Dictionary: VUL'GATE – VY'ING

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VUL'GATE, a.

Pertaining to the old Latin version of the Scriptures.

VUL'GATE, n.

A very ancient Latin version of the Scriptures, and the only one which the Romish church admits to be authentic. It is so called from its common use in the Latin church. Cyc.

VUL'NER-A-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. vulnero, to wound, from vulaus, a wound.]

  1. That may be wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body. Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will never be wanting a Paris to infix the dart. Dwight.
  2. Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; as, '; a vulnerable reputation.

VUL'NER-A-RY, a. [Fr. vulncroire; L. vulnerarius.]

Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions. Cyc.

VUL'NER-A-RY, n.

Any plant, drug or composition, useful in the cure of wounds. Certain unguents, balsams and the like, are used as vulneraries.

VUL'NER-ATE, v.t. [L. vubtero.]

To wound; to hurt. [Not in use.] Glanville.

VULPINE, a. [L. vulpinus, from vulpes, a fox. Vulpes is our English wolf, the same word applied to a different animal.]

Pertaining to the fox; cunning; crafty; artful.

VULPIN-ITE, n. [from Vulpino, in Italy.]

A mineral of a grayish white color, splendent and massive; its fracture foliated. It consists of the sulphate of lime and silica. Ure.

VULTUR, or VUL'TURE, n.

L. vultur.] The first of these words is the natural history name of a genus of Accipitrine fowls, and the second its English proper name. Vultures have a large and strong beak,: the nostrils pierced transversely to its base; the head and neck without feathers, or caruncles, and a collar of long feathers, or of down, at the root of the neck. Proper vultures have hitherto been found only on the eastern continent. Cuvier.

VUL'TU-RINE, a. [L. vulturinus.]

Belonging to the vultur; having the qualities of the vultur; resembling the vultur; rapacious.

VULTUR-ISH, a.

Like a vultur.

VULTUR-OUS, a.

Like a vultur; rapacious.

VUUGAR-IZ-ED, pp.

Made vulgar.

VY'ING, ppr.

Competing; emulating.