Vindictive damages. (Law) See under Damage, n.
— Vin*dic"tive*ly, adv. — Vin*dic"tive*ness, n.
Vine (?), n. [F. vigne, L. vinea a vineyard, vine from vineus of or
belonging to wine, vinum wine, grapes. See Wine, and cf. Vignette.]
(Bot.) (a) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes. (b) Hence, a
climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that
trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by
seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop
vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other
cucurbitaceous plants.
There shall be no grapes on the vine.
Jer. viii. 13.
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine,
and gathered thereof wild gourds.