Vic"i*nage (?; 48), n. [OF. veisinage, F. voisinage, from OF. veisin,
F. voisin, neighboring, a neighbor, L. vicunus. See Vicinity.] The
place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury
must be of the vicinage. "To summon the Protestant gentleman of the
vicinage." Macaulay.
Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of vicinage and good
neighborhood.
Sir W. Scott.
Vic"i*nal (?; 277), a. [L. vicinalis: cf. F. vicinal.] Near; vicine. T.
Warton.
Vicinal planes (Min.), subordinate planes on a crystal, which are very
near to the fundamental planes in angles, and sometimes take their
place. They have in general very complex symbols.
Vic"ine (?), a. [L. vicinus: cf. F. voisin.] Near; neighboring;
vicinal. [R.] Glanvill.
Vic"ine (?), n. (Chem.) An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the
vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.
Vi*cin"i*ty (v*sn"*t; 277), n. [L. vicinitas, from vicinus neighboring,
near, from vicus a row of houses, a village; akin to Gr. o'i^kos a
house, Skr. vça a house, viç to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf. OF.
vicinité. Cf. Diocese, Economy, Parish, Vicinage, Wick a village.]
1. The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness;
propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by
the vicinity of two country seats.
A vicinity of disposition and relative tempers.
Jer. Taylor.
2. That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to
anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood. "The vicinity of
the sun." Bentley.
Syn. — Neighborhood; vicinage. See Neighborhood.