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To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.

To become unfastened; to lose all connection or union.

To become unraveled, in any sense.

To cause (something right) to become wrong. [Obs.] Gower.

To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.

To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered. Shak.

To become untied or loosed.

To become untwined. Milton.

To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

To become upset.

To alter, or be altered, in any manner; to suffer a partial change; to become different; to be modified; as, colors vary in different lights. That each from other differs, first confess; Next, that he varies from himself no less. Pope.

a. & n. from Vary. Varying hare (Zoöl.), any hare or rabbit which becomes white in winter, especially the common hare of the Northern United States and Canada.

o receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun.

ily Vermetidæ. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.

To become young again. [Obs.]

ttes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture the edges of which become opaque by intensible gradations.

s lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor.

o vinewed.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Vin"newed*ness, n. [Obs.] Many of Chaucer's words are become, as it were, vinnewed and hoary with over-long lying. F. Beaumont.

(Echium vulgare) having showy purplish blue flowers. It is sometimes cultivated, but has become a pestilent weed in fields from New York to Virginia. Also called blue weed. -- Viper's grass (Bot.), a perennial composite herb (Scorzonera Hispanica) with narrow, entire leaves, and solitary heads of yellow flowers. The…

sun at which, when the sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible. -- Beatific vision (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in heaven. -- Direct vision (Opt.), vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under Yellow); also, vision by means of rays…