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9. Varronia monosperma, or one-seeded varronia.— 
Leaves ovate, rugged, quite entire at the base; spikes cymed. 
—Native of the L'araccas. Loureiro has a species which he 
names Varronia sinensis. He describes it as a middle-sized 
tree with spreading branches: the leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
quite entire, shining, opposite and alternate, subpetioled; 
flowers white, on many-flowered peduncles, lateral and 
terminating; calyx subcampanulate, short; corolla cam- 
panulate, with a short thick tube, and the segments of 
the border ovate, spreading, equal; filaments inserted into 
the mouth of the tube, nearly equal to the corolla; drupe 
small, smooth, red, acid, eatable; nut four-celled.—Native 
of China. The pulp of the tree is in frequent use among 
the Chinese, as astringent. 
VARS, a small town in the west of France, near the river 
Charente ; 6 miles north of Angouleme. 
VARU, an island on the coast of South America, and 
province of Carthagena. Its length is about 16 miles, 
and its breadth 3. Lat. 10. 12. N. long. 75. 25. W. 
VA'RVELS, s. [ verve/lcs , French.] Silver rings about 
the leg of a hawk, on which the owner’s name is engraved. 
See Vervels. 
To VA'RY, v. a. [parlor , Latin.] To change; to make 
unlike itself. 
Let your ceaseless change 
Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Milton. 
To change to something else.—We are to vary the cus¬ 
toms, according to the time and country where the scene of 
action lies. Dryden. —To make of different kinds.—God 
hath divided the genius of men according to the different 
affairs of the world ; and varied their inclinations, accord¬ 
ing to the variety of actions to be performed. Brown. —To 
diversify; to variegate. 
God hath here 
Vary'd his bounty so with new delights. Milton. 
To VA'RY, v. n. To be changeable ; to appear in differ¬ 
ent forms. 
Darkling stands 
The varying shore o’ th’ world. Shakspeare. 
To be unlike each other.—Those who made laws, had 
their minds polished above the vulgar; and yet unaccount¬ 
ably the public constitutions of nature vary. Collier. —To 
alter; to become unlike itself. 
So varied he, and of his tortuous train 
Curl’d many a wanton wreath. Milton. 
To deviate; to depart.—The crime consists in violating 
the law, and varying from the right rule of reason. Locke. 
—To succeed each other. 
While fear and anger, with alternate grace. 
Pant in her breast, and vary in her face. Addison. 
To disagree; to be at variance. 
In judgment of her substance thus they vary. 
And vary thus in judgment of her seat; 
For some her chair up to the brain do carry, 
Some sink it down into the stomach’s heat. Davies. 
To shift colours. 
Will the falcon, stooping from above, 
Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? 
Admires the jay the insect’s gilded wings? 
Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Pope. 
VA'RY, s. Change ; alteration. Not in use. 
Such smiling rogues as these sooth every passion ; 
Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks. 
With every gale and vary of their masters. Shakspeare. 
VARY, a small but well peopled and thriving town in 
the north-east of Hungary; ] 1 miles south of Munkacs. 
VARZI, a small town in the north of Italy, in Piedmont, 
on the small river Staffora; 9 miles north of Bobbio. 
VARZY, a small town in the central part of France, 
department of the Nievre; 9 miles south-west of Clamicy, 
and 28 north-east of Nevers. 
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VAS, a hamlet of Brazil, in the province of Rio Janeiro, 
a very short distance to the north of Villa de Principe. 
VAS ANTON, an island of Brazil, in the province of 
Pernambuco. 
VAS MARTIN, an island of the Atlantic sea, between 
the coast of Brazil and the island of Cafreria. 
VASARHELY, a town in the south-east of Hungary, 
in the county of Czongrad, on the lake of Hold; 21 miles 
south-south-east of Czongrad, and 83 south-east of Pest. 
VASARHELY, Santo, a small town of Hungary, 
on the river Toma; 72 miles south-by-east of Presburg. 
VASARVAKSI, a small town in the north-west of Euro¬ 
pean Turkey, in the sandgiacat of Bosnia. 
VASARUT, a small town of the west of Hungary, in 
the isle of Schutt, an island formed by the Danube. 
VASCONAS, Provincias Vascongadas, or the 
Basque Provinces, is a general term for the three pro¬ 
vinces of Biscay, Guipuscoa and Alava, in Spain. 
VA'SCULAR, adj. \yasculum, Latin.] Consisting of 
vessels; full of vessels.—Nutrition of the solids is performed 
by the circulating liquid in the smallest vascular solids. 
Arbuthnot. 
VASCULA'RITY, s. State or quality of being vascular. 
—-As a further proof of the vascularity of the teeth, nodes 
sometimes form on them. Outlines of Anat. 
VASCULI'FEROUS, adj. [vasculum and fero, Latin.] 
Such plants as have, besides the common calyx, a peculiar 
vessel to contain the seed, sometimes divided into cells; 
and these have always a monopetalous flower, either uniform 
ordifform. Suincy. 
VASE, s. [yasa, Latin.] A vessel; generally a vessel 
rather for show than use. 
The toilet stands unveil’d. 
Each silver vase in mystic order laid. Pope. 
It is used for a solid piece of ornamental marble. 
VASE, or Vase River, a river of North America, which 
empties into the Mississippi from the north-east, 3 miles 
below the Great Rock, about 55 miles north-west-by-north 
of the mouth of the Ohio. 
VASEUX, a river of the United States, in the state of 
the Illinois. 
VASHON’S ISLAND, an island near the west coast of 
America, at the bottom of Admiralty inlet, and eastern branch 
of the gulph of Georgia. Lat. 47. 10. N. long. 237. 25. E. 
VASICA, a river of Florida, which runs north, and 
enters the sea between the settlement of San Marcos and the 
river Vilches. 
VASIETTA, a river of America, which runs into lake 
Michigan. Lat. 44. 38. N. long. 85. 18. W. 
VASIL, a small town of the interior of European Russia, 
near the confluence of the Sura and the Wolga ; 87 miles 
east-south-east of Niznei-Novgorod. 
VASILIKO, or Basilico, a village of European Turkey, 
in the Morea, about 9 miles west-north-west of Corinth, 
situated on the angle of a rocky ascent, on the site of the 
ancient Sicyon. 
VASILKOV, a small town of the west of European 
Russia, in the government of Kiev; 24 miles south-south¬ 
west of Kiev. 
VASQUEZ, a settlement of the island of Cuba; 66 miles 
north-west of Villa del Principe. 
VASQUEZ, a river of Mexico, which runs into the 
Spanish Main. Lat. 11. 30. N. 
VA'SSAL, s. [vassal, French; vassallo, Ital.; a dimin¬ 
utive of vassus, low Latin; a dependant, according to 
Wachter, which he refers to the Welch gwas, a servant.] 
One who holds of a superior lord.—The vassals are invited 
to bring in their complaints to the viceroy, who imprisons 
and chastises their masters. Addison. —A subject; a de¬ 
pendant.—She cannot content the lord with performance of 
his discipline, that hath at her side a vassal, whom Satan hath 
made his vice-gerent, to cross whatsoever the faithful should 
do. Hooker. 
Vassals of his anger, when the scourge 
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