VAL SUPPLEMENT. VOI 



& slightly- foetid odour to the dried roots.! VERMEILLE or VERMEiL.a namegireo 

 This odour >ppears to have a fascination to orange-tinted crimson garnet by jewellers, 

 for some animals; cats, and even rats, it Viiiio MCA, a legendary fabrication sup- 

 Is said, being powerfully attracted by it. | ported by the Church of Rome, which assert* 



VALOREM, Al), according to value. A that when our Lord was on His way to be 

 basts of taxation which has sometimes been crucitied, Veronica put a handkerchief to His 

 ado'pted for general purposes of revenue, face to wipe it, and received a true impres- 

 though never very satisfactory. It is still in sion of His likeness upon it. The rag is still 

 use in several cases, as in certain deeds charged exhibited at Rome as St. Veronica's hand- 

 with stamp duties according to the value or kerchief, and an engraving of it may be 

 purchase price or consideration they ex-; sometimes picked up, which is chiefly re- 

 press, imarkable for the skill with which the artist 



VARKC, an impure carbonate of soda, has transferred the likeness to his plate, and 

 similar to kelp. It is also called blauquette, completed the whole engraving of it with 

 and is chiefly manufactured in Brittany. j one single line, commencing on the tip of 



VAUIOLOUS, any pitted surface marked the nose and winding spirally outwards in a 

 with impressions like those of small-pox. i series of irregular rings, (^roin vera aud 



VASCCLAR SYSTEM, the organic vesi-;ei/ccoi/ "true image.") 

 cular tissue of plants, more especially de-; VERUUCJS, warty-like bodies, in botany, 

 voiefl to the conveyance of air; i.e., spirals or; are so called _ whea verruca cover continu- 

 trachex. ously any surface, it is said to be verrucose. 



VECTOR or RADIUS VRCTOB. the line 1 ; VKIITEX, the With, also the apex or 

 o! direction from a planet to the centre of point of a and the point at which the 



us 01 bital motion. As all orbital motions ^^ of an angle intersect 

 are ellipses, a vector is always one of the VERTIGO, giddiness. It is commonly 

 r*4ti of an ellipse, hence it is called Radius . sym p tonlat ic of nervous debility, 

 vector. VESICANTS, blistering applications for 



VivUETAiVLE SHEEP, the composite the skin 



plant Xaoulia eximia of New Zealand,; VKSICATORIN, the blistering principle of 

 which grows in remarkable woolly -like cantharides called also Cantharidin 

 masses, resembling sheep resting. i VETCH, a family of Leguminosce, of 



\ KGETABLE MLK.afibre obtained from ' hich the comm on tare is an example. 



the seed pods of Chortsia specwsa. \ VEXILLARY, a standard bearer, or any- 



VKI4KTAHI.E TALLONV, a fatty matter thing relating to an ensign or standard, also 



yielded by several plants, more especially that disposition of the petals of flowers by 



Valeria Indica and Stilling la Sebifera. which one much larger portion is folded over 



VENATION, the arrangement of the veins the others. (Vexlllum, " a standard.") 

 or ribs of leaves, and other botanical organs.] VIDETTE, a sentry planted so as to be 



VENESECTION, bleeding by opening a able to watch the movements of an enemy, 

 vein. and forewarn of his approach. 



VENICE WHITE, or HAMBURG or VIKINGS, the sea kings. 

 DUTCH WHITE, a pigment composed of, VIXEOAR PLANT, the Peniclttium glau* 

 carbonate of lead and sulphate of baryta. cum, developed in liquids undergoing fer- 



VE NOSE, having many veins, as in certain mentation. It is allied to the Yeast Plant, 

 leave* with complex or reticulated venation, and is a mould of universal distribution. 



VEST or VEXT HOLE, the holeorchan-j VIVISECTION, the partial dissection of 

 ncl in a piece of ordnance through which living animals with a view to enlarge the 

 the charge is ignited. knowledge of physiology and vital actions. 



VENTRAL, relating to the region of the VOGUTE, a hydrated carbonate of ura- 

 belly. nium, copper, and lime. 



VKXTRAL FINS, the fins on the belly VOICE, the production of sound by the 

 of fishes. action of air upon the larynx. Speech is a 



V EN US' BATH, the plant Dipsacus sylvet- modification of voice by the combined or 

 trit. I alternate influence on the voice of the teeth, 



V EXUS* HATR STONF, transparent rock lips, and tongue, and the disposition of the 

 crystal, containing acicular crystals of mouth. The sustained power of the voice 

 titnnium. and its perfect intonation depend entirelv 



VENUS' PENCILS orCcPin's PENCILS, on the command and regulation of the 

 a violet quartz, containing brownish gold breath ; and unimportant as cultivated elo- 

 fibre* of oxide of iron. | cutiou appears to most people, it is remark - 



V'KRBjr.M, a rare elementary metal, able how few are capable of accurately and 

 fonnd in orthite and gadolinite, iu associa- effectively exercising the organs of speech, 

 tion with erbium and yttrium. and how much ill health is the result of 



V KKDKK i;it, a forester of the royal slovenly habits in this respect. Cultivation 



forests, whose duty was to protect the cover of the voice is essentially and primarily cor- 



or underwood, or over vert and nether vert, rect cultivation of the breathing power ; and 



W it was called, when once thoroughly mastered aud under- 



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