Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VET-ER-IN-A'RI-AN, n. [L. veterinarius.]

One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals. – Brown.

VET'ER-IN-A-RY, a. [supra.]

Pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as; oxen, horses, sheep, &c. A veterinary college was established in England in 1792, at St. Pancras, in the vicinity of London. The improvement of the veterinary art is of great importance to the agricultural interest.

VE'TO, n. [L. veto, I forbid.]

A forbidding; prohibition; or the right of forbidding; applied to the right of a king or other chief magistrate or officer to withhold his assent to the enactment of a law, or the passing of a decree. Thus the king of Great Britain has a veto upon every act of parliament; he sometimes prevents the passing of a law by his veto.

VE'TO, v.t.

To withhold assent to a bill for a law, and thus prevent its enactment.

VET'TU-RE, n.

An Italian carriage.

VET'TU-RI-NO, n. [It.]

The owner or driver of a carriage, or the keeper of a livery stable.

VEX, v.i.

To fret; to be teased or irritated. – Chapman.

VEX, v.t. [L. vexo; Fr. vexer; It. vessare; Sp. vexar.]

1. To irritate; to make angry by little provocations; a popular use of the word.
2. To plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict. Ten thousand torments vex my heart. – Prior.
3. To disturb; to disquiet; to agitate. White curl the waves, and the vex'd ocean roars. – Pope.
4. To trouble; to distress. I will also vex the hearts of many people. Ezek. xxxii.
5. To persecute. Acts xii.
6. To stretch, as by hooks. [Not in use.] – Dryden.

VEX-A'TION, n. [Fr. from L. vexatio.]

1. The act of irritating, or of troubling, disquieting and harassing.
2. State of being irritated or disturbed in mind.
3. Disquiet; agitation; great uneasiness. Passions too violent … afford us vexation and pain . – Temple.
4. The cause of trouble or disquiet. Your children were vexation to your youth. – Shak.
5. Afflictions; great troubles; severe judgments. The Lord shall send on thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. Deut. xxviii.
6. A harassing by law. – Bacon.
7. A slight teasing trouble.

VEX-A'TIOUS, a.

1. Irritating; disturbing or agitating to the mind; causing disquiet; afflictive; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.
2. Distressing; harassing; as, vexatious wars. – South.
3. Full of trouble and disquiet. He leads a vexatious life. – Digby.
4. Teasing; slightly troublesome; provoking. A vexatious suit, in law, is one commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, or without cause.

VEX-A'TIOUS-LY, adv.

In a manner to give great trouble or disquiet.

VEX-A'TIOUS-NESS, n.

The quality of giving great trouble and disquiet, or of teasing and provoking.

VEX'ED, pp.

Tensed; provoked; irritated; troubled; agitated; disquieted; afflicted.

VEX'ER, n.

One who vexes, irritates, or troubles.

VEX'IL, n. [L. vexillum, a standard.]

A flag or standard. In botany, the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower. – Martyn.

VEX'IL-LA-RY, a.

Pertaining to an ensign or standard.

VEX'IL-LA-RY, n.

A standard bearer.

VEX-IL-LA'TION, n. [L. vexillatio.]

A company of troops under one ensign.

VEX'ING, ppr.

Provoking; irritating; afflicting.

VEX'ING-LY, adv.

So as to vex, tease, or irritate. – Tatler.

VI'A, n. [or prep. L.]

A way. Via Albany, by the way of Albany.

VI'A-BLE, a. [Fr. vie, life, from L. vivo, to live.]

Capable of living, as a new-born infant or premature child. – T. Miner.

VI'A-DUCT, n. [L. via, way, and duco, to lead. See Duke.]

A structure made for conveying a carriage way from one road to another, either by perforation through hills, by leveling uneven ground, or by raising mounds or arched supports across rivers or marshes. Sanckey on Rail Roads.

VI'AL, n. [Fr. viole; Gr. φιαλη; L. phiala.]

A phial; a small bottle of thin glass, used particularly by apothecaries and druggists. Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head. 1 Sam. x. Vials of God's wrath, in Scripture, are the execution of his wrath upon the wicked for their sins. Rev. xvi.

VI'AL, v.t.

To put in a vial. – Milton.