Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VIN'DI-CA-TING, ppr.

Defending; supporting against denial, censure, charge or impeachment; proving to be true or just; defending by force.

VIN-DI-CATION, n. [Fr. from L. vindico.]

1. The defense of any thing, or a justification against denial or censure, or against objections or accusations; as, the vindication of opinions or of a creed; the vindication of the Scriptures against the objections and cavils of infidels.
2. The act of supporting by. proof or legal process; the proving of any thing to be just; as, the vindication of a title, claim or right.
3. Defense by force or otherwise; as, the vindication of the rights of man; the vindication of our liberties or the rights of conscience.

VINDI-CA-TIVE, a.

1. Tending to vindicate.
2. Revengeful. [This is now generally vindictive.]

VINDI-CA-TOR, n.

One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains; one who defends. Dryden.

VINDI-CA-TO-RY, a.

1. Punitory; inflicting punishment; avenging. The afflictions of Job were not vindicatory punishments. Bramhall.
2. Tending to vindicate; justificatory.

VIN-DICTIVE, a. [Fr. tandicatif.]

Revengeful; given to revenge. I am vindictive enough to repel force by force. Dryden.

VIN-DICTIVE-LY, adv.

By way of revenge; revengefully.

VIN-DICTIVE-NESS, n.

1. A revengeful temper.
2. Revengefulness.

VINE, n. [L. vines; Fr. vigrte; from the It. vigna, Sp. vina, a vineyard; W. gwinicn, vine, and gwin, wine. See Wine.]

1. A plant that produces grapes, of the genus Vitis, and of a great number of varieties.
2. The long slender stein of any. plant, that trails on the ground, or climbs and supports itself by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers. Thus we speak of the hap vine, the bean vine, the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

VINE-CLAD, a.

Clad or covered with vines. Coleridge,

VIN-ED, a.

Having leaves like those of the vine. Wotton,

VINE-DRESS-ER, n. [vine and dresser.]

One who dresses, trims, prunes and cultivates vines.

VINE-FRET-TER, n. [vine and fret.]

A small insect that injures vines, an aphis or puceron.

VIN'E-GAR, n. [Fr. vin, wine, and aigre, sour.]

1. An acid liquor obtained from wine, cider, beer, &c. by the acetous fermentation. Vinegar may differ indefinitely in the degree of its acidity. When highly concentrated, it is called radical vinegar. The acid of vinegar is the acetic.
2. Any thing really or metaphorically sour. [Not in use.] Shak. Vinegar of lead, liquor formed by digesting ceruse or litharge with a sufficient quantity of vinegar to dissolve it.

VINE-GRUB, n. [vine and grub.]

A little insect that infests vines; the vine-fretter or puceron. Cyc.

VI'NER, n.

An orderer or trimmer of vines. Huloet.

VINE-RY, n.

In gardening, an erection for supporting vines and exposing them to artificial heat, consisting of a wall with stoves and flues.

VINEYARD, or VIN'YARD, n. [Sax. vingeard; Ir. fionghort. The correct orthography from the Saxon, is vinyard.]

A plantation of vines producing grapes; properly, an inclosure or yard for grape-vines.

VIN'NEW-ED, a. [Sax. fynig.]

Moldy; musty. [Not in use.] Newton

VIN'NEW-ED-NESS, n.

Mustiness; moldiness. [Not in use.] Barret.

VIN'NY, a. [supra.]

Moldy; musty. [Not in use.]

VIN'O-LEN-CY, n. [L. vinolentia, from vinum, wine.]

Drunkenness. [Not used.]

VINO-LENT, a.

Given to wine. [Not used.]

VI-NOS'I-TY, n.

State or quality of being vinous. Scott.

VINOUS, a. [Fr. vineux, from L. vinum, wine.]

Having the qualities of wine; pertaining to wine; as, a vinous taste; a vinous flavor; vinous fermentation.