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  • English Word Versing Definition of Verse
  • English Word Version Definition A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
  • English Word Version Definition A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion.
  • English Word Version Definition The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
  • English Word Version Definition A translation; that which is rendered from another language; as, the Common, or Authorized, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament.
  • English Word Version Definition An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair.
  • English Word Versionist Definition One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
  • English Word Verso Definition The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.
  • English Word Versor Definition The turning factor of a quaternion.
  • English Word Verst Definition A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
  • English Word Versual Definition Of or pertaining to a verse.
  • English Word Versus Definition Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
  • English Word Versute Definition Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.
  • English Word Vert Definition Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.
  • English Word Vert Definition The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
  • English Word Vert Definition The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.
  • English Word Verteber Definition A vertebra.
  • English Word Vertebra Definition One of the serial segments of the spinal column.
  • English Word Vertebra Definition One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.
  • English Word Vertebrae Definition of Vertebra
  • English Word Vertebral Definition Of or pertaining to a vertebrae, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian.
  • English Word Vertebral Definition Vertebrate.
  • English Word Vertebral Definition A vertebrate.
  • English Word Vertebrally Definition At or within a vertebra or vertebrae; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.
  • English Word Vertebrarterial Definition Of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.
  • English Word Vertebrata Definition One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Leptocardia.
  • English Word Vertebrate Definition One of the Vertebrata.
  • English Word Vertebrate Definition Alt. of Vertebrated
  • English Word Vertebrated Definition Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
  • English Word Vertebrated Definition Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.