Velutinidæ (velutinide)

pl. [NL. (J. E. Gray, 1840), (a) In bot . , having a hairy surface which in texture resembles that of velvet, as in Rochea coccinea. (b) In entom., covered with very close-set short upright hairs, like the pile of velvet. velveret (vel'ver-et), n. [Irreg. dim. of velvet .] An inferior sort of velvet, the web of which is of cotton and the pile of silk. It is stiff, and keeps its color badly. velvet (vel'vet), n. and a. [Also vellet (also vel lute , It.); velvet , velwet, felvet, velouet, velouette , velvet (Roque fort), velvet (cf. vellueau , velvet, velu , shaggy, velouté , velveted, velvety, veluette, mouse-ear), = Sp. Pg. velludo, shag, velvet, = OIt. veluto, It. velluto, velvet, OF. velous, F. velours, > E. velure ) 'shaggy'cloth, By hir beddes heed she made a me we, And covered it with velouettes blewe. Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 636. Her shirt was o' the gra -green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne. Thomas the Rhymer (Child's Ballads, I. 109). Velvet (from It. velluto, "shaggy") had a silk weft woven so as to form a raised pile, the ends of which were cut or shaved off to one even level: hence it is also called in Italy raso. Encyc . Brit ., XXIII. 210. 2. The covering of a growing antler, consisting of the modified periosteum peculiar to antlers, with cuticle and fur. It bears the same relation to the nutrition of the antler that periosteum does to that of bone. Its sloughing or exuviation follows the constriction and final obliteration of its ve els a proce which is accomplished or favored by the growth of the bur about the base of the antler, which cuts off or obstructs the circulation of blood. The antler subsequently receives no nourishment, and is itself shortly afterward exuviated or cast as a foreign body. Good antlers "in the velvet " will sell readily for four dollars a pound in any part of Siberia. The Century , XXXVII. 646. 3. Money gained through gambling: as, to play on velvet (that is, to gamble with money previously won). [Slang.] - Embo ed-velvet work, a kind of needlework done by outlining the raised IMG:content-1749.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Very soft and smooth to the taste: as, old velvet Bourbon. - Velvet ant, a solitary ant, of the fam- ily Mutilidæ ; a spider-ant: so covering. Also sometimes cow-ant. - Velvet chiton, a polyplacophorous mollusk, Crypto chiton stelleri , found from Alaska to California. - Velvet cork. See cork1.- Velvet dock. See dock1 , 2.- Velvet duck, velvet coot. Same as velvet scoter. IMG:content-1750.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1751.png:[blocks in formation] And we will enter, or strike by the way. Heywood , 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 17). tropical vine, Ci ampelos Pareira , furnishing a velvet leaf (velvet-lef), n. 1. A downy-leafed medicinal root. See pareira.-2. See Lava- tera.-3. In the United States, the Indian mal- low, Abutilon Avicennæ , an annual plant with downy heart-shaped leaves. Sometimes called American jute . Seejute2.- East Indian velvet leaf. See Tour nef ort i a . ing pile-fabrics. E. H. Knight. velvet-mo (velvet-môs), n. A lichen, Um- bilicaria murina , used in dyeing, found in the velvet-painting (vel'vet-pan"ting), n. The art or practice of coloring or painting on velvet. velvet-paper (vel'vet-paper), n. Same as flock - paper . velvet-peet (vel'vet-pē), n. [ velvet + * pee , * pea , in pea -jacket: see pea - jacket .] A velvet Though now your blockhead be covered with a Spanish block, and your lashed shoulders with a velvet - pee . Fletcher (and another ), Love's Cure, ii. 1. velvet-pile (vel'vet-pil), n. 1. The pile of vel- vet; also, a pile or nap like that of velvet.-2. A material other than velvet, so called from its having a long soft nap, as a carpet. velvet-satin (velvet-sat"in), n. A silk mate- rial of which the ground is satin with the pat- tern in velvet-pile. velvet seed (velvet-sēd), n. A small rubiaceous tree, Guettarda elliptic a , of the West Indies and Florida. [West Indies.] velvet-work (vel'vet-werk), n. Embroidery upon velvet. velvety (velvet-i), a. [ velvet + -y1.] 1. Resembling velvet; having a nap like that of velvet; also, soft and smooth to the eye or to the touch, somewhat like velvet: as, velvety texture among minerals. Textures are principally of three kinds: -(1) Lustrous, as of water and gla . (2) Bloomy, or velvety , as of a rose- as in feathers, fur, hair, and woven or reticulated ti ues. Ruskin, Lectures on Art, § 135. 2. Having a peculiar soft or smooth taste. The rum is velvety , sugary, with a pleasant, soothing ef fect. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 216. venall (ve'nal), a. [ venal , F. vénal Sp. Pg. venal = It. venale , venal is , of or pertaining to selling, purchasable, venus , also venum , sale, = Gr. ώνος , price; cf. ὠνή , purchase, = Skt. vasna , price, wages, wealth; perhaps vas , dwell, exist: see was . From L. venus are ult. E. vend1 , etc.] 1. Ready to sell one's services or influence for money or other valu- able consideration, and entirely from sordid motives; bought or to be bought basely or meanly for personal gain; mercenary; hire- ling: used of persons: as, a venal politician. IMG:content-1752.jpg:[graphic] He preserved his independence in an age of venality . Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xliii. Infamous Venality , grown bold, Writes on his bosom to be let or sold. diaphragm to empty into the lower part of the right car- diac auricle. It receives the lumbar, spermatic, renal, venally (vēnal-i), adv . In a venal manner; capsular, hepatic, and inferior phrenic veins. (b) The su perior or descending vena cava returns the blood from the head and neck, the upper limbs, and the whole of the tho- rax. It is formed by the junction of the right and left in- nominate veins, behind the junction of the first costal car- tilage of the right side with the sternum, and descends nearly vertically to empty into the right auricle of the heart. It receives the pericardial and mediastinal veins and the large azygous vein. In vertebrates at large the two venæ cavæ are distinguished as postcaval and precaval veins. See cuts under circulation, diaphragm , embryo, heart , lung , pancreas , and thorax . - Vena comes (pl. venæ comites ), a companion vein; tellite compl, vene one of a pair, which closely accompanies an artery in its course. The larger arteries have usually one, the small- er arteries two.- Vena contract a, in hydraul . See con- tracted vein, under contracted . -Venæ basis vertebra- Venantest (vē-nan'tēz), n. pl . [NL., pl. of venan(t-)s, ppr. of venari , hunt, chase: see venation1.] The hunting-spiders, a group of spiders so called because, instead of weaving webs in which to lie in wait, they run or leap about to chase and catch their prey. See My- galidæ, Lycosidæ, and cuts under bird - spider , Mygale, tarantula , and wolf - spider . venarylt, n. An obsolete form of venery . venary2+ (ven'a-ri), a . [Irreg. venari , hunt, chase: see venation1 . Cf. venery1 .] Of or per- taining to hunting. Howell . venasquite (ve-nas'kīt), n. [ Venasque (see def.) + -ite2 .] In mineral ., a variety of ottrelite, found at Venasque in the Spanish Pyrenees. venatic (vē-nat'ik), a . [L. venatic us , of or per- taining to hunting, venatus , hunting, the chase, venari , hunt, chase: see venation .] 1. Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting. the vertebræ. See venæ spinales , below. -Venæ comites, See vena comes , above. - Venæ cord is minimæ, the smallest cardiac veins (which see, under vein ). - Vene externæ, in Tube raceæ , peculiar white veins observed ti ue containing air, which fills the asciferous chambers. De Bary. Venæ Galeni, the veins of Galen; the veins of the cerebral ventricles, and especially one of the main trunks by which these veins empty into a venous sinus. Venæ internæ, in Tube raceæ , dark-colored veins seen on a section of the sporophore, indicating the walls of the as- ciferous chambers, which are composed of ti ue contain- ing no air. De Bary. - Venæ lymph at ice. Same as venæ internæ.-Vene spinales, the spinal veins; the many venatic at (vē-natʼi-kä), n. Same as vinatico . draining blood from the vertebral bones and spinal cord and its membranes. In man these veins are arranged and named in four sets-the bas i spinal , dors i spinal , medulli- spinal , and men in go rachidian . All these veins are valve- le , and form extensive and intricate anastomoses with one another.- Venæ vorticose, ciliary veins: same as vasa vorticosa. See vas . - Vena lienal is, the splenic vein. - Vena porta, vena portæ, the portal vein. See portalı , manner; in the chase. venation