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- English Word Viceroyship Definition Viceroyalty.
- English Word Vicety Definition Fault; defect; coarseness.
- English Word Vichy water Definition A mineral water found at Vichy, France. It is essentially an effervescent solution of sodium, calcium, and magnetism carbonates, with sodium and potassium chlorides; also, by extension, any artificial or natural water resembling in composition the Vichy water proper. Called also, colloquially, Vichy.
- English Word Viciate Definition See Vitiate.
- English Word Vicinal Definition Near; vicine.
- English Word Vicine Definition Near; neighboring; vicinal.
- English Word Vicine Definition An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Vicing Definition of Vice
- English Word Vicinity Definition The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.
- English Word Vicinity Definition That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.
- English Word Viciosity Definition Vitiosity.
- English Word Vicious Definition Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
- English Word Vicious Definition Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.
- English Word Vicious Definition Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.
- English Word Vicious Definition Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.
- English Word Vicious Definition Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.
- English Word Vicious Definition Bitter; spiteful; malignant.
- English Word Vicissitude Definition Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
- English Word Vicissitude Definition Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
- English Word Vicissitudinary Definition Subject to vicissitudes.
- English Word Vicissitudinous Definition Full of, or subject to, changes.
- English Word Vicissy duck Definition A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated.
- English Word Vicontiel Definition Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country.
- English Word Vicontiels Definition Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.
- English Word Vicount Definition See Viscount.
- English Word Victim Definition A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
- English Word Victim Definition A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
- English Word Victim Definition A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.
- English Word Victim Definition Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
- English Word Victimate Definition To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.