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- English Word Volitive Definition Used in expressing a wish or permission as, volitive proposition.
- English Word Volkslied Definition A popular song, or national air.
- English Word Volkslieder Definition of Volkslied
- English Word Volley Definition A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
- English Word Volley Definition A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.
- English Word Volley Definition A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
- English Word Volley Definition A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
- English Word Volley Definition To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
- English Word Volley Definition To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.
- English Word Volley Definition To return the ball before it touches the ground.
- English Word Volley Definition To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
- English Word Volleyed Definition of Volley
- English Word Volleyed Definition Discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; as, volleyed thunder.
- English Word Volleying Definition of Volley
- English Word Volleys Definition of Volley
- English Word Volow Definition To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.
- English Word Volt Definition A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
- English Word Volt Definition A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
- English Word Volt Definition The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C.
- English Word Volta Definition A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.