viscountship, viscounty, viscountcy (is as 1)

[English viscount; -ship, -cy, -y.] The quality, rank, or degree of a viscount. "If a barony made him a Conservative, what would be the effect of a viscounty ?"- London Daily News . vis'-cous, a. [Lat. viscosus, from viscum = bird lime.] Glutinous, sticky, adhesive, viscid. "Full of a gro e and viscous humor."- P . Holland : Pliny , bk. xvi., ch. xxvii. viscous-fermentation, s. Chem.: A change brought about in saccharine solutions by the aid of a particular ferment, consisting of an aggregation of single cells, each containing a single bright nucleus. The product of fermentation is a gum-like ropy substance, the presence of which in a solution has the power of arresting ordinary or vinous fermentation. vis-coŭs-ne , subst. [Eng. viscous; -ne .] The quality or state of being viscous; viscidity, viscosity. vis-cum, s. [Lat. the mistletoe.] Bot.: Mistletoe; a genus of Loranthacere (q. v.). Leaves opposite, whorled, or wanting; flowers unisexual; males with the calyx obsolete, four petals, ovate, fleshy, united at the base, and bearing each a single anther, adnate with its upper surface. Fertile flowers, with a superior calyx having an obscure margin; four erect, ovate, very minute petals, and a se ile stigma. Known species believed to be about 100 ( Sir J. Hooker ); from hot and temperate climates. vis'-cus, s. [Lat.] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0541.png:[blocks in formation] *vîşê, v . t . [VISE (2), 8.] To put a visé on; to examine and indorse, as a pa port. Vish-noô, Vish'-nû, subst . [Sans., from vis =to enter, to pervade.] Brahmanism : The second person of the modern Hindu Trimurti (q.v.). When he first appears in Vedic times, he is simply the God of the Shining Firmament, the younger brother of Indra, and inferior to him in dignity. By the time that the epic poems, the Ramayana and the Mahabharat, were composed, Vishnu had made a considerable advance to his present position, the full attainment of which, however, was reserved for the period of the Puranas. One of these books is called the Vishnu Purana. He is regarded as the member of the Triad whose special function is to preserve. To do this he nine times succe ively became incarnate, and will do so once more. The first time he appeared, it was as a fish to warn a righteous king, Manu, of an approaching deluge, and save the sacred Vedas from being lost. His second appearance was as a tortoise to support the world, while the gods and godde es churned the sea; the third, as a boar, to lift up the submerged world on his tusks; the fourth, as a man-lion, to tear to pieces an impious king; the fifth, as a dwarf, to recover for the gods their su premacy lost by their neglect; the sixth, as Para sur am a, to wash away the sins of the earth by the destruction of the Kshatriya race-probably an allusion to the historic fact that when the Aryan Brahman and Kshatriya warriors had well established themselves in India, jealousies arose between them, and the Kshatriyas were vanquished, and in large measure destroyed, by the Brahmans; the seventh, was as Rama, the hero of the Ramayana; the eighth, as Krishna; the ninth, as Buddha; and the tenth, as Kalki, or the White Horse, is still to come. When it arrives, Vishnu shall appear on a white horse, with a drawn sword, wherewith he shall destroy the wicked, and thus prepare the way for a renovated world. Vishnu himself is generally represented as a dark-blue man, with four arms, the first holding a war-club, the second a conch-shell, the third a quoit-like weapon called Chakra, and the fourth a water-lily. His two most popular incarnations are as Rama and Krishna. His most enthusiastic followers are generally drawn from the middle cla es of Hindu society. His mark on their foreheads is a trident, with a yellow fork in the center, and a white one on each side. Many monastic sects worship him almost exclusively. [VAISHNAVA.]