English English Dictionary

The operation of removing the uvula.

Ouvarovite.

Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife.

Of or pertaining to uxoricide; tending to uxoricide.

The murder of a wife by her husband.

One who murders his wife.

Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband.

A Burman measure of twelve miles. V () V, the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. V and U are only varieties of the same character, U being the cursive form, while V is better adapted for engraving, as in stone. The two letters were formerly used indiscriminately, and till a comparatively recent date words containing them were often classed together in dictionaries and other books of reference (see U). The letter V is from the Latin alphabet, where it was used both as a consonant (about like English w) and as a vowel. The Latin derives it from it from a form (V) of the Greek vowel / (see Y), this Greek letter being either from the same Semitic letter as the digamma F (see F), or else added by the Greeks to the alphabet which they took from the Semitic. Etymologically v is most nearly related to u, w, f, b, p; as in vine, wine; avoirdupois, habit, have; safe, save; trover, troubadour, trope. See U, F, etc.

As a numeral, V stands for five, in English and Latin.

A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.

A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.

The dealfish.

of Vacancy

The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.

That which is vacant.

Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.

Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.

A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.