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- English Word Vulpinite Definition A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.
- English Word Vultern Definition The brush turkey (Talegallus Lathami) of Australia. See Brush turkey.
- English Word Vulture Definition Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
- English Word Vulturine Definition Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.
- English Word Vulturish Definition Vulturous.
- English Word Vulturism Definition The quality or state of being like a vulture; rapaciousness.
- English Word Vulturous Definition Like a vulture; rapacious.
- English Word Vulva Definition The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.
- English Word Vulva Definition The orifice of the oviduct of an insect or other invertebrate.
- English Word Vulviform Definition Like a cleft with projecting edges.
- English Word Vulvitis Definition Inflammation of the vulva.
- English Word Vulvo-uterine Definition Pertaining both to the vulva and the uterus.
- English Word Vulvovaginal Definition Pertaining both to the vulva and the vagina.
- English Word Vyce Definition A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.
- English Word Vying Definition a. & n. from Vie. W () the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 266-268.
- English Word Vying Definition of Vie