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Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.

The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe. J. S. Mill.

ing useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines. The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless. Macaulay.

Capable of being utilized; as, the utilizable products of the gas works.

The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities. In former ages, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. Hawthorne.

e passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.

The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. Insuring, for the laboring man, better ventilation. F. W. Robertson.

Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.

A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.

Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal.

Liable to be turned in opinion; changeable; variable; unsteady; inconstant; as versatile disposition.

The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.

Straight; rectilinear. [R.]

A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.

of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.

Of or pertaining to the Vespertiliones.

to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.

The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation. Rush.

A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.