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  • English Word Vengeance Definition Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
  • English Word Vengeance Definition Harm; mischief.
  • English Word Vengeancely Definition Extremely; excessively.
  • English Word Vengeful Definition Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
  • English Word Vengement Definition Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
  • English Word Venger Definition An avenger.
  • English Word Veniable Definition Venial; pardonable.
  • English Word Venial Definition Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
  • English Word Venial Definition Allowed; permitted.
  • English Word Veniality Definition The quality or state of being venial; venialness.
  • English Word Venire facias Definition A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve as jurors in said court.
  • English Word Venire facias Definition A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.
  • English Word Venison Definition Beasts of the chase.
  • English Word Venison Definition Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.
  • English Word Venite Definition The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm.
  • English Word Vennation Definition The act of poisoning.
  • English Word Vennation Definition Poison; venom.
  • English Word Venom Definition Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
  • English Word Venom Definition Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
  • English Word Venom Definition To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
  • English Word Venomous Definition Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
  • English Word Venomous Definition Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.
  • English Word Venomous Definition Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
  • English Word Venose Definition Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.
  • English Word Venosity Definition The quality or state of being venous.
  • English Word Venosity Definition A condition in which the circulation is retarded, and the entire mass of blood is less oxygenated than it normally is.
  • English Word Venous Definition Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.
  • English Word Venous Definition Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial.
  • English Word Venous Definition Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf.
  • English Word Vent Definition Sale; opportunity to sell; market.