Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VEIN'ED, a. [from vein.]

1. Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble.
2. In botany, having vessels branching over the surface, as a leaf.

VEIN'ING, a.

Forming veins.

VEIN'LESS, a.

In botany, having no veins; as, a veinless leaf. – Barton.

VEIN'Y, a.

Full of veins; as, veiny marble. – Thomson.

VE-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. velum, a sail, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing or carrying sails. – Evelyn.

VEL-IT-A'TION, n. [L. velitatio.]

A dispute or contest; a slight skirmish. [Not in use.] – Burton.

VE-LIV'O-LANT, a. [L. velum and volo.]

Passing under full sail.

VELL, n. [Qu. fell, a skin.]

A rennet bag. [Local.]

VELL, v.t. [Qu. fell, a skin.]

To cut off the turf or sward of land. [Local.] – Cyc.

VEL-LE'I-TY, n. [Fr. velleité; from L. velle, to will.]

A term by which the schools express the lowest degree of desire. – Locke.

VEL'LI-CATE, v.t. [L. vellico, from vello, to pull. It may be from the root of pull.]

To twitch; to stimulate; applied to the muscles and fibers of animals; to cause to twitch convulsively. – Cyc.

VEL'LI-CA-TED, pp.

Twitched or caused to twitch.

VEL'LI-CA-TING, ppr.

Twitching; convulsing.

VEL-LI-CA'TION, n.

1. The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.
2. A twitching or convulsive motion of a muscular fiber.

VEL'LI-CA-TIVE, a.

Having the power of vellicating, plucking or twitching.

VEL'LUM, n. [Fr. velin. It coincides with fell, D. vel, skin; probably from the root of L. vello.]

A finer kind of parchment or skin, rendered clear and white for writing.

VEL'LUM-POST, n.

A particular sort of superior writing paper.

VELOCE, a. [Veloce.]

In music, quick.

VE-LOC'I-PED, n. [L. velox, swift, and pes, foot.]

1. A carriage for one person, having two wheels placed one before the other, in the same line, and connected by a beam, on which the person sits astride, and propels the vehicle, by striking the tips of his toes against the earth.
2. A name given to a boat, car, or other vehicle, which moves with rapidity.
3. Any thing which moves with velocity.

VE-LOC'I-TY, n. [Fr. velocité; L. velocitas, from velox, swift, allied to volo, to fly.]

1. Swiftness; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light. In these phrases, velocity is more generally used than celerity. We apply celerity to animals; as, a horse or an ostrich runs with celerity, and a stream runs with rapidity or velocity; but bodies moving in the air or in ethereal space, move with greater or less velocity, not celerity. This usage is arbitrary, and perhaps not universal.
2. In philosophy, velocity is that affection of motion by which a body moves over a certain space in a certain time. Velocity is in direct proportion to the space over which a body moves. Velocity is absolute or relative; absolute, when a body moves over a certain space in a certain time; relative, when it has respect to another moving body. Velocity is also uniform or equal; or it is unequal, that is, retarded or accelerated.

VEL'URE, n. [Fr. velours.]

Velvet. [Obs.] – Shak.

VEL'VET, or VEL'VET-ED, a.

Made of velvet; or soft and delicate, like velvet.

VEL'VET, n. [It. velluto; Sp. velludo; Fr. velours; L. vellus, hair, nap.]

A rich silk stuff, covered on the outside with a close, short, fine, soft shag or nap. The name is given also to cotton stuffs.

VEL'VET, v.t.

To paint velvet. – Peacham.

VEL-VET-EEN', n.

A kind of cloth made in imitation of velvet.