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dary; term, conterminous, determined, exterminate, terminal. TERRA, (Gr. xeros, dry,) the earth,

the land; tellus, the globe as a whole; terrace, -rene, -restrial, -rier, -ritory, -raqueous; inter-, medi-, subterranean; telluric, tellurian, an astronomical instru

ment.

TESTIS, a witness; test, -tator, -tament; intestate; ab-, de-, con-, ob-, protest; protestant, testimony.

TEXERE, to weave; textus, woven; Fr. tisser, part. tissu; text, -ture, tile, con-, pretext, intertexture; tissue, (poet. intertissued ;) "toga praetexta," the robe of the Roman youth. TINGERE, (Gr. tengein,) to dip;

tint; tinct, tincture, in heraldry, tinge, taint, mezzotinto, attaint, attainder; dye; tingere is evidently associated with tangere, to touch.

TONARE, (Gr. tonos, a sound), to sound, thunder; part. tonitus; tone, tune, stun, astonish, (obs. astonie,) detonate; through Gr. monotony, barytone.

TORQUERE, to turn, twist; tortus,

twisted; torsion, torment, torture, tortuous; con-, dis-, ex-, retort, -tion; turn; through Fr. tour, contour, detour. TORRERE, to parch; tostus, parch

ed; torrid, torrent, toast. TOTUS, whole; total, factotum ; through Fr. surtout. TRAHERE, to draw; tractus, drawn;

Fr. traire; trait; drag, -gle; trace, track, tract, -able, -tion, -tile; trail, train, trait, portrait, portray; treason, traitor, betray; treat, ise; en-, mal-, retreat; abs-, at-, con-, de-, dis-, ex-, pro-, re-, subtract, -tion, -tive, -tible; subtrahend; drain; retrieve. TREMERE, to shake; tremble, tremor, tremulous, tremendous. TRES, (Gr. treis,) three; tribus, a division of three, a tribe; tribuo, to give among a tribe; treble, trefoil; trevet, triad; triandria,

-angle, -dent, -ennial, form, -lateral, -llion, -lobate, -nal, -nity, -pedal, reme, (a Roman merchant ship,)-sect, -umvir,- virate, -une; trifle, trivial, see Via; trine, triple, triplicity, (" trine triplicities," of the angels, Spenser ;) ternary; tertiary; tribe, une, -unal, -unitian; tribute, -tary; at-, con-, dis,- retribute, -tion, -tive, -tary. TRIUMPHUS, (Gr. thriambos,

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Bacchic hymn,)triumph, -al, -ant. TRUDERE, to thrust; de-, ex-, in-, ob-, protrude; trusion, trusive; abstruse.

TUERI, to see, to watch; tutus,

safe; tutor, tuition, tutelage, tutelar or -ary, intuitive, -tion. TURBARE, (Gr. thorubos, a confusion,) to disturb; turbid, -bulent, perturb, -ation, -imperturbable, turmoil, trouble.

ULTIMUS, from ultra, beyond; ultimate, ultimatum, a final proposal, ulterior, penult, antipenulti-mate; through Fr. out, outre, outrance, (utterance, Shaksp.) utter.

UMBRA, a shade; umbrageous, um-` brella, umbel (of a flower), umbelliferous; sombre; umber, a dark colour; poet. umbered, Scott.

UNDA, a wave; undulate, -atory,

abound, abundance, redound, redundance; inundate.

UNUS, (Gr. (h)en,) one; unit, unite, unity, unison, unanimous, uniform, union, unique, unicorn, universe, reunite, triune; inch, the unit of measure; ounce, the unit of weight.

URERE, to burn; ustus, burnt ; urna, a vessel for holding the ashes of the dead; adust, combustion, -tible; urn; inurn, Shaksp.

URGERE, to press; urge, urgent. UTI, to use; usus, used; useful, usual; usury; usance, Shaksp.; usage, usufruct, usurp, ab-, dis-, mis-, peruse, utility, utensil.

VACARE, to be empty; vacant, -ncy; vacate, -tion; vacuum; evacuate; through Fr. avoid. VADERE, (Gr. baein,) to go; vasum, to go; e-, in-, pervade, -sion, -sive; wade, waddle. VAGUS, wandering; vague; vagary; vagrant; extravagant; vagabond, vogue, (but some derive this last from vulgus, the common people.)

VALERE, to be strong, to be worth; value, valour, -lorous, liant;

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your valiance," the epithet of a knight; vails, wages; valid, invalid; valediction; avail, countervail, prevail; convalescent; equivalent; valetudinary; well, weal, commonwealth; wealsman, i.e., citizen, Shaksp., Coriolanus. VALLUM, a stake, a post; hence a rampart; wall; circum-, contravallation; palisade; pale, an inclosure, applied in Irish history to the district chiefly settled by the English; Fr. faubourg; Ger. pfalburg, i.e. paleburg, the part of a town beyond the palisades, Hallam's Middle Ages; bulwark, in Fr. boulevard, may possibly have the same origin; interval, properly the space between the rampart of a Roman camp and the line of tents. VANUS, empty; vain, vanish, evanish; evanescent. VAPOR, steam; vaporize, evapo

rate, vapid; to vapour, to boast. VARIUS, manifold, changing; vary, -rious, -riance, -riable; variegate; variorum; prevaricate. VAS, a vessel; vase; vascular; extravasate.

VASTUS, desolate, huge, wide; vast, waste, devastate. VEGERE, to grow; vigere, to be strong; vis, strength, (Gr. bia.) (All these words seem cognate with Lat. vivere, to live, and Gr. bios, life.) See Vir. Vegetate; vigour, invigorate; violent; virus, poison as that of the small-pox; virulent.

VEHERE, (Gr. ochein,) to carry;

vectus, carried; weigh, vehicle, -hement, inveigh, invective; radius-vector, in conic sections; conveyance; convex; vex, -ation; veterinary, lit. pertaining to beasts of carriage or burden. VELLE, to wish; volo, I wish; voluptas, pleasure; will, would; bene-, malevolent; volunteer, -tary; volition; (adopted Latin phrase,volens nolens, willy nilly;) voluptuous.

VELLERE, (Gr. tillein,) to pull; vulsus, pulled; vellus, a fleece, a skin; convulse, -sion; revulsion, -sive; vellum, (parchment.) VELUM, a covering; reveal, -vela

tion; de-, envelope; veil or vain. VENA, a vein; venous, intervein, venesection.

VENIRE, to come; ventum, to come, (Fr. venir, part. venu;) advent, -ture, (aventure, Chaucer ;) avenue; circum-, in-, prevent, -tion, -tive; contra-, con-, inter-, supervene; adventitious; convenience; convent; conventicle, (in Scottish history a covenanting assembly for worship;) covenant; eventuate; inventory, (a list of things found;) peradventure; revenue; venture, (a mercantile speculation.)

VERERI, to fear; revere, -rence, rend.

VERGERE, to lie towards; verge,

converge, -gence, diverge. VERTERE, to turn; versus, turned; verse, -sicle, -sion; vertex, -tigo; vortex, a whirlpool; veer; ad-, animad-, a-, con-, contra-, di-, e-, intro-, per-, retro-, re-, subvert; nouns in -sion; adj. -sive, -sible, and -tible; adverse, -sary, advertise, anniversary, converse, -sant, divers, diverse, -sity, divorce, inverse, malversation, perverse, reverse, -sal, traverse, universe, tergiversation, versatile; vertebra.

VERUS, true; very, verify, -ritable; verisimilar, -risimilitude; veracious, -racity; verdict; aver. VESICA, a bladder; vesicle, -sicular.

VESTIGIUM, a step; vestige, investigate. (See Stinguĕre.) VESTIS, a garment; vest, -ture; divest; investiture; vestry, vestibule, robing places. VIA, (possibly from ire, to go,) a way; dubius, (lit. two-wayed,) doubtful; viaduct; viaticum, (the Roman Catholic death sacrament; lit. provision for a journey, derived from the custom of Pagan nations providing the dead with what they conceived necessaries for their passage to the next world;) deviate; pervious; previous; obvious, obviate, (to set a clear way before;) trivial, trifle, (said to be derived from the insignificance of objects met where three roads unite ;) invoice, (a bill of goods despatched) envoy, convoy, voyage; dubious, dubiety. VICIS, (genitive case) of change, alternation; vicegerent; vicepresident; vicissitude. VICUS, (Gr. oikos, a house,) a village; dim. villa, a countryhouse; vicinus, near; vicinity, vicinage, villain, i.e., villanus, a feudal agricultural serf; it derives its bad sense from the same principle as churl, boor, ragabond, wretch; villainage; bailif may possibly be connected with rillicus, a farm steward. Oikos gives economy; diocese, parish, parochial, œcumenical, perioci, antoci. VIDERE, (Gr. eidein,) to see; visus, seen; Fr. voir, to see; vû, seen; visage, vizard, vis-a-vis, vision, -sible, -sit, -sor, -sual; vista, vidette, a reconnoitring party; viz., i.e., videlicet, a notice of reference; view; survey; purvey; envy, invidious, evident, provide, -ence, -ent, -ential, prudent, -ence, -ential, provision, -al, revise, supervise; devise (?) perhaps from dividere; advise, Low Lat. advisare, thought to be the Latinized form of Ger. wisen, to correct; cognate with Ang.-Sax. wisian, to instruct.

VINCERE, to conquer, victus, conquered; (Fr. vaincre; vaincu,) con-, evince, -viction; -vincible; con-, evict; province, (lit. a conquered territory ;) victor; Victoria, (a female name.) VINCIRE, to bind, allied to vincere ; vimen, a twig, a with; victim, a bound sacrifice; Viminal, (the twig hill of Rome.) VINDEX, (vis-dicare,) a maintainer, a punisher; vindicate, -tor, -tion; vindictive; through Fr. vengeful, vengeance; avenge, revenge.

VINUM, (Gr. oinos,) wine, vine; vineyard, vinous, vinegar; vintage, vintner, vindemial; forms of this word are found in all the Indo-European tongues.

VIR, (connected with vis, strength,) a man; virtus, strength, chiefly moral vigour; virile, virago; duum-, trium-, quinque-, decem-, quindecemviri, (in Roman history, colleges of commissioners for various political or religious purposes;) virtue, -ual, uous; through It. and Fr. vertu-, oso. VIRERE, to be green; ver, spring, connected apparently with vegere, and vis, strength; verdure, vernal, -nant, verdurous, Milton; verdurer, a feudal forest officer; verdigris; verditer, a colour; virgin; viridity; virginals, a musical instrument; verger, (through virga a green rod, a wand;) an inferior church and law servitor, whose symbol of office is a rod.

VITIUM, a fault; vice; vitiate; vituperate.

VITRUM, glass; vitrify; vitriol, (transparent sulphuric acid.) VIVERE, (Gr. bios, life,) to live; victum, to live; vita, life; convivial; revive; revivify; survive; vivacious, -city; pervicacious; viand; victual; vital; vivid; viviparous.

VoCARE, to call; vocatus, called; vox, the voice; Fr. voix ; advocate, -acy; con-, in-, pro-, re-,

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ABRIDGED GREEK VOCABULARY.

voke, -vocation, -cative, -cable; quivocal; vocal, -ic; vowel ; vociferate. VOLARE, to fly; velox, swift; volatile, -tilize; volant, (in heraldry;) volley; (fowl; through Ger. vogel;) velocity. VOLVERE, (Gr. eilein,) to roll; volutus, rolled; circum-, con-, de-, e-, inter-, in-, re-, volve, -volution, convolvulus; revolt; volt, (in fencing; demivolte, Shaksp.; vault, an arch; to leap; volute, (a spiral ornament of an Ionic

pillar;) volume, (termed from
the rolled manuscript parch-
ments before the invention of
printing; see Templum ;) vol-
uble ;
perhaps from volvere
comes ralcae, turning doors;
hence valve, bivalve, multivalve,
&c.

VOVERE, to vow, wish; votus, vowed; vow, avow; avouch; vouch; devote; devout; vote; votary; votive.

VULGUS, the populace; divulge, promulgate, vulgar; vogue (?).

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