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- English Word Veterinary Definition Of or pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school.
- English Word Vetiver Definition An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus.
- English Word Veto Definition An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
- English Word Veto Definition A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.
- English Word Veto Definition The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.
- English Word Veto Definition A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.
- English Word Veto Definition To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.
- English Word Vetoed Definition of Veto
- English Word Vetoes Definition of Veto
- English Word Vetoing Definition of Veto
- English Word Vetoist Definition One who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto.
- English Word Vettura Definition An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach.
- English Word Vetture Definition of Vettura
- English Word Vetturini Definition of Vetturino
- English Word Vetturino Definition One who lets or drives a vettura.
- English Word Vetturino Definition A vettura.
- English Word Vetust Definition Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.
- English Word Vex Definition To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
- English Word Vex Definition To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.
- English Word Vex Definition To twist; to weave.