viaduct (viadukt)

[F. viaduc = Sp. Pg. viaducto, which viaduct seems to have been confused in Viaduct. Ancient Roman Aqueduct called the Pont du Gard, near Nimes, France; adapted as a viaduct for the modern highway. IMG:content-1822.png:[blocks in formation] To give me a proof of his art, he took a gla of fair water, and, by the infusion of three drops out of one of his phials , converted it into a most beautiful pale Burgundy. Add is on, Tatler, No. 131. Anaclastic vial. See anaclastic . - Leyden vial. Same as Leyden jar (which see, under jar3 ). - To pour out vials of wrath, to take vengeance; inflict judgment (Rev. xvi. 1); hence, colloquially, to become very angry; storm; rage. Wal, Mi S. doos hev cuttins-up and pourins - out o' vials, But then she hez her widder's thirds, an' all on us hez trials. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 2d ser., i. vial (vi'al), v . t .; pret. and pp. vialed , vialled , ppr. vialing , vialling . [ She with precious viall'd liquours heals. Milton , Comus, 1. 847. 2. To store up for punishment or vengeance: with reference to Rev. xvi. 1. Full on my fencele head its phial'd wrath My fate exhaust. Shenstone, Love and Honour. Also phial . vialful (vi'al-ful), n. as a vial will hold. viameter (vi-am'e-ter), n. [ via , way, + Gr. μέτρον , measure.] An instrument for measuring the distance traveled by a carriage by registering the revolutions made by a wheel connected with it; an odometer. Imp . Dict . viand (vi'and), n. [ viande , vyaunde , viande , F. viande , vivenda , also, after Rom., vivanda , (things) to be lived upon, neut. pl. gerundive of vivere , live: see vivid .] Food; victuals: used chiefly in the plural. [ As grete Wormes that men fynden there in Wodes, men maken Vyaunde Rialle, for the Kyng and for other grete Lordes. Mandeville, Travels, p. 193. Upon his board, once frugal, pre 'd a load Of viands rich, the appetite to goad. Crabbe, Works, V. 93.