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exhalation hot. Milton. —Fume; steam.—The morning is 
the best, because the imagination is not clouded by the 
vapours of meat. Dry den. —Wind; flatulence.—In the 
Thessalian witches, and the meetings of witches that have 
been recorded, great wonders they tell, of carrying in the 
air, transforming themselves into other bodies. These fa¬ 
bles are the effects of imagination; for ointments, if laid on 
any thing thick, by stopping of the pores, shut in the vapours, 
and send them to the head extremely. Bacon. —Mental fume; 
vain imagination ; fancy unreal.—If his sorrow bring forth 
amendment, he hath the grace of hope, though it be clouded 
over with a melancholy vapour, that it be not discernible 
even to himself. Hammond. —[In the plural.] Diseases 
caused by flatulence, or by diseased nerves; hypochondri¬ 
acal maladies; melancholy ; spleen.—To this we must ascribe 
the spleen, so frequent in studious men, as well as the va¬ 
pours to which the other sex are so often subject. Addison. 
To VA'POUR, v. v. [vaporo, Lat.] To pass in a vapour 
or fume; to fly off in evaporations. 
When thou from this world wilt go. 
The whole world vapours in thy breath. Donne. 
To emit fumes.—Swift running waters vapour not so much 
as standing waters. Bacon. —To bully; to brag. 
Not true, quoth he ? Howe’er you vapour, 
I can what I affirm make appear. Hudibras. 
To VA'POUR, n. a. To effuse, or scatter in fumes or 
vapour. 
Break off this last lamenting kiss, 
Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away. Donne. 
VA'POURED, adj. Moist. 
From mine eyes 
The vapour'd tears down stilled here and there. Sackville. 
Splenetic; peevish. 
The want of method pray excuse. 
Allowing for a vapour'd muse. Green. 
VAPR1A, a village of Austrian Italy, in the Milanese. 
VAPRINITZ, a small town of Austrian Illyria, in Istria, 
on the Adriatic ; 4 miles from Friume. 
VAR, a considerable river in the south-east of France, 
which rises in Mount Cemelione among the Alps, flows 
southward, forms the boundary between France and Pied¬ 
mont, and falls into the Mediterranean not far from 
Antibes. 
VAR, a department of France, forming the south-east 
extremity of the kingdom, and bordered by the county of 
Nice on the east, by the Mediterranean on the south, and by 
a pait of the Alps on the north. This department forms 
part of Provence, has an extent of about 2900 square miles, 
and a population of 285,000. 
VAllADES, a town in the west of France, near the Loire, 
with 3000 inhabitants. 
VARAD OLASZI, a small town in the east of Hungary, 
in the immediate neighbourhood of Great Waradein. 
VARAGGIO, a small town in the north of Italy, in the 
duchy of Genoa, on the coast; 5 miles north-east of Savona, 
and 18 west-south-west of Genoa. 
VARALLO, a small town in the north-west of Italy, in the 
Piedmontese states, situated at the influx of the small river 
Mastallone into the larger stream of the Sesia; 20 miles 
south of Domo d’Ossola, and 57 north-north-east of Turin. 
VARALLYA, Szenyer, a small town in the north-east 
of Hungary, on the river Szenver, with 3000 inhabitants. 
Lat. 47. 43. 25. N. long. 23. 17. 35. E. 
VARANA, a small lake of Italy, in the east of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, in the Capitanata, near Monte Gargano. 
VARANACO, a small river of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of San Juan de los Llanos, which rises near the source 
of the Paucana, runs east, and enters the Orinoco. 
VARANO, or Wra.no, a small town of the north of 
Hungary; 53 miles north of Tokay. It is inhabited by 
Slowacks. 
VARARI, a river of South America, in the plain country 
VAR 
through which the river Amazons flows, which enters the 
Negro. 
VARCA, a large river of the province of Cayenne, in 
South America, which runs east into the Atlantic ocean. 
On its shores are some fine plantations of sugar. 
VARCHI (Benedetto), was born at Forence in the year 
1502, and destined to trade; but manifesting an inclination 
for literature, he was sent to the university of Padua. In 
the Florentine academy, of which he was one year consul, 
he delivered lectures. Cosmo recompensed his services with 
the provostship of Monte Varchi, on which occasion he 
took holy orders; but before he could remove thither, he 
died of an apoplexy in 1565, at the age of sixty-three; 
and his eulogy was delivered, at his funeral, by Lionardo 
Salviati. 
Varchi was a man of general literature. He wrote a 
Florentine history, comprising the period from 1527 to 
1538, in which he was chargeable with gross adulation to 
the house of Medici. He also published several harangues, 
academical and funeral; poetical pieces, and a comedy in 
Italian. As a grammarian, he gained reputation by his 
dialogue “ Ercolano,” treating particularly of the Tuscan 
language. 
VARDA, or Kis-Varda, a small town in the east of 
Hungary, on the Theiss; 53 miles north-by-east of De- 
breczin. 
VARDAC, a small town in the south-west of France, 
department of the Lot and Garonne, on the small river 
Bayse. 
VARDAR (the Arius of the ancients), a large river of 
European Turkey, which rises from Mount Schartag, flows 
from north-west to south through Macedon, and empties 
itself into the gulf of Salonica; 10 miles west-by-south of 
that city. 
VARE, s. [vara, Spanish.] A wand or staff of justice. 
Malone .—His hand a vare of justice did uphold. Dryden. 
VAREL, a town of the north-west of Germany, in the 
grand duchy of Oldenburg, on the small river Hase; 17 
miles north of Oldenburg. 
VARENA, a small town of Austrian Italy, situated on 
the eastern side of the lake of Como; 30 miles north-by¬ 
east of Milan. 
VARENNE, a small town in the central part of France, 
situated on the river Allier; 14 miles west-north-west of La 
Palisse, and 20 south of Moulins. 
VARENNES, a petty town in the north-east of France, 
department of the Meuse, on the small river Aire ; 18 miles 
north-west of Verdun.—2. Another small town in the north¬ 
east of France, department of the Upper Marne; 14 miles 
north-east of Langres.—3. A post village of the United 
States, in Pendleton county, South Carolina. 
VARENT, St., a small town in the west of France, de¬ 
partment of the Two Sevres, on the small river Thouaret; 
14 miles east of Bressuire. 
VARESE, an inland town of Austrian Italy, in the go¬ 
vernment of Milan, situated on the small river Verbano, 
near a lake called from it lake of Varese. It is 27 miles 
west-north-west of Milan. 
VARGAS (Luis de), a Spanish painter of celebrity, was 
born at Seville in 1528. He went to Italy to improve his 
talents, and passed seven years in Rome, where he princi¬ 
pally directed his attention to Raffaelle and P. Perugino’s 
works. When he returned to Seville, he found a formidable 
rival in Pedro Campanna, and he therefore returned to Italy 
to cultivate his powers still farther; and on returning a 
second time to his native city, obtained reputation and em¬ 
ployment. He painted for the cathedral two pictures, viz., 
Christ bearing his Cross, and Adam and Eve; the latter 
of which is regarded as his master-piece. He executed 
several other works for the churches in Seville, both in oil 
and fresco ; and he was no less distinguished for his skill in 
portraiture, particularly in his portrait of Donna Juana 
Cortes, duchess of Alcala. He died at Seville in 1590, 
aged 62. 
VARGAS MEXIA (Francesco de), a Spanish lawyer, 
who 
