Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VI-VA'CIOUS-NESS, n.

1. Activity; liveliness; sprightliness of temper or behavior; vivacity. Dryden.
2. Power of living; also, long life. [Not in use.] Brown. Boyle.

VI-VAC'I-TY, n. [Fr. vivacite; L. viva cites.]

1. Liveliness; sprightliness of temper or behavior; as, a lady of great vivacity.
2. Air of life and activity; as, vivacity of countenance.
3. Life; animation; spirits; as, the vivacity of a discourse.
4. Power of living. [Not used.] Boyle.
5. Longevity. [Not in use.] Brown.

VI'VA-RY, n. [L. vivarium, from vivo, to live.]

A warren; a place for keeping living animals, as a pond, a park, &c. Cowel.

VIVE, a. [Fr. vif; L. vivus.]

Lively; forcible. [Not in use.] Bacon. Vive le roi. [Fr.] Long live the king.

VIVE-LY, adv.

In a lively manner. [Not used.]

VI'VEN-CY, n. [L. vivens, from vivo.]

Manner of supporting life or vegetation. [Not in use.] Brown.

VIVES, n.

A disease of brute animals, particularly of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration. Cyc.

VIVI-AN-ITE, n.

A phosphate of iron, of various shades of blue and green. Phillips.

VIVID, a. [L. vividus, from vivo, to live.]

1. Bright; strong; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; as, the vivid colors of the rainbow; the vivid green of flourishing vegetables. Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of palmier, the human face and human form divine. Bp. Hobart.
2. Lively; sprightly; forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; as, a vivid imagination.

VIVID-LY, adv.

1. With life; with strength. Sensitive objects affect a man much more vividly than those which affect only his mind. South.
2. With brightness; in bright colors. Boyle.
3. In glowing colors; with animated exhibition to the mind. The orator vividly represented the miseries of his client.

VIVID-NESS, or VIV-IDI-TY, n.

1. Life; strength; sprightliness.
2. Strength of coloring; brightness.

VI-VIFIC, or VI-VIFIC-AL, a. [L. vivificus. See Vivify.]

Giving life; reviving; enlivening. Bailey.

VIV'IF-IC-ATE, v.t. [L. vivifico; virus, alive, and facie, to make.]

1. To give life to; to animate. [See Vivify.] More.
2. In chimistry, to recover from such a change of form as seems to destroy the essential qualities; or to give to natural bodies new luster, force and vigor. Cyc.

VIV-IF-IC-ATION, n.

1. The act of giving life; revival. Bacon.
2. Among chimists, the act of giving new luster, force and vigor; as, the vivification of mercury. Cyc.

VIVIF-IC-A-TIVE, a.

Able to animate or give life. More.

VIVI-FI-ED, pp.

Revived; endued with life.

VIV'I-FY, v.t. [Fr. viv ifies; L. vivifico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]

To endue with life; to animate; to make to be living. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon.

VIV'I-FY-ING, ppr.

Enduing with life; communicating life to.

VI-VIP'AR-OUS, a. [L. vivus, alive, and pario, to bear.]

1. Producing young in a living state, as all mammifers; as distinguished from oviparous, producing eggs, as fowls. If fowls were viviparous, it is difficult to see how the female would fly during pregnancy.
2. In botany, producing its offspring alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; as, a viviparous plant. Martyn.

VIV-I-SECTION, n. [L. vivus and seco.]

The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making some physiological discovery.

VIX'EN, n. [vixen is a she fox, or a fox's cub.]

A froward, turbulent, quarrelsome woman. Shak.

VIXEN-LY, a.

Having the qualities of a vixen. Barrow.

VIZ,

a contraction of videlicet; to wit, that is, namely.

VIZ'ARD,

See VISOR.

VIZIER, or VI'ZER, n. [Ar. from {foreign} wazara; to bear, to sustain, to administer:]

The chief minister of the Turkish empire.