Old English | sp | English |
V | n | When oldest Latin words were adopted into Teutonic languages; such words beginning with 'v' appeared in O.E. as 'w'. |
Vane | n | Fane. 2. a weather vane. 2. a blade, plate, sail, etc., in the wheel of a windmill, to be moved by the air. 3. any of a number of blades or plates attached radially to a rotating drum or cylinder, as in a turbine or pump, that move or are moved by a fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air. 4. a person who is readily changeable or fickle. 5. any fixed or movable plane surface on the outside of a rocket providing directional control while the rocket is within the atmosphere. 6. a similar plane surface located in the exhaust jet of a reaction engine, providing directional control while the engine is firing. |
Vat | n | A large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids: a wine vat. 2. a preparation containing an insoluble dye converted by reduction into a soluble leuco base. 3. a vessel containing such a preparation. |
Vat | vb | To put into or treat in a vat. |
Verse | n | Partly from Old English fers; a turn of the plow, a furrow, a line of writing, partly, from Old French vers; both, from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”). 2. a metrical composition in general |
Verse | vb | To make or compose verse. |
Versecraft | vb | The crafting or writing verse. |
Versemonger | n | A writer of verse; versesmith, versewright. |
Vinew | n | OE. moisture, mold, moldiness, mildew. |
Vinewed | adj | Mildewed, moisture-filled, moldy. |
Vixen | n | OE fyxe, feminine of fox fox (compare fyxen: a female fox. 2. an ill-tempered, malicious, tempermental or quarrelsome woman; a bitch, virago, she-devil, hell-cat. origin: 1375–1425. 3. an ill-tempered or quarrelsome woman. 4. racy or salicious woman; a vamp. |
Vixenish | adj | Of or pertaining to a female fox. 2. resembling a vixenin disposition, ill-tempered, sharpness.. |
Vixenishly | adv | In a vixenish matter. |
Vixenishness | n | State or quality of being a vixen |
Vixen-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a vixen. |
Vixenly | adj | Resembling a vixen in disposition: illnatured, ill-tempered. |
Vixenly | adv | Shrewly, with scold, of a virago, harpy, termagantly, crossly, illnaturedly. |
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