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Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.

To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path. De Quincey.

frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.

Being on, or towards, the van, or front. "The vanward frontier." De Quincey.

enerable parent. He was a man of eternal self-sacrifice, and that is always venerable. De Quincey. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. [R.] The example . . . of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.

hirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. De Quincey.

if with a vice. Shak. The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh. De Quincey.

lords was vicious in its origin. Burke. A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. De Quincey.

ing. To mask by slight differences in the manners a virtual identity in the substance. De Quincey. Principle of virtual velocities (Mech.), the law that when several forces are in equilibrium, the algebraic sum of their virtual moments is equal to zero. -- Virtual focus (Opt.), the point from which rays, having been r…

depend for his security against misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his syntax. De Quincey. The virtue of his midnight agony. Keble.

ver which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen. De Quincey.

. Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Byron. Sink back into your voluptuous repose. De Quincey.

ke of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.

ilton. Her newborn power was wielded from the first by unprincipled and ambitions men. De Quincey.

To grow or become worse. De Quincey. Indifferent health, which seemed rather to worsen than improve. Carlyle.

upon biographic literature of all such wrenches to the truth, is diffused everywhere. De Quincey.