Lexicon: vacant – vail

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vacant, adj. [OFr < L. vacans, to be empty.] (webplay: business, care, face, houses, leisure, leave).

  1. Empty; devoid of expression or feeling; showing no sign of recognition.
  2. Empty; idle; unoccupied with work.

vacation, n. [OFr < L. vacare, empty, free.] (webplay: spiritual, spiritualities, term).

vacillating, adj. [L. vacillāt-, stem of vacillāre, sway, stagger, totter.] (webplay: other, way).

Wavering; swaying; unsteady; fluctuating; unstable.

vacuum, n. [L. 'empty'.] (webplay: being, nature, only, unfilled).

vagabond, n. [OFr < L. vagārī, to wander.]

vagrant, n. [ME vagaraunt.]

vague, adj. [Fr. < L. vag-us, wandering, inconstant, uncertain.]

vail (veil), n. [AFr < L. vēlum, sail, curtain.] (webplay: eastern, faces, hide, never, show, sight, something).

vail (-ing), v. [OFr veler.]

To cover; to conceal or hide.

vail (-ed), verbal adj. [see vail, v.] (webplay: among, faces, give, kind, never, servants, sight).