Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VOLA-TIL-IZE, v.t. [Fr. volalilizer.]

To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor or invisible effluvia, and to rise and float in the air. The water-dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action. Newton.

VOL'A-TIL-IZ-ED, pp.

Rendered volatile; caused to rise and float in air.

VOLA-TIL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Rendering volatile; causing to rise and float in air.

VOLCANIC, a. [from volcano.]

1. Pertaining to volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
2. Produced by a volcano; as, volcanic tufa.
3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

VOL-CAN-ICI-TY, n.

State of being volcanic; volcanic power. Humboldt.

VOL'CAN-IST, n. [from volcano.]

1. One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.
2. One who believes in the effects of eruptions of fire in the formation of mountains.

VOL-CAN'I-TY, n.

The state of being volcanic, or of volcanic origin.

VOL-CAN-I-ZA'TION, n. [from volcanize.]

The process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.

VOL'CAN-IZE, v.t.

To subject to or cause to undergo volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action. Spallanzani.

VOLCAN-IZ-ED, pp.

Affected by volcanic heat.

VOL-CA'NO, n. [It. from Vulcan.]

1. In geology, an opening in the surface of the earth or in a mountain, from which smoke, flames, stones, lava, or other substances are ejected. Such are seen in Etna and Vesuvius in Sicily and Italy, and Hecla in Iceland. It is vulgarly called a burning mountain. Herschel has discovered a volcano in the moon.
2. The mountain that ejects fire, smoke, &c.

VOLE, n. [Fr. from voler, to fly.]

A deal at cards that draws all the tricks. Swift.

VO-LEE, n. void. [Fr. a flying.]

A rapid flight of notes in music.

VO'LER-Y, n. [Fr. volerie, from voter, to fly.]

1. A flight of birds. Locke.
2. A large bird-cage, in which the birds have room to fly. Cyc.

VO-LI-TATION, n. [L. volito, dim. of volo, to fly.]

The act of flying; flight. Brown.

VO-LITION, n. [L. volitio, from volo, to will. See Will.]

1. The act of willing; the act of determining choice, or forming a purpose. There is a great difference between actual volition, and the approbation of judgment. South. Volition is the actual exercise of the power which the mind has of considering or forbearing to consider an Mrs. Locke.
2. The power of willing or determining.

VOL'I-TIVE, a.

Having the power to will. They not only perfect the intellectual faculty, but the volitive. Hale.

VOL'LEY, n. plur.

1. Volleys. [Fr. val.; a flight, from voler, to fly, L. veto.]
2. A flight of shot; the discharge of many small arms at once. Waller.
3. A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words. Shak. But rattling nonsense in full volley breaks. Pope.

VOL'LEY, v.i.

To discharge with a volley.

VOLLEY, v.i.

To throw out or discharge at once. Shak.

VOL'LEY-ED, a. [from volley.]

Disploded; discharged with a sudden burst; as, volleyed thunder. Milton. Philips.

VO-LOTE, n. [Fr. volute; It, voluta; from L. volutue voveo.]

1. In architecture, a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and Composite capitals, of which it is a principal ornament. The number of volutes in the ionic order, is four; in the Composite, eight. There are also eight angular volutes in the Corinthian capital, accompanied with eight smaller ones, called helices. Cyc.
2. In natural history, the proposed popular name for a genus of shells. Say.

VOLT, n. [Fr. volls, a ring; It. volla, a turn; from L. van. g fur, volvo.]

1. A round or circular tread; a gait of two treads, made by a horse going sideways round a center. Far. Dict.
2. In fencing, a sudden movement or leap to avoid a thrust.

VOLTA,

in Italian music, signifies that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times.

VOLTA-ISM, n. [from Volta, an Italian.]

That branch of electrical science which has its source in the chimical action between metals and different liquids. It is more properly called galvanism, from Galvans, who first proved or brought into notice its remarkable influence on animals.