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An alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.

A woman's fur tippet.

Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper. Viperine snake. (Zoöl.) (a) Any venomous snake of the family Viperidæ. (b) A harmless snake resembling a viper in form or color, esp. Tropidonotus viperinus, a small European species which resembles the viper in color.

The quality or state of being visionary.

A glass show case for displaying fine wares, specimens, etc.

Of or pertaining to the Viverridæ, or Civet family.

The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.

Of or pertaining to the vomer.

Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity. The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor. C. Kingsley.

Pertaining both to the vulva and the uterus.

A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness. "An almost reptile wariness." G. W. Cable. To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used. Sprat.

The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

ity or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. With weariness and wine oppressed. Dryden. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over. Bacon.

The quality of being wiry.

The glutton.

A cabassou.

The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin. [Prov. Eng.]

Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.