vautt

and v. An obsolete form of vault2. Spenser. vautert, n. An obsolete form of vaulter . vautyt, a. A variant of vaulty . vavasor, vavasour (vav'a-sor, -sör), n. [Also vava or , valvasor ; ME. vavasour , vav as- sour , F. vava eur , va us va orum , vas- sal of va als: va us , va al; va orum , gen. pl. of va us , va al.] In feudal law , a princi- pal va al not holding immediately of the sov- ereign, but of a great lord, and having other va als holding of him; a va al of the second degree or rank. In the cla of vavasors were compre- hended châtelains (castellans), who owned castles or for tified houses, and po e ed rights of territorial justice. In England the title was rarely used, though Camden de- fines it as next to baron , while Chaucer applies it to his Frankeleyn. [Obsolete or archaic.] A Frankeleyn was in his compaignye;... Was nowher such a worthy vavasour . Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 360. Lord, liegeman, valva or , and suzerain, Ere he could choose, surrounded him. Browning, Sordello. vavasory (vav'a-so-ri), n. [ME. * vavasorie (?), vavasor. 1 Cor. xiii. 4. vawardt, n. and a. [ vaward , a reduction of vantwarde , vauntwarde , etc.: see vanward1 .] My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil. Milton , P. L., iii. 251. Though at the expense of their vaunted purity of blood. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 17. 2. To display or put forward boastfully; exhibit vaingloriously. What shape, what shield, what armes, what steed, what stedd, And what so else his person most may vaunt. Spenser, F. Q., III. ii. 17. vaunt1 (vänt or vânt), n. [ tentation from vanity; a boast; a brag. Such high vaunts of his nobility. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 50. vaunt2+ (vänt), n. [F. avant , before: see van2 .] The first part; the beginning. The vaunt and firstlings of those broils. Shak ., T. and C., Prol., 1. 27. vaunt bra cet, n. See vambrace . vauntcouriert, n. [See van- courier .] An old form of van -courier. Shak . , Lear, iii. 2. 5. vaunter (vän'tèr or vân'tér), n. [ Wele I wote, a vaunt our am I none, for certeynly I love better silence. Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 77. Alas, you know I am no vaunter , I; My scars can witne , dumb although they are, That my report is just and full of truth. Shak., Tit. And., v. 3. 113. IMG:content-1728.png:[blocks in formation] I. n. Same as vanward1. My Lord, most humbly on my knee I beg The leading of the vaward . Shak., Hen. V., iv. 3. 130. II. a. Being in the van or the front; foremost; front. My sons command the vaward post, With Brian Tunstall, stainle knight. Scott, Marmion, vi. 24.