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  • English Word Virus Definition The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.
  • English Word Virus Definition Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.
  • English Word Vis Definition Force; power.
  • English Word Vis Definition Physical force.
  • English Word Vis Definition Moral power.
  • English Word Vis-a-vis Definition One who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.
  • English Word Vis-a-vis Definition A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
  • English Word Vis-a-vis Definition Face to face.
  • English Word Visa Definition See Vis/.
  • English Word Visa Definition To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.
  • English Word Visaed Definition of Visa
  • English Word Visage Definition The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.
  • English Word Visage Definition To face.
  • English Word Visaged Definition Having a visage.
  • English Word Visaing Definition of Visa
  • English Word Visard Definition A mask. See Visor.
  • English Word Visard Definition To mask.
  • English Word Viscacha Definition Alt. of Viz-cacha
  • English Word Viscera Definition pl. of Viscus.
  • English Word Viscera Definition of Viscus
  • English Word Visceral Definition Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
  • English Word Visceral Definition Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
  • English Word Viscerate Definition To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
  • English Word Viscerated Definition of Viscerate
  • English Word Viscerating Definition of Viscerate
  • English Word Visceroskeletal Definition Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles.
  • English Word Viscid Definition Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.
  • English Word Viscidity Definition The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.
  • English Word Viscin Definition A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.
  • English Word Viscoidal Definition Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2.