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- English Word Vasodentine Definition A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.
- English Word Vasodilator Definition Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso-inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.
- English Word Vasoformative Definition Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.
- English Word Vasomotor Definition Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels.
- English Word Vassal Definition The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
- English Word Vassal Definition A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.
- English Word Vassal Definition Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
- English Word Vassal Definition To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
- English Word Vassalage Definition The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
- English Word Vassalage Definition Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
- English Word Vassalage Definition A territory held in vassalage.
- English Word Vassalage Definition Vassals, collectively; vassalry.
- English Word Vassalage Definition Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage.
- English Word Vassaless Definition A female vassal.
- English Word Vassalry Definition The body of vassals.
- English Word Vast Definition Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
- English Word Vast Definition Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
- English Word Vast Definition Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
- English Word Vast Definition Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
- English Word Vast Definition A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
- English Word Vastation Definition A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation.
- English Word Vastel Definition See Wastel.
- English Word Vastidity Definition Vastness; immensity.
- English Word Vastitude Definition Vastness; immense extent.
- English Word Vastitude Definition Destruction; vastation.
- English Word Vastity Definition Vastness.
- English Word Vastly Definition To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.
- English Word Vastness Definition The quality or state of being vast.
- English Word Vasty Definition Vast; immense.
- English Word Vasum Definition A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.