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22. Vicia faba, or bean.—Stem upright; petioles without 
tendrils. Root annual. Leaflets about three pairs, ovate- 
oblong, tomentose, convoluted. Flowers several together in 
the axils, white with a black silken spot in the middle of the 
wings. Legumes thick, roundish, straight, pointed, very 
woolly within, containing several large ovate flatted seeds.— 
It is said to be a native of Egypt. 
1.—Varieties of the Garden Bean. 
The mazagan bean is the first and best sort of early 
beans at present known. 
The next sort is the early Portugal or Lisbon bean. 
Then follow the small Spanish bean ; the broad Spanish. 
The Sandwich bean comes soon after the Spanish, and is 
almost as large as the Windsor bean. 
The toker bean, as it is generally called, comes about 
the same time with the Sandwich, and is a great bearer, 
therefore is now much planted, though it is a coarse bean. 
The white and black blossom beans are also by some 
ersons much esteemed; the beans of the former are, when 
oiled, almost as green as pease. 
The Windsor bean is allowed to be the best of all the 
sorts for the table ; when these are planted on a good soil, 
and are allowed sufficient room, their seeds will be very large, 
and in great plenty; and when they are gathered young, are 
the sweetest and best tasted of all the sorts. 
2.—Varieties of the Field Bean. 
The common horse bean. [Probably the original of all 
tire varieties.] 
The tick bean, lower in stature, a more plentiful bearer, 
and succeeds better on light land. Of this there are several 
subordinate varieties; as flat ticks or May beans, small or 
Essex ticks, French ticks, and Heligoland beans. 
23. Vicia serratifolia.—Stem upright; petioles without 
tendrils; leaflets serrate.—Native of the Euganian moun¬ 
tains, flowering in June. 
24. Vicia biflora.—Leaflets linear; peduncles two-flow¬ 
ered, axillary.—Native of Algiers. 
25. Vicia calcarata.—Leaflets linear-lanceolate, obtuse; 
stipules forked; peduncles one-flowered; shorter than the 
leaf, having a short spur below the flower; legumes smooth, 
drooping.—Native of Algiers. 
Propagation and Culture. —These are all propagated by 
seeds. 
Of the culture of the beans.—Those which are planted 
early in October, will come up by the beginning of Novem¬ 
ber ; and as soon as they are an inch above ground, the 
earth should be carefully drawn up with a hoe to their stems; 
and this must be two or three times repeated, as the beans 
advance in height; which will protect their stems from the 
frost, and encourage their strength. If the winter should 
prove severe, it will be very proper to cover the beans with 
peas-haulm, fern, or some other light covering, which will 
secure them from the injury of frost; but this covering must 
be constantly taken off in mild weather, otherwise they will 
draw up tall and weak, and come to little; and if the surface 
of the border is covered with tanner’s bark, it will prevent 
the frost penetrating the ground to the roots of both, and be 
of great service to protect them from the injury which they 
might otherwise receive. 
Of the horse bean, which is cultivated in the fields; there 
are two or three varieties of these, which differ in their size 
and colour; but that which is now in the greatest esteem, is 
called the tick bean; this does not grow so high as the other, 
is a more plentiful bearer, and succeeds better on light land 
than the common horse bean, which delights in a strong moist 
soil. 
The season for sowing these beans is from the middle of 
February to the end of March, according to the nature of the 
soil; the strongest and wet land should always be last sown; 
the usual quantity of beans sown on an acre of land is about 
three bushels; but this is double the quantity which need be 
sown, especially according to the new husbandry. 
VI'CINAGE, s. [vicinia . Lat.; voisinage, Fr.; as our 
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word was formerly Written, and also voicinage, as well as 
vicinage. ] Neighbourhood; places adjoining.—A city came 
to be built in the voisinage of this holy place. Biblioth .— 
In many places the patrons endowed the churches, but built 
not the edifice; leaving that to be done by the priest out of 
the oblations and contributions of the Christians of the vi¬ 
cinage. Wharton and Stanhope. 
VICI'NAL, or Vici'ne, adj. [victims, Lat.] Near; 
neighbouring. 
VICI'NITY, s. [vicinus , Lat.] Nearness; state of being 
near.-—-The abundance and vicinity of country seats. Swift. 
—Neighbourhood.—Gravity alone must have carried them 
downwards to the vicinity of the sun. Bentley. 
VICIOSA, a shoal or isle of the Atlantic ocean, in the pro¬ 
vince and government of Costa Rica. 
VICIOSAS, a cluster of small islands near the coast of 
Honduras. Lat. 15. 12. N. long. 83. 4. W. 
VI'CIOUS, adj. See Vitious. —Devoted to vice. Not 
addicted to virtue. 
He heard this heavy curse. 
Servants of servants, on his vicious race. Milton. 
VI'CIOUSLY, adv. Corruptly; sinfully.—Perversity of 
will, immoral and sinful enormities, walk with Adraste and 
Nemesis at their backs, pursue us into judgment, and leave 
us viciously miserable. Brown. 
Vl'CIOUSNESS, s. Corruptness. See Vitiousness. 
VICI'SSITUDE, s. [vicissitude, Lat.] Regular change; 
return of the same things in the same succession. 
It makes through heaven 
Grateful vicissitude, like day and night. Milton. 
Revolution; change. 
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. 
All at her work the village maiden sings; 
Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, 
Revolves the sad vicissitude of things. Giffard. 
VICISSITU'DINARY, adj. [vicissitudo, vicissitudinis, 
Lat.] Regularly changing.—We say, the elements of man 
are misery and happiness, as though he had an equal pro¬ 
portion of both; and the days of man vicissitudinary, as 
though he had as many good days as ill. Donne. 
VICO, a small town in Corsica; 28 miles north-east 
of Ajaccio.—2. A town of Italy, with 3300 inhabitants; 
2 miles east-by-south of Mondovi.—3. A considerable town 
of Naples, province of Capitanata; 10 miles west of Viesti.— 
4. A village of Austrian Dalmatia, on the river Norin, near 
the town of Narentze, on the site of the ancient city of Na- 
rona; 5 miles north-west of Citluc.—5. A settlement of 
Peru, in the province of Tarma. 
VICO EQUANA, or Vico di Sorrento, a town of 
Italy; 15 miles south-south-east of Naples. 
VICO PIS AN A, a small town of Tuscany, province of 
Pisa; 5 miles east-by-south of Pisa. 
VICO VARO, a town of Italy, in the Popedom, district of 
Sabina, with the title of a principality. Horace’s villa stood 
in the neighbourhood of this place; 6 miles south-east of 
Tiroli. 
VICO'NTIEL, adj. In law vicontiel rents are certain 
farms, for which the sheriff pays a rent to the king, and 
makes what profit he can of them. Vicontiel writs are such 
writs as are triable in the county court, before the sheriff. 
Bailey. 
VICQ-D’AZYR (Felix), was born at Valognes in Nor¬ 
mandy, in 1748, and distinguished himself both as a physi¬ 
cian and a man of letters. Settling at Paris in 1765, he 
pursued with diligence every branch of study connected with 
medicine, and paid particular attention to the physiological 
part of anatomy. In 1773 he commenced a course of lec¬ 
tures on human and comparative anatomy, in which pursuit 
he was very popular; but he was interrupted by a spitting 
of blood, which made it necessary for him to return to his 
native place. Here he applied to the anatomical examination 
of fishes, the result of which he communicated to the Aca¬ 
demy of Sciences, which associated him as a member. When 
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