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The emperor of Russia. See Czar.

The empress of Russia. See Czarina.

The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. [R.]

Not prized or valued; being without value. [Obs.]

The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.

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

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

Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil.

Capable of being vaporized into vapor.

The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.

Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis, native of Madagascar; -- called also vasa parrot.

The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.

The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular. Fitzed. Hall.

The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.

Capable of being converted into a vitriol.

The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.

A mask; a visor. [Archaic] "A grotesque vizard." Sir W. Scott. To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law. Milton.

Wearing a vizard. [R.] Shak.

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

Capable of being volatilized.