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The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing. Boyle.

o pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of a pervading quality. "Civilization pervasive and general." M. Arnold.

A celebrated cinerary urn or vase found in the tomb of the Emperor Alexander Severus. It is owned by the Duke of Portland, and kept in the British Museum.

Vast woodland plains of South America.

To pour out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Holland.

See Vavasor.

The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron. Burrill. "A worthy vavasour." Chaucer. [Also written vavasour, vavassor, valvasor, etc.] Vavasours subdivide again to vassals, exchanging land and cattle,…

The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.

An abrupt place. [Poetic] "Over the vast abrupt." Milton.

Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.

some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions. Blackstone.

and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

ort intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

, or its fiber, which is used throughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.