viewless 
viewless (vn'lcs). . l< '" + -//.] Not 
capable of being viewed or seen: not perceived 
by the eye; invisible. 
T.I In; imprlMin'd i" the rifirle* winds. 
Shale., M. for M., iii. I. fJl. 
i I'er tlio slieep-track's maze 
The rieifk** snow-mist weave. a gllst 'nlng ban. 
..... stnncy to ail Ideal Object. 
ViewleSSly(vu'l.'S-li), >i<lr. In a viewless nian- 
viewly (vii'li), </. [< rim- + -///i.] 1- 
totheview; sightly; handsome. [Prov. hng.J 
viewpoint (viVpoint), . Point of view. [Col- 
loq.j 
The manner in whieli the details of a history are pre- 
M-nted should be judged from the standpoint of the wri- 
ter from the general viftrpoint of the time. 
Edinburgh fiet., CXI.V. 499. 
viewsome(vii'suiii), a. [<ir +-ome.] View 
ly. I Prov. Eng.] 
view-telescope (vu'tel'e-skop), n. See tili- 
viewy (vu'i), . [< vieto + -y 1 .] 1. Holding, 
or prone to hold, peculiar views ; given to views 
or schemes that are speculative rather than 
practical ; holding the notions of a doctrinaire ; 
visionary. [Colloq.] 
Sheffield, on the other hand, without possessing any 
real view of things more than Charles, was at this time 
fonder. if hunting for views, and more In danger of taking 
up false ones that Is, he was view, In a bad sense of the 
u-.ii .1. J. H. yewman. Loss and Gam, 1. 3. 
A man's identification with the movement was taken as 
nroof that he was viewy and unfit for leadership. 
The American, VI. 2i8 
2. Showy. [Colloq.] 
They [chests of drawers] would hold together lor a time, 
. and that was all ; but the slaughterers cared only to 
have them viewy and cheap. 
Mai/hrw, London Labour and London Poor, III. 230. 
vifda, vivda (vif'dii, viv'dii), n. [Perhaps < 
Icel. veifat, pp. of veifa, wave, vibrate; of. w. 
vej'tn, !>an. rifte, fan, winnow: see waft.] In 
Orkney and Shetland, beef or mutton hung and 
dried without salt. Scott, Pirate, xxix. 
vigesimal (vi-jes'i-mal), rt. [< L. vigesimus, vt- 
fexiiiniH, twentieth, Cviginti, twenty: see twen- 
ty.] Twentieth. 
vigesimation (vi-jes-i-ma'shon), H. [< Li. v 
ticnimiin, twentieth, + -ation; formed in imita- 
tion of decimation.'] The act of putting to death 
every twentieth man. [Rare.] 
vigia (vi-je'ft), . [< Sp. rigia, a lookout, < 
vigiar, look out, < vigilia, a watching: see vigil] 
A hydrographical warning on a chart, to de- 
note' that the pinnacle of a rock, or a shoal. 
may exist thereabout. Hamtrsly. 
Vigil (vij'il), n. [Formerly also vigile; < ME. 
rigil, vigile, vigilie, < OF. vigile, vigilie, P. vigile 
Sp. Pg. It. vigilia, a watching, vigil, < L. viyi- 
liit, a waking or watching/ vigil, waking, watch- 
ful (cf. AS. wacol, watchful), < vigere, be lively : 
see wwiA-el. Hence (from L. vigil) rigilant, etc.] 
1. The act of keeping awake; abstinence or 
forbearance from sleep at the natural or ordi- 
nary hours of rest; the state of being awake 
during the natural time for sleep; sleepless- 
ness; wakefulness; watch: commonly in the 
plural. 
4t. A wake. 
(if tin fetle and uleyes palestra! 
A i my vujU. Chaucer, Trollos, v. 90S. 
Coma vigl l Vigils or watchings of flow- 
ers ii t'-im ;.p|,1i"l !) UnnatU. to tt>< 
Unit o( certain M..W.TH at regular hourl of the day. M 
deep, > 
Vigilance i vij'i-lans), n. [< F. i'ii/iliiin-i = Sp- 
n./i/iuii-i/l = \\."n>iiln,i.ii. riiiilini.Ki, ' I.. 
i,inii<i, wmteUnlneH, < ' 
watchful : -.( r,</</,i,,t.\ If. 
Mr. Baxter items to have thought that the connexion 
between the aoul and the body subsisted only during a 
itate of vigilance. PrieMey, Diqul.ltlon.. 
2. The state or character of being vigilant; 
watchfulness ladtoeoveringor guarding against 
danger, or in providing for safety ; < ire n inspec- 
tion ; caution. 
To teach them ViffOaut by false Alarm.. 
Prior, Carmen Seculare (1700), it. 83. 
His face Is unruffled, his speech is courteous, till rff<- 
lance. is laid aleep. Macaulay. Machlareill. 
3. Specifically, watchfulness during the hours 
of night. 
Ulysses yielded unseasonably |to sleep), and the strong 
passion and love for his country that so fully possessed hU 
soul should have given him . . . vigilance. 
Broom*, Notes on the Odysaey, xiil. 142. 
4. In mat., a form of insomnia. 5. A guard 
or watch. [Bare and obsolete.] 
In at this gate none pass 
The vigilance here placed. Hilton, P. L., iv. Bbfl. 
Order of Vigilance. See Order of the White Falcon, .un- 
der falcon. -Vigilance committee, an unauthorized or. 
ganlzatinn of citizens who, in the absence of regular courts, 
or when such courts are inefficient, administer summary 
justice In cases of heinous crime. (U. S.] 
The first man hung by the San Francisco Vigilance 
Committee was dead before he was swung up, and the 
second was alive after he was cut down. 
J. W. Palmer, The Sew and the Old, p. 73. 
vigilancyt (vij'i-lan-si), . [As Hgilanec (see 
-ci/).] Vigilance. 
Trusting to the vigUancu of her sentinel. 
Kev. T. Adamt, Works, III. 191. 
Vigilant (vij'i-lant), . [< F. vigilant = Sp. Pg. 
It. vigilante, < "L. vigilan(t-)s, ppr. of rigilare, 
watch, wake, keep watch, < vigil, wakeful, 
watchful: see vigil.] 1. Watchful, as one 
who watches during the hours for sleep; ever 
awake and on the alert; attentive to discover 
and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; 
circumspect; cautious; wary. 
Be sober, be rii.tilant. 
Takeyourpl.ee. and be X" 
vigor 
around, and reeinl.lhw II..- |.canut. V. luterja Is known 
~; 
' 
. 
\\. -' In. ......... !' i'- ;, 
I- gfabra, ;. ( .-l]..-il...-n-d hir-ut,' tini-r of bracki.h 
marshes fnim - ""I ...... '"' :1 '" Mi*"i'l'l 
Vignette (vin-vcf or xin'yel), n. [ h'oniK-rly 
Co rtinu-tl; < F. rigii'll', -lim. at ";/"', vn,.- 
\ar.l. vine, < I-. ''""', n vine: m-i- vtlU.] 1. A 
'running ornament of \ in.--leaves, tendrils, an. I 
gr:i|K-H. as in areliii.-el lire. 2. The flourish's 
in Hie form of vine-leaves, bran.-li.-s, (to., nli 
which capital letters in mamiscriplf 
times xiirrouii'led. 3. In f,rinlmg, tli. 
(Cravc.l illustration (ird.'Cdraticui that pneeOM 
a title-page or the iM-giiinint; <>f a chapter: so 
called because many <!' the cuts first made for 
books in France were inclosed with a border 
of the general character of trailing vines. 4. 
Hence, any image or picture; a cut or illustra- 
tion. 
Her Imagination was full of pictures. . . . divine 
**. of mild spring or 
Assist, in the January twilight, looked like a tiffnette out 
of some brown old miasaL 
//. Jamet, Jr., Tran*. Sketchea, p. MS. 
In bright vignette*, and each complete, 
<)f tower or diiomo, sunny-sweet. 
There is nothing that wears out a flue face like 
of thecard-table. Addition, Ouardian, No. 120. 
(Jospel takes up the rod which Law lets fall ; 
Mercy Is vigilant when Justice sleeps. 
Brooming, King and Book, II. 244. 
2. Indicating vigilance. 
There 's Zanie's vigilant taper ; safe are we '. 
Browning, In a Gondola. 
= Syn. 1. Wakeful, etc. tee watchful. 
vigilante (vij-i-lan'te), . [< Sp. vigilante, vigi- 
lant: see vigilant, a.] A member of a vigi- 
lance committee. [U. S.] 
A little over a year ago one committee of vigilante* in 
eastern Montana shot or hung nearly sixty [horse-thieves] 
-not, however, with the best judgment In all cases. 
T. RooieveU, The Century, XXXV. 505. 
Vigilantly (vU'i-lant-li), adv. In a vigilant 
manner; watchfully; circumspectly; alertly. 
6. A photographic portrait showing only the 
head, or the head and shoulders, and so printed 
that the ground shades off insensibly around 
the subject into an even color, which may be 
that of the untreated paper, or a more or lens 
.lark shade produced by a separate operation; 
hence, any picture, not a portrait, treated in 
the same way. 
vignette (vin-yef), f. t.; pret. and pp. rfgM* 
tl. ppr. ngxetting. [< vignette, .] in pnotog., 
to treat or produce, as a portrait, in the style of 
a vignette. 
vignetter (vin-yet'er), H. In photng.. any de- 
vice for causing the edges of a printed part 
of a negative to fade away evenly and gradu- 
allv into the background. A form of vignetter may 
be interposed between the camera and the subject, so that 
the portrait will be vignetted directly on the negative. 
See vignettiiu/-glaa and vignetting-paper. 
vignetting-glass (vin-yet'ing-glas). . In 
pkotog., a glass frame for the same use ana 
raade'on the same principles as the vignetting- 
paper. A usual form has an aperture of clear glass In the 
middle, around which are carried thin layer* of tissue. 
impcr, every layer projecting a little beyond that placed 
upon It. Another form Is of deep-orange glnM, with a 
crater of white glan, the gradation being effected by grind- 
Ing away the edge of the encircling orange part. Also 
called ngiietter. 
vignetting-mask(vin-yet'ing-mBsk), n. Same. 
as rignetting-paiier. 
vignetting-paper (vin-yct'ing-pa'per), . In 
phntiMj., a mask used in printing vignette pic- 
tures.' It is a sheet of thin paper with a piece of the de- 
sired size left clear and semi-traneparcnt In the middle, 
proceeding from which shading Is carried in an opaque 
color so as gradually to attain complete opacity, and thus 
cause the strongly printed part of the negative In th 
middle to fade by even gradation around its edge to the 
color of the unprlnled paper. Also called ngnettrr and 
vignettiivj-wadc. 
So they In heaven their odes and vigils tuned. 
Milti'ii, P. K., i. 182. 
At Mary's Tomb (sad. sacred Place '.) 
The Virtues shall their I'igilt keep. 
Prior, Ode Presented to the King, st 1. 
3. Eeelea.: (a) Originally, in the early church, 
the watch kept in a church or cemetery on the 
night before a feast, the time being occupied 
in prayer. The assembly on such occasions often lead- 
ing to disorders, the custom of holding such vigils came 
to be abandoned In the eleventh or twelfth century. A 
trace of the old custom remains in the matins, lauds, and 
mldnlgh* mass before Christmas day. Hence (n) 
The day and night preceding a festival; the 
eve or day before a festival; strictly, an eve 
which is a fast. Special offices or the use of the col- 
lect of the festival mark the vigil. If the day before 
such a festival is Sunday, the fast is transferred to the 
previous Saturday. Vigils arc observed in the Roman 
Catholic, the Creik, the Anglican, and other churches. 
He that shall live this day, and see old age. 
Will yearly on the riytt feast his neighbours. 
And say, "To-morrow Is St. CTUpian." 
Shalr., lien. \ ., IV. S. 45. 
4l!4 
It it ful fair to been yclept madame, 
And goon to myilief al blfore. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., L 377. 
2 Devotional watching; hence, devotions, manner; WBWJIU.UHJ .^"^--r-* i - 
services, praise, prayer, or the like performed vigilyt, . A Middle English variant of n;,,!. 
during the customary hours of sleep; nocturnal 
devotions : commonly in the plural. 
Vigintivirate (vi-jin-tiv'i-rat), ... [<L. riginti, 
twenty, + fir, man, + -ate*.] A body of offi- 
cers of government consisting of twenty men. 
^igna'(vig'na), ... [NL. (Savi, 1822), named 
after Domini'co Figna, professor of botany at 
Pisa in 1628.] A genus of leguminous plants, 
of the tribe Phaseolex and subtribe Kuptutsto- 
lr,r. It is distinguished from the type genus (Phateo- 
JIM> by the absence of a beak upon the keel-petals, or by 
the failure of the beak, if developed, to form a perfect 
spiral. There are about 45 species, natives of warm re 
gions of both hemispheres. They are usually twining 
or prostrate herbs, with pinnate leaves of three leaflet, 
and yellowish or rarely purplish flowers in a short dust, 
upon an axillary peduncle, followed by cylindrical pods 
which become greatly elongated -sometimes, It Is said,a 
yard long. For V. Catian-i, universally cultivated in the 
tropics, and now also In southern parts of Europe and the 
United States, see chowtee, and cow-pea (under j*a ); IU 
typical form is low and somewhat erect; when tall and 
climbing, it has been known as V. Sinenn*. V lancetlata 
of Australia, also edible, produces, besides the ordinary 
cylindrical pods, other, from buried flowers fruiting nn 
260. 
. 
vignite (vig'nit), n. A magnetic iron ore. 
vignoblet (ve-nyo'bl), n. [F., a vineyard, < 
rigiif, vine : see rint.] A vineyard. 
That excellent vianoole of Pontaq and Obrlen, from 
whence comes the choicest of our Bordeaux wne* 
Evelyn, Diary, July IS, 188.1 
vigonia (vi-go'ni-ft), . Same as vicugna. 
A herd of thirty -six, Including the kinds called llamas, 
alpacas, and vicuna, or viyoniai, were sent from ^' lna - 
ViKO plaster. See plaster. 
Vigor Vigour (vig'or), ... [< OF.(and F.) rigufur 
= Sp. Pg. rigor = It. vignre, < L. vigor, activ- 
ity force, < rigere, nourish, thrive, be lively. 
(T. rigil, inik-e. Hence rigor, r., inri ; /,>rate.] 
1. Active strength or force of body; physical 
force; a flourishing physical' condition ; also, 
strength of mind; mental health and power; by 
extension, force of healthy growth in plants. 
The .Inewy rtgour of th. t-v 
He who run. or dances beg. 
The equal Vigour of two Leg.. Pnor, Alma. 11. 
And strangely spoke 
The faith, the vigour, bold to dwell 
HM d..nbi that drive the coward back. 
Tennytnn, In Memortam. XCT. 
