vast 
The dead vast and middle of the night, 
Shalt., Hamlet, i. 2. 108. 
vastatet (vas'tat), a. [< L. rastatus, pp. of tan- 
tare, make empty or desert, ruin, desolate, < vas- 
tus, empty, unoccupied, waste: see vast, a.] 
Devastated ; laid waste. 
The vastate ruins of ancient monuments. 
vastation (vas-ta'shon), . 
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Vaudois 
vat (vat), 
tina. 
vat. 
[< vat, 
. t.\ pret. and pp. ratted, ppr. vat- vaticide 1 (vat'i-sid), n. [< L. vates, a seer, 
at, n.] To put in a vat ; treat in a prophet, + -eida, < cxdere, kill.] One who kills 
a prophet. 
The mur- 
[< L. vastatio(n-), . 
a laying waste or ravaging, < vastare, pp. van- Vateria ( va -te'ri-a), . [NL. (Linnseus, 1737) 
A la.-rfT.o- w H ste : named a f te 'r Abraliam rater, a German botanist 
(18th century).] A genus of polypetalous plants, 
of the order Dipterocarpeee, characterized by 
flowers with about fifteen stamens, and calyx- 
lobes reflexed, but not enlarged in fruit. The 28 
species, with one exception, are natives of tropical Asia, 
especiallyCeylon. Theyare resin-bearing trees, with entire 
coriaceous veiny leaves, and white or pale-yellow flowers 
on short lateral peduncles, or forming terminal panicles. 
V. Seychellarum of the Seychelles, a tall tree reaching 100 
The vatting of the unhaired skins is more important in vatlcide 2 (vat'i-sid), n. [< L. votes, a seer, 
the manufacture of morocco than any other kind of 
leather. Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 376. 
Rum vatted [on the docks], coloured, and reduced to 
standard strength. Nineteenth Century, XXII. 486. 
rat-blue (vat'blo), n. Same as indigo blue 
(which see, under indigo). 
tatus, lay waste : seewzstote.] A laying waste ; 
waste; devastation. Rev. T.J&MU, Works,L86. 
vastatort, n. [< L. vastator, a ravager, < vastare, 
lay waste : see vastate.'] One who devastates or 
lays waste. Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, 
p. 86. (Dailies.) 
vasti, n. Plural of vastus. 
vastidityt (vas-tid'i-ti), . [Irreg. < vast + -i<l l 
+ -ity.~\ Wasteness'; desolation; vastness; im- 
mensity. [Rare.] 
Perpetual durance, a restraint, 
Though all the world's vastidity you had, 
To a determined scope. Shak. , M. for SI., iii. 1. 69. 
vastitude (vas'ti-tud), n. [< L. vastitudo, ruin, 
destruction, < vastus, desert, waste : see vast.] 
If. Destruction; vastation. 2. Vastness; im- 
mense extent. [Rare.] 
vastity (vas'ti-ti), n. [< L. vastita(t-)s, a waste, 
desert, vast size, < vastns, waste, vast : see vast.] 
1. Wasteness; desolation. 
prophet, + -cidium, < csedere, kill.] 
der of a prophet. 
raticinal (va-tis'i-nal), a. [< vaticine + -?.] 
Relating to or containing predictions ; prophet- 
ic; vatic. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, I. 77. 
vaticinate (va-tis'i-nat), v.; pret. and pp. vatici- 
nated, ppr. vaticinating. [< L. vaticinatus, pp. 
of vaticinari, foretell, predict, < vatcs, a seer, 
prophet: see vatic.] I. intrans. To prophesy; 
foretell ; practise prediction. 
The most admired of all prophane Prophets, whose pre- 
dictions have been so much scann'd and cryed up, . . . did 
vaticinate here. Hawett, Vocall Forrest (ed. 1645), p. 32. 
II. trans. To prophesy ; utter prophetically 
or as a prophet; foretell. 
Instinct, intuition, . . . embosom and express whatso- 
ever the Spirit vaticinates. 
their"stkmens;which"re"achflfty ine~ach flower: 'The'latter * * Alcott, TableTalk, p. 133. 
is a large handsome tree of Ceylon, its twigs reddened with vaticination (va-tis-i-na'shon), n. [< L. Da- 
dense hairs; its green resin is valued by the Cingalese for ticinatio(n-), < vaticinari, foretell: see vatici- 
ceremonial uses. V. Indtca, the pmne of the Tamul jaces, WP apt of nronlipsvine-- nrpdiction 
known as piny^varnish-, copal-, or tallow-tree, a native of ne.\ 
For this so clear vaticination they have no less than 
twenty-six answers. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), II. 333. 
. , 
feet high, is exceptional in its calyx, which is not reflexed 
in fruit. V. fndica and V. acummata are exceptional in 
Ceylon and Malabar, is the chief source of the white dam- 
mar of the bazars of southern India, which issues from 
notches cut in its bark as a white, pellucid, fragrant, acid, 
and bitter resin, later becoming brittle and yellow or 
greenish ; it is known as Malabar copal, gum aniine, etc. vatlCinator (va-tis i-na-tor), n. [JNL., < L. va- 
' ticinator, a soothsayer, < vaticinare, foretell: 
Nothing but emptinesse and vastitie. 
Nashe, Pierce Penilesse, p. 16. 
2. Vastness; immensity. 
The huge vastity of the world. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 951. 
Th' vnbounded Sea, and vastitie of Shore. 
(see piny), and is there used as a varnish for carriages 
and pictures, is cut into ornaments under the name of am- 
ber, is made into ointments, and is used for incense, burn- 
ing with a clear white light with pleasant fragrance and 
little smoke. The tree bears oblong petioled leaves, and 
erect white flowers nearly an inch broad arranged in a 
single row on the spreading branches of large terminal . . 
panicles, followed by small oblong three-valved fleshy VatlCinatresS (va-tis i-na-tres), . 
, C u oca, uiu ,* u . om,. 'raits, valued in the manufacture of candles (see piny tal- tor + -ess.'] A prophetess. 
Beywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 4. low, under piny); the seeds are eaten to allay nausea ; the 
gray heart-wood is employed in making canoes and masts. 
vastly (vast'li), adi: If. Like a waste ; deso- Vater's ampulla. See ampulla of Vater, under 
lately. 
Like a late-sack'd island, vastly stood 
Bare and unpeopled in this fearful flood. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1740. 
2. Verygreatly; to a vast extent or degree: also Caters diverticulum. Same 
Vater's fold. A fold in the mucous membrane 
of the small intestine, just above the ampulla 
or opening of the pancreatic duct and biliary 
ducts ; the plica transversalis of the duodenum. 
ampulla. 
see vaticinate.] One who vaticinates or pre- 
dicts ; a prophet. 
Pythagoras, who travelled far to visit the memphitical 
vaKcinators. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, ii. 18. 
[< vaticina- 
Their voyage was six days journeying. On the seventh 
whereof was shown unto them the house of the vaticina- 
tress. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 17. 
as Vater's am- 
A prediction; a vaticina- 
in exaggerated colloquial use (see vast, a., 4). 
In the swamps and sunken grounds grow trees as vastly 
big as I believe the world affords. 
Beverley, Virginia, ii. ^ 3. 
I will be so honest as to own that the obliging things 
you say to me please me vastly. 
vastness (vast'nes) 
of being vast ; greatness 
The unity reigning through a work upon which so many 
generations labored [the Bible] gives it a vastness ' 
comparison, so that the greatest work of individ 
erary genius shows by the side of it like sor 
human hands beside the Peak of Teneriffe. 
J. R. Seeley, Nat, Religion, p. 168. 
prophet: see vatic.'] 
tion. 
Then was fulfilled the vaticine or prophesie of old Mer- 
lin. Oiraldus Cambrensis, Conquest of Ireland, ii. 34 
[(Holiushed's Chron., I.). 
rat-net (vat'net), n. A net placed over a vat 
or tub, to strain a liquid as it is poured through. 
vatting charges at the docks. 
omanv - ,, i^- . vang carges 
beyond P,, ftt (*f a ^ 5> ld Celtic form appearing m Gr^ Vauc if eria (va - k e'ri-a), 
ual lit- oar W (Strabo), priest, Olr./^ift, prophet), + Y rt X~1803V r, lfi d aftf 
COrnjmrlSOIl SO Miai* tile {gicuiceL WUIA. ui IUUIVJUUMI IIL- /> \ /j x / So 
erary genius shows by the side of it like some building of -ic.] Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from a 
prophet or seer ; prophetic ; oracular ; inspired. 
Mrs. Browning. 
Immen- vaticalt (vat'i-kal), a. [< vatic + -al] Same 
as vatic. 
vasturet (vas'tur), n. [< vast + -ure.~\ 
sity; vastness. 
What can one drop of poyson harrae the sea, 
Whose hugie vastnres can digest the ill ? _ f 
Edward III. (quarto, 1696), D 1 b. (Nares.) y atican (vat 'i_kan), n. [= P. Vatican = Sp. Pg. 
vastus (vas'tus), n. ; pi. rasti (-ti). [NL. (so. ft. y a ticano, < L'. Vaticanus, so. mons or collis, 
musculus) : see vast.'] One of the great muscles t h e Vatican hill in Rome (see def .).] The pal- 
upon the front of the thigh, the vastus exter- ace o f the Popes, a mass of buildings of vast , 
nus and internns, a portion of the latter being extent, built upon the Vatican hill, immediate- vaudeville (vod'vil), n. [< F. vaudeville, < OF. 
also termed the crurseus. The two together are also - 
Vatical predictions. 
Bp. Hall, Christ's Procession to the Temple. 
v . - , n. [NL. (A. P. de Can- 
dolle, 1803), named after Prof. Jean Pierre Eti- 
enne Vaucher, of Geneva, author of works on 
the Conferva, etc.] A genus of multinucleate 
fresh-water algee, belonging to the order Sipho- 
nese. The plant consists, when in a non-fruiting state, of 
a single elongated cell of a pale-green color, branching in 
various ways, and increasing by apical growth. Non-sex- 
ual reproduction is of two kinds, by means of motionless 
resting-spores and motile zoospores, while the sexual re- 
production is by means of obgonia and antheridia, both 
oogonia and antheridia being lateral and sessile. There 
are above a dozen species in the United States. See S- 
phonese. 
known as the crurseus, in which case they are distin- 
guished as extracrwrseus and intracrur&us. The vasti, 
together with the rectus femoris, constitute the extensor 
muscle of the leg, called triceps (or quadriceps) extensor 
cruris, and triceps femoralis. See cut under musclel. 
vasty (vas'ti), a. [< vast + -)/ 1 .] Vast; bound- 
less; being of great extent; very spacious; 
immense. [Rare.] 
I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1. 62. 
Vasum (va'zum), n. [NL. (Bolten, 1798).] A 
genus of gastropods : same as Cynodonta. See 
cut under Turbinelliclee. 
vat (vat), n. [< ME. vat, vet, a var. of fat, fet, 
< AS. feet, a vat, vessel, cask: see /ai 2 .] 1. 
A large tub, vessel, or cistern, especially one 
for holding liquors in an immature state, as 
chemical preparations for dyeing or for tan- 
ning leather. 
vaudeville, vauldeville, a vaudeville, roundelay, 
country saying, so called from vau-de-vire, val- 
de-vire, the valley of the river Vire, in Norman- 
dy: see valel, de' 2 .'] 1. The name given by 
Oliver Basselin, a French poet of the fifteenth 
century, to his convivial songs composed in the 
valley of the Vire, which became very popular 
throughout France. 
Vauderillf, a countrey ballade, or song ; a Eoundelay or 
Virelay : so tearmed of Vaudevire, a Norman towne wher- 
in Olivier Bassel, the first inueter of them, liued ; also a 
vulgar proverb, a countrey or common saying. Cotgrave. 
Hence 2. In modern French poetry, a light, 
Vatican December tn, 1869, ana declared Deiiei mine in- ..._-_,, f rpn iipTitlv pmhodvirio- a satire con 
fallibility of the Pope when speaking ex cathedra to be a gay song, Irequently emDOQying a ire, cc 
sisting of several couplets with a refrain or bur- 
den, sung to a familiar air, and often introduced 
into theatrical pieces ; a song popular with the 
common people, and sung about the streets; a 
ly to the north of the basilica of St. Peter at 
Rome. Since the close of the papal schism (about 1418) 
the Vatican has been the principal residence of the Popes, 
and since the conversion of Rome into the capital of Italy 
(1870) officially their only residence. As such, and as 
the storehouse of priceless literary and artistic collec- 
tions, it is one of the chief treasuries of Rome and of the 
world. Hence, the Vatican is used as equivalent to the 
papal power or government : as in the phrase the thunders 
of the Vatican, the anathemas or denunciations of the 
Pope. The Vaticanis also in familiar use as a designation 
for the museums of sculpture and painting which are there 
aggregated. Vatican Codex. See codex, ,2. Vatican 
Council, the Twentieth Ecumenical Council according to 
the reckoning of the Church of Rome, which met in the 
Vatican December 8th, 1869, and declared belief in the in- 
fallibility of the Pope when speaking ex cathedra to be a 
dogma of the church. It was closed October 20th, 1870, ow- 
ing to the occupation of Rome by the civil power of Italy. 
See infallibility, and Old Catholic (under catholic). Vati- 
can Fragments, parts of a compendium of law taken 
from the writings of jurisconsults and from several im- 
J U113UUIIBU1U3 (UHI UVUI OGolal lu- X 4 *^ A 1" T, J. 1 .3 
perial constitutions. They were discovered by the libra- ballad; a topical song. Hence 3. A light kind 
rian of the Vatican, and first published in Rome in 1823. " * 
Let him produce his vats and tubs, in opposition to Vaticanism (vat'i-kan-izm), n. [< Vatican + 
heaps of arms and standard*. Ef ^ ..] The theological and ecclesiastical sys- 
tern based on the doctrine of absolute papal 
supremacy; ultramontanism. 
Vaticanism . . . had disinterred and brought into ac- 
of dramatic entertainment, combining panto- 
mime with dialogue and songs, which obtained 
great popularity about the middle of the eigh- 
teenth century. At present any short, light piece, usu- 
ally comic, with songs and dances intermingled with the 
dialogue, is called a vaudeville. 
vaudevillist (vod'vil-ist), n. [< vaudeville + 
, ,- .. .... -ist.J A composer or singer of vaudevilles. 
low Place on the back of a calcining-furnace, Vaticanist (vat'i-kan-ist), n. [< Vatican + _Tlie Academy, March 22, 1890, p._208._ 
2. A liquid measure in the Netherlands, corre- 
sponding to the hectoliter about 22 imperial 
gallons. 3. In metal.: (a) A vessel used in 
the wet treatment of ores, (b) A square hol- 
tion the extravagant claims of Papal authority. 
Gladstone, Harper's Weekly, March 20, 1876. Supp., p. 248. 
rl_J_* 'I'ln il *iV tV IJlUCViliS l> I V Oil) 1 ~ l\.t 11 - 1QU 1 1. /(. l\ T 
in which tin ore is laid for the purpose of be- _ ist j A de V ted adherent of the Pope ; an Vaudois 1 (vo-dwo'), . and a. [F., < Valid (see 
ing dried. -Dripping- vat, a tank or receiver under a ultramontane; especially, an adherent of the def.).] I.M.I. The dialect spoken in the can- 
boiler or hanging frame to receive the drip or overflow. v , . '., V ' ; nfo iiii,;i;t v 1 'J 
- Fermenting-vat. See ferment. Holy- water vatt. 
Same as holy-water font (which see, under /on(l). 
Vatican Council and believer in the infallibility 
of the Pope. 
ton of Vaud in Switzerland. 2. An inhabitant 
or the inhabitants of the canton of Vaud. 
