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  • English Word Viability Definition The capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.
  • English Word Viable Definition Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
  • English Word Viaduct Definition A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.
  • English Word Viage Definition A voyage; a journey.
  • English Word Vial Definition A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
  • English Word Vial Definition To put in a vial or vials.
  • English Word Vialed Definition of Vial
  • English Word Vialing Definition of Vial
  • English Word Vialled Definition of Vial
  • English Word Vialling Definition of Vial
  • English Word Viameter Definition An odometer; -- called also viatometer.
  • English Word Viand Definition An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • English Word Viander Definition A feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host.
  • English Word Viary Definition Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads.
  • English Word Viatecture Definition The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
  • English Word Viatic Definition Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.
  • English Word Viaticum Definition An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
  • English Word Viaticum Definition Provisions for a journey.
  • English Word Viaticum Definition The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.
  • English Word Viatometer Definition A viameter.
  • English Word Vibices Definition More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
  • English Word Vibracula Definition of Vibraculum
  • English Word Vibraculum Definition One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.
  • English Word Vibrancy Definition The state of being vibrant; resonance.
  • English Word Vibrant Definition Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums.
  • English Word Vibrate Definition of Vibrate
  • English Word Vibrate Definition To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
  • English Word Vibrate Definition To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
  • English Word Vibrate Definition To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
  • English Word Vibrate Definition To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.