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Vermiculate, adj. Intricate, winding, like the moving of a worm: p. 31, 
1, 23. : 
Versatile, adj. Changeable: p. 24, 1. I. : 
Vestiments, sb. Vestments, dress: p. 88, 1. 33. ‘Vestimento, as Veste, 
any vestiment or vesture.’ Florio, Ital. Dict. 
Vicissitude, sb. Change: p. 6, 1.26. Order of things: p. 49, 1. 16. 
Void, adj. Empty: p. 43, 1. 22. 
Vollies, sb, Flights: p. 252,1. 41. From Fr. volée a flight of birds. 
Volubility, sb. Rolling or twisting motion: p. 201, 1. 6. 
Voluble, adj. Capable of revolving: p. 239, 1. 27. 
Voluntary, sb. A volunteer: p. 66, 1. 14. 
Voluptuary, adj. Belonging to pleasure: p. 133, l. 25; p. 143, 1. 26. 
Vulgar, adj. Common, familiar: p. 54,1. 8 
w. 
Wait on. To attend: p. 49, 1. 17. 
Wait upon. To attend: p. 95, |. 3. 
Want, sb. Defect, deficiency: p. 237, ll. 21, 23. 
Warrant, v.i. To attest: p. 11,1. 27. 
Watch candle, sb. A night light: p. 32, 1. 32. Compare Albumazar ii. 
9g; ‘Why should I twine mine arms to cables, and sigh my soul to air? 
Sit up all night like a watching candle, and distil my brains through my 
eyelids?’ ‘My good old mistress was wont to call me her watch-candle, 
because it pleased her to say I did continually burn (and yet she suffered 
me to waste almost to nothing).’ Bacon, Letter to King James (Works, 
x. 280). A 
Water, sb. A piece of water: p. 105, 1.9. Compare Tennyson, Morte 
d’Arthur : 
‘On one side lay the ocean, and on one 
Lay a great water, and the moon was full.’ 
Wavering, sb. Oscillation: p. 94, 1. 19. 
Way, in the phrase ‘to hold way with’=to keep pace with: p. 14, 1. 16. 
So ‘to keep way with,’ p. 113, l. 10; ‘to take the way’=to take steps 
or measures: p. 173, 1. 27. 
Way, sb. Aroad: p. 144, 1. 11; p. 246, 1. 25. 
Ways. ‘No ways’=in no way: p. 28, 1. 16; p. 56,41. 25; p. 221, l. 15. 
Weal, sb. Welfare, prosperity: p. 55, 1. 33. 
Wear, v.i. To suffer from wear or use: p. 15, l. 24, 
Went of=were current about: p. 68, 1. 5. 
Were better, p. 217, 1.7; p, 222, 1. 25. We should now say ‘a man 
had better,’ or ‘ it were better for a man &c.’ 
What time. At which time, when: p. 92, |. 27. 
Whereas, adv. Where: p. 68, 1. 9. 
Whether, prox. Which, of two: p. 195, l. 32. 
Which, rel. pr. Who; used of persons: p. 9, 1.18; p. 28, 1. 215 p. 233, 
1, 12. 
