<B>venue, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Law.) <DD><B> a. </B>the place or neighborhood of a crime or cause of action. <DD><B> b. </B>the place where the jury is summoned and the case tried. <BR> <I>Ex. The prisoner's lawyer asked for a change of venue because the county was so prejudiced against the prisoner.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>the statement on an indictment or complaint designating the place for trial. <DD><B> d. </B>the statement indicating where and before whom an affidavit was sworn. <DD><B> 2. </B>the scene of a real or supposed action or event, especially in a novel or other literary work. </DL>
<A NAME="venular">
<B>venular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> marked with veins; veined. </DL>
<A NAME="venule">
<B>venule, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small vein, especially one that begins at the capillaries and connects them with the larger veins. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small vein in the wing of an insect; nervule. </DL>
<A NAME="venulose">
<B>venulose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of venules. </DL>
<A NAME="venulous">
<B>venulous, </B>adjective. =venulose.</DL>
<A NAME="venus">
<B>Venus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The Greeks called her Aphrodite. <DD><B> 2. </B>a very beautiful woman. <BR> <I>Ex. the Venus of the village.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the sixth largest planet in the solar system and the second in distance from the sun. Venus is the brightest planet in the solar system and the one that comes closest to the earth. <DD><B> 4. </B>any one of a group of bivalve mollusks having a thick, ridged shell. <DD><B> 5. </B>a style of sans-serif printing type. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Alchemy.) copper. </DL>
<A NAME="venusberg">
<B>Venusberg, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the legends of Tannhauser, the site of the caverns where Venus held her pagan court. </DL>
<A NAME="venushair">
<B>Venus'-hair, </B>noun. =Venus's-hair.</DL>
<A NAME="venusian">
<B>Venusian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the planet Venus. <BR> <I>Ex. The little that astronomers can see suggests that the Venusian atmosphere has neither oxygen nor water (Time).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a supposed inhabitant of Venus. <BR> <I>Ex. In the course of a month the moon would be observed by a Venusian to oscillate to either side of the earth (Wasley S. Krogdahl).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="venussflowerbasket">
<B>Venus's-flower-basket, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a glass sponge found in the East Indies and along the eastern coast of Asia, having delicate, lacelike spicules. </DL>
<A NAME="venussflytrap">
<B>Venus's-flytrap, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plant of the coasts of the Carolinas, whose hairy leaves have two lobes at the end that fold together to trap and ingest insects. It belongs to the same family as the sundew. </DL>
<A NAME="venussgirdle">
<B>Venus's-girdle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a long, transparent, ribbonlike ctenophore that lives in tropical seas. </DL>
<A NAME="venusshair">
<B>Venus's-hair, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a maidenhair fern with blackish stipes (frond petioles). </DL>
<A NAME="venussshoe">
<B>Venus's-shoe, </B>noun. =lady's-slipper.</DL>
<A NAME="venutian">
<B>Venutian, </B>adjective, noun. =Venusian.</DL>
<A NAME="venville">
<B>venville, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a special form of tenure in certain English parishes, by which the tenants enjoy certain privileges in the use of the forest. </DL>
<A NAME="ver">
<B>ver.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>verse or verses. <DD><B> 2. </B>versus. </DL>
<A NAME="veracious">
<B>veracious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>truthful. <BR> <I>Ex. The testimony of the two veracious and competent witnesses (Dickens).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>true. <BR> <I>Ex. veracious testimony.</I> adv. <B>veraciously.</B> noun <B>veraciousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="veracity">
<B>veracity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>truthfulness. <BR> <I>Ex. the unquestioned veracity of a judge. Any fool may write a most valuable book ... if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity (Thomas Gray).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>truth. <BR> <I>Ex. Falsehoods and veracities are separated by so very thin a barrier (William Stubbs).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>correctness; accuracy. <BR> <I>Ex. to test the veracity of a scientific instrument. Narratives where historical veracity has no place (Samuel Johnson).</I> (SYN) exactitude, precision. </DL>
<A NAME="veranda">
<B>veranda</B> or <B>verandah, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large porch along one or more sides of a house; piazza. adj. <B>verandalike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="verandaed">
<B>verandaed</B> or <B>verandahed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> furnished with a veranda or verandas. <BR> <I>Ex. We drove ... to register in the administration building, a verandaed cottage like all the other dwellings of the settlement (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="veratria">
<B>veratria, </B>noun. =veratrine.</DL>
<A NAME="veratricacid">
<B>veratric acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white crystalline acid present in the seeds of the sabadilla, and also produced by the decomposition of veratrine. </DL>
<A NAME="veratridin">
<B>veratridin, </B>noun. =veratridine.</DL>
<A NAME="veratridine">
<B>veratridine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an amorphous alkaloid present in the seeds of the sabadilla. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=veratrine </B>(def. 1). </DL>
<A NAME="veratrin">
<B>veratrin, </B>noun. =veratrine.</DL>
<A NAME="veratrina">
<B>veratrina, </B>noun. =veratrine.</DL>
<A NAME="veratrine">
<B>veratrine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a poisonous mixture containing veratridine and other alkaloids extracted from the seeds of the sabadilla, used medicinally as an ointment, especially for the relief of rheumatism and neuralgia. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=veratridine </B>(def. 1). Also, <B>veratria.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="veratrize">
<B>veratrize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-trized,</B> <B>-trizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to drug, poison, or treat with veratrine. </DL>
<A NAME="veratrum">
<B>veratrum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of plants of the lily family, especially the American hellebore, whose dried roots and stem are used in drugs, as for the treatment of hypertension and nausea. </DL>
<A NAME="verb">
<B>verb, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a word that tells what is or what is done. <BR> <I>Ex. Do, eat, sit, be, go, think, and know are verbs. A verb serves to connect a subject with a predicate. Verbs may be inflected for person, tense, voice, and mood. English verbs are classified as transitive or intransitive.</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) v. <DD><B> 2. </B>the part of speech or form class to which such words belong. </DL>
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<A NAME="verbal">
<B>verbal, </B>adjective, noun, verb, <B>-balled,</B> <B>-balling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>in words; of words. <BR> <I>Ex. A description is a verbal picture.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>expressed in spoken words; oral. <BR> <I>Ex. a verbal promise, a verbal message.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having to do with or affecting words only, rather than things, realities, or context. <BR> <I>Ex. a verbal correction not affecting the idea in the sentence.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>word for word; literal. <BR> <I>Ex. a verbal translation from the French.</I> (SYN) verbatim. <DD><B> 5a. </B>having to do with a verb. Two common verbal endings are <I>-ed</I> and <I>-ing.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>derived from a verb. <BR> <I>Ex. a verbal adjective.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>resembling a verb in function or meaning. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a word, particularly a noun or adjective, derived from a verb. Gerunds and participles are verbals. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Linguistics.) a word or group of words that functions as a verb. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Especially British Slang.) an alleged admission of guilt by a defendant at the time of arrest. <BR> <I>Ex. I am very troubled by the danger that a man may be convicted on verbals, to use the slang, which he never uttered at all (Lord Chief Justice Widgery).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Especially British Slang.) to induce or cause to make an admission of guilt at the time of arrest. <BR> <I>Ex. He said ... that he had been verballed before by the police and that on this occasion he would on no account make any statement (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="verbalauxiliary">
<B>verbal auxiliary,</B> =auxiliary verb.</DL>
<A NAME="verbalism">
<B>verbalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a verbal expression, word or phrase. <DD><B> 2. </B>too much attention to mere words. (SYN) literalism. <DD><B> 3. </B>a stock phrase or formula in words with little meaning. </DL>
<A NAME="verbalist">
<B>verbalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who is skilled in the use or choice of words. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who pays too much attention to mere words. </DL>
<A NAME="verbalistic">
<B>verbalistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with verbalists; characterized by verbalism or verbalisms. adv. <B>verbalistically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="verbalization">
<B>verbalization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>expression in words. <BR> <I>Ex. Language can best be thought of as a systematized code of signals involving verbalization (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the use of too many words. (SYN) verbosity, verboseness, verbiage, wordiness. <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of changing to a verb. </DL>
<A NAME="verbalize">
<B>verbalize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to express in words. <BR> <I>Ex. New subjects [who were] shown these pictures usually found them helpful in clarifying their feelings and verbalizing their experiences (Scientific American).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Grammar.) to change (a noun or other word usually functioning as another part of speech) into a verb. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to use too many words; be wordy. noun <B>verbalizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="verbally">
<B>verbally, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in words. <BR> <I>Ex. to explain verbally.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>in spoken words; orally. <BR> <I>Ex. a contract verbally agreed upon. The boy who was deaf and dumb could not reply verbally but used signs.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>word for word. <BR> <I>Ex. to translate French verbally. The child reported the conversation verbally.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>in regard to words only. <BR> <I>Ex. verbally intelligible.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>as a verb; having the function of a verb. <BR> <I>Ex. Breast is used verbally in "The boat breasts the wave."</I> </DL>
