Viv"i*fi*ca*tive (?), a. Able or tending to vivify, animate, or give
life; vivifying.
Viv"i*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vivified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Vivifying (?).] [F. vivifier, L. vivificare. See Vivid, -fy; cf.
Vivificate.] To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to
animate.
Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish.
Bacon.
||Vi*vip"a*ra (?), n. pl. [NL. See Viviparous.] (Zoöl.) An artificial
||division of vertebrates including those that produce their young
||alive; — opposed to Ovipara.
||
Viv`i*par"i*ty (?), n. (Biol.) The quality or condition of being
viviparous. H. Spencer.
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Vi*vip"a*rous (?), a. [L. viviparus; vivus alive + parere to bear,
bring forth. Cf. Viper.] (Biol.) Producing young in a living state, as
most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced
alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves
germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; —
opposed to oviparous.
Viviparous fish. (Zoöl.) See Embiotocoid. — Viviparous shell (Zoöl.),
any one of numerous species of operculated fresh- water gastropods
belonging to Viviparus, Melantho, and allied genera. Their young, when
born, have a well-developed spiral shell.
Vi*vip"a*rous*ly, adv. (Biol.) In a viviparous manner.
Vi*vip"a*rous*ness, n. (Biol.) The quality of being viviparous;
viviparity.
Viv"i*sect` (?), v. t. To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
[Colloq.] Pop. Sci. Monthly.
Viv`i*sec"tion (?), n. [L. vivus alive + E. section: cf. F.
vivisection. See Vivid, and Section.] The dissection of an animal while
alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
Viv`i*sec"tion*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to vivisection.
Viv`i*sec"tion*ist, n. One who practices or advocates vivisection; a
vivisector.
Viv`i*sec"tor (?), n. A vivisectionist.
Vix"en (?), n. [AS. fixen a she-fox, for fyxen, fem. of fox. See Fox.]
1. A female fox. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. A cross, ill-tempered person; — formerly used of either sex, now
only of a woman. Barrow.
She was a vixen when she went to school.
Shak.
Vix"en*ish, a. Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.
Vix"en*ly, a. Like a vixen; vixenish. Barrow.
Viz (?), adv. [Contr. fr. videlicet.] To wit; that is; namely.
Viz"ard (?), n. [See Visor.] A mask; a visor. [Archaic] "A grotesque
vizard." Sir W. Scott.
To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law.
Milton.
Viz"ard*ed, a. Wearing a vizard. [R.] Shak.
||Viz*ca"cha (?), n. [Sp.] (Zoöl.) Same as Viscacha.
||
Viz"ier (?), n. [Ar. wezr, wazr, properly, a bearer of burdens, a
porter, from wazara to bear a burden: cf. F. vizir, visir. Cf.
Alguazil.] A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and
other Oriental countries. [Written also visier, vizir, and vizer.]
Grand vizier, the chief minister of the Turkish empire; — called also
vizier-azem.
Viz"ier*ate (?), n. [Cf. F. vizirat.] The office, dignity, or authority
of a vizier.
||Vi*zier`-a*zem" (?), n. [Ar. azam great. See Vizier.] A grand vizier.
||See under Vizier.
||
Vi*zier"i*al (?), a. [Cf. F. vizirial.] Of, pertaining to, or issued
by, a vizier. [Written also vizirial.]
Vi*zir" (?), n. See Vizier.
Viz"or (?), n. See Visor.
Vliss*ma"ki (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) The diadem indris.
See Indris.
V" moth` (?). (Zoöl.) A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria)
having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.
Vo"ca*ble (?), n. [L. vocabulum an appellation, designation, name, fr.
vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, a voice, a word: cf. F. vocable. See
Voice.] A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as
composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables.
Carlyle.
Vo*cab"u*la*ry (?), n.; pl. Vocabularies (#). [LL. vocabularium,
vocabularius: cf. F. vocabulaire. See Vocable.] 1. A list or collection
of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or
lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch
of science, or the like; a word-book.