Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VINT'AGE, n. [Fr. vendange, from L. vinclemia.]

1. The produce of the vine for the season. The vintage is abundant.
2. The time of gathering the crop of grapes.
3. The wine produced by the crop of grapes in one season Cyc.

VINT'A-GER, n.

One that gathers the vintage.

VINTAGE-SPRING, n.

A wine-fount.

VINTNER, n.

One who deals in wine; a wine-seller.

VINT'RY, n.

A place where wine is sold. Ainsworth

VI'NY, a.

1. Belonging to vines; producing grapes.
2. Abounding in vines. P. Fletcher.

VIOL, n. [Fr. Mole; It. and Sp. viola; Ir. bid.]

A stringed musical instrument, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having formerly six strings, to be struck with a bow. Viols are of different kinds. The largest of all is the base viol, whose tones are deep, soft and agreeable. The violin now takes the place of the old viol. Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of late, or vial, still more apt for mournful things. Milton.

VI'O-LA, n. [It.]

An instrument like a violin; a tenor viol.

VIO-LA-BLE, a. [L. violabilis. See Violate.]

That may be violated, broken or injured.

VI-O-LACEOUS, a. [L. viola, a violet.]

Resembling violets. Encyc.

VIO-LATE, v.t. [Fr. violer; L. violo; It. violare; Sp. violar.]

1. To injure; to hurt; to interrupt; to disturb; as, to violate sleep. Kindness for man, and pity for his fate, May mix with bliss and yet not violate. Dryden.
2. To break; to infringe; to transgress; as, to violate tl laws of the state, or the rules of good breeding; to viola the divine commands; to violate one's vows or promise. Promises and commands may be violated negatively, non-observance.
3. To injure; to do violence to. Forbid to violate the sacred fruit. Milton.
4. To treat with irreverence; to profane; as, to violate the sanctity of a holy place.
5. To ravish; to compress by force.

VIO-LA-TED, pp.

Injured; broken; transgressed; ravished.

VIO-LA-TING, ppr.

Injuring; infringing; ravishing.

VI-O-LA'TION, n. [Fr.]

1. The act of violating or injuring; interruption, as of sleep or peace.
2. Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command; a violation of covenants, engagements and promises; a violation of vows.
3. Act of irreverence; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.
4. Ravishment; rape.

VIO-LA-TIVE, a.

Violating, or tending to violate.

VIO-LA-TOR, n.

1. One who violates, injures, interrupts or disturbs; as, a violator of repose.
2. One who infringes or transgresses; as, a violator of law.
3. One who profanes or treats with irreverence; as, a violator of sacred things.
4. A ravisher.

VI'O-LENCE, n. [L. videntia.]

1. Physical force; strength of action or motion; as, the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.
2. Moral force; vehemence. The critic attacked the work with violence.
3. Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds. The earth was filled with violence. Gen. vi.
4. Eagerness; vehemence. You ask with violence. Shak.
5. Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.
6. Injury; hurt. Do violence to no man. Luke iii.
7. Ravishment; rape. To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder. But, as it seems, did violence an herself. Shak. To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure. He does violence to his own opinions.

VIO-LENCE, v.t.

To assault; to injure;-also, to bring by violence. [Little used.] B. Jonson. Fathom.

VI'O-LENT,, a. [Fr.; L. violentus.]

1. Forcible; moving or acting with physical strength; urged or driven with force; as, a violent wind; stream; a violent assault or blow; a violent conflict.
2. Vehement; outrageous; as, a violent attack on the minister.
3. Produced or continued by force; not spontaneous or natural. No violent state can be perpetual. Burnet.
4. Produced by violence; not natural; as, a violent death.
5. Acting by violence; assailant; not authorized. Some violent hands were laid on Humphry's life. Shak.
6. Fierce; vehement; as, a violent philippic; a violent remonstrance. We might be reckoned fierce and violent. Hooker.
7. Severe; extreme; as, violent pains.
8. Extorted; not voluntary. Vows made in pain, are violent and void. Violent presumption, in law, is presumption that arises from circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. Such circumstances being proved, the mind infers with confidence that the fact has taken place, and this confidence is a violent presumption, which amounts to proof.

VIO-LENT, n.

An assailant. [Not in use.]

VIO-LENT, v.t.

To urge with violence. [Not used.] Fuller.

VIO-LENT-LY, adv.

With force; forcibly; vehemently; as, the wind blows violently. Forfeitures must nut be exacted violently. Taylor.

VIO-LET, n. [Fr. violette; It. violetto; L. viola.]

A plant and flower of the genus Viola, of many species.

VIO-LIN, n. [It. violino; Fr. violom; from viol.]

A musical instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle; one of the most perfect and must powerful instruments that has been invented. Cyc.

VIO-LIN-IST, n.

A person skilled in playing on a violin. Farrey.