veterinary 
., o- i; ''' tirniiirii medicine; a vet- 
i mini i/ college or school. 
II. n. ; 1>1. <> /i riiiiini.i (-ri/.). A veterinarian. 
vetiver (vet'i-vei-). . [= F. n'tii-n-. /.'///(./ 
(XI,. ri'liri-rin), < E. hid. nln-ni/r (l.iti 
name given to the roots of the plant. J The 
cn-,ciis-grass, .tii/li-ii/ii>i/iiii tii/Htirrii.'iii.* (.1. iniiri- 
i-iilii.--), of India, the li'bnuis roots of which are 
made into tallies isee /iil/i/->. The rootstock and 
veuglairet, . I OF.. < Flem. tw<7*e/r, fowling- 
],icce. < ,-,,,/ln /, n l,ird : see /otcll.] A small 
camion, loaded |,y a movable chamber fitted 
i'll" ill'- on h, used in Kuropc ill the six! cent h 
century: sain.' us t'mrlir, L'. Also c//.r. 
veuve (vcv), . [F.] Anv l.inl of the genus 
/'iV/urt, in a broad sense, or of the mibfuinily 
inl/iin,T ; a whidah-hird. See I'ulnn. 
VOW (vu), n. [Also view and veire (Halliwell).] 
In India :ii] infusion is used as a cooling medicine. ' [* rov - ^"K-J 
veto (ve'to), w. [= F. retu. < L. ivf, I forbid vex ( ve s), . [< F. vexer = 8p. Pg. vcxar, < L. 
(s let'.). 1st pers. pres. iml. act. of vetare, ve xare, shake, jolt, hence distress, orig. shake 
forbid, prohibit, oppose, hinder.] 1. In aeon- "' carrying, freq. otvehere, carry: see vehicle.] 
st it nt ional government, the right vested in one * ** ! To make angry by little provoca- 
branch of it to negative the determinations of tlons j excite slight anger or displeasure in; 
another branch; specifically, the right, under troul >le by petty or light annoyances ; irritate; 
constitutional restrictions, of the executive, as * es8e > fret; plague; annoy; harass. 
a king, a president, or a governor, to reject a Tne y that vex and unquiet themselves with cares and 
bill passed by the legislature; also, the act of Btodjr - sir T - Mm > Utopia, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. n. 
exercising this right. This power is often traced to 
the privilege enjoyed by the Roman tribunes of annul- 
ling or suspending any measures of the senate, decree 
of a magistrate, etc., the word veto (I forbid) having been 
at least occasionally used by the tribune In such a cue. 
This power of the tribunes was properly called inter- 
The attempt on the part of Louis XVI. of 
Such an Injury would vex n very saint. 
Shalt., T. of the 8., UL 2. 28. 
O, I shall bunt if I cut not my lace, I'm so ivzf .' 
DeUrr and Wtlatrr, Northward Ho, 1L 1. 
There ! you stumble on the stair, and are vexed at your 
own awkwardness. (J. W. Ciirrw, Prue and I, p. 10. 
2. To make sorrowful; grieve; afflict : distress. 
As all offences use to seduce by pleasing, to all punish- 
ments endeavour by vexing to reform transgressions. 
Uoolar, Eccles. Polity, T. 72. 
Yet sold they not his Coat; With this, said il.. >. 
As Jacob vexed us, We'll vex Him again. 
J. Beaumont, I'syche, I. 135. 
cemio. The attempt on the part of Louis XVI. of France 
to exercise the veto assured to him by the Constitution 
of 1791 was one of the causes of the revolutionary move- 
ments of 1792, which at once dethroned the king and 
overturned the Constitution. In Great Britain the power 
of the crown is confined to a veto, a right of rejecting 
and not resolving, and even this right has become prac- 
tically obsolete, the last occasion of Its exercise being 
in the reixn of William III. The Constitution of the 
United States provides that "every Bill which shall have _ _, 
passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, * To agitate ; disturb; overturn or throw into 
shall, before It become a Law. be presented to the Presl- commotion; hence, to dispute ; contest; cause 
ilutVno^^ 
but unsettled) question. 
He was met even now 
As mad as the vex'd sea. Shall., Lear, Iv. 4. 2. 
How are endless fields vexed with ploughshares ! 
Channing, Perfect Life, p. 157. 
Not ctxiiuj a question (settled forever without our votes). 
R. D. Blademare, Loroa Uoone, xll. 
No thought of storm the morning vcxet yet 
William Morrii, Earthly Paradise, I. 291. 
, 
, Objecti 
House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter 
the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to 
reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two-thirds 
of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, 
together with the Objections, to the other House, by 
which It shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by 
two-thirds of that House, It shall become a Law. ... If 
any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten 
Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been present- 
ed to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he 
had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment 
prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a law." 
(Article I. Sec. 7.) Most of the State Constitutions have a 
similar provision. 
A man who might be afraid to defeat a law by his single 
veto might not scruple to return it for re-consideration. 
A. Hamilton, Federalist, No. 73. 
Afterwards the veto message of President Jackson put 
an end to legislation upon local routes. 
T. U. Benton, Thirty Years, I. 26. 
= Svn. 1. Annoy, Hague, etc. (see tease\ provoke, gall, 
chafe. 3. To disquiet. 
Il.t intrant. To fret; be teased or irritated; 
feel annoyed, angry, or distressed. 
I do command thee be my slave forever, 
And vex while I laugh at thee. 
Fletcher (and another). False One, Iv. 2. 
Prithee, sweet Mistress Dorothy, vex not ; how much is 
it [a debtlt DeUcer and Webster, Northward Ho, IL 1. 
Veto. By this expression (Lat. veto, ' I forbid ') is under* 
stood in public law the constitutional right of the com- 
petent authority, or in republics of the whole people in V6X (veks), . [< rex, '.] A trouble ; a vexation, 
their primary assembly, to protest against a legislativeor [Scotch.] 
administrative act, and to prevent wholly, or for the time 
being, the validation or execution of the same. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 206. 
My mother gar'd me learn the Single Carritch, whllk 
was a great vex. Scott, Old Mortality, xxxviL 
A sair vex to niony a ... body. 
Oeo. MacDonald, Warlock o' Glenwarlock, xllli. 
2. Any right or power of authoritatively forbid- 
ding or effectively negativing, or the exercise 
of such right or power ; prohibition; interdict, vexation (vek-sa'shou), n. [< F. vexation = 
On George's intercourse with Amelia he put an Instant 8 P' ''<*< = ? wxacSo = It. ressazione, < 
veto. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xviil. ". vexatt<i(n-), agitation, annoyance, < vexare, 
The rector had beforehand put a veto on any Dissenting agitate, vex : see w*.] 1. The act of vexing, 
chairman. George Kliot, Felix Holt, xxiv. annoying, troubling, grieving, or distressing ; 
Absolute veto, a veto without restrictions. - Liberum specifically, a harassing under forms of law ; a 
veto, in the former kingdom of Poland, the privilege troubling, annoying, or vexing by legal pro- 
enjoyed by a single member of the diet of invalidating cess, as DV a malicious suit 
any measure. Pocket veto. See pocket. Suspensory 
veto, a veto to which certain conditions are attached. Albeit the party grieved thereby may have some rea- 
Veto Act, an act passed by the General Assembly of the * n to complain of an untrue charge, yet may he not well 
Church of Scotland in 1834, decreeing that no one should ca " '* "' unjust vexation. Bacon. 
1 admitted a minister of any vacant church if a majority No noise, no pulling, no vexation wakes thee, 
of the male heads of families in full communion with the Thy lethargy Is such B Jottton, Catiline, III 2 
church should dissent from his appointment. The Court _,, , , . , . . 
of session, and subsequently the House of Lords (in 1839X * ^ he state of being vexed, irritated, grieved, 
declared tills act of the assembly to be illegal ; and the or distressed ; irritation : sorrow ; grief ; annoy- 
dissenslons that consequently arose within the church 
culminated in the disruption of 1843. 
veto (ve'to), v. t. [< veto, n.] To forbidauthor- 
itatively; specifically, to negative by exercis- 
ing the constitutional right of veto: as, to veto 
a bill. 
vetoer (ve'to-er), w. One who vetoes. New 
York n'rckh/' Tribune, Oct. 24, 1888, p. 1. 
vetoist (ve'to-ist), . [< veto + -isf,] One who 
exercises the right of veto; a vetoer. 
Vetterlin gun. See #'. 
Vetterlin repeating rifle. See rifle?. 
vettura (vet-to'ra), n. [It., = F. voiture, < L. 
ance. 
All thy Vfxatioia 
Were but my trials of thy love. 
Shot., Tempest, Iv. 1. .'. 
There 's nothing of so Infinite vexation 
As man's own thoughts. 
Webtter, White Devil, v. 2. 
One who falls in some simple mechanical action feels 
vexation at his own Inability a vexatinn arising quite 
apart from any importance of the end missed. 
//. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., I 517. 
3. A cause of irritation, annoyance, distress, 
sorrow, or grief ; affliction. 
Your children were vexation to your youth. 
Shot , Rich. III., Iv. 4. 306. 
= Syn. 2. Anger, Vexation, Indignation, etc. (see angcrl), 
Chagrin, etc. (see mortification); trouble, exasperation, 
chagrin, petulance. 
. , a carrving, carriage : see vecture.] An 
Italian four-wheeled carriage, 
vetturino (vet-to-re'no), H. ; pi. retturiiii (-ni). 
[It.,< rcttura, a carriage: see vettura.] In Italy, 
one who lends for hire a vottura or carriage, or vexatious (vek-sa'shus), a. [< vexati(on) + 
who drives such a vehicle. -OMS.] 1. Causing vexation, annoyance, trou- 
vetust (ve-tust/), . [< L. retustuit, aged, old, ble, or the like; teasing; annoying; trouble- 
( IT/H.V. old: see re<wi.] Old; ancient, some: as, a vexatious neighbor; a rexatimm 
[Ban.] circumstance. 
vexingness 
Did they convert a legal claim into a vexaUma extor- 
ti"" liurlre, Rev. In France. 
Continual vemiima wars. ,Si.urA. 
2. Full of trouble or disquiet . 
He leads a mali'iiu life who In his nobleat actions Is so 
gored with scruples that lie dares not make n l<-p with- 
out the authority of another. .v, r K. Mjoy. 
An administration all new and all vexatunu was intr<< 
duced. 'it,. Addresses, p. 54. 
Vexatious suit, in lair, a suit begun without probable 
cause, or, by reason <if ,,tl,i i in-ndim; proceedings, super- 
fluous and serving only t*> *-x or annoy. =8yn. 1. Irritat- 
ing, provoking. 
vexatiously (vek-sa'shus-li), atlr. In a vexa- 
tious nianiM-i-: so as to give annoyance. 
vexatiousness ( * ek-^a'shus-nes), H. The 
or character of being vexatious. 
vexedly(vek'sed-li), adv. With vexation; with 
a sense of annoyance or vexation. 7fir/ir/.*</.. 
Clarissa Harlowe, I. Ixix. 
vexedness(vek's. .l-n. >>, . Vexation ; annoy- 
ance. Riehardnon, SirCharlesQrandison, 111. \i-. 
vexer (vek'ser), n. [< vex + -eri.] One who 
vexes; one who irritates or troubles. 
vexil (vek'sil), H. [< L. rexillum, q. v.] In <>>., 
same as vexillum. 
vexilla, . Plural of vexillum. 
vexillar (vek'si-lar), a. [= F. rn-fUltiin- = Pg. 
ruillario, < L. rij-illnriii.i, a standard-bearer, 
also one of the senior class of veterans, < / > 
ilium, a standard: see vexillum.] 1. Pertain- 
ing to an ensign or standard. 2. In lml., same 
as rexillary, 2. 3. In ornitli., of or pertaining 
to the vane, web. or vexillum of a feather. 
VOXillary (vck'si-la-ri), n. and n. [< L. vexil- 
larius, a standard-bearer: see vexillar.'] I. a. 1. 
Same as vexillar, 1. 2. In hot., of or pertain- 
ing to the vexillum or standard Vexlllary acti- 
vation, a mode of estivation in which the exterior |>etal 
as In the case of the vexillum. Is largest, and Incloses and 
folds over the other petals. 
II. n. One who carries a vexillum; a stan- 
dard-bearer. 
Letters like to those the vexUlary 
Hath left crag carven o'er the streaming Uelt. 
Tennyton, Oareth and Lynette. 
vexillate (vek'si-lat), a. [< vexill(um) + -fei.] 
Having vexilla or pogonia; webbed or pogoni- 
ate, as a feather. 
vexillation (vek-si-la'shon), N. [< L. vexilla- 
tio(n-), a body of soldiers under one standard, 
a battalion, < vexillum, a standard: see vrxil- 
lum.~\ A company of troops under one vexil- 
lum or ensign. 
vexillator (vek'si-la-tor), w. [ML., < L. vexil- 
lum, a standard: see' rexillum.] A standard- 
bearer. See the quotations. 
In manner of representation there was no essential dif- 
ference between the performance of a morality and that of 
a miracle ; the pageants used for one were used for the 
other ; vexillaton proclaimed the Intended performance, 
and the performers went from place to place, In both 
cases. A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 58. 
The prologue to this curious drama ["Corpus Christl") 
is delivered by three persons, who speak alternately, and 
are called vextOaton. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 229. 
vexillum (vek-sil'um), i. ; pi. rexilla (-ft). [L., 
a military ensign, a standard, banner, flag, also 
a company, < vehere, carry: see vex, vehicle.] 
1. In Rom. antiq. : (a) Strictly, the standard 
of a maniple; hence, any military standard, 
whatever it character, except the eagle of the 
legion. (6) The troops collected under a vex- 
illum ; a company ; a troop ; any body of sol- 
diers serving under an ensign separate from 
that of the legion ; hence, under the empire, the 
body of veteran soldiers connected with a le- 
gion who, having served sixteen vears in the 
legion, were detached under a vexiflum of their 
own, with special privileges, for their remain- 
ing four years of service. These vexilla aver- 
aged from 500 to 600 in strength. 2. Krcles.: 
(a) A processional banner ; also, a processional 
cross, (b) A kind of flag or pennon attached 
by a cord to the upper part of a bishop's pastoral 
staff. It Is folded round the staff, to prevent the metal 
of which the staff Is made, or with which It is mounted, 
from being tarnished by the moisture of the hand. Also 
urnrium, tudarium, veil. 
3. In her., same as banderole, 1 (ft). 4. In 
hot., the standard, or large posterior petal, of 
a papilionaceous flower. It is external, and 
wrapped around the others in the bud. Also 
vexil. See cut under ptipilionaceoun. 5. In 
ornith., a pogonium, web, or vane of a feather: 
also, both webs together with the rachis upon 
which they are borne. Also called standard. 
vexingly (vek'sing-li), urfr. In a vexing man- 
ner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate. 
vexingness (vek'sing-nes), n. The character 
or state of being vexing. 
