viable

[Fr., from vie (Lat. vita )=life.] Forensic Med.: A term applied to a new-born child, to expre its capability of sustaining independent existence. "Viable likely to live, [is] applied to that condition of a child at birth."- Mayne : Expository Lexicon, . vi-a-duct, subst . [Lat. via duct a =a way led (or conducted) acro ; from via =a way, and duct a , fem. sing. of duct us , pa. par. of duco =to lead, to conduct.] [WAY.] A term applied to extended constructions of arches or other artificial works to support a roadway, and thus distinguished from aqueducts, which are similar constructions to support waterways. This term has become familiar during the present century, in consequence of the great number of vast structures so designated which have been erected in various parts of the civilized world for the purpose of carrying rail. ways or roadways over valleys and districts of low levels, or above surface roads, and the general name of viaduct is now recognized as applicable to all elevated roadways for which artificial constructions of timber, iron, bricks, or stonework are established; and accordingly among the principal railway works are to be enumerated viaducts of all these materials. vi-al, *vi-all, *vi-ol, *vi-ole, *vi-oll, *vi-olle, *vy-ole, *vy-oll, subst . [O. Fr. viole , fiole , fiolle , phiole: Fr. fiole .] [PHIAL.] A small gla ve el or bottle; a phial (q. v.). "She said; and bad the vial to be brought, Where she before had brew'd the deadly draught." Dryden: Sigismonda and Guiscardo , 705. To pour out vials of wrath upon one : To take vengeance on one. (The reference is to Rev. xvi.) vi-al, v . t . [VIAL, 8.] To put in a vial or vials. ( Milton : Comus , 874.)