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  • English Word Vigilant Definition Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
  • English Word Vigilantly Definition In a vigilant manner.
  • English Word Vigily Definition A vigil.
  • English Word Vigintivirate Definition The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.
  • English Word Vignette Definition A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
  • English Word Vignette Definition A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
  • English Word Vignette Definition To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
  • English Word Vigonia Definition Of or pertaining to the vicu/a; characterizing the vicu/a; -- said of the wool of that animal, used in felting hats, and for other purposes.
  • English Word Vigor Definition Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
  • English Word Vigor Definition Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
  • English Word Vigor Definition Strength; efficacy; potency.
  • English Word Vigor Definition To invigorate.
  • English Word Vigorite Definition An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.
  • English Word Vigoroso Definition Vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.
  • English Word Vigorous Definition Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.
  • English Word Vigorous Definition Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.
  • English Word Viinage Definition The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage.
  • English Word Viking Definition One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
  • English Word Vilany Definition Villainy.
  • English Word Vilayet Definition One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
  • English Word Vild Definition Vile.
  • English Word Vile Definition Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
  • English Word Vile Definition Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.
  • English Word Viled Definition Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile.
  • English Word Vileyns Definition Villainous.
  • English Word Vilification Definition The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
  • English Word Vilified Definition of Vilify
  • English Word Vilifier Definition One who vilifies or defames.
  • English Word Vilify Definition To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
  • English Word Vilify Definition To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.