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The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]

The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition. Locke.

Velvet. [Obs.] Spenser.

To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively. Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous. Arbuthnot.

The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.

Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication.

A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real.

lfskin, and rendered clear and white, -- used as for writing upon, and for binding books. Vellum cloth, a fine kind of cotton fabric, made very transparent, and used as a tracing cloth.

Resembling vellum.

In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

eet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos.]

See Clavate.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [Obs.]

ending to tear or pull up. [Obs.] The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force. Todd & Bowman.

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.

Drawing asunder. [R.]

To pull in pieces. [Obs. or R.]

A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.

The act of covering with gravel.