1. Greedy for eating; ravenous; very hungry; as a voracious man or appetite. NWAD VORACIOUS.2
2. Rapacious; eager to devour; as voracious animals. NWAD VORACIOUS.3
3. Ready to swallow up; as a voracious gulf or whirlpool. NWAD VORACIOUS.4
Creatures by their voracity pernicious, have commonly fewer young. NWAD VORACITY.2
1. A whirlpool; a whirling or circular motion of water, forming a kind of cavity in the center of the circle, and in some instances, drawing in water or absorbing other things. NWAD VORTEX.2
2. A whirling of the air; a whirlwind. NWAD VORTEX.3
3. In the Cartesian system, the circular motion originally impressed on the particles of matter, carrying them around their own axes, and around a common center. By means of these vortices. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe. NWAD VORTEX.4
No rosary this votaress needs. NWAD VOTARESS.2
I am no idle votarist. NWAD VOTARIST.2
[Votary is now used.] NWAD VOTARIST.3
Devoted; promised; consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow. NWAD VOTARY.2
Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom. NWAD VOTARY.3
It was the coldness of the votary, not the prayer, which was in fault. NWAD VOTARY.5
1. Suffrage; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a man to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations and the like. This vote or expression of will may be given by holding up the hand, by rising and standing up, by the voice, [viva voce.] by ballot, by a ticket or otherwise. All these modes and others are used. Hence, NWAD VOTE.2
2. That by which will or preference is expressed in elections or in deciding propositions; a ballot; a ticket, etc.; as a written vote. NWAD VOTE.3
3. Expression of will be a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous. NWAD VOTE.4
4. United voice in public prayer. NWAD VOTE.5
To vote for a duelist, is to assist in the prostration of justice, and indirectly to encourage the crime. NWAD VOTE.7
1. To choose by suffrage; to elect by some expression of will; as, the citizens voted their candidate into office with little opposition. NWAD VOTE.9
2. To enact ot establish by vote or some expression of will. The legislature voted the resolution unanimously. NWAD VOTE.10
3. To grant by vote or expression of will. NWAD VOTE.11
Parliament voted them a hundred thousand pounds. NWAD VOTE.12
Votive medals, are those on which vows of the people for emperors or empresses are expressed. NWAD VOTIVE.2
Venus, take my votive glass. NWAD VOTIVE.3
v.t. NWAD VOTIVE.4
1. To call to witness; to obtest. NWAD VOTIVE.5
And vouch the silent stars and conscious moon. NWAD VOTIVE.6
2. To declare; to affirm; to attest; to warrant; to maintain by affirmations. NWAD VOTIVE.7
They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterward to credit it. NWAD VOTIVE.8
2. To warrant; to confirm; to establish proof. NWAD VOTIVE.9
The consistency of the discoursevouches it to be worthy of the great apostle. NWAD VOTIVE.10
4. In law, to call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title. NWAD VOTIVE.11
He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee. NWAD VOTIVE.12
He declares he will not believe her, till the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she so solemnly affirmed. NWAD VOUCH.2
1. One who gives witness or full attestation to any thing. NWAD VOUCHER.2
The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for each others reputation. NWAD VOUCHER.3
2. In law, the act of calling in a person to make god his warranty of title. NWAD VOUCHER.4
3. A book, paper or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm or establish facts of any kind. The merchants books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts. Notes, bonds receipts and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts. NWAD VOUCHER.5
1. To permit to be done without danger. NWAD VOUCHSAFE.2
2. To condescend to grant. NWAD VOUCHSAFE.3
Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two? NWAD VOUCHSAFE.4
It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathen the means of salvation. NWAD VOUCHSAFE.5
Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What power the charms of beauty had of old. NWAD VOUCHSAFE.7
1. A solemn promisemade to God, or by a pagan to his deity. The Roman generals when they went to war, sometimes made a vow that they would build a temple to some favorite deity, if he would give them victory. A vow is a promise of something to be given or done hereafter. NWAD VOW.2
A person is constituted a religious by taking three vows, of chastity, of poverty, and of obedience. Among the Isrealites, the vows of children were not binding, unless ratified by the express or tacit consent of their father. Numbers 30:2-15. NWAD VOW.3
2. A solemn promise; as the vows of unchangeable love and fidelity. In a moral and religious sense, vows are promises to God, as they appeal to God to witness their sincerity, and the violation of them is a most heinous offense. NWAD VOW.4
1. To give, consecrate or dedicate to God by a solemn promise. When Jacob went to Mesopotamia, he vowed to God a tenth of this substance, and his own future devotion to his service. Genesis 28:20-22. NWAD VOW.6
When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Ecclesiastes 5:4. NWAD VOW.7
2. To devote. NWAD VOW.8
1. In grammer, a simple sound; a sound utterd by simply opening the mouth or organs; as the sound of a, e, o. NWAD VOWEL.2
2. The letter or character which represents a simple sound. NWAD VOWEL.3
1. A passing by sea or water from one place, port or country to another, especially a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. Captain L. made more than a hundred voyages to the West Indies. A voyage over lake Superior is like a voyage to Bermuda. NWAD VOYAGE.2
2. The practice of traveling. [Not in use.] NWAD VOYAGE.3
I with pain Voyagd th unreal, vast, unbounded deep. NWAD VOYAGE.6
A private voyager I pass the main. NWAD VOYAGER.2
1. Pertaining to the common unlettered people; as vulgar life. NWAD VULGAR.2
2. Used or practiced by common people; as vulgar sports. NWAD VULGAR.3
3. Vernacular; national. NWAD VULGAR.4
It might be more useful to the English reader, to write in our vulgar language. NWAD VULGAR.5
4. Common; used by all classes of people; as the vulgar version of the scriptures. NWAD VULGAR.6
5. Public; as vulgar report. NWAD VULGAR.7
6. Mean; rustic; rude; low; unrefined; as vulgar ninds; vulgar manners. NWAD VULGAR.8
7. Consisting of common persons. NWAD VULGAR.9
In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. NWAD VULGAR.10
Vulgar fractions, in arithmetic, fractions expressed by a numerator and denominator; thus 2/5. NWAD VULGAR.11
The vulgar imagine the pretender to have been a child imposed on the nation. NWAD VULGAR.13
1. Grossness of manners; vulgarity. [Little used.] NWAD VULGARISM.2
2. A vulgar phrase or expression. [This is the usual sense of the word.] NWAD VULGARISM.3
1. Mean condition in life; the state of the lower classes of society. NWAD VULGARITY.2
2. Grossness or clownishness of manners or language; as vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity of expression or language. NWAD VULGARITY.3
1. Commonly; in the ordinary manner among the common people. NWAD VULGARLY.2
Such an one we vulgarly call call a desperate person. NWAD VULGARLY.3
2. Meanly; rudely; clownishly. NWAD VULGARLY.4
1. That may be wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as a vulnerable body. NWAD VULNERABLE.2
Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will never be wanting a Paris to infix the dart. NWAD VULNERABLE.3
2. Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; as a vulnerable reputation. NWAD VULNERABLE.4