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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Valylene
(n.)
A volatile liquid hydrocarbon, C5H6, related to ethylene
and acetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the third
degree. It is the only known member of a distinct series of compounds.
It has a garlic odor.
Vambrace
(n.)
The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to
the wrist.
Vamose
(v. i. & t.)
To depart quickly; to depart from.
Vamp
(v. i.)
To advance; to travel.
Vamp
(n.)
The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in
front of the ankle seam; an upper.
Vamp
(n.)
Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance.
See Vamp, v. t.
Vamp
(v. t.)
To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to
piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often
followed by up.
Vamped
(imp. & p. p.)
of Vamp
Vamper
(n.)
One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something
new; a cobbler.
Vamper
(v. i.)
To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
Vamping
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Vamp
Vampire
(n.)
A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person
superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by
night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death.
This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was
especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
Vampire
(n.)
Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner;
a bloodsucker.
Vampire
(n.)
Either one of two or more species of South American
blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These
bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting
incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the
blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly
during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the
blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
Vampire
(n.)
Any one of several species of harmless tropical American
bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed
upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck
the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.
Vampirism
(n.)
Belief in the existence of vampires.
Vampirism
(n.)
The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.
Vampirism
(n.)
Fig.: The practice of extortion.
Vamplate
(n.)
A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to
protect the hand.
Vamure
(n.)
See Vauntmure.