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five-leaved; leaflets ovate. FLorets of both disk and ray 
five. Seed down none. Receptacle naked. 
Unxia camphorata.—Stem herbaceous, filiform, dicho¬ 
tomous, two feet high. Leaves opposite at the divisions, 
sessile, lanceolate, five-nerved, hirsute, soft. Flowers solitary 
from the divisions, subpeduncled, the size of a pea.—Native 
of Surinam, where it is called Camphor-plant. 
UNYIE'LDED, adj. Not given up . 
O’erpower’d at length, they force him to the ground. 
Unyielded as he was, and to the pillar bound. Dryden. 
UNYI'ELDING, adj. Not giving place as inferior.—A 
zeal, unyielding in their country’s cause. Thomson. 
To UNYO'KE, v. a. [unjeocian, uniucian, Sax.] To 
loose from the yoke. 
Our army is dispers’d already: 
Like youthful steers unyok'd, they took their course 
East, west, north, south. # Shakspeare. 
To part; to disjoin. 
Shall these hands, so lately purg’d of blood, 
So join’d in love, so strong in both. 
Unyoke this seizure, and this kind regreet ? Shakspeare. 
UNYO'KED, adj. Having never worn a yoke. 
Seven bullocks yet unyok'd for Phoebus chuse, 
And for Diana sev’n unspotted ewes. Dryden. 
Licentious; unrestrained. 
I will a-while uphold 
The unyok'd humour of your idleness. Shakspeare. 
UNZO'NED, adj. Not bound with a girdle. 
Easy her motion seem’d, serene her air; 
Full, though unzon'd, her bosom. Prior. 
YOBARNO, a town of Austrian Italy, in the government 
of Milan; 13 miles north-north-east of Brescia. 
VOBSTER, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Mells, 
Somersetshire. 
VOBURG, or Voiiburg, a town of Germany, in Bava¬ 
ria, on the Danube; 10 miles east of Ingolstadt. 
VO'CABLE, s. [vocable, old Fr.; vocabulum, Lat.] A 
word.—We will next endeavour to understand that vocable, or 
term, tyrannus, that is, a tyrant oran evil king. Sir G. Buck. 
VOCA'BULARY, s. [vocabularium, Lat.; vocabulaire, 
Fr.] A dictionary; a lexicon ; a word book.—Among 
other books, we should be furnished with vocabularies and 
dictionaries of several sorts. Watts. 
VO'CAL, adj. [vocal, Fr.; vocalis, Lat.] Having a voice. 
Witness if I be silent, morn or even, 
To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade. 
Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Milton. 
Uttered or modulated by the voice. 
They join’d their vocal worship to the choir 
Of creatures wanting voice. Milton. 
VOCA'LITY, s. [vocalitas, Lat.] Power of utterance; 
quality of being utterable by the voice.—L and R being in 
extremes, one of roughness, the other of smoothness and free¬ 
ness of vocality, are not easy in tract of vocal speech to be 
pronounced spiritally. Holder. 
To VO'CALIZE, v. a. To form into voice.—It is one 
thing to give an impulse to breath alone; another thing to 
vocalize that breath, i. e. in its passage through the larynx 
to give it the sound of human voice. Holder. 
VO'CALLY, adv. In words; articulately.—Although it 
is as natural to mankind, to express their desires vocally, as 
it is for brutes to use their natural vocal signs; yet the 
forming of languages into this or that fashion, is a business 
of institution. Hale. 
VOCATION, s. [pocatio, Latin.] Calling by the will 
of God.—Neither doth that which St. Paul, or other apostles 
teach, enforce the utter disability of any other men’s vocation 
thought requisite in this church for the saving of souls. 
Hooker. —Summons.—What can be urged for them who 
not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere 
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wantonness make themselves ridiculous. Dryden. —Trade ; 
employment; calling. 
God’s mother, in a vision full of majesty, 
Will’d me to leave my base vocation. Shakspeare. 
It is used ironically in contempt. 
But lest you should for honour take 
The drunken quarrels of a rake. 
Or when a whore in her vocation. 
Keeps punctual to an assignation. Swift. 
VO'CATIVE, adj. [vocativus, Latin.] Denoting the 
grammatical case used in calling or speaking to. 
To VOCI'FERATE, v.n. [vocifero, Lat.] To clamour; 
to make outcries. Johnson. 
VOCIFERATION, s. [vociferatio, vocifero, Latin.] 
Clamour; outcry.—The lungs, kept too long upon the 
stretch by vociferation, or loud singing, may produce the 
same effect. Arbuthnot. 
VOCI'FEROUS, adj. [vocifero, Latin.] Clamorous; 
noisy.—Thrice three vociferous heralds rose to check the 
rout. Chapman. 
VOCKLABRUCK, a town of Upper Austria, on the 
Vockl; 36 miles south-west of Lintz. 
VOCONIAN LAW, a testamentary law prepared by Q. 
Voconius, tribune of the people, which prohibited every 
citizen from making any woman universal legatee, not ex¬ 
cepting an only daughter, and enjoined a daughter’s fortune, 
after her father’s death, to be proportioned to his estate, 
according to the estimation of prudent men; and this pro¬ 
portion was usually one-fourth of her father’s estate; and, 
moreover, that all the legacies of the testator should not 
exceed one half of his estate. This was intended as a sup ¬ 
plement to the Furian law; the time of its passing is fixed 
by Cicero, de Senect. to the year of Rome 584, when 
Q. Marcius Philippus and Cn. Servilius Csepio were con¬ 
suls. It was revoked by Augustus in favour of Livia, to 
whom he was resolved to devise by will a great part of his 
estate. However, though, by the abrogation of this law, 
married women were not restrained from receiving any 
legacies above a certain sum, yet Augustus bestowed on such 
women as had vowed perpetual virginity the same rewards 
and privileges as upon mothers. 
VOGEL, a small island in the Eastern seas. Lat. 5. 12. S. 
long. 130.46. E. 
VOGEL ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands near the 
west coast of Siam. Lat. 7. 38. N. long. 98. 55. E. 
VOGELSBERG, a lofty mountain of the Swiss canton of 
the Grisons, about 10,200 feet above the level of the sea. 
VOGELSBERG, a range, or rather groupe of mountains 
in the west of Germany, between Upper Hesse Fulda and 
the Wetterau. It is cold and rugged, but is productive in 
flax, and has good pasturage. 
VOGHERA, a province in the north of Italy, subject to 
the king of Sardinia, and adjacent to Austrian Italy. On a 
superficial extent of 100 square miles, it has 105,000 inha¬ 
bitants. 
VOGHERA, a considerable town of Italy, the chief 
place of the preceding province, on the river Staffora; 10 
miles north-east of Tortona. 
VOGOGNA, a small town in the north of Italy, in the 
province of Novara; 12 miles north-east of Casale. 
VOGTLAND, a circle or district of Germany, in the 
kingdom of Saxony, occupying a space of 700 square miles, 
with 90,000 inhabitants, in the south-west corner of the 
kingdom. The chief town is Plauen. 
VOGUE, s. [vogue, French, from voguer, to float, or fly 
at large.] Fashion; mode; popular reception.—It is not 
more absurd to undertake to tell the name of an unknown 
person by his looks, than to vouch a man’s saintship from 
the vogue of the world. South. 
VOHEMARO, Cape, a cape on the east coast of the 
island of Madagascar. Lat. 13. 20. S. long. 54. 44. E, 
VOHENSTRAUS, a small town of Germany in Bavaria ; 
45 miles north-by-east of Ratisbon. 
VOICE, s. [vox, vocis, Lat.] Sound emitted by the mouth. 
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