Varese
         n 1: United States composer (born in France) whose music
               combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of
               electronic techniques (1883-1965) [syn: {Varese}, {Edgar
               Varese}]

English Dictionary: verse	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
various adj of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many and various"; "various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his behavior" Synonym(s): assorted, various considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" Synonym(s): respective(a), several(a), various(a) distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth" Synonym(s): diverse, various having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" Synonym(s): versatile, various
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
varix n abnormally enlarged or twisted blood vessel or lymphatic vessel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
varus n a deformity in which part of a limb is turned inward to an abnormal degree Antonym(s): valgus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verge n a region marking a boundary [syn: brink, threshold, verge] the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy" Synonym(s): verge, brink a ceremonial or emblematic staff Synonym(s): scepter, sceptre, verge, wand a grass border along a road v border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verruca n (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus Synonym(s): wart, verruca
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verse n literature in metrical form [syn: poetry, poesy, verse] a piece of poetry Synonym(s): verse, rhyme a line of metrical text Synonym(s): verse, verse line v compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga" Synonym(s): verse, versify, poetize, poetise familiarize through thorough study or experience; "She versed herself in Roman archeology"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verso n left-hand page Antonym(s): recto the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design Synonym(s): reverse, verso Antonym(s): obverse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
viewers n the audience reached by television [syn: {viewing audience}, TV audience, viewers]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
virago n a noisy or scolding or domineering woman a large strong and aggressive woman Synonym(s): amazon, virago
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Virchow n German pathologist who recognized that all cells come from cells by binary fission and who emphasized cellular abnormalities in disease (1821-1902) Synonym(s): Virchow, Rudolf Virchow, Rudolf Karl Virchow
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
virga n light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Virgo n (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo Synonym(s): Virgo, Virgin a large zodiacal constellation on the equator; between Leo and Libra the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22 Synonym(s): Virgo, Virgo the Virgin, Virgin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
virus n (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein a harmful or corrupting agency; "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"; "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone" a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer; "a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance" Synonym(s): virus, computer virus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Varec \Var"ec\, n. [F. varech; of Teutonic origin. See {Wrack}       seaweed, wreck.]       The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the       manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself;       fucus; wrack.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Various \Va"ri*ous\, a. [L. varius. Cf. {Vair}.]       1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various             names; various occupations; various colors.                         So many and so various laws are given. --Milton.                         A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild.                                                                               --Byron.          2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable.                         A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but                      all mankind's epitome.                        --Dryden.                         The names of mixed modes . . . are very various.                                                                               --Locke.          3. Variegated; diversified; not monotonous.                         A happy rural seat of various view.   --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Varisse \Va*risse"\, n. [Cf. F. varice varix. Cf. {Varix}.]       (Far.)       An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses,       different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequently       injuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly       size. --Craig.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Varisse \Va*risse"\, n. [Cf. F. varice varix. Cf. {Varix}.]       (Far.)       An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses,       different from a curb, but at the same height, and often       growing to an unsightly size.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Verge \Verge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Verged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Verging}.] [L. vergere to bend, turn, incline; cf. Skr.       v[?]j to turn.]       1. To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to             approach.          2. To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to             the north.                         Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards                      him as its center.                              --Barrow.                         I find myself verging to that period of life which                      is to be labor and sorrow.                  --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Verge \Verge\, n. [F. verge, L. virga; perhaps akin to E. wisp.]       1. A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the             verge, carried before a dean.          2. The stick or wand with which persons were formerly             admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and             swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called             tenants by the verge. [Eng.]          3. (Eng. Law) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the             Palace court, within which the lord steward and the             marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction;             -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal             bore.          4. A virgate; a yardland. [Obs.]          5. A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin,             or brink of something definite in extent.                         Even though we go to the extreme verge of                      possibility to invent a supposition favorable to it,                      the theory . . . implies an absurdity. --J. S. Mill.                         But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched                      with light, one snowy sail.               --M. Arnold.          6. A circumference; a circle; a ring.                         The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round                      my brow.                                             --Shak.          7. (Arch.)             (a) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.                   --Oxf. Gloss.             (b) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a                   roof. --Encyc. Brit.          8. (Horol.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one             with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under             {Escapement}.          9. (Hort.)             (a) The edge or outside of a bed or border.             (b) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing                   them from the borders in a parterre.          10. The penis.          11. (Zo[94]l.) The external male organ of certain mollusks,             worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.          Syn: Border; edge; rim; brim; margin; brink.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Verruca \[d8]Ver*ru"ca\, n.; pl. {Verruc[91]}. [L. Cf.       {Verrugas}.]       1. (Med.) A wart.          2. (Zo[94]l.) A wartlike elevation or roughness.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vers \Vers\, n. sing. & pl.       A verse or verses. See {Verse}. [Obs.] [bd]Ten vers or       twelve.[b8] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Verse \Verse\, n. [OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a line in       writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to       turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers.       See {Worth} to become, and cf. {Advertise}, {Averse},       {Controversy}, {Convert}, {Divers}, {Invert}, {Obverse},       {Prose}, {Suzerain}, {Vortex}.]       1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet             (see {Foot}, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.          Note: Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter,                tetrameter, etc., according to the number of feet in                each. A verse of twelve syllables is called an                Alexandrine. Two or more verses form a stanza or                strophe.          2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed             in metrical form; versification; poetry.                         Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in                      prose or numerous verse.                     --Milton.                         Virtue was taught in verse.               --Prior.                         Verse embalms virtue.                        --Donne.          3. A short division of any composition. Specifically:             (a) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.          Note: Although this use of verse is common, it is                objectionable, because not always distinguishable from                the stricter use in the sense of a line.             (b) (Script.) One of the short divisions of the chapters                   in the Old and New Testaments.          Note: The author of the division of the Old Testament into                verses is not ascertained. The New Testament was                divided into verses by Robert Stephens [or Estienne], a                French printer. This arrangement appeared for the first                time in an edition printed at Geneva, in 1551.             (c) (Mus.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a                   single voice to each part.          4. A piece of poetry. [bd]This verse be thine.[b8] --Pope.          {Blank verse}, poetry in which the lines do not end in             rhymes.          {Heroic verse}. See under {Heroic}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Verse \Verse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Versed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Versing}.]       To tell in verse, or poetry. [Obs.]                   Playing on pipes of corn and versing love. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Verse \Verse\, v. i.       To make verses; to versify. [Obs.]                   It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. --Sir                                                                               P. Sidney.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Verso \Ver"so\, n. [L. versus, p. p. of vertere to turn: cf. F.       verso.] (Print.)       The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet       of paper; -- opposed to {recto}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Very's \Ver"y's\, [or] Very \Ver"y\, night signals \night    signals\ . [After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who invented the system       in 1877.] (Naut.)       A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire       are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting       numbers having a code significance.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Virago \Vi*ra"go\ (?; 277), n.; pl. {Viragoes}. [L. virago,       -intis, from vir a man. See {Virile}.]       1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a             woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man;             a female warrior.                         To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. --Pope.          2. Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a             termagant; a vixen.                         Virago . . . serpent under femininity. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Virge \Virge\, n.       A wand. See {Verge}. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Virgo \Vir"go\, n. [L. virgo a virgin, the constellation Virgo       in the zodiac. See {Virgin}.] (Astron.)             (a) A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the                   21st of August, marked thus [[Virgo]] in almanacs.             (b) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly                   the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sign \Sign\, n. [F. signe, L. signum; cf. AS. segen, segn, a       sign, standard, banner, also fr. L. signum. Cf. {Ensign},       {Resign}, {Seal} a stamp, {Signal}, {Signet}.]       That by which anything is made known or represented; that       which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a       proof. Specifically:       (a) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as             indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.       (b) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine             will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine             power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.                         Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of                      the Spirit of God.                           --Rom. xv. 19.                         It shall come to pass, if they will not believe                      thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first                      sign, that they will believe the voice of the                      latter sign.                                    --Ex. iv. 8.       (c) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve             the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.                         What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty                      men, and they became a sign.            --Num. xxvi.                                                                               10.       (d) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or             represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.                         The holy symbols, or signs, are not barely                      significative; but what they represent is as                      certainly delivered to us as the symbols                      themselves.                                       --Brerewood.                         Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory.                                                                               --Spenser.       (e) A word or a character regarded as the outward             manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of             ideas.       (f) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is             expressed, or a command or a wish made known.                         They made signs to his father, how he would have                      him called.                                       --Luke i. 62.       (g) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language             of a signs such as those used by the North American             Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.          Note: Educaters of the deaf distinguish between natural                signs, which serve for communicating ideas, and                methodical, or systematic, signs, adapted for the                dictation, or the rendering, of written language, word                by word; and thus the signs are to be distinguished                from the manual alphabet, by which words are spelled on                the fingers.       (h) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.             --Milton.       (i) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed             upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to             advertise the business there transacted, or the name of             the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed             token or notice.                         The shops were, therefore, distinguished by painted                      signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the                      streets.                                          --Macaulay.       (j) (Astron.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.          Note: The signs are reckoned from the point of intersection                of the ecliptic and equator at the vernal equinox, and                are named, respectively, {Aries} ([Aries]), {Taurus}                ([Taurus]), {Gemini} (II), {Cancer} ([Cancer]), {Leo}                ([Leo]), {Virgo} ([Virgo]), {Libra} ([Libra]),                {Scorpio} ([Scorpio]), {Sagittarius} ([Sagittarius]),                {Capricornus   ([Capricorn]), {Aquarius} ([Aquarius]),                {Pisces} ([Pisces]). These names were originally the                names of the constellations occupying severally the                divisions of the zodiac, by which they are still                retained; but, in consequence of the procession of the                equinoxes, the signs have, in process of time, become                separated about 30 degrees from these constellations,                and each of the latter now lies in the sign next in                advance, or to the east of the one which bears its                name, as the constellation Aries in the sign Taurus,                etc.       (k) (Alg.) A character indicating the relation of quantities,             or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign +             (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division [f6],             and the like.       (l) (Med.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one             appreciable by some one other than the patient.          Note: The terms symptom and and sign are often used                synonymously; but they may be discriminated. A sign                differs from a symptom in that the latter is perceived                only by the patient himself. The term sign is often                further restricted to the purely local evidences of                disease afforded by direct examination of the organs                involved, as distinguished from those evidence of                general disturbance afforded by observation of the                temperature, pulse, etc. In this sense it is often                called physical sign.       (m) (Mus.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.       (n) (Theol.) That which, being external, stands for, or             signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term             used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance             considered with reference to that which it represents.                         An outward and visible sign of an inward and                      spiritual grace.                              --Bk. of                                                                               Common Prayer.          Note: See the Table of {Arbitrary Signs}, p. 1924.          {Sign manual}.       (a) (Eng. Law) The royal signature superscribed at the top of             bills of grants and letter patent, which are then sealed             with the privy signet or great seal, as the case may be,             to complete their validity.       (b) The signature of one's name in one's own handwriting.             --Craig. Tomlins. Wharton.          Syn: Token; mark; note; symptom; indication; signal; symbol;                type; omen; prognostic; presage; manifestation. See                {Emblem}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hemlock \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic,       hymlic.]       1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs             having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the             {Cicuta maculata}, {bulbifera}, and {virosa}, and the             {Conium maculatum}. See {Conium}.          Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by                some thought to have been a decoction of {Cicuta                virosa}, or water hemlock, by others, of {Conium                maculatum}.          2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America ({Abies,             [or] Tsuga, Canadensis}); hemlock spruce.                         The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow.          3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.          {Ground hemlock}, [or] {Dwarf hemlock}. See under {Ground}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Virose \Vi*rose"\, a. [L. virosus. See {Virus}.]       Having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Virus \Vi"rus\, n. [L., a slimy liquid, a poisonous liquid,       poison, stench; akin to Gr. [?] poison, Skr. visha. Cf.       {Wizen}, v. i.]       1. (Med.)             (a) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers,                   the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic                   poisons.             (b) The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and                   acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a                   disease is introduced into the organism and maintained                   there.          Note: The specific virus of diseases is now regarded as a                microscopic living vegetable organism which multiplies                within the body, and, either by its own action or by                the associated development of a chemical poison, causes                the phenomena of the special disease.          2. Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or             moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the             soul; as, the virus of obscene books.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
virus n.   [from the obvious analogy with biological viruses,    via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and    `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they    become {Trojan horse}s.   When these programs are executed, the    embedded virus is executed too, thus propagating the `infection'.    This normally happens invisibly to the user.   Unlike a {worm}, a    virus cannot infect other computers without assistance.   It is    propagated by vectors such as humans trading programs with their    friends (see {SEX}).   The virus may do nothing but propagate itself    and then allow the program to run normally.   Usually, however, after    propagating silently for a while, it starts doing things like    writing cute messages on the terminal or playing strange tricks with    the display (some viruses include nice {display hack}s).   Many nasty    viruses, written by particularly perversely minded {cracker}s, do    irreversible damage, like nuking all the user's files.          In the 1990s, viruses have become a serious problem, especially    among Wintel and Macintosh users; the lack of security on these    machines enables viruses to spread easily, even infecting the    operating system (Unix machines, by contrast, are immune to such    attacks).   The production of special anti-virus software has become    an industry, and a number of exaggerated media reports have caused    outbreaks of near hysteria among users; many {luser}s tend to blame    _everything_ that doesn't work as they had expected on virus    attacks.   Accordingly, this sense of `virus' has passed not only    into techspeak but into also popular usage (where it is often    incorrectly used to denote a {worm} or even a {Trojan horse}).   See    {phage}; compare {back door}; see also {Unix conspiracy}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
virus          (By analogy with biological viruses, via SF) A       program or piece of code written by a {cracker} that "infects"       one or more other programs by embedding a copy of itself in       them, so that they become {Trojan horses}.   When these       programs are executed, the embedded virus is executed too,       thus propagating the "infection".   This normally happens       invisibly to the user.          A virus has an "engine" - code that enables it to propagate       and optionally a "payload" - what it does apart from       propagating.   It needs a "host" - the particular hardware and       software environment on which it can run and a "trigger" - the       event that starts it running.          Unlike a {worm}, a virus cannot infect other computers without       assistance.   It is propagated by vectors such as humans       trading programs with their friends (see {SEX}).   The virus       may do nothing but propagate itself and then allow the program       to run normally.   Usually, however, after propagating silently       for a while, it starts doing things like writing "cute"       messages on the terminal or playing strange tricks with the       display (some viruses include {display hacks}).   Viruses       written by particularly antisocial {crackers} may do       irreversible damage, like deleting files.          By the 1990s, viruses had become a serious problem, especially       among {IBM PC} and {Macintosh} users (the lack of security on       these machines enables viruses to spread easily, even       infecting the operating system).   The production of special       {antivirus software} has become an industry, and a number of       exaggerated media reports have caused outbreaks of near       hysteria among users.   Many {lusers} tend to blame       *everything* that doesn't work as they had expected on virus       attacks.   Accordingly, this sense of "virus" has passed into       popular usage where it is often incorrectly used for a {worm}       or {Trojan horse}.          See {boot virus}, {phage}.   Compare {back door}.   See also       {Unix conspiracy}.          [{Jargon File}]          (2003-06-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
VRC          {Vertical Redundancy Check}