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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Vitalize
(v. t.)
To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to
make alive; as, vitalized blood.
Vitalized
(imp. & p. p.)
of Vitalize
Vitalizing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Vitalize
Vitally
(adv.)
In a vital manner.
Vitals
(n. pl.)
Organs that are necessary for life; more especially,
the heart, lungs, and brain.
Vitals
(n. pl.)
Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of
anything; as, the vitals of a state.
Vitellary
(a.)
Vitelline.
Vitelligenous
(a.)
Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied
to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the
ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the
developing ova.
Vitellin
(n.)
An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins,
obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid
constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can
be separated in crystalline form.
Vitelline
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline
membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.
Vitellogene
(n.)
A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes,
turbellarians, and some other helminths.
Vitellus
(n.)
The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See
Illust. of Ovum.
Vitellus
(n.)
Perisperm in an early condition.
Vitiate
(v. t.)
To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render
defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to
contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing;
sewer gas vitiates the air.
Vitiate
(v. t.)
To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part;
to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an
instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on
a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.
Vitiated
(imp. & p. p.)
of Vitiate
Vitiating
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Vitiate
Vitiation
(n.)
The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated;
depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood;
the vitiation of a contract.
Viticulose
(a.)
Having long and slender trailing stems.
Viticultural
(a.)
Of or pertaining to viticulture.