Chapter Vitrification to Vocal of V by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Vivify
(Viv"i*fy) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vivified ; p. pr. & vb. n. Vivifying ] [F. vivifier, L. vivificare. See Vivid, -fy; cf. Vivificate.] To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish.

Bacon.

Vivipara
(||Vi*vip"a*ra) n. pl. [NL. See Viviparous.] (Zoöl.) An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; — opposed to Ovipara.

Viviparity
(Viv`i*par"i*ty) n. (Biol.) The quality or condition of being viviparous. H. Spencer.

Viviparous
(Vi*vip"a*rous) a. [L. viviparus; vivus alive + parere to bear, bring forth. Cf. Viper.] (Biol.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; — opposed to oviparous.

Viviparous fish. (Zoöl.) See Embiotocoid. — Viviparous shell (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of operculated fresh- water gastropods belonging to Viviparus, Melantho, and allied genera. Their young, when born, have a well-developed spiral shell.

Viviparously
(Vi*vip"a*rous*ly), adv. (Biol.) In a viviparous manner.

Viviparousness
(Vi*vip"a*rous*ness), n. (Biol.) The quality of being viviparous; viviparity.

Vivisect
(Viv"i*sect`) v. t. To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive. [Colloq.] Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Vivisection
(Viv`i*sec"tion) n. [L. vivus alive + E. section: cf. F. vivisection. See Vivid, and Section.] The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

Vivisectional
(Viv`i*sec"tion*al) a. Of or pertaining to vivisection.

Vivisectionist
(Viv`i*sec"tion*ist), n. One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.

Vivisector
(Viv`i*sec"tor) n. A vivisectionist.

Vixen
(Vix"en) n. [AS. fixen a she-fox, for fyxen, fem. of fox. See Fox.]

1. A female fox. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

2. A cross, ill-tempered person; — formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman. Barrow.

She was a vixen when she went to school.

Shak.

Vixenish
(Vix"en*ish), a. Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

Vixenly
(Vix"en*ly), a. Like a vixen; vixenish. Barrow.

Viz
(Viz) adv. [Contr. fr. videlicet.] To wit; that is; namely.

Vizard
(Viz"ard) n. [See Visor.] A mask; a visor. [Archaic] "A grotesque vizard." Sir W. Scott.

To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law.

Milton.

Vizarded
(Viz"ard*ed), a. Wearing a vizard. [R.] Shak.

Vizcacha
(||Viz*ca"cha) n. [Sp.] (Zoöl.) Same as Viscacha.