Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VOW'-FEL-LOW, n. [vow and fellow.]

One bound by the same vow. [Little used.]

VOW'ING, ppr.

Making a vow.

VOY'AGE, n. [Fr. from voie, or the same root, Eng. way, Sax. wæg, weg. See Wag and Way.]

1. A passing by sea or water from one place, port or country to another, especially a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. Captain L. made more than a hundred voyages to the West Indies. A voyage over lake Superior is like a voyage to Bermuda.
2. The practice of traveling. [Not in use.] – Bacon.

VOY'AGE, v.i.

To sail or pass by water. – Pope.

VOY'AGE, v.t.

To travel; to pass over. I with pain / Voyag'd th' unreal, vast, unbounded deep. – Milton.

VOY'A-GER, n.

One who sails or passes by sea or water. A private voyager I pass the main. – Pope.

VUL'CAN-IST, n. [See VOLCANIST.]

VUL-CA'NO, n. [See VOLCANO.]

VUL'GAR, a. [Fr. vulgaire; It. vulgare; L. vulgaris, from vulgus, the common people, that is, the crowd, Eng. folk.]

1. Pertaining to the common unlettered people; as, vulgar life.
2. Used or practiced by common people; as, vulgar sports.
3. Vernacular; national. It might be more useful to the English reader, to write in our vulgar language. – Felt.
4. Common; used by all classes of people; as, the vulgar version of the Scriptures.
5. Public; as, vulgar report.
6. Mean; rustic; rude; low; unrefined; as, vulgar minds; vulgar manners.
7. Consisting of common persons. In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect the vulgar heaps of slaughter. – Rambler. Vulgar fractions, in arithmetic, fractions expressed by a numerator and denominator; thus 2/5.

VUL'GAR, n.

The common people. [It has no plural termination, but has often a plural verb.] The vulgar imagine the Pretender to have been a child imposed on the nation. – Swift.

VUL'GAR-ISM, n.

1. Grossness of manners; vulgarity. [Little used.]
2. A vulgar phrase or expression. [This is the usual sense of the word.]

VUL-GAR'I-TY, or VUL'GAR-NESS, n.

1. Mean condition in life; the state of the lower classes of society. – Brown.
2. Grossness or clownishness of manners or language; as, vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity of expression or language. – Dryden.

VUL'GAR-IZE, v.t.

To make vulgar. – Foster.

VUL-GAR-IZ-ED, pp.

Made vulgar.

VUL-GAR-IZ'ING, ppr.

Rendering vulgar.

VUL'GAR-LY, adv.

1. Commonly; in the ordinary manner among the common people. Such one we vulgarly call a desperate person . – Hammond.
2. Meanly; rudely; clownishly.

VUL'GATE, a.

Pertaining to the old Latin version of the Scriptures.

VUL'GATE, n.

A very ancient Latin version of the Scriptures, and the only one which the Romish church admits to be authentic. It is so called from its common use in the Latin church. – Cyc.

VUL'NER-A-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. vulnero, to wound, from vulnus, a wound.]

1. That may be wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body. Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will never be wanting a Paris to infix the dart. – Dwight.
2. Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; as, a vulnerable reputation.

VUL'NER-A-RY, a. [Fr. vulneraire; L. vulnerarius.]

Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions . – Cyc.

VUL'NER-A-RY, n.

Any plant, drug or composition, useful in the cure of wounds. Certain unguents, balsams and the like, are used as vulneraries.

VUL'NER-ATE, v.t. [L. vulnero.]

To wound; to hurt. [Not in use.] – Glanville.

VUL-NER-A'TION, n.

The act of wounding. [Not in use.] – Pearson.

VUL'PINE, a. [L. vulpinus, from vulpes, a fox. Vulpes is our English wolf, the same word applied to a different animal.]

Pertaining to the fox; cunning; crafty; artful.

VUL'PIN-ITE, n. [from Vulpino, in Italy.]

A mineral of a grayish white color, splendent and massive; its fracture foliated. It consists of the sulphate of lime and silica. – Ure.