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  • English Word Venue Definition A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
  • English Word Venue Definition A bout; a hit; a turn. See Venew.
  • English Word Venule Definition A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.
  • English Word Venulose Definition Full of venules, or small veins.
  • English Word Venus Definition The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
  • English Word Venus Definition One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
  • English Word Venus Definition The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
  • English Word Venus Definition Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
  • English Word Venust Definition Beautiful.
  • English Word Veracious Definition Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.
  • English Word Veracious Definition Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative.
  • English Word Veraciously Definition In a veracious manner.
  • English Word Veracity Definition The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.
  • English Word Veranda Definition An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
  • English Word Veratralbine Definition A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.
  • English Word Veratrate Definition A salt of veratric acid.
  • English Word Veratria Definition Veratrine.
  • English Word Veratric Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.
  • English Word Veratrina Definition Same as Veratrine.
  • English Word Veratrine Definition A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.
  • English Word Veratrol Definition A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.
  • English Word Veratrum Definition A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
  • English Word Verb Definition A word; a vocable.
  • English Word Verb Definition A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
  • English Word Verbal Definition Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
  • English Word Verbal Definition Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
  • English Word Verbal Definition Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
  • English Word Verbal Definition Abounding with words; verbose.
  • English Word Verbal Definition Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
  • English Word Verbal Definition A noun derived from a verb.