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Not capable of being swayed. Shak.

The act of buoying up; uplifting. [R.] Coleridge.

imp. of Upgive. Chaucer.

A urohyal bone or cartilage.

ng the Hindoos, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.

The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.

A South American mammal (Auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.

An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.

One who cultivates a vineyard.

A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.

; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. J. Fletcher. So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds. Milton. All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Shak.

That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable.

One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water.

A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.

Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.

See Wariangle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.

The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2.

A sword, or hanger. [Obs.]

A European squill (Scilla nonscripta) having a scape bearing a raceme of drooping blue, purple, white, or sometimes pink, bell- shaped flowers.