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- English Word Vell Definition To cut the turf from, as for burning.
- English Word Velleity Definition The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.
- English Word Vellet Definition Velvet.
- English Word Vellicate Definition To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively.
- English Word Vellicate Definition To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.
- English Word Vellicated Definition of Vellicate
- English Word Vellicating Definition of Vellicate
- English Word Vellication Definition The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.
- English Word Vellication Definition A local twitching, or convulsive motion, of a muscular fiber, especially of the face.
- English Word Vellicative Definition Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication.
- English Word Vellon Definition A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real.
- English Word Vellum Definition A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white, -- used as for writing upon, and for binding books.
- English Word Vellumy Definition Resembling vellum.
- English Word Velocimeter Definition An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.
- English Word Velocipede Definition A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.
- English Word Velocities Definition of Velocity
- English Word Velocity Definition Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.
- English Word Velocity Definition Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under Speed.
- English Word Velours Definition One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.
- English Word Veltfare Definition The fieldfare.