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- English Word Vicissitudinous Definition Full of, or subject to, changes.
- English Word Vicissy duck Definition A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated.
- English Word Vicontiel Definition Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country.
- English Word Vicontiels Definition Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.
- English Word Vicount Definition See Viscount.
- English Word Victim Definition A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
- English Word Victim Definition A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
- English Word Victim Definition A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.
- English Word Victim Definition Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
- English Word Victimate Definition To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.
- English Word Victimize Definition To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
- English Word Victimized Definition of Victimize
- English Word Victimizing Definition of Victimize
- English Word Victor Definition The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of.
- English Word Victor Definition A destroyer.
- English Word Victor Definition Victorious.
- English Word Victoress Definition A victress.
- English Word Victoria Definition A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
- English Word Victoria Definition A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
- English Word Victoria Definition An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.