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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



1,902 words match “SIC”

TUNGUSIC a.
Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.
TURN-SICK a. 2 definitions
Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.
TUSSICULAR a.
Of or pertaining to a cough. Dunglison.
VERSICLE n.
response from the people. The psalms were in number fifteen, . . . being digested into versicles. Strype.
VERSICOLOR; VERSICOLORED a.
Having various colors; changeable in color. "Versicolor, sweet- smelling flowers." Burton.
VERSICULAR a.
Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.
VESICA n.
A bladder. Vesica piscis. Etym: [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.
VESICAL a.
Of or pertaining to the bladder. Dunglison.
VESICANT n.
A vesicatory.
VESICATE v.
To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.
VESICATION n.
The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.
VESICATORY a. 2 definitions
A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
VESICLE n. 3 definitions
A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. Specifically: --(a) (Bot.)
VESICO- n.
bining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the bla; as in vesicoprostatic, vesicovaginal.
VESICOPROSTATIC a.
Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.
VESICOUTERINE a.
Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.
VESICOVAGINAL a.
Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
VESICULA n.
A vesicle.
VESICULAR a. 3 definitions
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.
VESICULARIA n.
Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.
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