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VENDACE n.
rtain lakes in Scotland and England. It is regarded as a delicate food fish. Called also vendis.
VENDEE n.
The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.
VENDEMIAIRE n. 2 definitions
The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.
VENDER n.
One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.
VENDETTA n.
A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
VENDIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being vendible, or salable.
VENDIBLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable. The regulating of prices of things vendible. Bacon.
VENDITATE v.
To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon. [Obs.] Holland.
VENDITATION n.
The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
VENDITION n.
The act of vending, or selling; sale.
VENDOR n.
A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
VENDOR'S LIEN n.
n (that is, one not created by mortgage or other express agreement) given in equity to a vendor of lands for the unpaid purchase money.
VENDS n.
See Wends.
VENDUE n.
A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction. [Obsoles.] Vendue master, one who is authorized to sell any property by vendue; an auctioneer. [Obsoles.]
VILIPEND v.
To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise. To vilipend the art of portrait painting. Longfellow.
VILIPENDENCY n.
Disesteem; slight; disparagement. [R.] E. Waterhouse.
WATER TENDER n.
In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He "tends" water to the boilers, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer.
WEATHER-FEND v.
To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak. [We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.
WEEK-END n.
The end of the week; specif., though loosely, the period observed commonly as a holiday, from Saturday noon or Friday night to Monday; as, to visit one for a week-end; also, a house party during a week-end.
WEND v. 5 definitions
To go; to pass; to betake one's self. "To Canterbury they wend." Chaucer. To Athens shall the lovers wend. Shak.
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