viol-block 
Viol-block (vi'nl-lilok). n. A single Mock or 
siMtrh-bliick. Inr^'i' I'liotigh to reeve a Hiuull 
hawser; ;my \>n-^<- snateh-lilock. 
Violet, ' ' L< "I 1 '- fioli'i; < I', i-iotiirr, violate: 
sec nuliitf. ] To viohitc. 
Violeae (vi-o'lc-c), . /,i. [M,. (A. !'. .le ('un- 
ilollr, 1S-JI), < ViOUft + -nr.] A tribe of j> hints, 
of tin' order t'iii/nrii-;i; cliunictcrixc.l by nn ir- 
rcf;iil:ir corollii with the lower |>et:il unlike the 
others. It includes 8 genera. < wlii.li Inniilium and 
Violll (the t\pe);ue l:u^t ;ilrl \*iil< ]> ili>tl iliuleil ; (if tile 
"Iller^, Ain'l, ;.!, :nul (\ H li inelllile :! elimli- 
ing aihi \::i.*,fl,:t :; ^IIMI:> 11 <>t tr.ipir.il Amer- 
ica; ~L others are American ami I I'olv ue>i,iri. 
violence (vi'o-lcns), . [< Ml-;, rinienee, < OF. 
nnli iii-i-. I-', niiliin-i' m Sp. l\r. ,-,/, ,/, = It. 
violni.:ii,<. ]i. I'inli -niiit, vehemence, impetuosity, 
iVrocity, < riiilriiiitu, vehement, forcible: see 
i-inlriit.\ 1. The state or character of being 
violent ; force ; vehemence ; intensity. 
To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, 
And blown with rustical violence round about. 
Shak., M. forM.,lii. 1. 125. 
The violence of the lake la so great that It will carry 
away both man and beast that coinmeth within IU 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 89. 
Dlsturb'd and torn 
With violence of this conflict. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 996. 
2. Highly excited feeling or action; impetu- 
osity; vehemence; eagerness. 
Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor, 
but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies. 
Shalt., Othello, li. 1. 224. 
3. Injury done to anything which is entitled to 
respect, reverence, or observance ; profanation ; 
infringement; violation. See the phrases be low. 
4. Unjust or unwarranted exertion of pow- 
er; unjust force ; force employed against rights, 
laws, liberty, 'or the like ; outrage ; injury ; 
hurt; attack; assault. 
To prevent the tyrant's violence. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., Iv. 4. 29. 
Fie, Master Morose, that you will use this violence to a 
man of the church ! 11. Jonson, Eplccene, ill. _'. 
5. Ravishment; rape. 6. In law: (a) Any 
wrongful act of one person, whereby either he 
or his instrument of wrong-doing is brought 
into contact with the limbs or body of another 
person. Robinson, (b) The overcoming or pre- 
venting of resistance by exciting fear through 
display of force, (c) The unlawful use of physi- 
cal force. To do violence ont, to attack ; murder. 
But, as it seems, did violence on herself. 
Shale., R. and J., v. 3. 284. 
To do Violence to or unto, to outrage ; force ; Injure. 
He said unto them, Do violence to no man. Luke ill. 14. 
They have done violence unto her tomb, 
Not granting rest unU> her in the grave. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, v. 2. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. Passion, fury, fierceness, wildness, rage, 
boisterousness. 
Violencet (vi'o-lens), r. t. [< violence, t 1 .] 1. 
To do violence to; assault; injure. 
Mrs. Fill. It may beget some favour like excuse, 
Though none like reason. 
Wit. No, my tuneful mistress? 
Then surely love hath none, nor beauty any ; 
Nor nature, violenccd in both of these. 
B. Jonson, Devil Is an Ass, il. 2. 
2. To bring by violence; compel. 
Like our late misnam'd high court of justice, to which 
the loyal and the noble, I lie honest and the brave, were vio- 
lenc'd by ambition and malice. Fellham, Resolves, ii. 64. 
violency (vi'o-len-si), H. [As riolcnce (see -cy).~\ 
Same as violence. Jer. Taylor, Kule of Con- 
science, III. ii. 3. 
Violent (vi'6-lcnt), a. and n. [< ME. riolent, 
ri/olcnt, < OF. vMnt, F. violent = Sp. Pg. It. 
nnlnito, < L. violentus, vehement, forcible, < via, 
strength, power, force: see ri'ni.] I. a. 1. Char- 
acterized by strong and sudden physical force; 
impetuous; furious. 
Our fortunes lie a bleeding by your rash 
And violent onset. Lust's Dominion, iv. 2. 
Violent tires soon burn out themselves. 
Shale., Rich. II., li. 1. 34. 
2. Produced, effected, or continued by force; 
accompanied by extraneous or unnatural force ; 
unnatural. 
No violent state can be perpetual. T. Burnet. 
Truly I don't Care to discourage a young Man he has 
a violent Death in his Face ; but I hope no Danger of 
flanging. Conyreoe, Love for Love, ii. 7. 
3. Acting or produced by unlawful, unjust 
or improper force; characterized by force or 
violence unlawfully exercised; rough; outra- 
geous; not authorized. 
Then laid they violent hands upon him ; next Himself im- 
prisoned, and his goods asseized. Marlouv. i;dw. II., I. 2. 
6763 
We would gin- nine h to ii-e riijrnt thefts. 
Shot., T. andf., v. 3. 21. 
w hen with a riotriil hand you made me youn, 
I curs'd the dner. 
fl'ii-lifr (and another), Sea Voyage, II. 1. 
4. Vehement mentally, or springing from Mich 
vehemence; tierce; passionate; furious. 
Let down your anger 1 In nut this oar sovereign? 
The head <it nn rey and of law? who dares, then, 
lint rebels scorning law, appear thus violent' 
Fletcher. Loyal Subject, Iv. 7. 
His Love, however violent It might appear, was still 
founded In Reason. Addimn, Spectator, No. S45. 
Indeed, my Dear, you'll tear another Fan, if you don't 
mitigate those violent Airs. 
Cooyme, Way of the World, III. 11. 
5. In general, intense in any respect ; extreme: 
S.H, a, violent contrast; especially, of pain, i"'"' 
Discreet malstrls seyn that the feuere agu conionuly Is 
causld of a uyolcnt reed coler adust, and nf blood adust, 
and of blak coler adust 
Boot o/ Quinte Knence (ed. Kurnlvall), p. 22. 
It was the violcnteil Fit of Contagion that ever was for 
the Time In this Island. Ilmcell, Letter*, I. Iv. 24. 
The king's whole army, encamped along the sides of this 
river, were taken with violent sickness after eating the 
fish caught in It. Ilruce, Source of the Nile, II. 285. 
Rouge, If too riolrnt, by a natural law of color causes 
the planes of the cheeks to recede from the planes of the 
other and whiter portions of the face, thus producing a 
look of age and of gauntness. The Century, XXXV. 539. 
6. Compelled ; compulsory ; not voluntary. 
All riolent marriages engender hatred betwixt the mar- 
ried. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 27. 
Ease would recant 
Vows made in pain, as violent and void. 
Hilton, t. L., Iv. 97. 
Violent motion). See motion. Violent power. See 
powerl. Violent profits, in Scott laic, the penalty due 
on a tenant's forcibly or unwarrantably retaining posses- 
slon after he ought to have removed. = Syn. 1. Turbulent, 
boisterous. 5. Poignant, exquisite. 
II. t " One acting with violence. 
Such violent* shall not take heaven, but hell, by force. 
l>ecay o/ Chrittian Piety, p. 53. (Latham.) 
violent! (vi'o-lent), r. [< violent, a.] I. tranx. 
To urge with 'violence. 
I find not the least appearance that his former adversa- 
ries riolcntcd any thing against him under that queen. 
Fuller, Worthies, HI. 510. 
II. intranx. To act or work with violence; be 
violent. 
This grief is flue, full, perfect, that I taste, 
And violenteth in a sense as strong 
As that which causeth. Shalt., T. and C., Iv. 4. 4. 
violently (yi'o-lent-li), adv. In a violent man- 
ner; by violence; by force; forcibly; vehe- 
mently; outrageously. 
They must not deny that there is to be found in nature 
another agent able to analyse compound bodies less vio- 
lently, and both more genuinely and more universally, 
than the fire. ;;...//.-, Works, I. i-i . 
The king, at the head of the cavalry, fell so suddenly 
and so violently upon them that he broke through the 
van-guard commanded by Melca Christos, and put them to 
flight before his foot could come up. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 383. 
During the siege of Valenciennes by the allied armies 
in June, 179S, the weather, which had been remarkably 
hot and dry, became violently rainy after the cannonading 
commenced. Sei. Amer., N. S., LXIII. 385. 
Violert (vi'ql-er), ii. [< rial -r -erl.] One 
skilled in playing on the viol; also, a violinist. 
To the Krenche vialer for his quarters paye, 12K. 10. 
Prince Henry's Book of Payment* (1609). (Xares.) 
One . . . stabs a violer . . . because he was serenading 
in the night-time with his addle. 
Fountainhnll, Decisions of the Lords of Council and 
[Session, I. 364. (Jamieton.) 
violescent (vi-o-les'ent), a. [< L. rioUi, a violet, 
a purple color (see violet^), + -emif.] Tend- 
ing to a violet color. 
violet 1 (vi'o-let), H. and o. [Early mod. E. 
also riolette; < ME. violet,-vyolet, tialct, ryalett, 
violettf, < OF. violttte, t., violet, m., F. riolette = 
Sp. Pg. violeta = It. violetta, dim. of L. viola (It. 
Sp. Pg. viola, OF. viole), a violet, a dim. form, 
akin to Qr. iov (*f/ov), a violet.] I. n. 1. A 
plant of the genus Viola, or one of its flowers; 
also, one of a few plants of other genera. See 
Viola, compound names below, ana cut in next 
column. 
Daisies pied and violett blue. Shot., L. L. L., v. 2. 904. 
2. A general class of colors, of which the violet- 
flower is a highly chromatic example, in the 
spectrum the violet extends from h to II, covering all the 
upper part of the spectrum ordinarily visible. This color 
can be produced by a slight admixture of red to blue ; 
and colors somewhat more red than the upper part of the 
spectrum are called violet But the sensation of violet is 
produced by a pure blue whose chroma has been dimin- 
ished while its luminosity has been increased. Thus, blue 
and violet are the same color, though the sensations are 
different. A mere increase of illumination may cause a 
violet blue to appear violet, with a diminution of apparent 
chroma. This color, called violet or blue according to the 
violet 
8t 
t. Stemmed Violet (t'tala tritelar. via. arvt*tti) : St. item. 
3, Stcmlcu Violet (fiata f alma/a, var. tufttlltta ) : /. K*pe. 
quality of the sensation It excites. Is one of the t hree funda- 
mental colon of Young's theory. It Is nearly comple- 
mentary to the color of brightness, so that deep shades 
generally appear by contrast of a violet tinge ; and the 
light of a rainy day, and still more of a sudden tempest, 
has a violet appearance. Even the pure yellow of the 
spectrum, so reduced as to be barely visible, looks violet 
beside the same light In great Intensity. 
3. Any one of the many different small blue or 
violet butterflies of Lyeama, Polyomtnatiu, and 
allied genera Acid violet, a coal-tar color used In 
dyeing, oeing the sodium salt of dl-mcthyl-rosanlllne tri- 
sulphonlc acid. It Is applicable to wool and silk. Ani- 
line violet. Hame at mauve. Arrow-leafed violet, 
Vitila mjittata of the eastern half of the I'nlted Stater, 
much resembling the common blue violet, except In the 
form of Its leaves. Bird's- foot Violet, a low steroless 
species, Viola pedata, of the same region, having pedately 
divided leaves, and flue large light-blue or whitish flowers, 
yellow-eyed with the stamens. A variety is the pansy 
violet. - Calathian violet, the marsh-gentian, (leniiaua 
Pncumonanthc. According to (lerard, the true plant was 
a Campanula. Britten and Holland.- Canada violet, 
I'iola Canadentit, a species common northward and In 
the mountains of eastern North America, having an 
upright stem a foot or two high, and white petals pur- 
plish beneath. Common or early blue violet, viola 
palmata, especially in the variety cucullata, very common 
In moist ground in North America. The leaves are more 
or less palmately lotted, or In the variety only crenate. 
The size and shape of the leaves are variable, as also the 
color of the petals, which are deep- or pale-blue, or purple, 
or sometimes white or variegated. Corn-violet. See 
Specularia. Crystal violet See cryttal. Damask 
violet. Same as itmft tMH Dog-tooth violet, a 
plant of the genus Erythronium. The yellow dog-tooth 
violet Is E. Americanum.- Dog-VlOlet, Viola eanina of 
the northern Old World, and In the variety Muhlenberyii 
of North America. It is a stemmed violet a few Inches 
high, with light- violet petals and a short cylindrical spur. 
English violet. See tireet violet.- Fringe or fringed 
violet, Arthrtrpodium paniculatum and Thyicanotuji tube- 
nmu, liliaceous plants of Australia with rather small panl- 
cled blue flowers, those of the former with crisped inner 
segments.-, Oreen violet. See lonidium. Hoffmann's 
violet. Same as dahlia, 8. Hooded violet, a plant of 
the tropical American genus Coryntmtj/lis (Calyytrion\ 
related to the violets. Horned violet (or pansy), I'iola 
cornuta of the Pyrenees, having pale-blue or mauve-colored 
sweet-scented spurred flowers, produced abundantly and 
continuously, long cultivated in Europe, and forming an 
excellent border- or bedding-plant. Lance-leafed vio- 
let, the American Viola lanceolata, with small white flow- 
ers Long-spurred violet, VMa rottrataol the eastern 
and central t nited States, having a low stem and pale- 
violet flowers with a slender spur. Manganese violet, 
in ceratn., the purple color obtained by the use of manga- 
nese. March violet, the sweet violet. Britten and Hol- 
land. [Local, F.iig.] - Marian's Violet. Same as mariet. 
- Marsh-violet, (n) I'Mo palvtlrit, a species with small 
blue flowers marked with purple: found northward in 
both hemispheres. (&) Locally, MmeAboy-violet.~ Mars 
violet, an artificially prepared oxld of iron, used as a pig- 
ment by artists. It resembles Indian red, but is darker 
in color. Also called mineral purple. Mercury's vio- 
let. Same as Maiiani violet. Naphthalene violet. 
Same as MsjMtaMttX Neapolitan Violet. See tmet 
violet. New fast violet. Same as pallocyaninc. New 
Holland violet. Same as tpurlrs* violet. Pale violet, 
Viola, ttriata of central ana eastern North America, a 
stemmed species having white petals lined with purple. 
Pansy violet, a local name for the variety bicotur of the 
bird's-foot violet, Viola pedata. The two upper petals are 
of a deep-violet color and as if velvety. Also velvet violet. 
Paris Violet Same as methyl-violet. Perkln's Ylo- 
let. Same as inrfuin. Primrose-leafed violet, Viola 
primultefolia of the eastern United States, with small 
white flowers. Rosanlline violet a coal-tar color used 
In dyeing, being the hydrochlorids of mono- and di-phenyl 
rosaniline. They produce a dull but moderately fast violet 
color on cotton, wool, and silk. Also called phenol violet, 
rpirii violet, Parma violet, imperial violet, etc - Round- 
leafed Violet, Viola rotund(folia of cold woods in eastern 
North America, a species with small yellow flowers, the 
leave* at first erect, roundish-ovate, an inch broad, in sum- 
mer 3 or 4 Inches long, lying flat on the ground, shining 
above. Sand Violet, Viola arenaria, a small tufted 
stemless species with pale-blue flowers, found In the 
northern Old World. Spurless violet, specifically, Viola 
hederacea of Australasia, once classed as a distinct genus 
Erpetion, a tufted or widely creeping plant with rather 
small blue flowers. Spurred violet, a pretty South 
