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Consisting of one letter only; as, a uniliteral word or sign.

Consisting of a single lobe.

Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell.

The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and V. claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.

A salt of vanillic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.

A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.

An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona.

The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

Vain or foolish talk. [Obs.]

Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. [R.] The example . . . of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.

Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility. [R.] Bailey.

A dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.

See Will I, nill I, etc., under 3d Will.

See Wormil.

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

Acetanilide.

[More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (175…

A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).