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- English Word Vail Definition Submission; decline; descent.
- English Word Vailer Definition One who vails.
- English Word Vaimure Definition An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure.
- English Word Vain Definition Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
- English Word Vain Definition Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
- English Word Vain Definition Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
- English Word Vain Definition Showy; ostentatious.
- English Word Vain Definition Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
- English Word Vainglorious Definition Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
- English Word Vainglory Definition Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
- English Word Vainly Definition In a vain manner; in vain.
- English Word Vainness Definition The quality or state of being vain.
- English Word Vair Definition The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.
- English Word Vairy Definition Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.
- English Word Vaishnava Definition A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.
- English Word Vaishnavism Definition The worship of Vishnu.
- English Word Vaisya Definition The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.
- English Word Vaivode Definition See Waywode.
- English Word Vakeel Definition A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador.
- English Word Valance Definition The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.