victoriatus 
VictoriatUS (vik-to-ri-a'tus), >i. [L., < 
ria, Victory, a figure of Victory crowning a 
trophy, forming the 
reverse type of the 
coin.] A silver 
coin of the Roman 
republic, first 
-^o 
sued in 228 B. c., 
and in value three 
fourths of the de- 
narius. Compare 
guinarius. 
[Said to be so called 
0750 
Victoriatus. British Museum. 
(Size of the original.) 
victorine (vik-to-ren'), . 
from F. Victorine, a woman's name, a fern, form 
of Victor, < L. victor, a conqueror: see victor."] 
1. A fur tippet having long narrow ends, worn 
by women. 2. A kind of peach. 
victorious (vik-to'ri-us), a. [< F. victorieux = 
Sp. Pg. victorioso = It. vittorioso, < L. victorio- 
sus, full of victories (prop, applied, according to 
etym., to one frequently successful), < victoria, 
victory: see victory.] 1. Conquering; trium- 
phant; having conquered in any conquest or 
in battle ; having overcome an antagonist or 
enemy. 
The great Son return 'd 
Victorious with his saints. Milton, P. L., vii. 136. 
The Baharnagash, though victorious, saw with some 
concern that he could not avoid the king, whose courage 
and capacity, both as a soldier and a general, left him 
everything to fear for his success. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 208. 
Victorious, wreath on head and spoils in hand. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 120. 
A body of victorious invaders may raise some, or the T he Victory of Samothrace, in the Louvre Museum 
whole, of its supplies from the conquered country. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 517. victress (vik'tres), n. [< victor + -ess. Cf. vic- 
2. Of or pertaining to victory; characterized trice.] A woman who conquers ; a victrix. 
or signalized by victory. 8he 8hall be ^ BfcfraWj Ca , aar>8 Ca;8ar 
Sudden these honours shall be snatch'd away, Shale., Rich. III., iv. 4. 336. 
And cursed forever this victorious day. virt.rippt (vik'triql n T< OT? mptrirr Tt nit 
Pope, R. of the L. iii. 104. *} c .' irlce t (viK ns;, n. [<, * wctnce -. it. mt- 
, , , . , tnce, < L. mctnx, fern. 
3. Emblematic of conquest ; denoting victory. 
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths. 
Shalt., Rich. III., 1.1. 6. 
victoriously (vik-to'ri-us-li), adv. In a victo- 
rious manner ; with defeat of an enemy or an- 
tagonist; triumphantly. 
Grace will carry us ... victoriously through all diffi- 
culties. Hammond, 
. of victor, victor : see vic- 
tor.] A victress. 
He knew certes, 
That you, victrice 
Of all ladies, 
Should have the prize 
Of worthiness. 
Udall (Arber's Eng. Garner, II. 58). 
With boughs of palm a crowned victrice stand ! 
B. Jotison, Underwoods, cii. 
victoriousness (vik-to'ri-us-nes), . The state victrix (vik'triks), n. [< L. victrix, fern, of 
or character of being victorious. victor, victor: see victor.] A victress. Char- 
victory (vik'to-ri), w. ; pi. victories (-riz). [< lotte Bronte, Villette, xxxii. [Rare.] 
ME. victorie, < OF. victorie, victoire, F. victoire Victual (vit'l), n. [Early mod. E. also vittle, 
= Sp. Pg. victoria = It. vittoria, < L. victoria, earlier vytaylle (the spelling with c, victual, as 
victory, < victor, a conqueror, < vincere, pp. vie- in F. victuaille, being a modern sophistication 
tus, conquer: see victor.] 1. The defeat or imitating the L. original, the pronunciation re- 
overcoming of an antagonist in a contest or an maining that of vittle) ; < ME. vitaille, vitayle, 
enemy in battle ; triumph. vitaile, also vitailes, vytayll.es, < OF. vitaille, 
We also ... [shall] assemble alle oure peple and ride vytaile, later (with inserted c) victuaille, vic- 
vpon the saisnes, andyevehembataileinthename ofgod, tliailles, vytailles = Sp. vitualla = Pg. vitualha 
thathegrauntevsthewctone. Merlin(K. E.T.S.), ii. 235. = It. vettoraglia, < LL. victualia, provisions, 
Knowing that they led unconquered veterans against 
rude militia, they have broken every rule of warfare, and 
plucked victory out of extreme peril. 
F. Harrison, Oliver Cromwell, ix. 
The alloy 
Of blood but makes the bliss of victory brighter 
Ii. W. Gilder, The Celestial Passion, Cost. 
2. The advantage or superiority gained in 
any contest, as over passions, or over tempta- 
tions, or in any moral or spiritual struggle. 
Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through 
our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. xv. 57. 
Peace hath her victories 
No less renown'd than War. MUton, Sonnets, xi. 
3. A female deity of the Greeks and Romans, 
the personification of success in battle or in 
any active struggle. She is represented as a winged 
woman, often bearing as attributes a palm-branch and lau- 
rel crown, or a trumpet. The subject is a very frequent 
one in ancient art, from some of the noblest of antique 
sculpture down to vase-paintings and figurines. Among the 
most notable examples are the reliefs from the balustrade 
of the temple of Wingless Victory at Athens, one of which 
is the well-known figure entitled "Victory Loosing her 
Sandal," and the magnificent statue called the " Victory of 
Samothrace," a Greek original of the fourth century B c 
attributed to the school of Scopas, found in the island of 
cut under Peloponnesian. 
I observed some ancient reliefs at this village [Ertesyl 
particularly three victories, holding three festoons under 
three heads, on a marble coffin, with imperfect Greek in- 
scriptions under them. 
Pococlce, Description of the East, II. i. 170. 
Cadmean, moral, Pyrrhic victory. See the adjectives. 
meat; provisions: generally used in the plural, 
and signifying (commonly) food for human 
beings, prepared for eating. 
But alleweyes Men fynden gode Innes, and alle that hem 
nedethe of Vytaylle. Mandevitte, Travels, p. 34. 
Tlier as bagges ben and fat vitaile, 
Ther wol they gon. Chaucer, Former Age, 1. 38. 
Physicions ben of opynyon that one ought to begyn the 
meate of vitayle (uiandes liquides) to thende that by that 
means to gyve direction to the remenant. 
0. du Gutz, quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.X p. 107, 
[Index. 
Look to those eating rogues that bawl for victuals, 
And stop their throats a day or two. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 2. 
Why then we will to the greenwood gang, 
For we have no mtffes to dine. 
Robin Hood and the Stranger (Child's Ballads, V. 405). 
My pig likes a dinner as well as a breakfast. No meal- 
time, and no sort of vict^tals, ever seems to come amiss to 
my 1%. HauAhorne, Seven Gables, xix. 
There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand 
Bare victual for the mowers. 
Tennyson, Geraint and Enid. 
2. Any sort of grain or corn. [Scotch.] 
Broken victuals. See broken meat, under broken. 
and pp. victualed, vic- 
,, victualling. [With spell- 
ing altered as in the noun ; < ME. vitailen, vi- 
taillen, (vitaille, too&: see victual, n.] I. trans. 
To supply or store with victuals or provisions 
for subsistence ; provide with stores of food. 
Thy loving voyage 
Is but for two months victualVd. 
Shalt., As you Like it, v. 4. 198. 
vicugna 
They resolucd to mctuall the ships for eigh eene moneths. 
Ha/duyt's Voyages, I. 243. 
II. intrans. To feed ; obtain stores or provi- 
sions; provision; obtain or eat victuals. 
And, victualling again, with brave and man-like minds 
To seaward cast their eyes, and pray for happy winds. 
Drauton, Polyolbiou, ii. 427. 
And soon we found Peggy and Sniiler [the horses] in 
company, . . . and victualling where the gniss was good 
R. D. Blacfanore, Lorna Doone, iii. 
victualage (vit'l-aj), . [< victual + -age.] 
Food; provisions; victuals. [Rare.] 
I could not proceed to the scliool-room without passing 
some uf their doors, and running the risk of being sur- 
prised with my cargo of eictualaffe ; so I stood still at this 
end, which, being windowless, was dark. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xvii. 
victualer, victualler (vit'l-er), . [Formerly 
also vitler; < ME. vittellcr, vitailler (see victual) 
+ -er 1 .] 1. One who furnishes victuals or pro- 
visions. 
That no maner vitteller pay eny thynge for the occupa- 
cion of the kynges Borde, to eny maner offices, for ther 
vytelle ther to be sold, that ys to seye w ithyn the seid cite. 
English Gild* (E. E. T. S.), p. 408. 
But pray, what connection have yon with the suttlers? 
You are no victualler here, are you? 
Sheridan (?), The Camp, i. 1. 
2. One who keeps a house of entertainment ; 
a tavern-keeper. 
Fal. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee, for 
suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house, contrary to the 
law. . . . 
Host. All victuallers do so ; what's a joint of mutton or 
two in a whole Lent? Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 375. 
He scornes to walke in Panics without his bootes, 
And scores his diet on the vitlers post. 
Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine (1600). 
KHalliteell.-) 
3. A ship employed to carry provisions for 
other ships, or for supplying troops at a dis- 
tance ; a store-ship. Admiral Smyth. 4. A 
corn-factor; one who deals in grain. Jamieson. 
[Scotch.] Licensed victualler, in Great Britain, an 
innkeeper or keeper of a public house who is licensed to 
sell spirits, wine, beer, etc. 
victualing, victualling (vit'l-ing), . [Verbal 
n. of victual, v.] The furnishing of victuals or 
provisions. 
Our victualling arrangements have now been satisfac- 
torily settled, and everybody has been put on an allowance 
of water. Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. xii. 
Victualing-bill (vit'1-ing-bil), n. A custom- 
house document warranting the shipment of 
such bonded stores as the master of an out- 
ward-bound merchantman may require for his 
intended voyage. 
victualing-house (vit'1-ing-hous), . A house 
where provision is made for strangers to eat ; 
an eating-house. 
They chose that the region of Pocchorrosa to inhabyte 
. . . that they myght bee baytinge places and vytailynye 
houses for suche as shulde iorney towarde the southe. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 148). 
victualing-note (vit'1-ing-not), n. An order 
given to a seaman in the British navy by 
the paymaster, when he joins a ship, which is 
handed to the ship's steward as his author- 
ity for victualing the man. Simmonas. 
victualing-office (yit'1-ing-of'is), n. An office 
for supplying provisions and stores to the navy. 
[Eng.] 
We laugh at the ridiculous management of the Navy- 
Board, pry into the Rogueries of the Victualling-Office, and 
tell the Names of those Clerks who were ten years ago 
bare-foot, and are now Twenty-Thousand-Pound Men. 
C. Shadwell, Humours of the Navy. i. 1. 
Victualing-Ship (vit'l-ing-ship), . A ship 
which conveys provisions to the navy ; a vic- 
tualer. 
Victualing-yard (vit'1-ing-yard), . A yard, 
generally contiguous to a dockyard, containing 
magazines where provisions and other like 
stores for the navy are deposited, and where 
war-vessels and transports are provisioned. 
(Imp. Diet.) In the United States all navy- 
yards are victualing-yards. 
victualless (vit'1-les), a. [< victual + -less.] 
Destitute of food. Carlyle, in Froude, First 
Forty Years, II. 
vicugna, vicuna (vi-ko'nya), n. [Also vigmiia 
and vigtina; = F. vigogne, formerly vicuyne, < Sp. 
vicuna, vicugna, < Peruv. vicuna, Mex. vicut/ne, 
the vicugna.] A South American mammal of 
the camel tribe, Auehenia vicugna or vicuna, re- 
lated to the llama, guanaco, and alpaca. It is 
found wild in elevated regions of Bolivia and Chili, and 
is much hunted for its wool and flesh. It is one of the 
smaller kinds, standing about 30 inches at the witlrers, 
and of variegated coloration. It has as yet resisted all 
attempts to reduce it to domestication. The short soft 
