<B>viceroyalty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the office, rank, or authority of a viceroy. <DD><B> 2. </B>a country, colony, or province administered by a viceroy. <DD><B> 3. </B>the period during which a particular viceroy holds office. </DL>
<A NAME="viceroyship">
<B>viceroyship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy; viceroyalty. </DL>
<A NAME="vicesquad">
<B>vice squad,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a police squad responsible for enforcing laws against gambling and other vices. <BR> <I>Ex. In Detroit, a vice squad broke up a dice game, smashed dice tables and chairs, carted the players off to jail (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="viceversa">
<B>vice versa,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the other way round; conversely. <BR> <I>Ex. John blamed Michael, and vice versa (Michael blamed John).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="vichy">
<B>Vichy, </B>noun. =Vichy water.</DL>
<A NAME="vichyite">
<B>Vichyite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a supporter of the government of unoccupied France from July, 1940 to November, 1942, and its policy of collaboration with the Nazis. </DL>
<A NAME="vichyssois">
<B>Vichyssois, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the city of Vichy in central France. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or supporting the Vichyite government. <BR> <I>Ex. Later still as Nuncio in Paris, he defended the accused Vichyssois bishops (London Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a native or inhabitant of the city of Vichy. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Vichyite.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vichyssoise">
<B>vichyssoise, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a creamy potato-and-leek soup, sprinkled with chives served cold. </DL>
<A NAME="vichyssoise">
<B>Vichyssoise, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the feminine of <B>Vichyssois.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vichywater">
<B>Vichy water,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy, France, containing sodium bicarbonate and other salts, used in the treatment of digestive disturbances, gout, and other ailments. <DD><B> 2. </B>a natural or artificial water of similar composition. </DL>
<A NAME="vicinage">
<B>vicinage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>surrounding district; neighborhood; vicinity. <BR> <I>Ex. to know well the people in his own vicinage.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the people living in a certain district or neighborhood. <BR> <I>Ex. an to his thought the whole vicinage was haunted by her (George Eliot).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact of being or living close to another or others; nearness; proximity. </DL>
<A NAME="vicinal">
<B>vicinal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>neighboring; adjacent; near. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=local.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or like a vicinal plane. </DL>
<A NAME="vicinalplane">
<B>vicinal plane,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mineralogy.) a subordinate plane in crystal whose position varies little from that of the fundamental plane which it replaces. </DL>
<A NAME="vicinalway">
<B>vicinal way</B> or <B>road,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a local road, as distinguished from a highway; crossroad. </DL>
<A NAME="vicinity">
<B>vicinity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the region near or about a place; neighborhood; surrounding district. <BR> <I>Ex. There are no houses for sale in this vicinity. He knew many people in New York and its vicinity.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>nearness in place; being close. <BR> <I>Ex. The vicinity of the apartment to his office was an advantage on rainy days.</I> (SYN) propinquity, proximity. <BR><I>expr. <B>in the vicinity of,</B> </I>in the neighborhood of; near or close to. <BR> <I>Ex. a park in the vicinity of town, (Figurative.) a boat costing in the vicinity of $1,000.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="vicious">
<B>vicious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>evil; wicked. <BR> <I>Ex. vicious and weak conduct, a dictator's vicious love of power. The criminal led a vicious life.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>having bad habits or a bad disposition; fierce; savage. <BR> <I>Ex. a vicious horse, the vicious temper of the wicked witch.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>spiteful; malicious. <BR> <I>Ex. I won't listen to such vicious gossip.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) unpleasantly severe. <BR> <I>Ex. a vicious headache.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>not correct; having faults. <BR> <I>Ex. This argument contains vicious reasoning. Oliver's Latin was vicious and scanty (John Morley).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Logic.) faulty, in the manner of a vicious circle. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Obsolete.) foul; impure; noxious. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Obsolete.) (of a part or function of the body) diseased; irregular. adv. <B>viciously.</B> noun <B>viciousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="viciouscircle">
<B>vicious circle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>two or more undesirable things, each of which keeps causing the other. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Logic.) <DD><B> a. </B>false reasoning that uses one statement to prove a second statement when the first statement really depends upon the second for proof. <DD><B> b. </B>an inconclusive form of definition, in which two or more undefined terms or their equivalents are used to define each other. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Pathology.) a process in which one disease or condition causes a second disease that then aggravates the first. </DL>
<A NAME="vicissitude">
<B>vicissitude, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a change in circumstances or fortune. <BR> <I>Ex. The vicissitudes of life may suddenly make a rich man very poor.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a change; variation; mutation. <BR> <I>Ex. the whirlpool of political vicissitude (Hawthorne).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>regular change. <BR> <I>Ex. the vicissitude of day and night.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="vicissitudinary">
<B>vicissitudinary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> marked by alternation; coming alternately or by turns. </DL>
<A NAME="vicissitudinous">
<B>vicissitudinous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> subject to or experiencing changes of fortune or circumstances. </DL>
<A NAME="vickerstest">
<B>Vickers test,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a method of determining the hardness of metals by indenting them with a diamond pyramid under a specified load and measuring the size of the indentation. </DL>
<B>vicontiel, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) (in English history) of or having to do with a sheriff or a viscount. </DL>
<A NAME="victim">
<B>victim, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a person or animal sacrificed, injured, or destroyed. <BR> <I>Ex. victims of war, victims of an accident.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a person who suffers some hardship or loss. <BR> <I>Ex. a victim of poverty.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>a person who dies or suffers as a result of voluntarily undertaking some enterprise or pursuit. <BR> <I>Ex. a victim of overwork.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a person badly treated or taken advantage of; dupe. <BR> <I>Ex. the victim of a swindler.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a person or animal killed and offered as a sacrifice to a god. </DL>
<A NAME="victimimpactstatement">
<B>victim-impact statement,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a review of the consequences of a crime on its victim. <BR> <I>Ex. 47 states now allow some form of ... victim-impact statements to be included among the evidence weighed during the sentencing phase of criminal trials (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>victimizable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be victimized. </DL>
<A NAME="victimize">
<B>victimize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make a victim of; cause to suffer. <DD><B> 2. </B>to cheat; swindle; defraud. <DD><B> 3. </B>to put to death as or like a sacrificial victim; slaughter. noun <B>victimization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="victimizer">
<B>victimizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who victimizes another or others. </DL>
<A NAME="victimless">
<B>victimless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially U.S.) (of legal offenses) not having or involving a victim. <BR> <I>Ex. A federally financed advisory committee has urged state legislatures to go slow in decriminalizing or legalizing so-called victimless crimes such as gambling, prostitution and pornography (New York Times).</I> <DD> Strictly, a victimless crime is one that involves only consenting persons and no complainant claiming to be a victim. </DL>
<A NAME="victimologist">
<B>victimologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a specialist in victimology. </DL>
<A NAME="victimology">
<B>victimology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of victims and their roles in the crimes committed against them. </DL>
<A NAME="victor">
<B>victor, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a winner; conqueror. <BR> <I>Ex. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy (William Marcy).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> victorious; triumphant. <BR> <I>Ex. Despite thy victor sword ... thou art a traitor (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="victor">
<B>Victor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a code name for the letter <I>v,</I> used in transmitting radio messages. </DL>
<A NAME="victoria">
<B>victoria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a low, four-wheeled carriage with a folding top and a seat for two passengers. A victoria has a raised seat in front for the driver. <DD><B> 2. </B>an open automobile with a folding top covering the rear seat only. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of a genus of South American water lilies with leaves often six feet or more in diameter, and a solitary flower, usually 12 to 14 inches in diameter, that changes from white to pink or red on the second day it is open. </DL>
