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which he called “jEdes a Deo datae," and over the gate he 
placed a bust of Galileo, with several inscriptions in honour of 
him. In his old age he amused himself with the solution of 
several problems relating to chances on dice. He also pub¬ 
lished, for facilitating the study of geometry, an edition 
of Euclid’s Elements, both plane and solid. After a life of 
usefulness and honour, prolonged to his 81st year, he died of 
apoplexy, in October, 1703. 
VI'VID, adj. [vividus, Lai.] Lively; quick; striking. 
Ah ! what avail his glossy varying dyes ? 
The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, 
His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold ? Pope. 
Spritely; active.—Where the genius is bright, and the 
imagination vivid, the power of memory may lose its im¬ 
provement. Watts. 
Vl'VlDLY, adv. With life; with quickness; with 
strength.—In the moon we can with excellent telescopes 
discern many hills and valleys, whereof some are more and 
some less vividly illustrated; and others have a fainter, 
others a deeper shade. Boyle. 
VTVIDNESS, s. Life; vigour; quickness. 
V1VIERS, a town of France, situated on the Rhone; 6 
miles south-west of Montelimart. Population 2000. 
VIVI'FICAL, adj. [vivif cus, Lat.] Giving life. Bailey. 
To VIVI'FICATE, v.a. [vivifico, Lat.] To make alive; 
to inform with life; to animate.—God vivif cates and ani¬ 
mates the whole world. More. —To remove from such a 
change of form as seems to destroy the essential properties. 
A chemical term. 
VIVIFICA'TION, . 5 . [vivifcation, Fr.] The act of 
giving of life.—If that motion be in a certain order, there 
followeth vivif cation and figuration. Bacon. 
VIVI'FICATIVE, adj. Able to animate.—That lower 
vivif cative principle of his soul did grow so strong, and did 
so vigorously and with such exultant sympathy and joy 
actuate his vehicle. More. 
VIVl'FlC, adj. [vivifcus, Lat.] Giving life; making 
alive.—Without the sun’s salutary and vivif c beams, all 
motion would cease, and nothing be left but darkness and 
death. Bay. 
To VI'VIFY, v. a. [vivus and facto, Lat.] To make 
alive; to animate; to endue with life.—Tt hath been ob¬ 
served by the antients, that there is a worm that breedeth in 
old snow, of a reddish colour, and dull of motion; which 
would shew, that snow hath in it a secret warmth, else it 
could hardly vivify. Bacon. 
VIVI'PAROUS, adj. [ricM and pario, Lat ] Bringing 
forth thejoung alive: opposed to oviparous. —When we per¬ 
ceive that bats have teats, it is not unreasonable to infer, 
they give suck; but whereas no other flying animals have 
these parts, we cannot from them infer a viviparous exclu¬ 
sion. Brown. 
VIVONNE, a town of France, department of the Vienne, 
on the Clain ; 12 miles south-by-west of Poitiers. Popula¬ 
tion 2100. 
VIUZ EN SALLAZ, a town of Savoy, district of Bone- 
velle. Population 1800. 
VIX, a town of France, department of La Vendee; 9 
miles south of Fontenay. Population 2100. 
VI'XEN, s. [Vixen, or “fxen, is the name of a she-fox, 
otherwise and more anciently foxin. It is in reproach ap¬ 
plied to a woman whose nature and condition is thereby 
compared to the she-fox.” Verstegan, ch. 10. Dr. John¬ 
son .— Vixen is a fox’s cub, without regard to sex; and the 
word is applied to a snarling, quarrelsome man, as well as 
woman ; as the example from Barrow, now added, shows. 
Serenius carries thq,word to the Goth, vigan, or wigan, to 
fight.] A froward, quarrelsome person. 
O! when she’s angry, she’s keen and shrewd; 
She was a vixen, when she went to school; 
And though she be but little, she is fierce. Shahspeara. 
VI'XENLY, adj. Having the qualities or manner of a 
vixen.—It was not a confirmation of him, it was only 
(which in such a vixenly Pope was a great favor), a for- 
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bearance to quarrel with the Bishop, as not duly ordained. 
Barrow. 
VIZ, adv. [This word is videlicet, written with a con¬ 
traction.] To wit; that is. A barbarous form of an un¬ 
necessary word, says Johnson. 
That which so oft by sundry writers, 
Has been apply’d to almost all fighters, 
More justly may be ascribed to this. 
Than any other warrior, viz. 
None ever acted both parts bolder, 
Both of a chieftain and a soldier. Hudibras. 
VIZAN, a town of France, department of the Vaucluse, 
with 1800 inhabitants. 
VI'ZARD, s. [visiere, Fr. See Visor.] A mask used 
for disguise.—He mistook it for a very whimsical sort of 
mask, but upon a nearer view he found, that she held her 
vizard in her hand. Addison. 
To VI'ZARD, v. a. [from the noun.] To mask. 
Degree being vizardcd, 
Th’ unworthiest shews as fairly in the mask. Shakspeare. 
VI'ZIER, s. [properl fwazir.'] The prime minister of 
the Turkish empire.—He made him vizier, which is the 
chief of all the bassas. Kno/les. 
VIZILLE, a town of France, department of the Isere; 
9 miles south-south-east of Grenoble. Population 1600. 
VIZZINI, an inland town of Sicily, in the Val diNoto, 
situated in a mountainous district; 28 miles south-west of 
Catania. Population 8000. 
UJ, or Vi, a Hungarian word meaning new ; and names 
of places in that country, beginning with Uj, or Vi, may be 
sought for under the part of the name that follows : thus 
Ujarad, see Arad, New ; Ujpalanka, see Palanka. 
UJBANJA, or Konigsberg, a small town in the west 
of Hungary, on the Gran, situated in a valley surrounded by 
three mountains. Population 3800; 67 miles north-north¬ 
west of Buda. Lat. 48. 25. 42. N. long. 18. 37. 55. E. 
UJEST, a small town of Prussian Silesia; 25 miles south- 
south-east of Oppeln. Population 1100. 
UJHELI, or Satorallya, a town of the north-east of 
Hungary, and the capital of the county of Szemplin, on the 
Ronya. It has 6600 inhabitants; 27 miles south-south-east 
of Caschau, and 21 north-north-east of Tokay. Lat. 48. 
24. N. long. 21. 39. 7. E. 
UJLAK, a smalltown in the north-west of Hungary; 6 
miles west of Neutra. 
UJVAROS, a small town in the interior of Hungary; 15 
miles west-north-west of Debreczin. 
UJVAROS, a small town in the north-east of Hungary, 
near the river Tar, in the county of Szathmar. 
UKENSKOI, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the government 
of Tobolsk, at the confluence of the Irtysch and the Obi; 
196 miles north of Tobolsk. 
UKIKITSCHA, a small river of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic 
Russia, which falls into the Olenek. 
UKINSKOI, a village of Kamtschatka; 80 miles north of 
Niznei-Kamtchatsk. 
UKINSKOI, a cape of Asiatic Russia, on the eastern coast 
of Kamtschatk ; 60 miles north-east of Oudinskoi. 
UKIPEN, a small island in the North Pacific ocean, so 
called by the Russians, probably the same with that called 
Sledge island by Captain Cook. Lat. 64. 22. N. long. 
211. E. 
UKKAS, a village of Algiers, in Northern Africa; 10 
miles west of Tipsa. 
UKRAINE, an extensive country in the south-east of 
Russian Poland, which, since the late division of the Russian 
empire, forms the four governments of Kiev, Podolia, Pol¬ 
tava, and Charkov. This country is situated between the 
48th and 52d degress of north latitude, corresponding to 
the parallels of the north of France and central part of Eng¬ 
land, but with a very different temperature. The characteristics 
of the climate are those of the south of European Russia 
generally; in' summer great heat, in winter intense cold. 
The chief town of Ukraine is Kiev, once the capital of 
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