To lay a venue (Law), to allege a place.
Ven"ule (?), n. [L. venula, dim. from vena vein.] A small vein; a
veinlet; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the small branches of the veins
of the wings in insects.
Ven"u*lose` (?), a. Full of venules, or small veins.
Ve"nus (?), n. [L. Venus, - eris, the goddess of love, the planet
Venus.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is,
beauty or love deified.
2. (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its
orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean
distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700
miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was
called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
3. (Alchem.) The metal copper; — probably so designated from the
ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the
astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. [Archaic]
4. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the
genus Venus or family Veneridæ. Many of these shells are large, and
ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and
handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or
quahog, are valued for food.
Venus's basin (Bot.), the wild teasel; — so called because the connate
leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly
gathered for use in the toilet. Also called Venus's bath. — Venus's
basket (Zoöl.), an elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge
(Euplectella speciosa) native of the East Indies. It consists of
glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together
so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent
anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the
soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called also Venus's flower basket,
and Venus's purse. — Venus's comb. (a) (Bot.) Same as Lady's comb. (b)
(Zoöl.) A species of Murex (M. tenuispinus). It has a long, tubular
canal, with a row of long, slender spines along both of its borders,
and rows of similar spines covering the body of the shell. Called also
Venus's shell. — Venus's fan (Zoöl.), a common reticulated, fanshaped
gorgonia (Gorgonia flabellum) native of Florida and the West Indies.
When fresh the color is purple or yellow, or a mixture of the two. —
Venus's flytrap. (Bot.) See Flytrap, 2. — Venus's girdle (Zoöl.), a
long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent
ctenophore (Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is
due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in
Appendix. — Venus's hair (Bot.), a delicate and graceful fern (Adiantum
Capillus-Veneris) having a slender, black and shining stem and
branches. — Venus's hair stone (Min.), quartz penetrated by acicular
crystals of rutile. — Venus's looking-glass (Bot.), an annual plant of
the genus Specularia allied to the bellflower; — also called lady's
looking-glass. — Venus's navelwort (Bot.), any one of several species
of Omphalodes, low boraginaceous herbs with small blue or white
flowers. — Venus's pride (Bot.), an old name for Quaker ladies. See
under Quaker. — Venus's purse. (Zoöl.) Same as Venus's basket, above. —
Venus's shell. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of Cypræa; a cowrie. (b) Same as
Venus's comb, above. (c) Same as Venus, 4. — Venus's slipper. (a)
(Bot.) Any plant of the genus Cypripedium. See Lady's slipper. (b)
(Zoöl.) Any heteropod shell of the genus Carinaria. See Carinaria.
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Ve*nust" (?), a. [L. venustus, from Venus the goddess of love.]
Beautiful. [R.] E. Waterhouse.
Ve*ra"cious (?), a. [L. verax, - acis, fr. verus true. See Very.] 1.
Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious
historian.
The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious.
Barrow.
2. Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or
narrative.
The young, ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose,
with veracious insight, will find it a mad one.
Carlyle.
Ve*ra"cious*ly, adv. In a veracious manner.
Ve*rac"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. véracité.] The quality or state of being
veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man
of veracity.
Ve*ran"da (?), n. [A word brought by the English from India; of
uncertain origin; cf. Skr. vara&?;&?;a, Pg. varanda, Sp. baranda, Malay
baranda.] (Arch.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a
dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
The house was of adobe, low, with a wide veranda on the three sides of
the inner court.
Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
Ver`a*tral"bine (?), n. (Chem.) A yellowish amorphous alkaloid
extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.
Ve*ra"trate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of veratric acid.
||Ve*ra"tri*a (?), n. [NL.] (Chem.) Veratrine.
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Ve*ra"tric (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of
the genus Veratrum.
Veratric acid (Chem.), an acid occurring, together with veratrine, in
the root of white hellebore (Veratrum album), and in sabadilla seed; —
extracted as a white crystalline substance which is related to
protocatechuic acid.
||Ver`a*tri"na (?), n. [NL.] (Chem.) Same as Veratrine.
||
Ve*ra"trine (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. vératrine. See Veratrum.] (Chem.) A
poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from
sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning
taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local
treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and
veratrina.
Ve*ra"trol (?), n. [Veratric + ol.] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon
obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the
dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.
||Ve*ra"trum (?), n. [L. veratrum hellebore.] (Bot.) A genus of coarse
||liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
||
Veratrum album of Europe, and Veratrum viride of America, are both
called hellebore. They grow in wet land, have large, elliptical,
plicate leaves in three vertical ranks, and bear panicles of greenish
flowers.
Verb (?), n. [F. verbe, L. verbum a word, verb. See Word.] 1. A word; a
vocable. [Obs.] South.
2. (Gram.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person
or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering
of action.
A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind [the assertion or
the denial of a proposition] finds expression. Earle.
Active verb, Auxiliary verb, Neuter verb, etc. See Active, Auxiliary,
Neuter, etc.
Ver"bal (?), a. [F., fr. L. verbalis. See Verb.] 1. Expressed in words,
whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken;
oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
Made she no verbal question?
Shak.
We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better
notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the
mind.
Mayhew.
2. Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words
rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal
critic; a verbal change.
And loses, though but verbal, his reward.
Milton.
Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge.
Whewell.
3. Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal
translation.