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Indecisive. [R.] Glanvill.

rd of. (a) Not heard of; of which there are no tidings. (b) Unknown to fame; obscure. Glanvill.

nseless; frivolous. "Unideaed girls." Mrs. Hemans. He [Bacon] received the unideaed page [Villiers] into his intimacy. Lord Campbell.

Uninterested; unaffected. [Obs.] Glanvill.

To [R.] Glanvill.

Uncivilly; rudely. -- Un*man"ner*li*ness, n.

The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.

Usury. [Obs.] Wyclif. Foul usure and lucre of villainy. Chaucer.

Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [R.] Their expectations will meet with vacuity. Glanvill.

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats.

c sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.

imilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. Glanvill. All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. Sir. W. Scott.

Near; neighboring; vicinal. [R.] Glanvill.

Villainy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Villainous. [Obs.] "Vileyns sinful deeds make a churl." Chaucer.

A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.

fe or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state. "The vitals of the public body." Glanvill.

Cavilous litigation; cavillation. [Obs.] Hudibras.

greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities; a canton.

To condemn; to devote; to doom. [Obs.] Glanvill.