vouchsafement (vouchsafment)

[ Peculiar experiences being such vouchsafements to them, which God communicated to none but his chosen people. Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. viii. voudou, voudouism. See voo- doo, voodooism. vouge (vözh), n. Same as voulge . vough, n. Same as vug . voulge (vözh), n. [ voouge , F. vouge (ML. vang a ) , a hunting-spear, alance; origin unknown.] A weapon consisting of a blade fitted on a long handle or staff, used by the foot-soldiers of the fourteenth century and later. It varied in form, resembling some- times the fauchard, sometimes the war-scythe, sometimes the halberd, and was frequently like an ax the blade of which, with but slight pro- jection, has great length in the di- rection of the staff, and is finished at the end in a sharp point. voundt, a. An unexplained word, perhaps a mistake for round round, occurring in the follow- ing pa age: Though it were of no vounde stone, Wrought with squyre and scan til one, Rom . of the Rose , 1. 7063. Voulge of the end of the 14th century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's From "Dict. du Mobilier IMG:content-1963.png:[blocks in formation] vourert, n. A devourer. Lo! a man deuourere, ether glotoun [var. vourer or glotoun]. Wyclif, Luke vii. 34. vou oir (vö-swor'), n. [F.; cf. vou ure, the curvature of a vault, prop. vou er , volutiare , make round, volutus , a rolling, volvere , pp. volutus , roll: see volute .] In arch ., a stone in the shape of a truncated wedge, which forms part of an arch. The under sides of the vou oirs form the intrados or soffit of the arch, and the upper sides the extrados. The middle vou oir is often termed the keystone. See arch1, 2.