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ues vacant. Shak. There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Longfellow.

nauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report. Some legend strange and value. Longfellow. Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac.

he visionary fair Repassed. Pope. Heavily closed, . . . the valves of the barn doors. Longfellow.

Hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; as, an impudent varlet. What a brazen-faced varlet art thou ! Shak.

Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums. Longfellow.

sical string. As a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Longfellow.

, that in his hand Bare victual for the movers. Tennyson. Short allowance of victual. Longfellow.

Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.

htly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise. To vilipend the art of portrait painting. Longfellow.

See Waywode. Longfellow.

A wave or current of wind. "Everywaft of the air." Longfellow. In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains In one wide waft. Thomson.

A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker. We wink at wags when they offend. Dryden. A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse. Addiso…

Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing. "The wail of the forest." Longfellow.

in of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow.

Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship. [R.] Longfellow.

nd also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament. Round his waist his belt of wampum. Longfellow. Girded with his wampum braid. Whittier.

n hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.

he body by savages, as a token of going to war. "Wash the war paint from your faces." Longfellow. -- War song, a song of or pertaining to war; especially, among the American Indians, a song at the war dance, full of incitements to military ardor. -- War whoop, a war cry, especially that uttered by the American Indian…

en. It was Eyvind Kallda's crew Of warlocks blue, With their caps of darkness hooded! Longfellow.

s, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." Shak. Warm and still is the summer night. Longfellow.