VO'CAL, adjective [Latin vocalis. See Voice.]

1. Having a voice.

To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, made vocal by my song.

2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; as vocal melody; vocal prayer; vocal praise.

Vocal music, music made by the voice, in distinction from instrumental music; hence, music or tunes set to words, to be performed by the human voice.

VO'CAL, noun Among the Romanists, a man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

VOCAL'ITY, noun [Latin vocalitas.] Quality of being utterable by the voice; as the vocality of the letters.

VO'CALIZE, verb transitive to form into voice; to make vocal.

It is one thing to give impulse to breath alone, and another to vocalize that breath.

VO'CALIZED, participle passive Made vocal; formed into voice.

VO'CALIZING, participle present tense Forming into voice or sound.

VO'CALLY, adverb

1. With voice; with an audible sound.

2. In words; as, to express desires vocally

VOCA'TION, noun [Latin vocatio, from voco, to call. See Voice.]

1. Among divines, a calling by the will of God; or the bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.

2. Summons; call; inducement.

What can be urged for them who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous!

3. Designation or destination to a particular state or profession.

None is to enter the ecclesiastic or monastie state, without a particular vocation

4. Employment; calling; occupation; trade; a word that includes professions as well as mechanical occupations. Let every divine, every physician, every lawyer, and every mechanic, be faithful and diligent in his vocation

VOC'ATIVE, adjective [Latin vocativus.] Relating to calling; as the vocative case in grammar.

VOC'ATIVE, noun In grammar, the fifth case or state of nouns in the Latin language; or the case in any language, in which a word is placed when the person is addressed: as Domine, O Lord.

VOCIF'ERATE, verb intransitive [Latin vocifero, vex and fero.] To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim.

VOCIF'ERATE, verb transitive To utter with a loud voice.

VOCIF'ERATING, participle present tense Crying out with vehemence; uttering with a loud voice.

VOCIFERA'TION, noun A violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.

VOCIF'EROUS, adjective Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as vociferous heralds.

VOGUE, noun vig. [The sense of vogue is way, or the going of the world.]

The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom or practice; popular reception for the time. We say, a particular form of dress is now in vogue; an amusing writer is now in vogue; such opinions are now in vogue The phrase, the vogue of the world, used by good writers formerly, is nearly or quite obsolete.

Use may revive the obsoletest word, and banish those that now are most in vogue

VOICE, noun [Latin vox; voco. The sense of the verb is to throw, to drive out sound; and voice is that which is driven out.]

1. Sound or audible noise uttered by the mouth, either of human beings or of other animals. We say, the voice of a man is loud or clear; the voice of a woman is soft or musical; the voice of a dog is loud or harsh; the voice of a bird is sweet or melodious. The voice of human beings is articulate; that of beasts, inarticulate. The voices of men are different, and when uttered together, are often dissonant.

2. Any sound made by the breath; as the trumpet's voice

3. A vote; suffrage; opinion or choice expressed. Originally voice was the oral utterance of choice, but it now signifies any vote however given.

Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice of holy senates, and elect by voice

I have no words; my voice is in my sword.

4. Language; words; expression.

Let us call on God in the voice of his church.

5. In Scripture, command; precept.

Ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 8:20.

6. Sound.

After the fire, a still small voice 1 Kings 19:12.

Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Job 40:9.

The floods have lifted up their voice Psalms 93:3.

7. Language; tone; mode of expression.

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice Galatians 4:20.

8. In grammar, a particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs; as the active voice; the passive voice

VOICE, verb transitive

1. To rumor; to report.

It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet. [Little used.]

2. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.

3. To vote.

VOICE, verb intransitive To clamor; to exclaim. obsolete

VOIC'ED, participle passive

1. Fitted to produce the proper tones.

2. adjective Furnished with a voice.

VOICELESS, a vois'less. Having no voice or vote.

VOID, adjective [Latin viduus, divido. Gr.]

1. Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as a void space or place. 1 Kings 22:10.

2. Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. Genesis 1:2.

3. Having no legal or binding force; null; not effectual to bind parties, or to convey or support a right; not sufficient to produce its effect. Thus a deed not duly signed and sealed, is void A fraudulent contract is void or may be rendered void

My word shall not return to me void but it shall accomplish that which I please. Isaiah 55:11.

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. Jeremiah 19:7.

4. Free; clear; as a conscience void of offense. Acts 24:16.

5. Destitute; as void of learning; void of reason or common sense.

He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor.

Proverbs 11:12.

6. Unsupplied; vacant; unoccupied; having no incumbent.

Divers offices that had been long void

7. Unsubstantial; vain.

Lifeless idol, void and vain.

VOID space, in physics, a vacuum.

1. To make void; to violate; to transgress.

They have made void thy law. Psalms 119:126.

2. To render useless or of no effect. Romans 4:14.

VOID, noun An empty space; a vacuum.

Pride, where wit falls, steps in to our defense, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Th' illimitable void

VOID, verb transitive

1. To quit; to leave.

Bid them come down, or void the field.

2. To emit; to send out; to evacuate; as, to void excrementitious matter; to void worms.

3. To vacate; to annul; to nullify; to render of no validity or effect.

It had become a practice - to void the security given for money borrowed.

4. To make or leave vacant.

VOID, verb intransitive To be emitted or evacuated.

VOID'ABLE, adjective That may be annulled or made void, or that may be adjudged void, invalid or of no force.

- Such administration is not void, but voidable by sentence.

VOID'ANCE, noun

1. The act of emptying.

2. The act of ejecting from a benefice; ejection.

3. Vacancy; want of an incumbent.

4. Evasion; subterfuge.

VOID'ED, participle passive

1. Thrust out; evacuated.

2. adjective In heraldry, having the inner or middle part cut out, as an ordinary.

VOID'ER, noun

1. A basket in which broken meat is carried from the table.

2. One who evacuates.

3. One who nullifies.

4. In heraldry, one of the ordinaries, whose figure is much like that of the flanch or flasque.

5. In agriculture, a provincial name of a kind of shallow basket of open work.

VOID'ING, participle present tense

1. Ejecting; evacuating.

2. Making or declaring void, or of no force.

3. Quitting; leaving.

4. adjective Receiving what is ejected; as a voiding lobby.

VOID'NESS, noun

1. Emptiness; vacuity; destitution.

2. Nullify; inefficacy; want of binding force.

3. Want of substantiality.

VOI'TURE, noun [Latin vectus, veho.] Carriage. [Not English.]

VOLAL'KALI, noun Volatile alkali; by contraction.

VO'LANT, adjective [Latin volo, to fly.]

1. Flying; passing through the air; as volant automata.

2. Nimble; active; as volant touch.

3. In heraldry, represented as flying or having the wings spread.

VOL'ATILE, adjective [Latin volatilis, from volo, to fly.]

1. Flying; passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere.

2. Having the power to fly; as birds are volatile animals.

3. Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state. Thus substances which affect the smell with pungent or fragrant odors, as musk, hartshorn and essential oils, are called volatile substances, because they waste away on exposure to the atmosphere. Alcohol and ether are called volatile liquids for a similar reason, and because they easily pass into the state of vapor on the application of heat. On the contrary, gold is a fixed substance, because it does not suffer waste even when exposed to the heat of a furnace; and oils are called fixed, when they do not evaporate on simple exposure to the atmosphere.

4. Lively; gay; full of spirit; airy; hence, fickle; apt to change; as a volatile temper.

You are as giddy and volatile as ever.

VOL'ATILE, noun A winged animal. [little used.]

VOL'ATILENESS,

VOLATIL'ITY, noun

1. Disposition to exhale or evaporate; the quality of being capable of evaporation; that property of a substance which disposes it to rise and float in the air, and thus to be dissipated; as the volatility of fluids. Ether is remarkable for its volatility. Many or most solid bodies are susceptible of volatility by the action of intense heat.

By the spirit of a plant we understand that pure elaborated oil, which by reason of its extreme volatility, exhales spontaneously, and in which the odor or smell consists.

2. Great sprightliness; levity; liveliness; whence, mutability of mind; fickleness; as the volatility of youth.

VOLATILIZA'TION, noun [from volatilize.] The act or process of rendering volatile, or rather of causing to rise and float in the air.

VOL'ATILIZE, verb transitive To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor or invisible effluvia, and to rise and float in the air.

The water - dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action.

VOL'ATILIZED, participle passive Rendered volatile; caused to rise and float in air.

VOL'ATILIZING, participle present tense Rendering volatile; causing to rise and float in air.

VOLCAN'IC, adjective [from volcano.]

1. Pertaining to volcanoes; as volcanic heat.

2. Produced by a volcano; as volcanic tufa.

3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

VOL'CANIST, noun [from volcano.]

1. One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.

2. One who believes in the effects of eruptions of fire in the formation of mountains.

VOL'CANITE, noun A mineral, otherwise called augite.

VOLCAN'ITY, noun The state of being volcanic or of volcanic origin.

VOLCANIZA'TION, noun [from volcanize.] The process of undergoing volcanic heat and being affected by it.

VOL'CANIZE, verb transitive To subject to or cause to undergo volcanic heat and to be affected by its action.

VOL'CANIZED, participle passive Affected by volcanic heat.

VOLCA'NO, noun

1. In geology, an opening in the surface of the earth or in a mountain, from which smoke, flames, stones, lava or other substances are ejected. Such are seen in Etna and Vesuvius in Sicily and Italy, and Hecla in Iceland. It is vulgarly called a burning mountain. Herschel has discovered a volcano in the moon.

2. The mountain that ejects fire, smoke, etc.

VOLE, noun A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.

VO'LERY, noun

1. A flight of birds.

2. A large bird-cage, in which the birds have room to fly.

VOLITA'TION, noun [Latin volito, dim. of volo, to fly.] The act of flying; flight.

VOLI'TION, noun [Latin volitio, from volo, to will. See Will.]

1. The act of willing the act of determining choice, or forming a purpose. There is a great difference between actual volition and approbation of judgment.

Volition is the actual exercise of the power which the mind has of considering or forbearing to consider an idea.

2. The power of willing or determining.

VOL'ITIVE, adjective Having the power to will.

They not only perfect the intellectual faculty, but the volitive

VOL'LEY, noun plural volleys. [Latin volo.]

1. A flight of shot; the discharge of many small arms at once.

2. A burst or emission of many things at once; as a volley of words.

But rattling nonsense to full volleys breaks.

VOL'LEY, verb transitive to discharge with a volley

VOL'LEY, verb intransitive To throw out or discharge at once.

VOL'LEYED, adjective [from volley.] disploded; discharged with a sudden burst; as volleyed thunder.

VOLT, noun [Latin volutus, volvo.]

1. a round or circular tread; a gait of two treads, made by a horse going sideways round a center.

2. In fencing, a sudden movement or leap to avoid a thrust.

VOLTa, in Italian music, signifies that the part is to be repeated one, two or more times.

VOLTA'IC, adjective Pertaining to Volta, the discoverer of voltaism; as the voltaic pile.

Volatic apparatus, the apparatus used for accumulating galvanic electricity. the agent itself is denominated galvanism, after its discoverer Galvani, while the instruments used for exciting and accumulating it, are called voltaic in honor of Volta, who first contrived this kind of apparatus.

Voltaic pile, a column formed by successive pairs of metallic disks, as silver and zink, with moistened cloth between every two contiguous pairs.

Voltaic battery, the larger forms of voltaic apparatus, used for accumulating galvanic electricity.

VOL'TAISM, noun That branch of electrical science which has its source in the chimical action between metals and different liquids. it is more properly called galvanism, from Galvani, who first proved or brought into notice its remarkable influence on animals.

VOLU'BILATE,

VOL'UBILE, adjective In gardening, a volubilate stem is one that climbs by winding or twining round another body.

VOL'UBILE, a. In gardening, a volubilate stem is one that climbs by winding or twining round another body.

VOLUBIL'ITY, noun [Latin volubilitas, from volvo, to roll.]

1. The capacity of being rolled; aptness to roll; as the volubility of a bowl.

2. The act of rolling.

By irregular volutibility.

3. Ready motion of the tongue in speaking; fluency of speech.

She ran over the catalogue of diversions with such a volubility of tongue, as drew a gentle reprimand from her father.

4. Mutability; liableness to revolution; as the volubility of human affairs. [Unusual.]

VOL'UBLE, adjective [Latin volubilis.]

1. Formed so as to roll with ease, or to be easily set in motion; apt to roll; as voluble particles of matter.

2. Rolling; having quick motion.

This less voluble earth.

3. Nimble; active; moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; fluent; as a flippant, voluble tongue.

4. Fluent; flowing with ease and smoothness; as a voluble speech.

5. Having fluency of speech.

Cassio, a knave very voluble

VOL'UBLY, adverb In a rolling or fluent manner.

VOL'UME, noun [Latin volumen, a roll; volvo, to roll. to make u long, in this word, is palpably wrong.]

1. Primarily a roll, as the ancients wrote on long strips of bark, parchment or other material, which they formed into rolls or folds. Of such volumes, Ptolemy's library in Alexandria contained 3 or 700, 000.

2. A roll or turn; as much as is included in a roll or coil; as the volume of a serpent.

3. Dimensions; compass; space occupied; as the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.

4. A swelling or spherical body.

The undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.

5. A book; a collection of sheets of paper, usually printed or written paper, folded and bound, or covered. A book consisting of sheets once folded, is called a folio, or a folio volume; of sheets twice folded, a quarto; and thus according to the number of leaves in a sheet, it is called an octavo, or a duodecimo. The Scriptures or sacred writings, bound in a single volume are called the Bible. The number of volumes in the Royal Library, in rue de Richlieu, at Paris, is variously estimated. It is probable it may amount to 400, 000.

An odd volume of a set of books, bears not the value of its proportion to the set.

6. In music, the compass of a voice from grave to acute; the tone or power of voice.

VOL'UMED, adjective Having the form of a volume or roll; as volumed mist.

VOLU'MINOUS, adjective

1. Consisting of many coils or complications.

The serpent roll'd voluminous and vast.

2. Consisting of many volumes or books.

The collections of Muratori and of the Byzantine history, are very voluminous

3. Having written much, or made many volumes; as a voluminons writer.

4. Copious; diffusive. He was too voluminous in discourse. [Not in use.]

VOLU'MINOUSLY, adverb In many volumes; very copiously.

VOLU'MINOUSNESS, noun State of being bulky or in many volumes.

VOL'UMIST, noun One who writes a volume; an author. [Not in use.]

VOL'UNTARILY, adverb [from voluntary.] Spontaneously; of one's own will; without being moved, influenced or impelled by others.

To be agents voluntarily in our own destruction, is against God and nature.

VOL'UNTARINESS, noun The state of being voluntary or optional.

VOL'UNTARY, adjective [Latin voluntarius, from voluntas, will, from volo.]

1. Acting by choice or spontaneously; acting without being influenced or impelled by another.

2. Free, or having power to act by choice; not being under restraint; as, man is a voluntary agent.

3. Proceeding from choice or free will.

That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action, is the true principle of orthodoxy.

4. Willing; acting with willingness.

She fell to lust a voluntary prey.

5. Done by design; purposed; intended. If a man kills another by lopping a tree, here is no voluntary murder.

6. Done freely, or of choice; proceeding from free will. He went into voluntary exile. He made a voluntary surrender.

7. Acting of his own accord; spontaneous; as the voluntary dictates of knowledge.

8. Subject to the will; as the voluntary motions of an animal. Thus the motion of a leg or an arm is voluntary but the motion of the heart is involuntary.

A voluntary escape, in law, is the escape of a prisoner by the express consent of the sheriff.

Voluntary jurisdiction, is that which is exercised in doing that which no one opposes; as in granting dispensations, etc.

Voluntary affidavit or oath, is one made in an extra-judicial matter.

Voluntary waste, is that which is committed by positive acts.

VOL'UNTARY, noun

1. One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer. [In this sense, volunteer is now generally used.]

2. In music, a piece played by a musician extemporarily, according to his fancy. In the Philosophical Transactions, we have a method of writing voluntaries, as fast as the musician plays the notes. This is by a cylinder turning under the keys of the organ.

3. A composition for the organ.

VOLUNTEE'R, noun A person who enters into military or other service of his own free will. In military affairs, volunteers enter into service voluntarily, but when in service they are subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers. They sometimes serve gratuitously, but often receive a compensation.

VOLUNTEE'R, adjective Entering into service of free will; as volunteer companies.

VOLUNTEE'R, verb transitive To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

VOLUNTEE'R, verb intransitive To enter into any service of one's free will, without solicitation or compulsion. He volunteered in that undertaking.

[These verbs are in respectable use.]

VOLUP'TUARY, noun [Latin volupturius, from voluptas, pleasure.]

A man addicted to luxury or the gratification of the appetite, and to other sensual pleasures.

VOLUP'TUOUS, adjective [Latin voluptuoosus.]

Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.

Soften'd with pleasure and voluptuous life.

VOLUP'TUOUSLY, adverb Luxuriously; with free indulgence of sensual pleasures; as, to live voluptuously

VOLUP'TUOUSNESS, noun Luxuriousness; addictedness to pleasure or sensual gratification.

Where no voluptuousness yet all delight.

VOLUTA'TION, noun [Latin volutatio, from voluto, from volvo, Eng. to wallow.]

A wallowing; a rolling of the body on the earth. [See Wallow.]

VOLU'TE, noun [Latin volutus, volvo.]

1. In architecture, a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and composite capitals, of which it is a principal ornament. The number of volutes in the Ionic order, is four; in the Composite, eight. There are also eight angular volutes in the Corinthian capital, accompanied with eight smaller ones, called helices.

2. In natural history, a genus of shells.

VOLU'TION, noun A spiral turn.

VOL'UTITE, noun A petrified shell of the genus Voluta.

VOL'VIC, adjective Denoting a species of stone or lava.

VOM'IC, adjective The vomic nut, nux vomica, is the seed of the Strychnos nux vomica, a native of the East Indies. It is a very active poison.

VOM'ICA, noun [Latin] An encysted tumor on the lungs.

VOM'IT, verb intransitive [Latin vomo. probably the Gr. is the same word, with the loss of its first letter.]

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth. Some persons vomit with ease, as do cats and dogs. But horses do not vomit

VOM'IT, verb transitive

1. To throw up or eject from the stomach; to discharge from the stomach through the mouth. It is followed often by up or out, but without necessity and to the injury of the language. In the yellow fever, the patients often vomit dark colored matter, like coffee grounds.

The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah 2:10.

2. To eject with violence from any hollow place. Volcanoes vomit flames, ashes, stones and liquid lava.

VOM'IT, noun

1. The matter ejected from the stomach.

2. That which excites the stomach to discharge its contents; an emetic.

Black vomit the dark colored matter ejected from the stomach in the last stage of the yellow fever or other malignant disease; hence, the yellow fever, vulgarly so called.

VOM'ITED, participle passive Ejected from the stomach through the mouth, or from any deep place through an opening.

VOM'ITING, participle present tense Discharging from the stomach through the mouth, or ejecting from any deep place.

VOM'ITING, noun

1. The act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth. vomiting is an inverted action of the stomach.

2. The act of throwing out substances with violence from a deep hollow, as a volcano, etc.

VOMI'TION, noun The act or power of vomiting.

VOM'ITIVE, adjective Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

VOM'ITORY, adjective [Latin vomitorius.] Procuring vomits; causing to eject from the stomach; emetic.

VOM'ITORY, noun

1. An emetic.

2. A door.

VORA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin vorax, from voro, to devour; Heb. to clear away, to consume; Gr. food.]

1. Greedy for eating; ravenous; very hungry; as a voracious man or appetite.

2. Rapacious; eager to devour; as voracious animals.

3. Ready to swallow up; as a voracious gulf or whirlpool.

VORA'CIOUSLY, adverb With greedy appetite; ravenously.

VORA'CIOUSNESS, noun Greediness of appetite; ravenousness; eagerness to devour; rapaciousness.

VORAC'ITY, noun Greediness of appetite; voraciousness.

Creatures by their voracity pernicious, have commonly fewer young.

VORAG'INOUS, adjective [Latin voraginosus, vorago.] Full of gulfs.

VOR'TEX, noun plural vortices or vortexes. [Latin from verto.]

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.

2. A whirling of the air; a whirlwind.

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.

VOR'TICAL, adjective Whirling; turning; as a vortical motion.

VO'TARESS, noun A female devoted to any service, worship or state of life.

No rosary this votaress needs.

VO'TARIST, noun [See votary.] One devoted or given up to any person or thing, to any service, worship or pursuit.

I am no idle votarist

[Votary is now used.]

VO'TARY, adjective [from Latin votus, from voveo. See Vow.]

Devoted; promised; consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow.

Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.

VO'TARY, noun One devoted, consecrated or engaged by a vow or promise; hence more generally, one devoted, given or addicted to some particular service, worship, study or state of life. Every goddess of antiquity had her votaries. Every pursuit or study has now its votaries. One is a votary to mathematics, another is a votary to music, and alas, a great portion of the world are votaries of sensual pleasures.

It was the coldness of the votary not the prayer, which was in fault.

VOTE, noun [Latin votum, from voveo, to vow. Votum is properly wish or will.]

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,

2. That by which will or preference is expressed in elections or in deciding propositions; a ballot; a ticket, etc.; as a written vote

3. Expression of will be a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous.

4. United voice in public prayer.

VOTE, verb intransitive To express or signify the mind, will or preference, in electing men to office, or in passing laws, regulations and the like, or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others. In elections, men are bound to vote for the best men to fill offices, according to their best knowledge and belief.

To vote for a duelist, is to assist in the prostration of justice, and indirectly to encourage the crime.

VOTE, verb transitive

1. To choose by suffrage; to elect by some expression of will; as, the citizens voted their candidate into office with little opposition.

2. To enact ot establish by vote or some expression of will. The legislature voted the resolution unanimously.

3. To grant by vote or expression of will.

Parliament voted them a hundred thousand pounds.

VOTED, participle passive Expressed by vote or suffrage; determined.

VOTER, noun One who has a legal right to vote or give his suffrage.

VOTING, participle present tense Expressing the mind, will or preference in election, or in determining questions proposed; giving a vote or suffrage; electing, deciding, giving or enacting by vote.

VOTIVE, adjective Given by vow; devoted; as votive offereings.

VOTIVE medals, are those on which vows of the peoplefor emperors or empresses

are expressed.

Venus, take my votive glass.

, verb transitive

1. To call to witness; to obtest.

And vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.

2. To declare; to affirm; to attest; to warrant; to maintain by affirmations.

They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afetrward to credit it.

2. To warrant; to confirm; to establish proof.

The consistency of the discoursevouches it to be worthy of the great apostle.

4. In law, to call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.

He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee.

VOUCH, verb intransitive To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation. I canot vouch for the truth of

the report.

He declares he will not believe her, till the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the

truth of what she so solemnly affirmed.

VOUCH, noun Warrant; attestation.

VOUCHED, participle passive Called to witness; affirmed or fully attested; called into court to make good a warranty.

VOUCHEE, noun In law, the person who is vouched or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.

VOUCHER, noun

1. One who gives witness or full attestation to any thing.

The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for each others reputation.

2. In law, the act of calling in a person to make god his warranty of title.

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.

VOUCHING, participle present tense Calling to witness; attesting by affirmation; calling in to maintain warranty of title.

VOUCHOR, noun In law, the tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title . In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher, or double vouchers.

VOUCHSAFE, verb intransitive [vouch and safe; to vouch or answer for safety.]

1. To permit to be done without danger.

2. To condescend to grant.

Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?

It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathen the means of

salvation.

VOUCHSAFE, verb intransitive To condescend; to deign; to yield.

VOUCHSAFE, illustrious Ormond, to behold What powr the charms of

beauty had of old.

VOUCHSAFED, participle passive Granted in condescension.

VOUCHSAFEMENT, noun Grant in condescension; as, Gods greatest communicated vouchsafements.

VOUCHSAFING, participle present tense Condescending to grant; deigning.

VOW, noun

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.

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.

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.

VOW, verb transitive

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.

When thou vowest a vow defer not to pay it. Ecclesiastes 5:4.

2. To devote.

VOW, verb intransitive To make vows or solemn promises. He that vows, must be careful to perform.

VOWED, participle passive Solemnly promised to God; given or consecrated by solemn promise.

VOWEL, noun

1. In grammer, a simple sound; a sound utterd by simply opening the mouth or organs; as the sound of a, e, o.

2. The letter or character which represents a simple sound.

VOWEL, adjective Pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

VOWELED, adjective Furnished with vowels.

VOWER, noun One who makes a vow.

FELLOW, noun [vow and fellow] One bound by the same vow. [Little used.]

VOWING, participle present tense Making a vow.

VOYAGE, noun

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 Latin made more than a hundred voyages to the West Indies. A voyage over lake Superior is like a voyage to Bermuda.

2. The practice of traveling. [Not in use.]

VOYAGE, verb intransitive To sail or pass by water.

VOYAGE, verb transitive To travel; to pass over.

I with pain Voyagd th unreal, vast, unbounded deep.

VOYAGER, noun One who sails or passes by sea or water.

A private voyager I pass the main.