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Rome; but upon the death of this pontiff, he resumed the 
chair at Florence, and held it nearly to the close of his life. 
He died in 1585, regretted and eulogized by the learned, on 
account of his virtuous and amiable manners, as well as his 
extensive erudition. Vettori took great pains in improving 
the editions of the ancient Greek and Latin writers. Ot the 
latter we may mention Cicero, Terence, Varro, and Sallust; 
and of the former, Euripides, Porphyry, Demetrius Phale- 
reus, Plato, Xenophon, Dion. Halicarn,, Aristotle, iEschylus, 
and Clemens Alexandrinus. His commentaries upon the 
rhetoric, poetics, ethics, and politics of Aristotle, and upon 
the elocution of Demetrius Phalereus, are much valued. He 
was also the author of many Italian and Latin letters, and 
of some poems, of an elegant Latin tract on the culture of the 
olive, and of other pieces in MS. Tiraboschi. Gen. Biog. 
VETU'ST, adj. \yetustus, Lat.] Old; ancient. Not 
in use. Coclceram. 
VEUDRE, a town of France, department of the Allier; 
14 miles north-west of Moulins. 
VEULLES, St. Martin, a sea-port of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Seine; 14 miles west-by-south of Dieppe. 
VEVAY, abailiwic and town of the Swiss canton of the 
Pays de Vaud, situated on the lake of Geneva ; 10 miles 
east of Lausanne. 
VEVAY, a post township of the United States, and capital 
of Switzerland county, Indiana, on the Ohio ; 8 miles above 
the mouth of the Kentucky, nearly equi-distant from Cincin¬ 
nati, Louisville, and Lexington, about 45 miles from each. 
To VEX, v. a. [vexo, Lat.] To plague; to torment; 
to harass. 
Do you think 
The king will suffer but the little finger 
Of this man to be vex'd? Shakspeare. 
To disturb; to disquiet. 
Alack, ’tis he; why, he was met even now. 
As mad as the vex't sea; singing aloud. Shakspeare. 
To trouble with slight provocations. To stretch as by 
hooks. 
Some English wool, vex'd in a Belgian loom, 
And into cloth of spongy softness made. Dryden. 
To VEX, v. n. To fret; to be on tenters; to be uneasy. 
Ulysses gave good care, and fed 
And drunke his wine, and vext, and ravished 
His food for mere vexation. Chapman. 
VEX'ATION, s. The act of troubling. 
O that husband, 
My supreme crown of grief, and those repeated vexations 
of it! Shakspeare. 
The state of being troubled; uneasiness; sorrow. 
Vexation almost stops my breath. 
That sunder’d friends greet in the hour of death. 
Shakspeare. 
The cause of trouble or uneasiness. 
Your children were vexation to your youth; 
But mine shall be a comfort to your age. Shakspeare. 
An act of harassing by law.'—Albeit the party grieved 
thereby, may have some reason to complain of an untrue 
charge, yet may he not well call it an unjust vexation. 
Bacon. —A slight teasing trouble. 
VEXA'TIOUS, adj. Afflictive; troublesome; causing 
trouble.—Consider him maintaining his usurped title, by 
continual vexatious wars against the kings of Judah. South. 
—Full of trouble; full of uneasiness.—He leads a vexatious 
life, who, in his noblest actions is so gored with scruples, 
that he dares not make a step without the authority of 
another. Digby. —Teasing; slightly troublesome. 
VEXA'TIOUSLY, adv. Troublesomely; uneasily.—As 
to our neighbour and rival, France, I shall formally prove 
it, that her subjects pay more than England, on a compu¬ 
tation of the wealth of both parties; that her taxes are more 
vexatiously collected. Burke. 
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VEXA'TIOUSNESS, s. Troublesomeness; uneasiness. 
VE'XER, s. One who vexes. Hit/oet. 
VE'XINGLY, adv. So as to vex, plague, or disturb.— 
It is the same poverty which makes men speak or write 
smuttily, that forces them to talk vexingly. Tat ter. 
VEYNES, a town of France, department of the Upper 
Alps; 14 miles west of Gap. 
VEYRE, a town of France, department of the Puy de 
Dome, with 3300 inhabitants; 9 miles south-east of Cler- 
mont 
VEZELAY, a town of France, department of the Yonne, 
situated on a rugged mountain ; 25 miles south-by-east of 
Auxerre. 
VEZELISE, a town of France, department of the Meurthe, 
on the river Brenon; 12 miles south-west of Luneville. 
VEZENOBRE, a town of France, department of the Gard ; 
18 miles north-west of Nimes. 
VEZERE, a small river in the south of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Correze. It falls into the Dordogne. 
VEZINS, a town of France, department of the Aveyron ; 
14 miles north-west of Milhaud. 
VEZZANA, a small town of the Austrian states, in the 
south of Tyrol, near Trent. 
UFFCULME, Uffculmb, or Uffcolumb, a market 
town and parish of England, in Devonshire, situated on the 
river Columb; 4§ miles north-east of Collumbton. Markets 
on Monday and Wednesday, and 3 annual fairs. Population 
1564. 
UFFENHEIM, or Uffingen, a small town of Germany, 
in Bavarian Franconia; 20 miles south-south-east of Wurz¬ 
burg, and 40 west-north-west of Nuremberg. It has 1800 
inhabitants, and a well endowed hospital. 
UFFINGTON, a parish of England, in Berkshire; 4 miles 
south-south-east of Great Faringdon. Population 462 
UFFINGTON, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 2| 
miles east-by-north of Stamford. Population 445. 
UFFINGTON, a parish of England, in Salop; 2J miles 
east-north-east of Shrewsbury. 
UFFNOW, a small island of Switzerland, in the lake of 
Zurich; about a mile in circumference. 
UFFORD, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 2J miles 
north-east-by-north of Woodbridge. Population 541. 
UFFORD, a hamlet of England, in Northamptonshire; 
3| miles north-north-east of Wandsford. 
UFLEN, or Ufeln, a small town of the north-west of 
Germany, in the county of Lippe-Detmold; 15 miles south- 
south-west of Minden, and 8 west-north-west of Lemgo. 
UFTON, a parish of England, in Berkshire; 7 miles 
south-west-by-west of Reading. 
UFTON, a parish of England, in Warwickshire; 3| miles 
west-by-north of Southam. 
UFTRUNGEN, a small town of Prussian Saxony, in the 
government of Merseburg, near Rossla. Population 900. 
UGBOROUGH, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 
3 miles north-north-east of Modbury. 
UGENTO, a small town of Italy, in the south-east of the 
kingdom of Naples, in the Terra d’Otranto, the see of a 
bishop; 12 miles south-east of Gallipoli, and 20 south-west 
of Otranto. 
UGFORD, a hamlet of England, in the parish of South 
Newton, Wiltshire. 
UGGESHALL, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 41- 
miles north-west of Southwold. 
UGGIATE, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the Mi¬ 
lanese; 5 miles west of Como. 
UGGIONE, or Oggione (Marco da), was a native of 
Oggione, in the Milanese, and was born about the year 
1480. He was one of the most able scholars of Lionardo 
da Vinci. Avoiding the minute elaborate finish of his mas¬ 
ter’s smaller works, which was imitated by his fellow pupils 
generally, and attaching himself to the study of the great 
principles of the art, he became a skilful painter in fresco. 
He must have been greatly aided in his progress, by having 
copied the most renowned and the greatest of Da Vinci’s 
works, the Last Supper, painted in the refectory of the Do- 
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