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V AB

V AC IT or u, the 20th letter and 5th vowel of VACANCY. s. (from vacant.) 1. Einpty

U , our alphabet, is formed in the voice space; vacuity (Shaks.). 2. Chasm ; space by a round configuration of the lips, and a unfilled (Watts). 3. State of a post or emgreater extrusion of the under one than in ployment when it is unsupplied (Ayliffe). 4. forming the letter o, and the tongue is also Tiine of leisure ; relaxation; intermission; more cannulated. The sound is short in curst, time unengaged (Watts). 5. Listlessness; sust, tun, tub; but is lengthened by a final e, emptiness of thought (Wotton). as in tune, tube, &c. In some words it is ra- VA'CANT. a. (vucant, Fr. vacans, Lat.) ther acuie than long; as in brute, fute, lute, 1. Empty ; unfilled ; void (Boyle). 2. Free; &c. It is mostly long in polysyllables; as in unencumbered; uncrowded (More). 3. Not union, curious, &c. but in some words it is filled by an incumbent, or possessor (Swift). obscure, as in nature, venture, &c. This let. 4. Being at leisure ; disengaged (Clarendon). ter in the form of V, or v, is properly a con- 5. Thoughtless; empty of thought; not busy. sonant, and as such is placed before all the T. VACATE. v. n. (vaco, Latin.) 1. To vowels; as in vacant, venal, vibrale, &c. annul; to make void ; to make of no authority Though the letters v and u had always two (Nelson). 2. To make vacant; to quit possounds, they had only the form v till the be- session of. 3. To defeat; to put an end to ginning of the fourth century, when the other (Dryden). form was introduced, the inconvenience of ex- VACATION. s. (vacatio, Latin.) 1. Inpressiog two different sounds by the same terinission of juridical proces dings, or any other letter having been observed long before. In stated employments; recess of courts or senates numerals V stands for five; and with a dash (Cowell). 2. Leisure; freedom from trouble added at top, thus V, it signifies 5000. In or perplexity (Hammond). abbreviations, amongst the Romans, V. A. VA CARY. s. (vucca, Latin.) A cowstood for veterani assignati; V. B. viro lone; house; a cow.pasture (Bailey). V.B.Aviri boni arbitralu; V. B. F. vir lonæ VACCINATION, in medicine, the process fidei: V. C. vir consularis; V. C. C. F. vale of inoculating a person with the virus of the disconjur charissime, feliciter ; V. D. D. vuto ease, called vaccina, or cow-pox, in order to dedicatur; V. G. verbi gratia ; Vir. Ve. virgo render him incapable of being infected by the restalis ; VL. videlicet ; V. N. quinto nona- small-pox; thus employing a milder disease as