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To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions. Let the end try the man. Shak.

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

eable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.

Not empirically; without experiment or experience.

Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant. Addison.

Unnatural; contrary to nature. [Obs.] "Unkindly crime." Spenser.

ities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate. God does not make or unmake things to try experiments. T. Burnet.

, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.

Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.

Hence, festivity; merriment. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. Valsalvian experiment (Med.), the process of inflating the middle ear by closing the mouth and nostrils, and blowing so as to puff out the cheeks.

er with zeal. Milton. Cato's voice was ne'er employed To clear the guilty and to varnish crimes. Addison.

To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope.

A vertical line, plane, or circle. Prime vertical, Prime vertical dial. See under Prime, a.

members of the British army or navy. It was first bestowed in 1857, at the close of the Crimean war. The recipients also have a pension of £10 a year. -- Victoria green. (Chem.) See Emerald green, under Green. -- Victoria lily (Bot.), the Victoria regia. See def. 1, above.

ection of any interest, esp. one organized for the summary suppression and punishment of crime, as when the processes of law appear inadequate.

A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp. Like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shak. Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix. Pope.

The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime. Such villainies roused Horace into wrath. Dryden. That execrable sum of all villainies commonly called a slave trade. John Wesley.

tritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.

f this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.