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Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. [Scot.] Jamieson.

To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.

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

ies of a child." Spectator. They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. Milton.

Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay.

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.

or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse. Into the snare I fell Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. Milton.

Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. Jer. Taylor. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ness, n.

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.

iv. 20. My voice is in my sword. Shak. Let us call on God in the voice of his church. Bp. Fell.

See Waywode. Longfellow.

acting of one's self, or of itself; free. Our voluntary service he requires. Milton. She fell to lust a voluntary prey. Pope.

firm votary." Shak. 'T was coldness of the votary, not the prayer, that was in fault. Bp. Fell. But thou, my votary, weepest thou Emerson.

It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language. Bp. Fell. The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. Bancroft.