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VICARIOUS. Filling the place of another. 

 VIGOUR. Active strength or force of body 



in animals. 

 VILLI. Small processes like the pile of vel- 



vet. 



VINOUS. Having the qualities of wine. 

 VIOLACEOUS. Of a violet colour, or re- 



sembling violets. 

 VIPEROUS. Like a viper, or having the 



qualities of one. 



VIKIWTY. Greenness ; verdure. 

 VIRILE. Belonging to the male sex. 

 VIRULEMT. Very poisonous or venomous. 

 Vntus. Foul or contagious matter in an 



ulcer, &.c. 

 VISCERA. The organs contained in any 



cavity of the body, particularly in the 



three venters, the head, thorax, and abdo- 



men. 



VISCID. Glutinous ( not readily separating. 

 Viscous. Clammy ; adhesive ; tenacious ; at 



a rwcoitfjuice. 

 VISUAL. Pertaining to sight t as, vi*ual rays 



are lines of light, imagined to come from 



the object to the eye. 

 VITALS- Parts of animal bodies essential to 



life, such as the viscera. 

 VITELLINB. Of or belonging to the yolk of 



an egg. 



VITELLUB. The yolk of an egg. 

 VITREOUS. Resembling giant as, the vitreous 



humour of the eye. 



VITRESCEMT. Tending to become glass. 

 VITUIFORM. Having the form or resemblance 



of glass. 



VIVACIOUS. Lively ; active ; sprightly. 

 ng living 

 s, a pond, a park, 

 ibiting the appea 

 freshness. 



VIVARY. A place for keeping living ani- 



mals in ; as, a pond, a park, &c. 

 VIVID. Exhibiting the appearance of life or 



VIVIFY. To endue with life ; to animate. 

 VIVIPAROUS. Pertaining to those animals 



which bring forth their young alive, as dis- 



tinguished from oviparous, producing eggs t 



as birds. 

 VOCAL. Uttered or modulated by the voice ; 



as the riM-iil music of the woods. 

 VOCIFEROUS. Clamorous ; making a loud 



outcry. 

 VOIDED. Emitted ; evacuated ; as, he voided 



worms. 

 VOLATILE. Flying ; passing through the 



air on wings, or by the buoyant force of 



the atmosphere ; having the power to fly. 



Also, capable of wasting away, or of cosily 



passing into the aeriform state. 

 VOLUTE. A spiral turn in shells, &c. 

 VOLUTITE. A petrified shell of the genus 



voluta. 

 VOMKR. The palate or upper part of the 



mouth of a fish. 



VORACIOUS. Rapacious ; eager to devour. 

 VORTEX. A whirlpool ; a whirlwind. 

 VULPINE. Pertaining to the fox. 

 VULTURINE. Having the qualities of, or re- 



sembling a vulture. 

 VULVA. A mark in several bivalve shells, 



formed when the valves are united on the 



posterior and anterior slopes. 



WALL-EYED. Having a disease in the crys- 

 talline humour of the eye, which gives it 

 a white appearance. 



WAMPUM. Shells used by the American 

 Indians as money. This word is a cor- 

 ruption of " Wampampea," Indian money; 

 so called by the Narragansets and other 

 tribes found in New England by the first 

 British settlers : it was of two kinds, white 

 and black ; the one made of the shell of a 

 periwinkle, the other of the bivalve I'CHUM 

 mercenaria lion. C. A. Murray' ' Tra- 



vets, vol. i. p. 24S. 



WATTLE. The fleshy excrescence which 

 grows under the throat of some fowls, at 

 the turkey, and also of some fishes. 



WEA.V. To accustom and reconcile a child 

 or other young animal to a want or de- 

 privation of the breast. 



WEB. The membrane which unites the toes 

 of many water-fowls. Also, a plexus of 

 very delicate threads or filaments which a 

 spider spins from its bowels, and which 

 serves as a net to catch flies and other in- 

 sects for its food. 



WEBBED. Having the toes united by a 

 membrane or web ; as the webbed feet of 

 aquatic fowls. 



WKB-FOOTCD. Palmiped t having webbed 

 feet. 



WUELKY. Protuberant and embossed ; re- 

 sembling the u-helL, a marine univalve 

 shell. 



WIIINK. To express murmurs by a plaintive 

 cry. 



WHIR. To sound like a body passing swiftly 

 through the air. 



WHISTLE. A call, such as sportsmen use to 

 their dogs ; a shrill sound made by pressing 

 the breath through a small orifice of the 

 lips ; the sound of winds passing among 

 trees or through crevices, &c. 



WHITE (of the eye). That part of the ball 

 of the eve surrounding the iris or coloured 

 part. It owes its whiteness to the tunica 

 albuginea or adnata, a partial covering of 

 the fore part of the eye, formed by the ex- 

 pansion of the tendons of the muscles which 

 move the eye-ball. White of an egg: the 

 albumen, or pellucid viscous fluid, which 

 surrounds the ntellus or yolk. 



WHIZ. To make a humming or hissing 

 sound, like a ball or arrow passing through 

 the air. 



WINDOALL. A soft tumour on the fetlock 

 joints of a horse. 



WING-SHELL. The shell that covers the 

 wings of certain insects. 



WITHERS. The juncture of the shoulder- 

 bones of a horse, at the bottom of the neck. 



WOOD-FRKTTER. An insect or worm that 

 eats wood. 



WOODLAND. Land covered with trees, which 

 are suite red to grow either for fuel or 

 timber. 



WRECK. The ruins of a ship stranded, or 

 cast on shore and fractured. 



WRINKLED. Ridges and furrows formed on 

 the skin or any smooth surface. 



WRITHE. To twist with violence t to distort. 



XIPHOID (cartilage). A small cartilage si- 

 tuated at the bottom of the breast-bone, 

 called also the eruifoi~m cartilage. 



XYLOPHAOOUS. Destroying and feeding on 

 wood. 



