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Discreditable. [Obs.]

To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.

g valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.

A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.

The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.

Vastness; immensity. [Obs.] "All the world's vastidity." Shak.

To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon. [Obs.] Holland.

The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act of vending, or selling; sale.

Verdict. Chaucer.

Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. Verditer blue, a pale greenish blue color, like t…

The faintest and palest green.

The quality or state of being verecund; modesty. [Obs.]

A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.

Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.

The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.

The quality or state of being vivid; vividness. [R.]

A kind of mica containing lithium, often associated with tin ore.

icle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.…

To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.