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VELICALA, a town on and near the head of the penin¬ 
sula of California, near the coast of the North Pacific ocean, 
and northerly from Anclote point. Lat. 20. 35. N. long. 
115.50. N. 
VELICSKA, orNAGY-FALU, or Welka Wes, a village in 
the north-west of Hungary, on the Arva, with 1400 inha¬ 
bitants; 32 miles north of Neusohol. 
VELPFEROUS, adj. [ye linn and fero, Lat.] Carrying 
sails.— Veliferous chariots. Evelyn. 
VELIKA GUBAVIZA, a village of Austrian Dalmatia, 
on the river Celtina, which forms here a cataract nearly 150 
feet in height. 
VELIKI JA LUKI, a town of the west of European Rus¬ 
sia; 130 miles south-east of Pskov. 
VELlKOJE,a lake of the interior of European Russia, in 
the government of Riasan.—Also a large village of the in¬ 
terior of European Russia, in the government of Jaroslav. 
VEL1LLA, a petty town of the north-east of Spain, in 
Arragon, on the Ebro; 34 miles south-south-east of Sara¬ 
gossa. 
VEL1NO, Monte Velino, a mountain in the central 
part of Italy, among the Appennines, in the States of the 
Church. Elevation nearly 8000 feet above the level of the 
sea 
VELINO, a small river of Italy, in the north of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, in Abruzzo. It falls into the Narva. 
VEL1SH, a town of the north-west of European Russia, 
in the government of Vitepsk, where the Vc-lishka joins the 
Dwina; 46 miles east-north-east of Vitepsk. 
VELITA'TION, s. [velitatio, Lat.] A skirmish; alight 
contest; a dispute. Builohar. —Let him but read those 
Pharsalian fields fought of late in France for their religion, 
their massacres, wherein by their own relations in 24 years I 
know not how many millions have been consumed, and 
he shall find ours to have been but velitations to theirs. 
Burton. 
VEL1TZA, a village of Greece, on the ascent of Parnassus, 
near which are considerable ruins, supposed to be those of 
the ancient Tithorea. 
VELKAPOLYA, or Hochwies, a small town in the 
north-west of Hungary; 27 miles north-east of Neutra. 
VELLA [of Galen. Derivation unknown], in Botany, 
a genus of the class tetradynamia, order siliculosa, natural 
order of siliquosa or cruciformes, cruciferae (Juss.) —Ge¬ 
neric Character. Calyx : perianth four-leaved, erect, cylin- 
dric : leaflets linear, obtuse, deciduous. Corolla four-pe- 
talled, cruciform. Petals obovate, spreading; claws length 
of the calyx. Stamina: filaments six, length of the calyx ; 
of these two opposite a little shorter. Anthers simple. 
Pistil; germ ovate. Style conic. Stigma simple. Peri¬ 
carp : silicle globose, entire, two-celled, with a partition 
twice as large as the silicle; ovate beyond it and erect. 
Seeds few, roundish.— Essential Character. Silicle with a 
partition twice as large as the valves, ovate on the outside. 
1. Vella annua, annual vella, or cress-rocket.—Leaves 
pinnatifid; silicles pendulous. Root annual, small, fibrous. 
Cotyledons obcordate, smooth. Stem branched, leafy, his¬ 
pid, with bristles bent down. Seeds three or four in each 
cell, subglobular, angular, of a dark ferruginous colour, and 
mucilaginous. 
First observed in the kingdom of Valencia, in Spain, by 
Clusius. Mr. Lawson found it on Salisbury Plain, not far 
from Stonehenge. It flowers in June. 
2. Vella pseudo-cytisus, or shrubby vella.—Leaves entire, 
obovate, ciliate; silicles erect. Stems shrubby, two feet 
high, somewhat rugged, very much branched. Flowers in 
spikes terminating the stem and branches.—Native of Spain. 
Propagation and Culture. —If the seeds be permitted to 
scatter, the plants will come up and thrive very well. These 
plants should not be transplanted; the seeds, therefore, 
should be sown where they are to remain, and require only 
to be kept clean and thinned. 
VELLACH, or Fellach, a small town of Austrian Illyria, 
in Carintbia, on the river Moli; 11 miles north-north-west 
of Saxcnburg. 
VELLE'ITY, 5. [velleitas, from velle, Lat.] Velleity is 
the school term used to signify the lowest degree of desire. 
Eocke. 
VELLEKAT, rocks in the Eastern seas, about 15 miles 
east from the island of Mysol. Lat. 2. 1. S. long. 131.2. E. 
VELLETRI, a considerable town in the central part of 
Italy, in the States of the Church, delegation of Rome, built 
on the declivity of Mount Artimisio, and commanding a 
delightful view of the surrounding country. Its population 
amounts to about 12,000; 20 miles south-east of Rome. 
To VE'LLICATE, v. a. [vellico, Lat.] To twitch ; to 
pluck ; to act by stimulation.—Those smells are all strong, 
and do pull and vellicate the sense. Bacon. 
VELLICA'TION, s. [vellicatio, Lat.] Twitching; sti¬ 
mulation.—All purges have a kind of twitching and velli- 
cation, besides the griping, which cometh of wind. Bacon. 
VELLO, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the govern¬ 
ment of Milan, delegation of Sondrio, belonging to the 
district called the Sette Communi. 
VE'LLUM, s. [velamen, Latin ; rather vitulinum, low 
Latin.] The skin of a calf dressed for the writer; a fine kind 
of parchment. 
Like a child that some faire booke doth find. 
With gilded leaves or colour’d velume playes. Sidney. 
VE'LLET, and Ve'llute. See Velvet. 
VELO'CITY, 4. [ velocite , Fr.; velocitas, Lat.] Speed; 
swiftness; quick motion.—Had the velocities of the several 
planets been greater or less than they are now, at the same 
distances from the sun; or had their distances from the sun, 
or the quantity of the sun’s matter, and consequently his 
attractive power, been greater or less than they are now, 
with the same velocities; they would not have revolved in 
concentric circles, but moved in hyperbolas, or parabolas, 
or in ellipses very eccentric. Bentley. 
VELSEN, a small town of the Netherlands; 5 miles north 
of Haarlem, and 10 west-north-west of Amsterdam. 
VE'LVET, s. [ velous, velours, Fr. the same; veloute, 
made of velvet; veluto, Ital. “ a stuff of silk called velvet;” 
velutare, “ to make soft or woolly, to work velvet-wise,” 
Florio; vellutum, low Lat. villus from vellus, Lat.—Our 
old word appears to have been written vellet, and vellute. 
“ His vellet head began to shoot out.” Spenser, Shep. 
Cal. May. —“ Charges of coaches, vellute gowns,” &c. 
B. Jonson, Magn. Lady.\ Silk with a short fur or pile 
upon it. 
Clad in white velvet all their troop they 1 
With each an oaken chaplet on his head. 
V'ELVET, adj. Made of velvet. 
This was moulded on a porringer, 
A velvet dish. 
id. 
Dryden. 
Shahspeare. 
Soft; delicate. 
Through the velvet leaves the wind. 
All unseen, ’gan passage find. Shahspeare. 
To VE'LVET, v. n. To paint velvet.—Verditure, ground 
with a weak gum-arabic water, is the palest green that is, 
but good to velvet upon black in any drapery. Peacham. 
VELVETE'EN, s. [Ital. velutino, “ slender, coarse vel¬ 
vet,” Florio.] A kind of stuff, made in imitation of velvet. 
VE'LURE, s. [velours, Fr.] Velvet. An old word .— 
His horse with one girt, six times pieced, and a woman’s 
crupper of velure, pieced with packthread. Shahspeare. 
UELZEN, a small town of Germany, in Hanover, pro¬ 
vince of Luneburg, situated on an island in the river Ilme- 
rau, and surrounded by a heath; 22 miles south of Luneburg. 
Population 2600. 
VENA, or Monte della Vena, a mountain of Austrian 
Illyria, in Carniola, on the confines of Istria. 
VENADILLO, a settlement of South America; 14 leagues 
south-west of Santa Fe. 
VENADO, an island of the Pacific ocean, in the province 
and government of Veragua, close to the coast. 
VENADOS, Punta de, a point of land on the coast of 
South America, and province of Carthagena, on a long strip 
of 
