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VADILKORA, or Vadi al Kora, a town of Hedsjas, 
in Arabia; 56 miles north of Medina. 
VADKERT, a small town in the west of Hungary, on the 
river Lokos; 35 miles north of Pest. 
VADO, a small town in the north-west of Italy, in the 
duchy of Genoa, situated on the sea-coast; 6 miles south¬ 
west of Savona, and 27 west-by-south of Genoa. 
. VADUTZ, a petty town of the south-west of Germany, 
in the principality of Lichtenstein; 39 miles south-east of 
Constance. 
VAE’S ISLAND, Anthony, a small island on the 
east coast of Brazil, in South America. 
VAELS, a manufacturing place of the Netherlands, in the 
province of Limburg ; 3 miles west of Aix-la-Chapelle. 
VAGA (Pierino del), whose real name was Pietro Buona- 
corsi, was one of those ingenious painters employed by 
Raphael to assist him in adorning the Vatican. He was born 
at a village near Florence in 1500, of indigent parents. His 
father was killed in battle, and his mother died of the plague 
before he was two months old. 
After the death of Raphael, he was employed, with 
J. Romano and G. F. Penni, to continue and complete the 
adornment of the Vatican, great part of the execution of 
which is the work of Del Vaga. 
Pierino was in full possession of public repute when he 
was compelled to fly for safety from Rome, by the sacking 
of that city in 1527. He took refuge in Genoa, where he 
was graciously received by prince Doria, who at that time 
projected the embellishment of his superb palace near the 
gate of St. Thomas. He had here a full opportunity of dis¬ 
playing his imagination, as well as his executive powers; 
and here he indulged in those inventions which breathe the 
spirit of Raphael himself, and rival the exertions of his 
fellow pupil J. Romano, in the palazzo del T at Mantua: 
both do honour to the school they had studied in, and the 
patron who employed them. He is said not to have been 
sufficiently scrupulous in the choice of his coadjutors, and 
the grandeur of his designs is consequently weakened by 
their imperfect execution. He died at Rome in 1547, 
aged 47. 
VA'GABOND, adj. [vagabundus, low Latin; vagabond, 
French.] Wandering without any settled habitation ; want¬ 
ing a home. 
Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death; 
Vagabond exile : yet I would not buy 
Their mercy at the price of one fair word. Shakspeare. 
Wandering; vagrant 
This common body. 
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream. 
Goes to, and back, lacqueying the varying tide. 
Shakspeare. 
VA'GABOND, s. A vagrant; a wanderer, commonly 
in a sense of reproach,—We call those people wanderers and 
vagabonds, that have no dwelling-place. Ralegh. —One 
that wanders illegally, without a settled habitation.—■ Vaga¬ 
bond is a person without a home. Walts. 
VA'GABONDRY, s. Beggary; knavery. Cotgrave, 
and Sherwood. 
VAGAIE, a river of Tobolsk, in Asiatic Russia, which, 
after a course of upwards of 100 miles, falls into the Irtysch. 
To VA'GARY, v. n. [vaguer, old French.] To wander; 
to gad; to range ; to roam; to remove often from place to 
place. Cotgrave, and Sherwood. 
VAGA'RY, .r. A wandering.—.The people called Phce- 
nices gave themselves to long vagaries, and continuall 
viages by sea. Rich.—-A wild freak; a capricious frolic. 
They chang’d their minds, 
Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell, 
As they wou’d dance. ^ Milton. 
VA'GIENT, adj. [vagiens, Latin.] Crying like a child. 
Not in use. 
The cradle of the Cretan Jove, 
And guardians of his vagient infancy. More, 
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VAGINOPE'NNOUS, adj. [vagina and penna, Latin.] 
Sheathwinged ; having the wings covered with hard cases. 
VAGIOW, a town on the west coast of the island .of 
Celebes. 
VAGLIANO, a small town in the north of Italy, in the 
grand duchy of Tuscany, province of Florence, on the river 
Chiana. 
VAGLIO, a small town in the south of the kingdom of 
Naples, in the Basilicata. 
VAGNEY, a small town in the north-east of France, de¬ 
partment of the Vosges; 6 miles east of Remiremont, and 17 
south-east of Epinal. 
VA'GOUS, adj. [vagus, Latin.] Wandering; unsettled. 
Not in use. —Such as were born and begot of a single 
woman, through a vagous lust, were called Sporii. Ayliffe. 
VA'GRANCY, s. A state of wandering; unsettled con¬ 
dition.—Moses did not lose his affection towards hiscountry- 
men, because he was by one of them threatened away into 
banishment and vagrancy. Barrow. 
VA'GRANT, adj. [vagarant, old French; wandering. 
Kelham. And so in old English. “ The people remained 
in the woods and mountains, vagarant and dispersed like 
the wild beasts.” Puttenham.] Wandering; unsettled; 
vagabond ; unfixed in place. 
Her lips no living bard, I weet, 
May say how red, how round, how sweet; 
Old Homer only could indite 
Their vagrant grace, and soft delight: 
They stand recorded in his book. 
When Helen smil’d, and Hebe spoke. Prior. 
VA'GRANT, s. A sturdy beggar ; wanderer; vagabond; 
man unsettled in habitation. In an ill sense. 
Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view, 
Train’d to assault, and disciplin’d to kill. Prior. 
VAGUARE, a river of New Granada, in the province 
of Neiva, which runs east, and enters the Magdalena. 
VAGUE, adj. [vagus, Latin.] Wandering; vagrant; 
vagabond.—Gray encouraged his men to set upon the vague 
villains, good neither to live peaceably, nor to fight. 
Hayward. —Unfixed; unsettled; undetermined; indefinite, 
—The perception of being, or not being, belongs no more 
to these vague ideas, signified by the terms, whatsoever and 
thing, than it does to any other ideas. Locke. 
VAHL (Martin), a botanical writer of good and ori¬ 
ginal authority, born in Norway in 1751, received his first 
education at the school of Bergen, which he left in 1766, 
and was then entered a member of the university of Copen¬ 
hagen. We know not in what year Vahl quitted Upsal, 
but in 1779 he was appointed lecturer, or demonstrator, of 
Botany, in the garden at Copenhagen, where he taught his 
science, with great applause, for three years. 
On returning to Copenhagen in 1785, he w^s made 
professor of natural history in that university; and was 
appointed editor of the Flora Danica, begun at the royal 
expence by Oeder, continued with much imperfection by 
Muller, but restored to its original excellence by Vahl. The 
principal object of this work was, in the first instance, to 
illustrate Forskall’s discoveries, very incorrectly displayed in 
his own Flora. 
In 1799 and 1800 professor Vahl received the pecuniary 
support of the Danish government in a second tour to Hol¬ 
land and Paris, for botanical purposes; chiefly, we pre¬ 
sume, with a view to the composition of a great work, long 
in his contemplation, on the model of the Linnsean Species 
Plantarurn. Of this he just lived to publish the first volume, 
under the title of “ Enumcratio Plantarurn,” in 1804, in 
8vo. including the classes Monandria and Diandria. The 
second, containing only the Triandria Monogynia, was pub¬ 
lished by his widow in 1805. He died on the 24th of 
December, 1804. 
VAHLIA [so named by Thunberg, in honour of Martin 
Vahl, regius professor of Botany at Copenhagen, and mem¬ 
ber of several academies,] in Botany, a genus of the class 
pentandria, order digynia, natural order of succulentse, ona- 
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