Glossary.
Letter V
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- VADE
- to fade
- VAIL
- to lower
- VAILING
- lowering
- VAINNESS
- vanity
- VALANCED
- adorned with a valence or fringe; applied to the beard
- VALIDITY
- value
- VANTAGE
- advantage
- VANTBRACE
- armour for the front of the arm
- VARLET
- a servant, valet
- VAST
- properly a waste-place, metaphorically, the dead of night
- A gulf
- VASTIDITY
- immensity
- VASTLY
- like a waste
- VASTY
- vast, waste
- VAUNT
- the van, that which precedes
- VAUNT-COURIERS
- forerunners
- VAWARD
- the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army Hence, metaphorically, the first of anything
- VEGETIVES
- herbs
- VELURE
- velvet
- VELVET-GUARDS
- literally, velvet trimmings; applied
- metaphorically to the citizens who wore them
- VENEW
- a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to repartee and sallies of wit
- VENEY
- a bout at fencing
- VENGE
- to avenge
- VENTAGES
- holes in a flute or flageolet
- VERBAL
- wordy
- VERY
- true, real
- VIA
- int. off with you!
- VICE
- to screw
- VICE
- the buffoon in the old morality plays
- VIE
- to challenge; a term at cards
- To play as for a wager
- VIEWLESS
- invisible
- VILLAIN
- a lowborn man
- VINEWED
- mouldy
- VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS
- a bass viol
- VIRGINALLING
- playing as on the virginals, a kind of a spinet
- VIRTUE
- the essential excellence
- valour
- VIRTUOUS
- excellent
- Endowed with virtues
- VIZAMENT
- advisement
- VOLUBLE
- fickle
- VOLUNTARY
- volunteer
- VOTARIST
- votary, one who has taken a vow
- VULGAR
- the common people
- VULGAR
- common
- VULGARLY
- publicly