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- English Word Volunteer Definition Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
- English Word Volunteer Definition To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
- English Word Volunteer Definition To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
- English Word Volunteered Definition of Volunteer
- English Word Volunteering Definition of Volunteer
- English Word Volupere Definition A woman's cap.
- English Word Voluptuaries Definition of Voluptuary
- English Word Voluptuary Definition A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
- English Word Voluptuary Definition Voluptuous; luxurious.
- English Word Voluptuous Definition Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
- English Word Voluptuous Definition Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
- English Word Volupty Definition Voluptuousness.
- English Word Voluta Definition Any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.
- English Word Volutae Definition of Voluta
- English Word Volutas Definition of Voluta
- English Word Volutation Definition A rolling of a body; a wallowing.
- English Word Volute Definition A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale.
- English Word Volute Definition A spiral turn, as in certain shells.
- English Word Volute Definition Any voluta.
- English Word Voluted Definition Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
- English Word Volution Definition A spiral turn or wreath.
- English Word Volution Definition A whorl of a spiral shell.
- English Word Volva Definition A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.
- English Word Volvox Definition A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
- English Word Volvulus Definition The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
- English Word Volvulus Definition Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.
- English Word Volyer Definition A lurcher.
- English Word Vomer Definition A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
- English Word Vomer Definition The pygostyle.
- English Word Vomerine Definition Of or pertaining to the vomer.