English Wordbook/V
From The Anglish Moot
Staff V of the English Wordbook.
| vacancy | n | 1. emptiness. 2. free stead, room. 3. gap; opening; breach. 4. opening. 5. empty-headedness, dullness, unthinkingness, thoughtlessness; s. vacuity. 7. idleness. |
| vacant | adj | 1. empty; 2. free; 3. free; 4. empty; 5. empty, thoughtless, unthinking; 6. not held, unheld, not filled, unfilled, not taken, untaken; 7. free; 8. workless, empty, free; 9. (~ of) without, not having; 10a. (law) empty and unheld; 10b. (law) idle, open; 10c. (law) unbequeathed, unbequested, s. vacant #6; left. |
| vacate | vb | leave, empty |
| vacation | n | holiday, leave |
| vacuity | n | 1. emptiness; s. vacancy; 2. empty-headedness, unthinkingness, thoughtlessness; dumbness, silliness; 3. dullness; 4. emptiness, room; 5. lack; 6. silliness, dumbness. 7. s. vacuum. |
| vacuum | n | 1. true emptiness. |
| vague | adj | rough, hazy |
| vagina | n | womanhole, maidentril, maytril, sheath |
| vain | adj | 1. cocky; 3. worthless; 4. empty, shallow, worthless, hollow; 5. s. senseless, foolish |
| vain, in | phr | 6a. for nothing, worthlessly |
| valediction | n | goodbye, farewell, leave-taking |
| valerian root | n | all-heal, all heal |
| valet | n | steward |
| valiant | adj | bold, stronghearted, daring, doughty, stouthearted, unfearing, fearless |
| valid | adj | sound |
| valley | n | dale |
| value | n | worth |
| value | vb | worthe |
| vanity | n | 1. cockiness; 4. worthlessness; hollowness, shallowness. |
| variant | n | sundering |
| variegated | adj | many-hued |
| variety | n | sundriness, kind |
| various | adj | sundry |
| vassal | n | feeman |
| vault of heaven | n | welkin. |
| veal | n | calf-flesh |
| veer | vb | trendle |
| veil | n | wimple, nun's hat, nun's headcovering |
| vegetable | n | green, wort |
| vehicle | n | fairthing |
| velociraptor mongoliensis | n | Mongolian dashsnatcher |
| vendor | n | seller, dealer |
| venesection | n | bloodletting |
| venison | n | deerflesh, deermeat |
| venom | n & vb | (esp of reptile), atter |
| vent | n | 1. opening, outlet; 2. opening; 3. opening; 4. opening; 5. way out, outlet; 6. (give ~ to) wreak. |
| venturesome | adj | daring, bold, fearless, unfrightened, gutsy, unfearful, stalwart, forward, daresome, thriste |
| verb | n | deedword, workword |
| verbal | adj | spoken |
| verbose | adj | wordy, overwordy, long-winded |
| verbosity | n | wordiness, overwordiness |
| verdant | n | green |
| verge | n | brink |
| verify | vt | find the truth of |
| vernacular | n | home tung, mother tung, folk tung, tung of the throng, by-tung; shire tung, homebred tung, lowborn speech, everyday speech, household speech, homespun, |
| vernal | adj | spring, blossom time, lentish |
| verse | n | staff |
| version | n | turn, reckoning |
| versus | prep | against |
| vertical | adj | upright, weft |
| vertically | adv | heightwise |
| veruca | n | wart |
| veracious1 | adj | soothfast, truthful |
| vesica | n | bladder |
| vertigo | n | heightsickness |
| very | adv | 1. swithe, so, highly; greatly, mighty, sorely, sore; way; 2. much, truly, rather, rattling, mickle, dead. |
| very | adj | 3. same, selfsame; 5. sheer; utter; 7. true, full; 8. true; 9. rightful, lawful. |
| very many | adj | full many |
| very well | adj | full well |
| vespertilines | n | bat, rere-mouse, rye-mouse, flitter-mouse |
| vessel | n | vat, ship |
| vest(American) | n | waistcoat |
| vest(British) | n | undershirt |
| vexation | n | feaze |
| via | conj | by way of |
| vibrate | vb | shiver, shudder, quiver, shake |
| vicarious | adj | wician, wice |
| vicinity | n | neighbourhood |
| vicious | adj | leighterful |
| vicissitude | n | ups and downs, ebbs and flows, ebb and neap, wends and wynds, wax and wanes, sesaw |
| victory | n | win, sige |
| video CD | n | white book |
| view | n | outlook, eyeshot, sight, insight |
| vigil | n | wakefulness, wake, watch |
| vigilance | n | wakefulness, awareness, wariness, watchfulness, wide awakeness, wakerifeness, wareness, a sharp lookout, sharp eyes |
| vigilant | adj | eye-bright, wakeful, aware, wary, watchful, wide awake, wakerife, ware, sharp |
| vigour | n | liveliness, yauldness, lustihood, drive, health, quickness |
| vigourous | n | hearty, lusty, driving, lively, hale, sound, yauld |
| village | n | ham, thorpe, townlet, wich, wick, berewick |
| violate | vb | breach |
| violation | n | breach |
| violence | n | yweald (Old English geweald) |
| violent | adj | wroth, bloody-minded |
| virgin | n | unswiven, maiden(fem.) |
| virginity | n | maidenhead, maidenhood |
| virtually | adv | almost, nearly, seemingly |
| virtue | n | douth/doughth, goodness, goodliness, highmindness, worth, worthliness, wholeness, manliness, strength, daring; by dint of |
| visage | n | blee, likeness |
| viscuous | adj | sticky, clingy, ropy |
| viscum | n | mistletoe, balder's bane |
| vision | n | sight |
| vision(from imagination) | n | dream, sweven |
| visionary | adj | farsighted, foresighted |
| visit | vt | 1. see, beseek (calque from continental West Germanic langs.); 3. come/go to, beseek; 5. help; 6. come upon, befall, betide; 7. come to. |
| visit | vi | 10. call; 11. call, gam. |
| visit | n | 14. call, gam, beseeking; 15. call |
| visitor | n | caller |
| vital | adj | key |
| vitality | n | liveliness, drive, go, get up and go, haleness, strength, quitch |
| vocabulary | n | wordstock, wordset, wordhoard |
| vocal | adj | loud, outspoken, |
| vociferous | adj | outspoken, loudmouthed |
| vodka | n | Russlandish lifewater |
| voice | n | stem |
| voiced | adj | 21. soft, weak, flat. |
| voiceless | adj | 6. hard, strong, sharp. |
| void | n | emptiness, nothingness, yawning gap |
| volcano | n | fireberg, firefell |
| volume(book) | n | wal |
| volume(acoustics) | n | loudness |
| volume(physics) | n | bulk |
| voluntary | adj | willing, freewill |
| volunteer | n | 1. freewill worker; 3. freewill harman, undrafted harman |
| vomer | n. | ploughshare bone |
| vomit | vb | spew, puke, sick, throw up, hurl, reach, retch, overgive (calque of Dutch, "overgeven") |
| vomit | n | spew, puke, sick, throw-up, hurl |
| vow | n | oath, behest |
| vow | vb | behight |
| vowel | n | selfloud, breathsound, stefning |
| voyage | n | farfare |
| vulgar | adj | folkish, ribald, mean, low, lowbrow, cheap and nasty, low-minded |
| vulpine | adj | foxlike, foxxy |
| vulture | n | geir |
