Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VI-VIF'IC, or VI-VIF'IC-AL, a. [L. vivificus. See Vivify.]

Giving life; reviving; enlivening. – Bailey.

VIV'IF-IC-ATE, v.t. [L. vivifico; vivus, alive, and facio, 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-A'TION, 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.

VIV'IF-IC-A-TIVE, a.

Able to animate or give life. – More.

VIV'I-FI-ED, pp.

Revived; endued with life.

VIV'I-FY, v.t. [Fr. vivifier; 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-SEC'TION, 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.

VIX'EN-LY, a.

Having the qualities of a vixen. – Barrow.

VIZ, n.

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

VIZ'ARD, n. [See VISOR.]

VIZ'IER, or VI'ZER, n. [Ar. from وَزَرَ wazara; to bear, to sustain, to administer.]

The chief minister of the Turkish empire.

VO'CA-BLE, n. [L. vocabulum; It. vocabolo. See Voice.]

A word; a term; a name. – Asiat. Res.

VO-CAB'U-LA-RY, n. [Fr. vocabulaire, from L. vocabulum, a word.]

A list or collection of the words of a language, arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon. We often use vocabulary in a sense somewhat different from that of dictionary, restricting the signification to the list of words; as when we say, the vocabulary of Johnson is more full or extensive than that of Entick. We rarely use the word as synonymous with dictionary, but in other countries the corresponding word is so used, and this may be so used in English.

VO-CAB'U-LIST, n.

The writer or compiler of a vocabulary; a lexicographer or linguist.

VO'CAL, a. [Fr. from L. vocalis. See Voice.]

1. Having a voice. To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, / Made vocal by my song. – Milton.
2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer; vocal praise. Vocal music, music made by the voice, in distinction from instrumental music; hence, music or tunes set to words, to be performed by the human voice.

VO'CAL, n.

Among the Romanists, a man who has a right to vote in certain elections. – Cyc.

VO-CAL'IC, a.

Consisting of the voice or vowels.

VO'CAL-IST, n.

A public singer distinguished by superior powers of voice.

VO-CAL'I-TY, n. [L. vocalitas.]

Quality of being utterable by the voice; as, the vocality of the letters. – Holder.

VO'CAL-IZE, v.t.

To form into voice; to make vocal. It is one thing to give impulse to breath alone, and another to vocalize that breath. – Holder.

VO'CAL-IZ-ED, pp.

Made vocal; formed into voice.

VO'CAL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Forming into voice or sound.