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A vial. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this confl…

strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float upon a wild and violent sea. Shak. A violent cross wind from either coast. Milton.

In a violent manner.

Tending to a violet color; violascent.

Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).

Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts.

nia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.

See under Violet.

To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

ke away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

istinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydr…

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.

Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.

Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.