Vin"o*lent (?), a. [L. vinolentus, fr. vinum wine.] Given to wine;
drunken; intemperate. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Vin*om"e*ter (?), n. [L. vinum vine + -meter.] An instrument for
determining the strength or purity of wine by measuring its density.
||Vin` or`di`naire" (?). [F., lit., common wine.] A cheap claret, used
||as a table wine in France.
||
Vi*nose" (?), a. Vinous.
Vi*nos"i*ty (?), n. [L. vinositas: cf. F. vinosité.] The quality or
state of being vinous.
Vi"nous (?), a. [L. vinosus, fr. vinum wine: cf. F. vineux. See Wine.]
Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous
taste.
Vin"quish (?), n. (Far.) See Vanquish, n.
Vint"age (?; 48), n. [Corrupted by influence of vintner, vintry, from
OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF. vendenge, F. vendange, from L.
vindemia; vinum wine, grapes + demere to take off; de + emere,
originally, to take. See Wine, Redeem, and cf. Vindemial.] 1. The
produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the
vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine
for a season.
Vintage spring, a wine fount. — Vintage time, the time of gathering
grapes and making wine. Milton.
Vint"a*ger (?), n. [From Vintage: cf. F. vendangeur.] One who gathers
the vintage.
Vint"a*ging (?), n. The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of
grapes.
Vint"ner (?), n. [OE. vintener, viniter, OF. vinetier, vinotier, LL.
vinetarius, fr. L. vinetum a vineyard, fr. vinum wine. See Wine.] One
who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant.
Vint"ry (?), n. [OE. viniterie, from OF. vinotier, vinetier, wine
merchant. See Vintner.] A place where wine is sold. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
Vin"y (?), a. Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in,
vines. P. Fletcher.
Vi"nyl (?), n. [L. vinum wine + - yl.] (Chem.) The hypothetical radical
C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that
related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl
compounds are homologous.
Vi"ol (?), n. [F. viole; cf. Pr. viola, viula, Sp., Pg., & It. viola,
LL. vitula; of uncertain origin; perhaps from L. vitulari to celebrate
a festival, keep holiday, be joyful, perhaps originally, to sacrifice a
calf (vitulus; cf. Veal). Cf. Fiddle, Vielle, 2d Viola, Violin.]
1. (Mus.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same
form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck
with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still, more
apt for mournful things.
Milton.
The name is now applied as a general term to designate instruments of
the violin kind, as tenor viol, bass viol, etc.
2. (Naut.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor. [Written
also voyal, and voyal.] Totten.
||Vi"o*la (?), n. [L., a violet. See Violet.] (Bot.) A genus of
||polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
||
Vi"o*la (?), n. [It. See Viol.] (Mus.) An instrument in form and use
resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.
||Viola da braccio [It., viol for the arm], the tenor viol, or viola, a
||fifth lower than the violin. Its part is written in the alto clef,
||hence it is sometimes called the alto. — ||Viola da gamba [It., viol
||for the leg], an instrument resembling the viola, but larger, and
||held between the knees. It is now rarely used. — ||Viola da spalla
||[It., viol for the shoulder], an instrument formerly used, resembling
||the viola, and intermediate in size between the viola and the viola
||da gamba. — ||Viola di amore [It., viol of love: cf. F. viole
||d'amour], a viol, larger than the viola, having catgut strings upon,
||and brass or steel wires under, the keyboard. These, sounding
||sympathetically with the strings, yield a peculiarly soft and silvery
||sound. It is now seldom used.
||
Vi"o*la*ble (?), a. [L. violabilis: cf. F. violable. See Violate.]
Capable of being violated, broken, or injured. — Vi"o*la*bly, adv.
Vi`o*la"ceous (?), a. [L. violaceus, fr. viola a violet.] 1. Resembling
violets in color; bluish purple.
2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the
violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and
fifty species.
Vi`o*lan"i*line (?), n. [Violet + aniline.] (Chem.) A dyestuff of the
induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo
in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.
Vi`o*lan"tin (?), n. [See Violuric.] (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous
substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as
a complex derivative of barbituric acid.
Vi`o*la*quer"cit*rin (?), n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline glucoside
obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose
and quercitrin.