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- English Word Vamp Definition To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.
- English Word Vamped Definition of Vamp
- English Word Vamper Definition One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.
- English Word Vamper Definition To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
- English Word Vamping Definition of Vamp
- English Word Vampire Definition A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
- English Word Vampire Definition Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
- English Word Vampire Definition Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
- English Word Vampire Definition Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.
- English Word Vampirism Definition Belief in the existence of vampires.
- English Word Vampirism Definition The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.
- English Word Vampirism Definition Fig.: The practice of extortion.
- English Word Vamplate Definition A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.
- English Word Vamure Definition See Vauntmure.
- English Word Van Definition The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
- English Word Van Definition A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- English Word Van Definition To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
- English Word Van Definition A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.
- English Word Van Definition A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
- English Word Van Definition A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
- English Word Van Definition A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- English Word Van Definition A wing with which the air is beaten.
- English Word Van Definition To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
- English Word Van-courier Definition One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.
- English Word Vanadate Definition A salt of vanadic acid.
- English Word Vanadic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds; as, vanadic oxide.
- English Word Vanadinite Definition A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.
- English Word Vanadious Definition Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid.
- English Word Vanadite Definition A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.
- English Word Vanadium Definition A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.