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The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship. [Obs.] Blount.

Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*can"ni*ness, n. G. Eliot.

To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses." Shak.

Not yet yoked; not having worn the yoke.

Not yielded. [Obs.] "[By] force . . . is he taken unyolden." Sir T. Browne.

The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.

A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day. [Obs.]

Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.

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.

Villainy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak.

See Villainy.

Vinnewed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines. P. Fletcher.

The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.

To wane. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.

A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.

Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.

Somewhat weazen; shriveled. [Colloq.] "Weazeny, baked pears." Lowell.