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- English Word Van Definition A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- English Word Van Definition A wing with which the air is beaten.
- English Word Van Definition To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
- English Word Van-courier Definition One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.
- English Word Vanadate Definition A salt of vanadic acid.
- English Word Vanadic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds; as, vanadic oxide.
- English Word Vanadinite Definition A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.
- English Word Vanadious Definition Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid.
- English Word Vanadite Definition A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.
- English Word Vanadium Definition A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.
- English Word Vanadous Definition Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen.
- English Word Vanadyl Definition The hypothetical radical VO, regarded as a characterized residue of certain vanadium compounds.
- English Word Vandal Definition One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
- English Word Vandal Definition Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
- English Word Vandal Definition Alt. of Vandalic
- English Word Vandalic Definition Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.
- English Word Vandalism Definition The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.
- English Word Vandyke Definition A picture by Vandyke. Also, a Vandyke collar, or a Vandyke edge.
- English Word Vandyke Definition fit or furnish with a Vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a Vandyke.
- English Word Vandyke Definition Of or pertaining to the style of Vandyke the painter; used or represented by Vandyke.