VULCANO. [See Volcano.]

VULGAR , adjective

1. Pertaining to the common unlettered people; as vulgar life.

2. Used or practiced by common people; as vulgar sports.

3. Vernacular; national.

It might be more useful to the English reader, to write in our vulgar language.

4. Common; used by all classes of people; as the vulgar version of the scriptures.

5. Public; as vulgar report.

6. Mean; rustic; rude; low; unrefined; as vulgar ninds; vulgar manners.

7. Consisting of common persons.

In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter.

VULGAR fractions, in arithmetic, fractions expressed by a numerator and denominator; thus 2/5.

VULGAR, noun The common people. [It has no plural termination, but has often a plural verb.]

The vulgar imagine the pretender to have been a child imposed on the nation.

VULGARISM, noun

1. Grossness of manners; vulgarity. [Little used.]

2. A vulgar phrase or expression. [This is the usual sense of the word.]

VULGARITY, noun

1. Mean condition in life; the state of the lower classes of society.

2. Grossness or clownishness of manners or language; as vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity of expression or language.

VULGARIZE, verb transitive To make vulgar.

VULGARLY, adverb

1. Commonly; in the ordinary manner among the common people.

Such an one we vulgarly call call a desperate person.

2. Meanly; rudely; clownishly.

VULGATE, noun A very ancient Latin version of the scriptures, one the only one which the Romish church admits to be authentic. It is so called from its common use in the Latin church.

VULGATE, adjective Pertaining to the old Latin version of the scriptures.

VULNERABLE, adjective

1. That may be wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as a vulnerable body.

Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will never be wanting a Paris to infix

the dart.

2. Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; as a vulnerable reputation.

VULNERARY, adjective Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as vulnerary plants or potions.

VULNERARY, adjective Any plant, drug or composition, useful in the cure of wounds. Certain unguents, balsams and the like, are used as vulneraries.

VULNERATE, verb transitive To wound; to hurt. [Not in use.]

VULNERATION, noun The act of wounding. [not in use.]

VULPINE, adjective Pertaining to the fox; cunning; crafty; artful.

VULPINITE, noun A mineral of a grayish white color, splendent and massive; its fracture foliated. It consists of the sulphate of lime and silica.

VULTUR,

VULTURE, noun A genus of fowls, belonging to the order of Accipiters. The bill is straight, but hooked at the end, and covered at the base by a cere of skin. The head is naked. There are thirteen species, all carnivorous and rapacious. The vultur is one of the largest kinds of fowls, and the Condor of South America, one of this family, is the largest species of flying animals that has been discovered.

VULTURINE, adjective Belonging to the Vultur; having the qualities of the Vultur; resembling the Vultur; rapacious.