英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Voodoo
(a.)
Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo
incantations.
Voodooism
(n.)
A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to
include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is
prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United
States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
Voracious
(a.)
Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or
swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man
or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
Voracity
(n.)
The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
Voraginous
(a.)
Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
Vortex
(n.)
A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling
or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of
the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its
action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an
eddy.
Vortex
(n.)
A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter,
endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the
axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the
formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing
it, by a theory of vortices.
Vortex
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging
to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
Vortexes
(pl. )
of Vortex
Vortical
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a
vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.
Vorticel
(n.)
A vorticella.
Vorticella
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria
belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family
Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle
of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have
slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
Vorticellae
(pl. )
of Vorticella
Vorticellas
(pl. )
of Vorticella
Vortices
(pl. )
of Vortex
Vorticose
(a.)
Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion.
Vortiginous
(a.)
Moving rapidly round a center; vortical.
Votaress
(n.)
A woman who is a votary.
Votaries
(pl. )
of Votary
Votarist
(n.)
A votary.