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VEGLIANA, a town of France, in tlic department of 

 the Po, near the Little Doria, where the French obtained 

 a viftory over the Piedmontefe and Spaniards, in the year 

 1630 ; 1 1 miles N. of Turin. 



VEGLIONELLA, a town of Naples, in Bafdicata ; 

 20 miles S.S.W. of Turfi. 



VEGRE, a river of France, which runs into the Eure, 

 near Yvry. 



VEHAILEK, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Nedsjed; 70 miles S.W. of Jamama. 



VEHICLE, Vehicull.m, in its literal fenfe, fignifies 

 fomewhat that carries, or bears a thing along. See Car- 

 riage, Waggon, Wheel, &c. 



Thus, in Anatomy, the lerum is faid to be the vehicle that 

 conveys the globules of the blood. 



In Pharmacy, any liquid ferving to dilute another with, 

 or to adminiiler it in, more agreeable to a patient, is called 

 a vehicle. 



In Painting, vehicles denote certain fluids, which are 

 added to colours, in order to give them an unAuous con- 

 fiftence while ufed, that they may be laid on and fpread 

 properly, adhere to the grounds on which they are laid, 

 acquire a proper degree of tenacity when dry, and defend 

 * them from being injured by accidents. The principal 

 vehicles hitherto ufed are oils, water, fpirit of wine, and 

 turpentine. But as water and fpirit of wine want the 

 unftuous confiftence neceffary for fpreading the colours, and 

 dry away totally without leaving any glutinous fubftance to 

 bind and fix fuch of the pigments as are of an earthy or in- 

 cohering texture ; gums, fr/.e, fugar, and other fucli vifcid 

 fubftances have been fnperadded to fupply their defefts, and 

 render them of a due confidence and body. 



VEHNE, or Veene, in Geography, a river which rifes 

 in the bifhopric of Munfter, and joins the Soke, near 

 Stickhaufen. 



VEIA. See Veglia. 



VEICAMA, a town of Spain, in the province of Gui- 

 pufcoa ; 1 2 miles from Tolofa. 



VEIENTANA Gemma, in Natural Hiflory, the name 

 of a gem defcribed by Pliny, and faid to be found in Italy ; 

 he fays it was black, but furrounded with a circle of white: 

 it was probably a ftone of the camea kind. 



VEJER, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the pro- 

 vince of Seville, near the Straits of Gibraltar ; 9 miles S. 

 of Medina Sidonia. 



VEII, in Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, in Etruria, 

 S. of the Falerii, but nearer the Tiber and Rome. This 

 was a very ancient tovcn, and very confiderable on account 

 of the wealth and the valour of its inhabitants. Its ori- 

 ginal name was Veja, which was alfo, among the Ofci, the 

 name of one of thofe carriages in which they refided before 

 they had houfes. Its vicinity to Rome was one principal 

 caufe of its misfortunes ; for the jealoufy and envy of that 

 city were excited by its opulence and profperity. From 

 the time of Romulus, the inhabitants of thefe rival towns 

 contended. At length Veii was taken by Camillus, after 

 a fiege of ten years, in the year of Rome 356 or 357. The 

 booty was very confiderable ; and part of it was lodged in 

 the temple of the Pythian Apollo. It is a fufficient evi- 

 dence of the eligible fituation of Veii, that after the cap- 

 ture of Rome by the Gauls, it was a fubjeft of dehberation 

 whether this town (hould not be made the capital of the 

 republic. 



VEIL, Velum, a piece of fluff, ferving to hide or 

 prevent the fight of any thing. 



In this fenfe, we read of a large veil, or curtain, in the 

 temple of Jerufalem, miraculoully rent at the paffion of our 



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Saviour. In the Roman churches, in time of Lent, they 

 have veils, or curtains, over the altar, crucifix, images 

 of the faints, &c. 



Veil is alfo ufed for a large piece of crape, worn on the 

 head by nuns, as the badge of their profefiion. Whence, 

 to tahe the veil, fignifies to commence religious. 



The novices wear white veils ; and thofe who have made 

 the vows, black ones. 



The prelate before whom the vows are made, bledes the 

 veil, and gives it to the religious. 



Veil, in Botany, fee Calyptra. Thefe terms are now 

 exclufively appropriated to the membranous covering of the 

 germen in Musci and Hepatic.*, through the fummit 

 of which impregnation takes place, and which therefore 

 mufl be confidered as a peculiar organ, partly perhaps, but 

 not exaftly, analogous to a corolla. It is elevated with the 

 ripening capfule in Mufc'i, but fplits irregularly, to let the 

 fruit pafs, in Hepatk/e. The reader is requcfted to correft 

 two important errors of the prefs in the 8th column of the 

 article Musci : line l8th, {or finks, rez.d Jljrinis ; line 60th, 

 for fexual, read efexual. 



Veil, Charles Marie de, in Biography, the fon of a Jew 

 at Metz, and a profelyte to the Roman Catholic religion by 

 Boffuet, became a monk of the Augufline order, and en- 

 tered among the canons-regular of St. Genevieve. Purfuing 

 his theological ftudies at Angers, he took the degnee of 

 doftor in theology, and taught in the public fchools. In 

 1679 he vifited England, and abjuring Popery, conformed 

 to the Englifh church. He had previoufly diftinguilhed 

 himfelf 'by his fcriptural refearches, and pubhflied Latin 

 commentaries on the gofpels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, 

 on Joel, and the Canticles. During his ilay in England he 

 addrefled a letter to Mr.- Boyle, the defign of which was to 

 prove, againft Father Simon, that the Scripture is the 

 only rule of faith. In London he reprinted his commen- 

 tary on the Canticles, giving a literal explanation of that 

 book ; and he alfo publifhed com.mentaries on the twelve 

 minor prophets, and on the Afts of the ApolUes. At 

 this time he ftyled himfelf a prelbyter of the Enghfh church, 

 but in confequence of marrying the daughter of a Baptift, 

 he became connefted with perfons of that perfuafion, and 

 preached among them in the year 1685. His death is fup- 

 pofed to have happened about the clofe of the century. 



The brother of the preceding, Louis de Compeigne 

 DE Veil, was alfo a converted Jew, and diftinguifhed for 

 his knowledge of Hebrew literature. He was interpreter 

 of Oriental languages to the king of France, when he ac- 

 companied his brother to England, and joined in commu- 

 nion with the Enghfh church. The principal works he 

 publifiied were " The Jewifh Catechifm of Abraham Ja- 

 gel ;" a Latin tranflation, with notes, of " Maimonides de 

 Sacrificiis," and alfo of Abarbanel's " Exordium in Le- 

 viticum." Moreri. Gen. Biog. 



VEILLANE, in Geography. See Vegliana. 



VEILLY, or Veslev, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Aifne, on the Aifne ; 9 miles E. of 

 SoifTons. 



VEIN, in Anatomy, the name of thofe veffels which 

 convey back to the heart the blood carried out from it by 

 the arteries. All the details relating to the ftrudlure of 

 thefe tubes, to their arrangement in the body, and to their 

 office in the circulating fyllem, are confidered in the articles 

 Heart and Circulation. 



The veins are naturally arranged in three divifions ; viz. 

 I (I, the general venous fyilem, commencing from the capil- 

 laries all over the body, and pouring the black blood into 

 the heart by three large trunks : 2dly, the pulmonary veins, 



which 



