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- English Word Vertigo Definition Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.
- English Word Vertigoes Definition of Vertigo
- English Word Vertilinear Definition Straight; rectilinear.
- English Word Vertu Definition Virtue; power. See Virtue.
- English Word Vertu Definition See Virtu.
- English Word Vertuous Definition Virtuous; powerful.
- English Word Verumontanum Definition An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
- English Word Vervain Definition Any plant of the genus Verbena.
- English Word Verve Definition Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
- English Word Vervel Definition See Varvel.
- English Word Vervet Definition A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, / Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.
- English Word Very Definition True; real; actual; veritable.
- English Word Very Definition In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.
- English Word Vesbium Definition A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
- English Word Vese Definition Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.
- English Word Vesica Definition A bladder.
- English Word Vesical Definition Of or pertaining to the bladder.
- English Word Vesicant Definition A vesicatory.
- English Word Vesicate Definition To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
- English Word Vesicated Definition of Vesicate
- English Word Vesicating Definition of Vesicate
- English Word Vesication Definition The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.
- English Word Vesicatory Definition Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.
- English Word Vesicatory Definition A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
- English Word Vesicle Definition A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
- English Word Vesicle Definition A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf.
- English Word Vesicle Definition A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.
- English Word Vesicle Definition A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the umbilical vesicle.
- English Word Vesicle Definition A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.
- English Word Vesicle Definition A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the molten mass.