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To separate, as what is tacked; to disjoin; to release. being untacked from honest cares. Barrow.

home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism. Threatened away into banishment and vagrancy. Barrow.

mewhat true to vent more lies. Milton. Thou hast framed and vented very curious orations. Barrow.

One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes. [R.] Barrow.

truthful; as, veracious historian. The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious. Barrow.

verges to the north. Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards him as its center. Barrow. I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow. Swift.

Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. Barrow.

villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment. Barrow. Villainy till a very late day expressed words foul and disgraceful to the utterer much oftener than deeds. Trench.

Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities of the other. I. Taylor.

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.

Like a vixen; vixenish. Barrow.

discharge; as, to void excrements. A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices. Barrow. With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones. J. Webster.

ly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. Barrow.

ile [Obs.] Whenas, if they would inquire into themselves, they would find no such matter. Barrow.

Milton. Two things he [God] willeth, that we should be good, and that we should be happy. Barrow.