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One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.

The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.

One who coins words. [R.] Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian. Fitzed. Hall.

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.

Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments.

One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon.

Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.

A vicar. [Obs.] Marston.

Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar. The vicariate of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws devolved on the elector of Saxony. Robertson.

Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidæ. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each s…

A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.

The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also würger, worrier, and throttler. [Written also warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

That may be wearied.

A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.

Same as Anthozoa.

Of or pertaining to the Zoantharia. -- n.

A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is zonelike.

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin.

anzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light. Nichol.