very 
Is there a verier child than I am now? 
Donne, Devotions (Works, III. 605).] 
In very deed. See deed and indeed. 
very (ver'i), adv. [< rrry, a. The older adv. 
form of rrry is verily, now somewhat archaic.] 
1. Truly; actually. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
These sothely [benj the mesures of the auter in a cubit 
most vfrrr. Wyclif, Ezek. xliii. 13. 
2. In a high degree; to a great extent; ex- 
tremely ; exceedingly. Very does not qualify a verb 
directly, and hence also, properly and usually, not a past 
participle : thus, very much frightened, because it fright- 
ened him very much; and so in other cases. This rule, 
however, is not seldom violated, especially in England : 
thus, very Ceased, instead of very much pleased. 
We can call him no great Author, yet he writes very 
much, and with the infamy of the Court is maintain'd in 
his libels. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, An Aturney. 
Ye lied, ye lied, my very bonny may. 
The Broom of Cowdeiiknows (Child's Ballads, IV. 49). 
Your meat sail be of the very very best. 
Johnie of Cocklesmuir (Child's Ballads, VI. 17). 
Verzenay (ver-ze-na/), n. [< Verzenay (see 
def .).] Wine produced in the ancient province 
of Champagne, near Verzenay, a locality south- 
east of Rheims. (a) A white still wine. Compare Sil- 
lery. (6) One of several brands of champagne, excellent 
drinking-wine, but not considered of the highest class. 
Vesalian (ve-sa'li-an), a. [< Vesalius (see def . ) 
+ -an.'} Associated with the anatomist Vesa- 
lius (1514-64): as, the Vesalian foramen (fora- 
men Vesalii) of the sphenoid bone (a small 
venous opening). 
vesania (ve-sa'ni-a), n. [NL., < L. vesania, 
veesania, madness, < vesanus, veesanus, not of 
sound mind, < ve-, not, + sanns, sound, sane : see 
sane 1 ."] Disease of the mind; insanity. 
veset, " [< ME. vese, a rush of wind ; cf . vesen, 
fesen, drive away : see feeze."] A blast of wind ; 
a storm; commotion. 
Therout came a rage, and such a vese 
That it made al the gates for to rese. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1127. 
vesi (va'si), n. [Polynesian.] A leguminous 
tree, Afzelia bijuga, found in tropical Asia, the 
Seychelles, the Malayan islands, and Polynesia. 
It is an erect tree 50 feet in height, with something of the 
aspect of the European beech. In the Fiji Islands this 
and the tamanu are the best timber-trees, its wood seem- 
ing almost indestructible, and being there used for canoes, 
pillows, kava-bowls, etc. The tree waa held sacred by 
the natives. 
vesica (ve-si'ka), n. ; pi. vesicss (-se). [L., the 
bladder, 'a blister, a bag, purse, etc.] 1. In 
anat., a bladder; a cyst; a sac; especially, the 
urinary bladder, or urocyst, the permanently 
pervious part of the allantoic sac. 2. In bot., 
same as vesicle Trigonum vesicae. See trigonum. 
Vesica fellea, the gall-bladder or cholecyst ; the he- 
patic cyst. Vesica piscis (a fish's bladder), a symbol of 
Christ, a figure of a pointed oval form, made properly by 
the intersection of two equal circles each of which passes 
through the center of the other. The actual figure of a 
fish found on the sarcophagi of the early Christians was re- 
placed later by this figure, which was a common emblem 
in the middle ages, with reference to the Greek i\dvs (~ 
fish), a word containing the initial letters of 'iTjaous Xpt<r- 
ro5, WeoO Yibs, SUITIJP (Jesus Christ, Son of God, the Saviour). 
It is met with sculptured, painted on glass, in ecclesiasti- 
cal seals, etc. The aureola in representations of the mem- 
bers of the Trinity, of the Virgin, etc., is generally of this 
form. See cuts under aureola and glory. Vesica prOS- 
tatica. Same as prostatic vesicle (see prostatic). Vesica 
urinae, vesica urinaria, the urinary bladder. 
vesical (ves'i-kal), a. [= F. vesical; as vesica 
+ -a/.] Of or pertaining to a vesica ; cystic ; 
especially, pertaining to the urinary bladder: 
as, vesical arteries, veins, or nerves; vesical 
distention. Vesical arteries, branches of the ante- 
rior division of the internal iliac artery distributed to the 
bladder. The inferior is distributed to the lower part of 
the bladder, to the prostate, and to the vesiculse semi- 
nales, and is also called vesicoprostatic artery. The middle, 
a small branch of the superior, is distributed to the base 
of the bladder and the vesiculee seminal es. The superior, 
that part of the hypogastric artery of the fetus which is 
not obliterated, supplies the f undus and body of the blad- 
der. Vesical calculus, stone in the bladder. Vesical 
ligaments, the ligaments of the bladder, the anterior and 
lateral true ligaments. Vesical plexus, sacculus, tri- 
angle. See the nouns. Vesical synovial membrane. 
Same as bursal synovial membrane. See synovial. Vesical 
trigone. Same as trigonum vesicse. See trigonum. Ves- 
ical uvula, the uvula vesicas, or uvula of the bladder, a 
prominence situated at the inferior angle of the trigonum. 
Vesical veins the veins collecting the blood that has 
passed through the capillaries of the bladder. They are 
more numerous than the corresponding arteries. 
vesicant ( ves'i-kant). a. and . [= F. vesicant ; 
as vesica + -ant"] I. . Producing a bleb or 
blister; blistering; epispastic; vesicatory. 
II. . A vesicating agent ; an epispastic or 
vesicatory, as cantharides ; a blister. 
Vesicaria (ves-i-ka'ri-a), n. [NL. (Rivinus, 
1691), from the bladdery pod; < L. vesicaria, a 
plant reputed to be efficacious in diseases of the 
bladder, < vesicu, bladder: see vesica.] A ge- 
nus of cruciferous plants, of the tribe Alyssinese. 
6738 
It is characterized by a much-branched stem, stellate pu- 
bescence, and flowers which are usually yellow, and are 
followed by a globose many-seeded silicic with a slender 
style. There are about 32 species, mostly natives of the 
United States, with some in southern Europe, Syria, and 
Persia ; a few occur in the mountains of Central America. 
They are herbs with entire sinuate or pinnatitid leaves, 
hoary with short forking or branching hairs. The flowers 
are large and golden-yellow in the American species ; the 
others differ in habit, in their larger broadly winged seeds, 
and in their yellowish flowers, which become commonly 
whitish or purplish in fading. They are known as blad- 
der-pod, especially V. Shortii, in America. V. utriculata of 
the south of Europe produces conspicuous fruit-pouches 
of the size of a large pea ; V. vestita of Persia is peculiar in 
its large persistent sepals. The American species are par- 
ticularly abundant in Texas ; four occur in Colorado and 
Wyoming; one, V. arctica, becomes, at latitude 81 44', in 
Grinnell Land, one of the most persistent of arctic plants, 
and forms a dome-like tuft about 4 inches high, sending 
down very long deep roots. 
vesicate (ves'i-kat), v. t.; pret. and pp. vesicated, 
ppr. vesicating. [< vesica + -ate 2 .'] To raise 
vesicles, blisters, or little bladders on ; inflame 
and separate the cuticle of ; blister. 
Celsus proposes that in all these internal wounds the 
external parts be vesicated, to make more powerful revul- 
sion from within. Wiseman, Surgery. 
Vesicating collodion, collodion containing cantharides 
in solution, used as an external application to produce 
a blister. Vesicating plaster. See plaster. 
vesication (ves-i-ka'shon), n. [= F. vesica- 
tion; as vesicate + -ion."] The formation of 
blisters ; a blister. 
vesicatory (ves'i-ka-to-ri), a. and n. [= F. 
vesicatoire; as vesicate + -ory.~] I. a. Vesi- 
cant; epispastic: as, a vesicatory beetle. 
II. ; pi. vesicatories (-riz). An irritating 
substance applied to the skin for the purpose 
of causing a blister. 
vesicle (ves'i-kl), n. [= F. vesicule, < L. vesicu- 
la, a little blister, a vesicle, dim. of vesica, blad- 
der, blister: see vesica.'] 1. Any small blad- 
der-like structure, cavity, cell, or the like, in a 
body ; a membranous or vesicular vessel or cav- 
ity; a little sac or cyst. Also vesicule. (a) in 
anat. and zoiil., a small bladder or sac : a generic term of 
wide application to various hollow structures, otherwise 
of very different character and requiring specification by 
a qualifying word. Many such formations are embryonic 
and so transitory, and have other distinctive names when 
matured. (b) In pathol., a circumscribed elevation of the 
epidermis containing serous fluid. (/) In hot., a small 
bladder, or bladder-like air-cavity. Also vesica. 
2. A minute hollow sphere or bubble of water 
or other liquid Acoustic vesicle. Same as auditory 
vesicle. Allantoic or allantoid vesicle. Same as allan- 
tois. Auditory vesicle. See auditory, and cut under 
Synaptidee. Blastodermic vesicle. See blastodermic. 
Cerebral vesicles, anterior, middle, and posterior, the 
three membranous vesicular expansions of which the brain 
primitively consists, corresponding to the fore-brain, mid- 
brain, and hind-brain, the various thickenings and foldings 
of the walls of the vesicles giving rise to the substance of 
the brain, and the modified communicating cavities of the 
vesicles becoming the ventricles of the brain. These vesi- 
cles appear (unlettered) in the cut under embryo. The three 
commonly become five by subdivision of two of them, cor- 
responding to the five main encephalic segments which 
are recognized in most vertebrates, arid may be specified by 
the name of the segment to which they respectively give 
rise, as the prosencephalic, etc., vesicle(see cut under viscer- 
al). Certain other vesicular protrusions of the embryonic 
eucephalon provide for the formation of BO much of the 
organs of the special senses of smell and sight as is derived 
from the brain, one being the rhinencephalic vesicle, the 
other the ocular, ophthalmic, or optic vesicle ; both of these 
are paired. See cuts under amnion and cerebral (cut 4). 
Embryonal vesicle, in hot. See embryonal. Germinal 
vesicle. See germinal. Graafian vesicle, a cavity in 
the ovary which contains an ovum ; the capsule or calyx of 
an ovum, which, when the ovum is ripe, is ruptured to dis- 
charge the ovum into the peritoneal cavity, or the Fallopian 
tube or oviduct. Also called Graafian follicle. Malig- 
nant vesicle, anthrax. Marginal, ocular, optic ves- 
icle. See the adjectives. Ophthalmic vesicle. Same 
as ocular vesicle. Ovarian, polar, Polian, prostatic, 
etc., vesicle. See the adjectives. Purkinjean vesicle, 
or vesicle of PurMnje, the germinal vesicle. Rhinen- 
cephalic vesicle, the vesicular protrusion of a part of 
the prosencephalon of the embryo to form the rhinen- 
cephalon. Its hollow is primitively continuous with that 
of a lateral cerebral ventricle, and may persist as a rhino- 
ccelia, but it is usually obliterated. Seminal vesicles, 
two membranous receptacles for the semen, situated one 
on each side of the base of the bladder, between it and the 
rectum. In man each consists of a tube of about the size 
of a quill, of from 4 to 6 inches in length when unrolled, 
somewhat coiled, and repeatedly doubled upon itself, end- 
ing opposite the base of the prostate by uniting with a vas 
deferens to form an ejaculatory duct. Seminal vesicles 
exist in the males of many animals, being in general hol- 
low offsets from or diverticula of the deferent duct of the 
testis or its equivalent, but also existing under many dif- 
ferent modifications, especially in invertebrates. The 
more comprehensive name of such formations is sperma- 
tocyst. The corresponding structure in the female of some 
invertebrates, for the reception and detention of the male 
secretion, is a spermatotheca. See cuts under Dendroccela, 
Nematoidea, Proteolepas, and Rhabdoc&la. Serous ves- 
icle, the false amnion (which see, under amnion). Um- 
bilical vesicle, the yolk-cavity of any vertebrate, when 
it has formed a sac or cyst hanging from the umbilicus, its 
cavity being continuous with the intestinal cavity of the 
embryo. It is the seat of the earliest blood-circulation, 
and the organ of nutrition for the whole period of fetal 
Vesiculata 
life in anallantoic animals; but in those animals which 
develop an allantois and amnion, and especially a placen- 
ta, its function is temporary, being soon superseded by 
that of the allantois. See cuts under embryo and uterus. 
Vasoperitoneal vesicle. See vamperitoneal. 
vesicocele (ves'i-ko-sel), n. [< L. vesica, the 
bladder, + Gr. tdfai, tumor.] Cystocele ; hernia 
of the bladder. 
vesicoprostatic (yes"i-ko-pros-tat'ik), a. Per- 
taining to the urinary bladder and to the pros- 
tate gland Vesicoprostatic artery. Same as infe- 
rior vesical artery. See veifical arteries, under vetncal. 
Vesicopubic (ves"i ko-pii'bik), . Pertaining to 
the urinary bladder and to the pubes : as, a vesi- 
copubic ligament. 
vesicotomy (ves-i-kot'6-tni), n. [< L. vesicti, 
the bladder, + Gr. -TOfila, < reuveiv, ra/ulv, cut.] 
The operation of incising a bladder, usually the 
urinary bladder. 
vesico-umbilical (ves' / i-k6-um-biri-kal), a. 
Pertaining to the urinary bladder and to the 
umbilicus.-Vesico-umbUical ligament, theurachus. 
Vesico-Uterine (ves"i-ko-u'ter-in), a. Pertain- 
ing to the urinary bladder and to the uterus. 
Vesico-uterine ligaments, two semilnnar folds which 
pass from the posterior surface of the bladder to the neck 
of the uterus. Vesico-uterine pouch. See pouch. 
vesicovaginal (ves"i-k6-vaj'i-nal), a. Pertain- 
ing to the bladder and to the vagina: as, the 
vesicovaginal septum. Also vaginovesical. 
Vesicovaginal fistula, an abnormal communication be- 
tween the bladder and the vagina, generally resulting 
from sloughing of the parts consequent upon prolonged 
pressure of the head of the child in difficult labor. See 
Simon's and Sims's operations, under operation. Vesico- 
vaginal plexus. See plexus. 
vesicula (ve-sik'u-la), n. ; pi. vesiculse (-le). [L.] 
A vesicle. Vesiculse seminales, the seminal vesicles 
(which see, under vesicle). Vesicula fellea, the gall- 
bladder. Vesicula prostatlca. the prostatic vesicle 
(which see, under prostatic). Vesicula serosa. Same as 
false amnion (wbich see, under aihniori). 
vesicular (ve-sik'u-lar), a. [= F. vdsiculaire 
= Sp. Pg. vesicular, <. L. vesicula, vesicle : see 
vesicle.] 1. In anat. and zodl. : (<t) Of or per- 
taining to a vesicle ; of the form or nature of a 
vesicle; cystic; bladdery. (b) Having a vesi- 
cle; vesiculate; full of or consisting of vesicles, 
especially when they are small and numerous; 
areolar; cellular: as, the vesicular tissue of the 
lungs; a vesicular polyp. 2. In bot., pertain- 
ing to or consisting of vesicles ; appearing as if 
composed of small bladders ; bladdery. 
The terms Parenchymatous, Areolar, Utricular, and Ve- 
sicular, when applied to vegetable tissues, may be consid- 
ered as synonymous. Balftntr. 
3. In gtol., the epithet applied to rocks having 
a cellular structure, the cavities being rather 
large and well rounded, but not very abundant. 
A vesicular structure is intermediate in character between 
those denominated cellular and slaffffy ; but these dis- 
tinctions are not usually very distinctly marked or very 
carefully maintained. Normal vesicular murmur. 
See murmur. Posterior vesicular column, Clarke's 
column. See column, and cut of spinal cord (under spinal). 
Vesicular ascidian polypst, the Vesiculariidse. 
Vesicular column of the spinal cord, the gauglionic 
column, composed of a series of nerve-cells. Vesicular 
columns of Clarke. See columns of Clarice, under col- 
umn. Vesicular cylinder, Clarke's column. See col- 
umn, and cut of spinal cord (under spinal). Vesicular 
eczema. See eczema. Vesicular emphysema. See 
emphysema. Vesicular erysipelas, erysipelas associ- 
ated with the formation of vesicles. Vesicular fever, 
pemphigus. Vesicular flies. See I'esiculosa. Vesicu- 
lar glands, in bot., glands containing a volatile oil, placed 
just beneath the epidermis of the leaf, as in St. -John s-wort 
and myrtle, or of the bark, as in the orange. Vesicular 
quality, the quality of sound in vesicular respiratory 
murmur. Vesicular rale. See rale. Vesicular reso- 
nance. See resonance. Vesicular respiratory mur- 
mur. See respiratory. Vesicular stomatitis. Same 
as aphthous stomatitis (which see, under stomatitis). Ve- 
sicular synovial membrane. See synorial. Vesicular 
theory, the theory (now abandoned) that the minute drops 
of mist, cloud, and fog are hollow vesicles or bubbles. 
Vesicular wormst, the cystic worms, or cysticerci and 
hydatids. They were formerly regarded as adult organ- 
isms, several genera of different families of which were 
named. 
Vesicularia (ves'i-ku-la'ri-S), . [NL. (J. V. 
Thompson): see vesicular.] " The typical genus 
of Vesiculariidse. V. uva is an example. 
Vesiculariidse (ves-i-ku-la-ri'i-de), n.pl. [NL., 
< Vesicularia + -idie.~] A family of ctenosto- 
matous gymnoleematous polyzoans, whose typ- 
ical genus is Vesicularia, having the cells, of 
delicate structure and tubular form, clustered 
on slender flexible stems. 
vesicillarly (ve-sik'u-lar-li), adv. In a vesicu- 
lar manner; as respects vesicles. 
Vesiculata, Vesiculatse (vf-sik-u-la'ts, -te), . 
l>l. [NL., neut. or fern. pi. of 'vesieuiattts : see 
i'rxicii!iiti-.] 1. The campanularian polyps, or 
calyptoblastic hydromedusans. See Calypto- 
blastea and Campamtlarix. 2. A division of 
radiolarians. 
