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- English Word Vane Definition A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
- English Word Vane Definition Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
- English Word Vane Definition The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
- English Word Vane Definition One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
- English Word Vanessa Definition Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.
- English Word Vanessian Definition A vanessa.
- English Word Vanfess Definition A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water.
- English Word Vang Definition A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.
- English Word Vanglo Definition Benne (Sesamum orientale); also, its seeds; -- so called in the West Indies.
- English Word Vanguard Definition The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
- English Word Vanilla Definition A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.
- English Word Vanilla Definition The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and V. claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.
- English Word Vanillate Definition A salt of vanillic acid.
- English Word Vanillic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.
- English Word Vanillin Definition A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.
- English Word Vanilloes Definition An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona.
- English Word Vanillyl Definition The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.
- English Word Vaniloquence Definition Vain or foolish talk.
- English Word Vanish Definition To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
- English Word Vanish Definition The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.