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- English Word Venue Definition A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
- English Word Venue Definition A bout; a hit; a turn. See Venew.
- English Word Venule Definition A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.
- English Word Venulose Definition Full of venules, or small veins.
- English Word Venus Definition The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
- English Word Venus Definition One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
- English Word Venus Definition The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
- English Word Venus Definition Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
- English Word Venust Definition Beautiful.
- English Word Veracious Definition Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.
- English Word Veracious Definition Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative.
- English Word Veraciously Definition In a veracious manner.
- English Word Veracity Definition The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.
- English Word Veranda Definition An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
- English Word Veratralbine Definition A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.
- English Word Veratrate Definition A salt of veratric acid.
- English Word Veratria Definition Veratrine.
- English Word Veratric Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.
- English Word Veratrina Definition Same as Veratrine.
- English Word Veratrine Definition A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.