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[Suggested by volt2: see voltaic.] In elect., a name proposed for the unit of self induction, equal to the thousandth of a secohm. See secohm . vocal nus of leguminous plants, of the tribe Phaseoleæ. It is distinguished from the closely related genus Vigna by a one-seeded roundish legume, which ripens beneath the ground. The only species, V. subterrane a, is a native of the tropics, perhaps of Africa. It is a creeping herb with long-stalked leaves of three pinnate leaflets, and short axillary few-flowered peduncles recurved after flowering. The flowers are of two kinds-one bisexual, small, and pale; the other fertile and apetalous, lengthening, and pushing the young pod into the earth, in which it ripens like a peanut. It is cultivated from Bambarra and Guinea to Natal in Africa, and is now naturalized in Brazil and Surinam. Both pods and seeds are edible; they are known as the Bambarra ground - nut, earth - pea, underground bean, or Madagascar peanut, and are exported into India under the name of Mozambique grain. See gob be, the name in Surinam. voc. An abbreviation of vocative. vocable (võ'ka-bl), n. [ letters. We will next endeavour to understand that vocable or term tyrannus (that is, a tyrant or an evil king) cast upon Richard. Sir G. Buck , Hist. Rich. III., v. 569. A word or two may be spared to the formidable-looking vocable Concio iacosachè, which so excited Alfieri's bile. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), ii. 68, note. vocabulary (vō-kabū-lā-ri), n.; pl. vocabula ries (-riz). [F. vocabulaire = Sp. Pg. vocabula rio = It. vocabolario = G. vocabularium , vocabularium , neut., ML. NL. vocabular i us (se. liber ), a list of words, a vocabulary, to cabulum , an appellation, name, ML. word: see vocable .] 1. A list or collection of the words of a language, a dialect, a single work or author, a nomenclature, or the like, arranged usually in alphabetical order and briefly defined and explained; a glo ary; a word-book; a dictionary or lexicon: as, a vocabulary of Anglo-Indian words; a vocabulary of technical terms; a го cabulary of Virgil. I should long ere this have sent you a Transcript of the Saxon Vocabularie you had once of mee. W. Boswell (Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 152). A concise Vocabulary of the First Six Books of Homer's Iliad. Amer. Jour. Philol . , X. 263. 2. The words of a language; the sum or stock of words employed in a language, or by a particular person; range of language. His vocabulary seems to have been no larger than was nece ary for the transaction of busine . Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xi. P. From whence are those casual winds called flaws? T. In the Cornish vocabulary that term signifies to cut. Theoph. Botanist a , On Cornwall, p. 5. ( Nares , I. 313). Ingenious men have tried to show that in the present English vocabulary there are more Romance words than Teutonic. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 163. The orator treads in a beaten round; language is ready-shaped to his purpose; he speaks out of a cut and dry vocabulary . R. L. Stevens on , Virgin i bus Puerisque, iv. =Syn. 1. Vocabulary , Dictionary , Glo ary , Lexicon , Nomenclature. A vocabulary , in the present use, is a list of words occurring in a specific work or author, generally arranged alphabetically, concisely defined, and appended to the text; whereas we generally apply the term diction ary to a word-book of all the words in a language or in department of art or science, without reference to any particular work: thus, we speak of a vocabulary to Casar, but of a dictionary of the Latin language, or of architecture, chemistry, etc. An exception to this may be where the words of an author are so fully treated, by derivation, illustration, etc., as to seem to amount to more than a vocabulary: as, a Homeric dictionary. A glo ary is yet more restricted than a vocabulary, being a list and explanation of such terms in a work or author as are peculiar, as by being technical, dialectal, or antiquated: as, a glos sary to Chaucer, Burns, etc.; a glo ary of terms of art, philosophy, etc. Lexicon was originally and is often still confined to dictionaries of the Greek or Hebrew tongues, but it is also freely applied to a dictionary of any dead or merely foreign language: as, a German-English lexicon. A nomenclature is a complete list of the names or technical terms belonging to any one division or subdivision of science. 2. Idiom, Diction, etc. See language. vocabulist (voō-kab'u-list), n. [ The lernar can,... with the frenche vocabulyst ,.. understande any authour that writeth in the sayd tong, by his owne study. Palsgrave, p. 151. vocal (võ'kal), a. and n. [ oral. Forth came the human pair, And join'd their vocal worship to the quire. Milton , P. L., ix. 198. J. Baille (1871), quoted in Pre scott's Elect. Invent., p. 47. A tin pipe ascends through the ceiling, and forms a me- dium of vocal communication with other parts of the edi- fice. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, Int., p. 7. 2. Having a voice; endowed, or as if endowed, with a voice; po e ed of utterance or audible expre ion. The stream, the wood, the gale, Is vocal with the plaintive wail. The roving bee proclaims aloud Her flight by vocal wings. Words worth, Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase. The tide flows down, the wave again Is vocal in its wooded walls. IMG:content-1921.png:[blocks in formation] song: as, the deceptive vocalizations of a ven- triloquist. Knowing what one discontented woman can do in the way of vocalization , it is po ible to imagine the clamor multiplied by hundreds. The Century, XXXVII. 585. 2. The formation and utterance of vowel sounds. Vocalization (vowelizing) is the expre ion of an emo- Alien, and Neurol . (trans.), VIII. 7. vocalize (võ'kal-iz), v .; pret. and pp. vocalized , ppr. vocalizing . [F. vocaliser = Sp. vocal izar = It. vocalizzare ; as vocal + -ize. I. trans. It is one thing to breath, or give impulse to breath alone, and another thing to vocalize that breath, i. e., in its pa age through the larynx to give it the sound of hu- mane voyce. Holder , Elem. of Speech, p. 30. 2. To utter with voice and not merely with breath; make sonant: as, f vocalized is equiv- alent to v.-3. To write with vowel points; insert the vowels in, as in the writing of the Semitic languages. The question "Should Turkish poetry be vocalized ?" is answered in the affirmative by R. Dvorak. Arabic books, especially Arabic poetry, are vocalized in the East as well as in the West. Turkish books to some extent, and this should be done throughout. D. advocates the use of Arabic vowel-signs, which would prove a great help to the student. The young lady who was still strolling along in front of them, softly vocalizing . H. James, Jr., Daisy Miller, i. 45. Also spelled vocalise . vocally (võ'kal-i), adv . 1. In a vocal manner; with voice.-2. In words; verbally; orally. To expre ... desires vocally . 3. In song; by means of singing: opposed to instrumentally .-4. In respect of vowels or vo- calic sounds. Syllables which are vocally of the lowest consideration. Earle, Philology of Eng. Tongue, xii. § 647. vocalne (võ'kal-nes), n. The quality of being vocal; vocality. vocation (vō-kashon), n. [F. vocation = Sp. vocacion = Pg. vocação = It. vocazione , vocare , pp. vocatus , call, vox ( voc- ), ( voc- ), voice: see voice .] A calling or designation to a particular activity, office, or duty; a summons; a call; in theol . , a call, under God's guidance, to the Christian life or some special state, service, or ministry. Follow thou thy vocation , and serve the king when he calleth thee. Latimer , 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. Heaven is his vocation , and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations. Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 114. ( Davies .) That placid flock, that pastor vociferant . Fuller , Holy and Profane State, IV. ix. 10. The golden chain of vocation , election, and justification. Where there is the perception of an ideal, we may expect to find the sense of a vocation . J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 127. 3. See nominalism . vocalist (võ'kal-ist), n . [ vocaliste ; as vocal + -ist .] A vocal musician; a singer, as opposed to an instrumental performer. She was a good vocalist ; and, even in speech, her voice commanded a great range of changes. R. L. Stevens on, Prince Otto, ii. 4. vocality (vo-kal'i-ti), n.; pl. vocalities (-tiz). [= Sp. vocal i dad , vocal it a ( t- ) s (tr. Gr. εύφω- vía ), open sound, euphony, vocal is , sounding, sonorous: see vocal .] The quality of being vocal. ( a ) The quality of being utterable or capable of being expre ed by the voice in speech or song. well as mechanical occupations. See avoca- tion, 5. Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation , Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation . Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. 116. The respective or special duty of every man, in his pro- fe ion, vocation , and place. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. If wit or wisdom be the head, if honesty be the heart, industry is the right hand of every vocation . =Syn. 2. Calling , Busine , etc. See occupation . vocational (vō-ka's hon-al), a . [ vocation + -al .] Pertaining or relating to a vocation or occupation. Sailors are a cla apart, but only in a vocational sense. Daily Telegraph , Jan. 2, 1886. ( Encyc . Dict .) vocationally (vo-kashon-al-i), adv . As re- spects a vocation, occupation, or trade. IMG:content-1922.png:[blocks in formation] =Syn. To shout, bellow, roar, bawl. II. trans. To utter with a loud voice; as- sert or proclaim clamorously; shout. Vociferated logic kills me quite; A noisy man is always in the right. His excuses were over-ruled by a great majority, and with much vociferation . Goldsmith, Clubs. Distinguished by his violent vociferation , and repeated imprecations upon the king and the conquerors. Bruce , Source of the Nile, II. 333. vociferator (vō-sif'e-ra-tor), n. One who vo- But the seamanship of those days, the strategies, the devices, the expedients, are no longer of the least value vocationally . Athenæum, No. 3266, p. 697. vocative (vok'a-tiv), a. and n. [F. vocatif ciferates; a clamorous shouter. = Sp. Pg. It. vocativo = G. vocativ , voca- tivus , of or pertaining to calling, as a noun (sc. casus ) the vocative case, vocare , pp. vocatus , call: see vocation .] I. a. Relating to the act [Rare.] of calling or addre ing by name; compella- tive: applied to the grammatical case in which a person or thing is addre ed: as, the vocative Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous In sweet vociferation, out vociferize Even sound itself. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary vociferosity Shall we give poor Buffière's testimonial in me -room dialect, in its native twanging vociferosity ? Carlyle , Mirabeau. vociferous (vō-sif'e-rus), a. [ vocifer ( ate ) + -ous.] Making an outery; clamorous; noisy: as, a vociferous partizan. get Thrice-three vocif rous heralds rose, to check the rout, and Ear to their Jove-kept governors. Chapman, Iliad, ii. 83. Flocks of vociferous geese cackled about the fields. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 161. Every mouth in the Netherlands became vociferous to denounce the hypocrisy by which a new act of condemnation had been promulgated under the name of a pardon. Motley, Dutch Republic, II. 299. vociferously (vō-sif'e-rus-li), adv. In a vociferous manner; with great noise in calling or shouting.