Ver"tu*ous (?), a. Virtuous; powerful. [Obs.] Spenser.
||Ver`u*mon*ta"num (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) An elevation, or crest, in the
||wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
||
This is sometimes written veru montanum.
Ver"vain (?), n. [OE. verveine, F. verveine, fr. L. verbena, pl.
verbenae sacred boughs of laurel, olive, or myrtle, a class of plants;
cf. verbenaca vervain. Cf. Verbena.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus
Verbena.
Vervain mallow (Bot.), a species of mallow (Malva Alcea) with
rose-colored flowers.
||Verve, n. [F.] Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet,
||artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm;
||spirit; energy.
||
Ver"vel (?), n. See Varvel.
Ver"vet (?), n. (Zoöl.) A South African monkey (Cercopithecus
pygerythrus, or Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely
specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.
Ver"y (?), a. [Compar. Verier (?); superl. Veriest.] [OE. verai,
verray, OF. verai, vrai, F. vrai, (assumed) LL. veracus, for L. verax
true, veracious, fr. verus true; akin to OHG. & OS. wr, G. wahr, D.
waar; perhaps originally, that is or exists, and akin to E. was. Cf.
Aver, v. t., Veracious, Verdict, Verity.] True; real; actual;
veritable.
Whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
Gen. xxvii. 21.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a
matter separateth very friends.
Prov. xvii. 9.
The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.
Milton.
I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to
be real and very justice.
Burke.
Very is sometimes used to make the word with which it is connected
emphatic, and may then be paraphrased by same, self- same, itself, and
the like. "The very hand, the very words." Shak. "The very rats
instinctively have quit it." Shak. "Yea, there where very desolation
dwells." Milton. Very is used occasionally in the comparative degree,
and more frequently in the superlative. "Was not my lord the verier wag
of the two?" Shak. "The veriest hermit in the nation." Pope. "He had
spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood."
Hawthorne.
Very Reverend. See the Note under Reverend.
Ver"y (?), adv. In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly;
excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a
very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.
Ves"bi*um (?), n. [NL., from L. Vesuvius, contr. Vesbius, Vesuvius.]
(Chem.) A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by
Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the
cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
Vese (?), n. [Cf. Frese, n.] Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
||Ve*si"ca (?), n. [L.] A bladder.
||
Vesica piscis. [L., dish bladder.] (Eccl. Art) A glory, or aureole, of
oval shape, or composed of two arcs of circles usually represented as
surrounding a divine personage. More rarely, an oval composed of two
arcs not representing a glory; a solid oval, etc.
Ves"i*cal (?), a. [L. vesica bladder.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the
bladder. Dunglison.
Ves"i*cant (?), n. [L. vesica blister: cf. F. vésicant.] (Med.) A
vesicatory.
Ves"i*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vesicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Vesicating.] [See Vesicant.] (Med.) To raise little bladders or
blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
Wiseman.
Ves`i*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. vésication.] (Med.) The process of
vesicating, or of raising blisters.
Ves"i*ca*to*ry (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. vésicatoire.] (Med.) Tending, or
having power, to raise a blister. — n. A blistering application or
plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
Ves"i*cle (?), n. [L. vesicula, dim. of vesica a bladder, blister; akin
to Skr. vasti bladder: cf. F. vésicule.] A bladderlike vessel; a
membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. Specifically: —
(a) (Bot.) A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or
upon the surface of a leaf.
(b) (Med.) A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the
cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.
(c) (Anat.) A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the
umbilical vesicle.
(d) (Zoöl.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell
or a coral.
(e) (Geol.) A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of
the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic
rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the
molten mass.
Ves"i*co- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
with, or relation to, the bladder; as in vesicoprostatic,
vesicovaginal.
Ves`i*co*pro*stat"ic (?), a. (Anat.) Of a pertaining to the bladder and
the prostrate gland.
Ves`i*co*u"ter*ine (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the bladder and
the uterus.
Ves`i*co*vag"i*nal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the bladder and
the vagina.
||Ve*sic"u*la (?), n.; pl. Vesiculæ . [L., dim. of vesica.] (Anat. &
||Med.) A vesicle.
||
Ve*sic"u*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. vésiculaire.] 1. Of or pertaining to
vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of
the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the
air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.
2. Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures;
covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral;
vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.