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Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.

Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin. Some . . . verminous disposition of the body. Harvey.

In a verminous manner.

Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. De Quincey.

Full of, or subject to, changes.

Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.

See Villainous, etc.

Of or pertaining to a villein.

Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous taste.

Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.

sisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions. But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. Milton. Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen. De Quincey.

Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. [R.] Mallet.

Moving rapidly round a center; vortical. [R.] Cowper.

Of or pertaining to the lighter division of the Melanochroi, or those races having an olive or yellow complexion and black hair.

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

To be ominous. [Obs.] Dryden.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. Dunglison.

Having spinous petioles.