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Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife. [R.] The speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of reproach or indignation, but of uxorial endearment. Geddes.

Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. The sun and every vassal star. Keble.

To scent, as a hound. [Obs.] Turbervile.

The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.

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

The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.

Vile. [Obs.] "That vild race." Spenser. -- Vild"ly, adv. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.] When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton.

Vileness; baseness. [Obs.] Kennet.

One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also villan, and villein.] If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accident…

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

Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk. [Archaic] He never yet not vileinye ne said In all his life, unto no manner wight. Chaucer. In our modern language, it [foul language] is termed villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment. Barrow. Villainy till a…

To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile. [R.] Were virtue by descent, a noble name Could never villanize his father's fame. Dryden.

One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.] These vile vulgars are extremely proud. Chapman.

The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. Burrill.

A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.

A fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege.

Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also weevilly.]

The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.