Vulturinæ (vulturine)

pl. [NL., The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its po e or. Kingsley, Two Years Ago, x. Vulturine eagle, Aquila verreauxi, of Le on, described also the same year (1830) as Aquila vulturina by Sir A. Smith. This is an African eagle, 3 feet long, with the feet feathered to the toes, and otherwise congeneric with the golden eagle. When adult it is black, more or le extensively white on the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts; IMG:content-1973.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1974.jpg:[graphic] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary Vulturine Guinea-fowl ( Acryllium vulturinum). Vulturine character or quality; rapacity. Car- -it is.] Inflammation of the vulva. lyle. vulvo-uterine (vul-vo-ū'te-rin), a . Of or per- vulturn (vul'tern), n . [Arbitrary var. of vul- taining to the vulva and the uterus: as, the vul- ture , appar. through vulturine .] The brush-tur-vo- uterine canal (the vagina). key of Australia, Tale gallus lathami : so named vulvovaginal (vul-vo-vaj'i-nal), a . Pertaining from the nakedne of the head suggesting a vulture. See cut under Tale gallus . IMG:content-1976.png:[graphic] vulva (vul'vä), n. [= F. vulve = Sp. Pg. vulva = It. volva , vulva , volva , a covering, integu- ment, womb, volvere , roll around or about: see volve , volute .] 1. In an at ., the external organs of generation of the female; especially, the ori- fice of these parts, the external termination of the vagina-of an elliptical contour in the hu- man female.-2. In entom . , the orifice of the ovi- duct.-3. In conch ., the oval or vulviform con- formation presented by certain bivalve shells when the right and left valves are in apposition. See Venerida . Velamen vulvæ. See velamen .-Ves- tibule of the vulva. See vestibule . vulvar (vulvär), a. [ vulva + -ar3 .] Of or pertaining to the vulva; vulviform. - Vulvar canal. Same as vulva , 2.- Vulvar enterocele. (a) A vaginal hernia protruding through the vulva. (b) A hernia which has descended between the ramus of the ischium and the vagina into one of the labia major a; pudendal enterocele or hernia. - Vulvar hernia. Same as vulvar vum (vum), v. i. A corruption or equivalent of vow , used in the expre ion "I vum ,"," a mild ex- pletive or oath. Compare swan2 . [New Eng.] The Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum , " or an "I tell yeou"). vummera, n . Same as wummerah . V-vat (vē'vat), n. In mining , a pointed or V- shaped box in which crushed or pulverized ores are sized or cla ified by the aid of water. The earthy particles mingled with the ore entering above fall against a current of water rising from beneath, the ve locity of which is regulated so that a more or le complete separation of the ore from the gangue is effected. These boxes are generally arranged in a series of four or more, and there are many varieties of the apparatus, of which the general principle was the invention of Von Rittinger, an Austrian metallurgist. This method has proved to be of great value in ore-dre ing. Also called pointed box , pyramidal box , and spitz kas ten . v. y. An abbreviation in book-catalogues of various years. vulvate (vul'vāt), a . [ vulva + -atel .] Shaped vying (vi'ing), p . a . [Ppr. of viel , v.] Compet- like or formed into a vulva; vulvar; vulviform. ing; emulating. vulviform (vul'vi-form), a . [L. vulva , womb, vyingly (vi'ing-li), adv . Emulously. Encyc. + form a , form: see form .] 1. In zoöl ., shaped Dict. like the vulva of the human female; oval, with vynet, n. An obsolete spelling of vine . raised lips and a median cleft. - 2. In bot . , like vynert, n. An obsolete spelling of viner1 , vi- a cleft with projecting edges. ner2 . vulvismus (vul-vis'mus), n. [NL., vulva , vyret, n . An obsolete spelling of virel . vysart, n. An obsolete spelling of vizor . IMG:content-1977.png:[graphic] M 1. The twenty-third letter and eighteenth consonant sign in the English alphabet. It has a double value, as consonant and as vowel. As an alphabetic character it is of very modern date, being one of the four that have sprung from the Yor added by the Greeks to the older Phenic i an alphabet, and one of the three ( U, V, W ) that have grown out of the Roman form of that character (see U). It was made (as pointed out under U ) by doubling the U -or V -sign (hence called double U ), in order to distinguish properly the semivowel sound w from the spirant vand the vowel u. It was formerly often printed as two V's, VV, vv. It began to be used in the eleventh century, and gradually crowded out the special sign for the same sound which the Anglo-Saxon alphabet had po e ed. The alphabetic sound distinctively represented by w is the labial semivowel, which stands in precisely the same relation to oo (0) in which consonantal y stands to ee (e). Each of these semivowels, if not of precisely the same mode of production with the corresponding vowel, is at any rate only very slightly different from it; w is virtually an oo which is abbreviated into a mere prefix to another vowel, a close position from which the organs by opening reach another vowel-sound; and a prolonged w is an oo. On the other hand, the semivowel w (like the semivowel y) can be only very imperfectly and indistinctly uttered after a vowel, and our win that position is but another way of writing u; it is found only in the combinations aw, ew, ow, which are equivalent to au, eu, ou; and as so used it could disappear from the language without any lo , but rather with profit. The semi, vowel sound w (including wh and qu, which is a way of writing kw: see under Q) is a not uncommon element of English utterance, being about 24 per cent. of it (a little le than the spirant v). In many languages-for example, in all those that are descended from the Latin -the semivowel w tends to pa over into the spirant v-sound, and hence the spirant value of our v, which was the representative in Latin of the w -sound. In AngloS axon a w stood and was pronounced also before r (and in a few words before 1); in such words as write, wring, the character is retained, though the sound is lost. In Anglo-Saxon, also, the w was in many words pronounced with a preceding aspiration, the relic of an original prefixed guttural mute, and it was consistently and properly so written: for example, hwit, white, hwær, where. In modern English the has by an odd and unaccountable caprice had its place in writing changed to after the w (perhaps by analogy with the similar blunder shown in writing rh in Latin for the Greek aspirated r, or hr, or by a blind conformity with the frequent initial digraphs th, ph, sh). There is dispute among phonctists at present as to the true character of this wh -sound, some maintaining that it is not aw with preceding aspiration, but a surd counterpart to w, standing related to it as, for example, an ƒ to a v, or an s to a z. This view rests in part, probably, on some actual difference of utterance, but in part also on unfamiliarity with the real wh; for in England the aspiration is now very generally omitted, and when, white, etc., are pronounced as wen, wite, etc. It admits of no question, however, that when, for example, is related to. hoo-en precisely as wen to oo-en, the difference in each case consisting in an aspiration prefixed respectively to the vowel and semivowel-just as, correspondingly, hew (which shows an h prefixed to the English "long u" sound, or yoo) is related to he - oo precisely as ewe to e-00: theh being here, as everywhere else (see H ), uttered through the same position of the mouth-organs as the following sound. W is sometimes silent, not only as initial before r (see above), but elsewhere, as in two, sword, answer, etc. It is never doubled. The a imilating influence of a w (whether written with w or with u in the combination qu ) in a following a-sound is very marked, giving the a in many words the short sound of o (o), as in what, squad, etc., or the broad sound of a (a), as in war, quart, thwart, etc. 2. As a symbol: (a) In chem., the symbol for tungsten (NL. wolframium ). (b) [l.c.] In hy drodynamics, the symbol for the component of the velocity parallel to the axis of Z.-3. As an abbreviation: ( a ) of west; ( b ) of western; (c) of William; (d) of Wednesday; (e) of Welsh; (f) of warden; m; (g) [l. c.] of week. wa' (wä or wâ), n. A Scotch form of walll. waat, n. An obsolete form of woe.