues. [bd]A fit of vapors.[b8] --Pope.          6. (Pharm.) A medicinal agent designed for administration in             the form of inhaled vapor. --Brit. Pharm.          {Vapor bath}.             (a) A bath in vapor; the application of vapor to the body,                   or part of it, in a close place; also, the place                   itself.             (b) (Chem.) A small metallic drying oven, usually of                   copper, for drying and heating filter papers,                   precipitates, etc.; -- called also {air bath}. A                   modified form is provided with a jacket in the outside                   partition for holding water, or other volatile liquid,                   by which the temperature may be limited exactly to the                   required degree.          {Vapor burner}, a burner for burning a vaporized hydrocarbon.                      {Vapor density} (Chem.), the relative weight of gases and             vapors as compared with some specific standard, usually             hydrogen, but sometimes air. The vapor density of gases             and vaporizable substances as compared with hydrogen, when             multiplied by two, or when compared with air and             multiplied by 28.8, gives the molecular weight.          {Vapor engine}, an engine worked by the expansive force of a             vapor, esp. a vapor other than steam.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vapor \Va"por\, v. t.       To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a       heated fluid. [Written also {vapour}.]                   He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, Another,                sighing, vapor forth his soul.               --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vapor \Va"por\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vapored}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Vaporing}.] [From {Vapor}, n.: cf. L. vaporare.] [Written       also {vapour}.]       1. To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance,             whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to             evaporate.          2. To emit vapor or fumes. [R.]                         Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters.                                                                               --Bacon.          3. To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.                         Poets used to vapor much after this manner.                                                                               --Milton.                         We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten                      them.                                                --Walpole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Viper \Vi"per\, n. [F. vip[8a]re, L. vipera, probably contr. fr.       vivipera; vivus alive + parere to bring forth, because it was       believed to be the only serpent that brings forth living       young. Cf. {Quick}, a., {Parent}, {Viviparous}, {Wivern},       {Weever}.]       1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of Old World             venomous makes belonging to {Vipera}, {Clotho}, {Daboia},             and other genera of the family {Viperid[91]}.                         There came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on                      his hand.                                          --Acts xxviii.                                                                               3.          Note: Among the best-known species are the European adder                ({Pelias berus}), the European asp ({Vipera aspis}),                the African horned viper ({V. cerastes}), and the                Indian viper ({Daboia Russellii}).          2. A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.                         Who committed To such a viper his most sacred trust                      Of secrecy.                                       --Milton.          {Horned viper}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cerastes}.          {Red viper} (Zo[94]l.), the copperhead.          {Viper fish} (Zo[94]l.), a small, slender, phosphorescent             deep-sea fish ({Chauliodus Sloanii}). It has long ventral             and dorsal fins, a large mouth, and very long, sharp             teeth.          {Viper's bugloss} (Bot.), a rough-leaved biennial herb             ({Echium vulgare}) having showy purplish blue flowers. It             is sometimes cultivated, but has become a pestilent weed             in fields from New York to Virginia. Also called {blue             weed}.          {Viper's grass} (Bot.), a perennial composite herb             ({Scorzonera Hispanica}) with narrow, entire leaves, and             solitary heads of yellow flowers. The long, white,             carrot-shaped roots are used for food in Spain and some             other countries. Called also {viper grass}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Vivarium \[d8]Vi*va"ri*um\, n.; pl. E. {Vivariums}, L.       {Vivaria}. [L., fr. vivarius belonging to living creatures,       fr. vivus alive, living. See {Vivid}.]       A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living       animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vivary \Vi"va*ry\ (v[imac]"v[adot]*r[ycr]), n.; pl. {Vivaries}       (-r[icr]z).       A vivarium. [bd]That . . . vivary of fowls and beasts.[b8]       --Donne.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Viper       In Job 20:16, Isa. 30:6; 59:5, the Heb. word eph'eh is thus       rendered. The Hebrew word, however, probably denotes a species       of poisonous serpents known by the Arabic name of 'el ephah.       Tristram has identified it with the sand viper, a species of       small size common in sandy regions, and frequently found under       stones by the shores of the Dead Sea. It is rapid in its       movements, and highly poisonous. In the New Testament _echidne_       is used (Matt. 3:7; 12:34; 23:33) for any poisonous snake. The       viper mentioned in Acts 28:3 was probably the vipera aspis, or       the Mediterranean viper. (See {ADDER}.)