vacuum valve (vakuumvalv)

A safety valve which opens inward, so connected with a boiler that when there is a vacuum it will be forced open by atmospheric pre ure. Also called air - valve. E. H. Knight. vadet (vād), v. i. [Another form of fade (as vat of fat ): see fade1.] 1. To become pale or weak, as a color; hence, to pa away; vanish; depart. Color evanidus, fugax. dead colour. 6684 wandering, strolling about, Owre men suppose them to bee a vagabunde and wanderinge nacion lyke vnto the Scythians, withowte houses or certeyne dwellinge places. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 97). Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death, Vagabond exile,... I would not buy Their mercy at the price of one fair word. Shak ., Cor., iii. 3. 89. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream. Shak ., A. and C., i. 4. 45. 3. Of or pertaining to a vagabond or worthle stroller; vagrant.-4. Not sedentary, as a spider; belonging to the Vagabundæ . II. n. 1. One who is without a settled home; one who goes from place to place; a wanderer; a vagrant: not nece arily in a bad sense. Reduc'd, like Hannibal, to seek relief From court to court, and wander up and down, A vagabond in Afric. Add is on , Cato, ii. 4. IMG:content-1672.png:[blocks in formation] His eyes were oft vagarish . Wolcot (Peter Pindar), p. 305. ( Davies .) vagarity (va-gar'i-ti), n. [ vagar -y + -ity.] The character or state of being vagarious; capriciousne ; irregularity. Instances of vagarity are noticeable with each Prince of many of whom seem to have ignored, rather not enjoyed the title (Duke of Cornwalll, although probably they did the revenues. N. and Q., 7th ser., II. 89. vagarył (va-gā'ri), v. i. [Early mod. E. vagarie; appar. It. vagare = Sp. vagar = Pg. vaguear = F. vaguer ), wander, He who goes from country to country, guided by the wandering: see vague , a., and vague , v. blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond . Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, vii. 2. An idle, worthle stroller from place to place without fixed habitation or visible means of earning an honest livelihood; in law, an idle, worthle vagrant. See vagrant. Wee haue had amongst vs Vagabonds, which call themselues Egyptians, the dregs of mankinde. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 590. Cf. vagary, n. The L. (or perhaps the It.) inf. appears to have been adopted as a whole, and accommodated to E. nouns in -ary; but this can hardly be explained except as an orig. university use. There is no L. or ML. adj. * vagarius or noun * vagaria.] To gad; range. Vaguer , to wander, vagarie , stray, gad, roame, raunge, flit, remoue often from place to place. Cotgrave. 3. An idle, worthle fellow; a scamp; a rascal, vagary (va-ga'ri), n.; pl. vagaries (-riz). [Early [Colloq.] [Colloq.] -4. One of the Vagabundæ .-5. A pyralid moth, Crambus vulgivagellus . See cut under Crambida .-Rogues and vagabonds. See rogue. vagabond (vag'a-bond), v . i. [ it . Vagabonding in those untrodden places, they were guided by the everlasting justice, using themselves to be punishers of their faults. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iv. vagabondage (vag'a-bon-dāj), n. [ vagabond + -age.] The state, condition, or habits of a vagabond; idle wandering, with or without fraudulent intent: as, to live in vagabondage . It reestablished the severest penalties on vagabondage , even to death without benefit of clergy. H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., p. 103. Life doth vade , and young men must be old. Greene, Palmer's Verses. I know how soon their love vadeth , 2. To fade; wither. Middle ton, Family of Love, i. 1. Mine is the heart which vades away as doth the flower or gra . Peele, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes. Fair flower, untimely plucked, soon vaded . Shak ., Pa ionate Pilgrim, 1. 131. vade-mecum (vā'de-me'kum), n. [= F. Sp. vade - mecum, One boracho or leathern bottle of Tours... Panurge filled for himself, for he called that his vademecum . Urquhart , tr. of Rabelais, ii. 28.