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Vampire
n.
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Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
Vampire
n.
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Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.
Vampirism
n.
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Belief in the existence of vampires.
Vampirism
n.
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The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.
Vampirism
n.
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Fig.: The practice of extortion.
Vamplate
n.
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A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.
Vamure
n.
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See Vauntmure.
Van
n.
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The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
Van
n.
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A shovel used in cleansing ore.
Van
v. t.
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To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
Van
n.
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A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.
Van
n.
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A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
Van
n.
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A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
Van
n.
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A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
Van
n.
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A wing with which the air is beaten.
Van
v. t.
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To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
Vanadate
n.
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A salt of vanadic acid.
Vanadic
a.
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Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds; as, vanadic oxide.
Vanadinite
n.
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A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.
Vanadious
a.
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Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid.
Vanadite
n.
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A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.
Vanadium
n.
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A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.
Vanadous
a.
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Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen.
Vanadyl
n.
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The hypothetical radical VO, regarded as a characterized residue of certain vanadium compounds.
Van-courier
n.
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One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.
Vandal
n.
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One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
Vandal
n.
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Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
Vandal
a.
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Alt. of Vandalic
Vandalic
a.
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Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.
Vandalism
n.
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The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.