Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VIN'CI-BLE-NESS, or VIN-CI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The capacity of being conquered; conquerableness. – Dict.

VINC'TURE, n. [L. vinctura.]

A binding. [Not in use.]

VIN-DE'MI-AL, a. [L. vindemialis, from vindemia, vintage; vinea and demo.]

Belonging to a vintage or grape harvest.

VIN-DE'MI-ATE, v.i. [supra.]

To gather the vintage. – Evelyn.

VIN-DE-MI-A'TION, n.

The operation of gathering grapes. – Bailey.

VIN-DI-CA-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being vindicable, or capable of support or justification. – Journ. of Science.

VIN'DI-CA-BLE, a. [infra.]

That may be vindicated, justified or supported. – Dwight.

VIN'DI-CATE, v.t. [L. vindico.]

1. To defend; to justify; to support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure or objections. When the respondent denies any proposition, the opponent must vindicate it. – Watts. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; / But vindicate the ways of God to man. – Pope.
2. To assert; to defend with success; to maintain; to prove to be just or valid; as, to vindicate a claim or title.
3. To defend with arms, or otherwise; as, to vindicate our rights.
4. To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity. – Bacon. God is more powerful to exact subjection and to vindicate rebellion. – Pearson. [This latter use is entirely obsolete.]

VIN'DI-CA-TED, pp.

Defended; supported; maintained; proved to be just or true.

VIN'DI-CA-TING, ppr.

Defending; supporting against denial, censure, charge or impeachment; proving to be true or just; defending by force.

VIN-DI-CA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. vindico.]

1. The defense of any thing, or a justification against denial or censure, or against objections or accusations; as, the vindication of opinions or of a creed; the vindication of the Scriptures against the objections and cavils of infidels.
2. The act of supporting by proof or legal process; the proving of any thing to be just; as, the vindication of a title, claim or right.
3. Defense by force or otherwise; as, the vindication of the rights of man; the vindication of our liberties or the rights of conscience.

VIN'DI-CA-TIVE, a.

1. Tending to vindicate.
2. Revengeful. [This is now generally vindictive.]

VIN'DI-CA-TOR, n.

One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains; one who defends. – Dryden.

VIN'DI-CA-TO-RY, a.

1. Punitory; inflicting punishment; avenging. The afflictions of Job were not vindicatory punishments. – Bramhall.
2. Tending to vindicate; justificatory.

VIN-DIC'TIVE, a. [Fr. vindicatif.]

Revengeful; given to revenge. I am vindictive enough to repel force by force. – Dryden.

VIN-DIC'TIVE-LY, adv.

By way of revenge; revengefully.

VIN-DIC'TIVE-NESS, n.

1. A revengeful temper.
2. Revengefulness.

VINE, n. [L. vinea; Fr. vigne; from the It. vigna, Sp. viña, a vineyard; W. gwinien, vine, and gwin, wine. See Wine.]

1. A plant that produces grapes, of the genus Vitis, and of a great number of varieties.
2. The long slender stem of any plant, that trails on the ground, or climbs and supports itself by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers. Thus we speak of the hap vine, the bean vine, the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

VINE-CLAD, a.

Clad or covered with vines . – Coleridge.

VIN'ED, a.

Having leaves like those of the vine . – Wotton.

VINE-DRESS-ER, n. [vine and dresser.]

One who dresses, trims, prunes and cultivates vines.

VINE-FRET-TER, n. [vine and fret.]

A small insect that injures vines, an aphis or puceron.

VIN'E-GAR, n. [Fr. vin, wine, and aigre, sour.]

1. An acid liquor obtained from wine, cider, beer, &c. by the acetous fermentation. Vinegar may differ indefinitely in the degree of its acidity. When highly concentrated, it is called radical vinegar. The acid of vinegar is the acetic.
2. Any thing really or metaphorically sour. [Not in use.] – Shak. Vinegar of lead, liquor formed by digesting ceruse or litharge with a sufficient quantity of vinegar to dissolve it.

VINE-GRUB, n. [vine and grub.]

A little insect that infests vines; the vine-fretter or puceron. – Cyc.

VI'NER, n.

An orderer or trimmer of vines. – Huloet.