vasosensory (vasosensori)

[L. vas, ve el, + E. sensory.] Supplying sensation to the ve els: applied to sensory nerves corresponding to the vasomotor nerves. vasquine (vas-kēn'), n. Scott, Abbot, II. 151. va al (vas'al), n. and a. [Formerly also vas sall, rarely va aile; The two earls. complained of the misrepresentations of their enemies and the oppre ion of their va als , and alleged that the cause of their flight was not dread of those enemies, but fear of God and the king. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 353. A Va al or Va eur was the holder or grantee of a feud under a prince or sovereign lord. W. K. Sullivan, Introd. to O'Curry's Anc. Irish, p. ccxxvi. 2. A subject; a dependent; a retainer; a ser vant; one who attends on or does the will of another. masters. Pa ions ought to be her [the mind's] va als, not her Raleigh. Shak., A. and C., v. 2. 29. I am his fortune's va al . I desire not to live longer than I may be thought to be what I am, and shall ever be your faithful and obedient Va al. Baker , Chronicles, p. 164. 3. A bondman; a slave. Let such vile va als , borne to base vocation, Drudge in the world, and for their living droyle, Which have no wit to live withouten toyle. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 156. Not va als to be beat, nor pretty babes To be dandled-no, but living wills. Tennyson, Prince , iv. Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vas sals of him who invents a new phrase or reapplies an old epithet. Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 326. 4. A low wretch. Obdurate va als fell exploits effecting. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 429. Great va al, under the feudal system, one who held lands directly from the sovereign without intermediary. -Rear va al, under the feudal system, a va al of the second degree - that is, one who held land from a great va al. II. a . Servile; subservient. Silver golde in price doth follow, Because from him, as Cynthia from Apollo, She takes her light, & other mettals all Are but his va aile starres. Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 41. Thy proud heart's slave and va al wretch to be. Shak., Sonnets, cxli. va al (vas'al), v. t.; pret. and pp. va aled, vas salled, ppr. va al ing, va alling. [ How am I va al'd then? Beau , and Fl . , Four Plays in One. 2. To command; rise over or above; dominate. Some proud hill, whose stately eminence Va als the fruit full vale's circumference. W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 4.