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Deposed from the office of prelate.

Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.

Blackened as if burned.

Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular. Dana.

the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley.

Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells.

A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand. [Written also vamplet.]

A salt of vanillic acid.

To convey by means of a vehicle; to ride in a vehicle. Carlyle.

A fogged plate.

Having a veil; veiled.

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.

ine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.

Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate. Vermiculated work, or Vermicular work (Arch.), rustic work so wrought as to have the appearance of convoluted worms, or of having been eaten into by, or covered with tracks of, worms. Gwilt.

Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.

Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.

Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.

To treat in a violent manner; to abuse. His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape. Milton.

Shaped like a little twig or rod.

Vitriolated. [R.]