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other guide but their reason, considered the violation of an 
oath to be a great crime. Addison. —Rape; the act of de¬ 
flowering. 
If your pure maidens fall into the hand 
Of hot and forcing violation. Shakspeare. 
VIOLATOR, s. [violator, Lat.] One who injures or 
infringes something sacred.—May such places, built for 
divine worship, derive a blessing upon the head of the build¬ 
ers, as lasting as the curse that never fails to rest upon the 
sacrilegious violators of them. South.- —A ravisher. 
Angelo is an adulterous thief. 
An hypocrite, a virgin violator. Shakspeare. 
VIOLENCE, [violentia, Latin.] Force; strength 
applied to any purpose. 
To be imprison’d in the viewless wind. 
And blown with restless violence about. Shakspeare. 
An attack ; an assault; a murder. 
A noise did scare me from the tomb ; 
And she, too desperate, would not go with me : 
But, as it seems, did violence on herself. Shakspeare. 
Outrage; unjust force. 
Griev’d at his heart, when looking down he saw 
The whole earth fill’d with violence; and all flesh 
Corrupting each their way. Milton. 
Eagerness; vehemence. 
That seal 
You ask for with such violence, the king 
With his own hand gave me. Shakspeare. 
Injury; infringement.-—-We cannot, without offering vio¬ 
lence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal 
deluge. Burnet. —Forcible defloration. 
To VIOLENCE, v. a. To assault; to injure. 
Then surely love hath none, nor beauty any. 
Nor nature violenced in both these. B. Jonson. 
To bring by violence.-—Like our late misnamed high 
court of justice, to which the loyal and the noble, the honest 
and the brave, were violenced by ambition and malice. 
Feltham. 
VIOLENT, adj. [violentus, Lat.] Forcible; acting 
with strength.—A violent cross wind blows. Milton .— 
Produced or continued by force.—-The posture we find them 
in, according to his doctrine, must be look’d upon as un¬ 
natural and violent; and no violent state can be perpetual. 
Burnet. —Not natural, but brought by force. 
Conqueror death discovers them scarce men; 
Violent or shameful death their due reward. Milton. 
Assailant; acting by force.—Some violent hands were 
laid on Humphry’s life. Shakspeare. —Unseasonably vehe¬ 
ment.—We might be reckoned fierce and violent, to tear 
away that, which, if our mouths did condemn, our con¬ 
sciences would storm and repine thereat. Hooker. —Ex¬ 
torted ; not voluntary. 
How soon unsay 
Vows made in pain, as violent and void! Milton. 
VI'OLENT, s. An assailant.—Did the covetous extor¬ 
tioner observe that he is involved in the same sentence, re¬ 
member that such violents shall not take heaven, but hell, 
by force. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
To VI'OLENT, v. n. To become violent; to act with 
violence. 
Why tell you me of moderation ? 
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, 
And violenteth in a sense as strong 
As that which causeth it. Shakspeare. 
To VI'OLENT, v. a. To urge with violence. Neither 
this, nor the neuter verb, is now in use—His former adver¬ 
saries violented anv thing against him. Fuller. 
Vox.. XXIV. No. 1644. 
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VI'OLENTLY, adv. With force; forcibly; vehemently. 
Temperately proceed to what you would 
Thus violently redress. Shakspeare. 
VI'OLET, s. [viola, Latin.] A flower. The Viola 
Odorata, which see. 
When daisies pied, and violets blue, 
Do paint the meadows much bedight. Shakspeare. 
VPOLIN, s. A fiddle; a stringed instrument of music. 
Praise with timbrels, organs, flutes; 
Praise with violins, and lutes. Sandys. 
VI'OLINIST, s. A player on the violin.-—Davys Mell, 
the famous violinist and clock-maker. Aubrey. 
VI'OLIST, s. A player on the viol. 
VIOLONCE'LLO, s. [Italian.] A kind of bass violin. 
VI'OLONE, s. [Ital.] A double bass viol. 
VPPER, s. [vipera, Lat.] A serpent of that species 
which brings its young alive, of which many are poisonous. 
—A viper came out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. 
Acts .—Any thing mischievous. 
Where is this viper, 
That would depopulate the city, and 
Be every man himself? Shakspeare . 
VIPER KEY, one of the Tortugas, on the coast of Flo¬ 
rida ; 5 miles north-eastward of Duck Key, and 3§ east of 
old Matacombe, 
VI'PERINE, adj. [viperinus, Lat.] Belonging to a viper. 
VI'PEROUS, adj. [vipereus Lat.] Having the qua¬ 
lities of a viper. 
We are peremptory to dispatch 
This viperous traitor. Shakspeare. 
VIPER’S BUGLOSS, s. [echium, Lat.] A plant.— 
Each flower is succeeded by four seeds, which are in form 
of a viper’s head. Miller. 
VIPER’S GRASS, s. [scorzonera, Lat.] A plant.— 
Viper-grass ,—medicinal and excellent against the palpita¬ 
tion of the heart; besides a very sweet and pleasant sallet. 
Evelyn. 
VIPPACH, or Mark-Vippach, a town of Germany, in 
Saxe-Weimar; 9 miles north-east of Erfurt. 
VIQUE, a considerable town in the north-east of Spain, 
in Catalonia, on the river Ter. The environs are occasion¬ 
ally excavated for precious stones. Population 8400; 37 
miles north-by-east of Barcelona. 
VIRACACHA, a settlement of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of Tunja. 
VIRACO, a settlement of Peru, in the province of Are- 
quipa. 
VIRAGI'NIAN, adj. Of or belonging to impudent 
women.—The remembrance of his old conversation among 
the viraginian trollops. Milton. 
VIRA'GO, s. [Latin.] A female warrior; a woman with 
the qualities of a man. 
To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. 
And swift as lightning to the combat flies. Pope. 
It is commonly used in detestation for an impudent tur¬ 
bulent woman. 
VIRE, s. [vire, Fr. “ the arrow called a quarrel, used 
only for the cross-bow.” Cotgrave .] An arrow. Obsolete. 
As a vire, 
Which flieth out of a mighty bowe, 
Away he fledde for a throwe. Gower. 
VIRE, an inland town of France, situated near the river 
Vire, department of Calvados, in Lower Normandy. Po¬ 
pulation 7500; 36 miles south-west of Caen. 
VIRECTA, in Botany, a genus of the class pentandria, 
order monogynia, natural order of rubiacese (Juss.j —Generic 
Character. Calyx: perianth five-leaved, permanent, supe¬ 
rior; leaflets subulate-setaceous, equal, erect; teeth between 
the calyx-leaves very small, glandular, solitary between each 
pair. Corolla one-petalled, funnel-form; tube three times 
as long as the calyx, slender, equal, erect; border five- 
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