A Table Alphabeticall : U/V

The U/V section of Robert Cawdrey's 1604 dictionary A Table Alphabeticall.
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vacant

voyde, or emptie

vacation

a time of ceasing from labour

vagabonde

(f) runnagate, one that will stay no where

validitie

strength, or force, or value

valour

force, courage, or strength

value

price, or estimation

vanquish

(f) overcome, prevaile, conquer, or overthrowe

vapor

moisture, ayre, hote breath, or reaking

varietie

change, or diversitie

vassall

(f) slave, client

uaste

spoiled, destroyed, emptie

vauntcourers

(f) forerunners

ubiquitie

presence of a person in all places

varnish

shine

vegetable

springing, or growing, as herbes

vehement

earnest, strong, forcible

vendible

saileable, easie, and readie to be solde

venerable

worshipfull, or reverende

veneriall venerous

fleshly, or lecherous, given to lecherie

veniall

that which may be pardoned

vente

saleable

ventricle

the stomacke which receives the meate

venuste

faire, beautifull

verbatim

word by word, perfectly

verbositie

much talking, and pratling

veritie

truth

verifie

to prove it to be true

versifie

make verses

vertigiousnes

lightnes, or a swimming of the heade

vestall

a nunne, vowing chastitie

vesture vestiment

garment, attire, or clothing

viand

(f) victailes

viceroy

(f) one set as a deputie in the Kings place

vicinitie

neighbourhoode

vicegerent

one that supplyeth the place of another

vicious

faultie, or full of vice

victorious

that hath gotten many victories

viewe

behold, marke, or consider, or looke uppon

vigilance

watchfull, dilligence

vigour

strength, courage, or force

vincible

that may be wonne, or easily overcome

vineyard

orchard of grapes

violate

to transgresse, defile, deflowre, or breake

violent

forcible, cruell, injurious

viperine

like a viper, or of a viper

virago

a woman of manly courage

virulent

full of poyson, venemous

visage

(f) face, forme, or shape

vision

sight, apparition, or a phantasie

visible

that may be seene

visitation

going to see

vitall

lively, or pertayning to life

vitiate

to corrupt, or deflower, and defile

vivificent

lively, or full of strength

vivifie

to quicken, or make alive

ulcer

bile, or botch

ulcerate

to blister, or make full of sores

umpire

judge

unconceaveable

not able to be conceived

unacessible

that cannot be come to

unanimitie

one consent of hart and mind

unction

annointing

undecent

uncomlie

undermine

grave, dig

unguent

an oyntment, or fat juyce

unitie union

peace, or concord

unitie

to make one thing of two, or moe, to couple, or joyne

unsatiable

not content

uniformitie

one and the same fashion

uniuersall

generall, common

vocall

with the voice, or pertaining to the voyce

vocation

calling, estate, or trade of life

unsatiable

that never hath enough, neither can be satisfied

volubilitie

swiftnes, or inconstancie

voluntary

of the owne accord, without being taught, or urged

voluptuous

given to pleasure

upbraid

(f) rise in ones stomach, cast in ones teeth

urbanitie

curtesie, good manners, or gentlenes

urgent

earnestly calling upon, forcing

vsurpe

(f) take unlawfull authoritie, or to use against right and reason

utensiles

(f) things necessary for our use in house-keeping, or in a trade

utilitie

profit

vlgar

common, much used

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