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<LETTER LETTER="U, V"><ENTRY><HEADWORD>Vacui&stress;ties</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><EXPLICATION>with <FIELD>Physicians</FIELD></EXPLICATION>
<TEXT>those days in which an imperfect or ill crisis of a distemper often happens, <KW>viz.</KW> the sixth, eighth tenth, twelfth, sixteenth, and eighteenth, which days are also call'd <KW>Medicinal Days</KW>, because medicines may be given on them.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADPHRASE><HEADWORD>Veal</HEADWORD> Money</HEADPHRASE><DEFINITION><EXPLICATION>in the manour of <PLACE>Bradford</PLACE> in <PLACE>Wiltshire</PLACE></EXPLICATION>
<TEXT>a yearly rent paid by the tenants to their lord, instead of a quantity of veal, antiently given in kind, called <KW>Veal-Noble-money</KW>.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Vermi&stress;vorousness</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><ETYMOLOGY>of <DERIVATION LANGUAGE="L.">vermes</DERIVATION> and <DERIVATION LANGUAGE="L.">vorax</DERIVATION>, devouring, and <DERIVATION LANGUAGE=" ">ness</DERIVATION></ETYMOLOGY>
<TEXT>a worm-devouring nature.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Vi&stress;sion</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><ETYMOLOGY>F.
<DERIVATION LANGUAGE="It. and Sp.">visione</DERIVATION>
of
<DERIVATION LANGUAGE="Latin">visio</DERIVATION></ETYMOLOGY>
<TEXT>is
a sensation in the brain, which proceeds from a due and various motion of the
optick nerves, produced in the bottom of the eye, by the rays of light coming
from any object, by which means the soul perceives the enlighten'd thing,
together with its quantity, quality, figure,
&ampersand;c.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Vi&stress;sion</HEADWORD><DEFINITION>
<TEXT>an
apparition, phantasm or ghost; also a divine revelation in a
dream.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Vision</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><EXPLICATION>in <FIELD>Opticks</FIELD></EXPLICATION>
<TEXT>the
physical cause of vision or sight seems to be that the rays of light, striking
on the bottom, of the eye, do there excite certain vibrations in the
<KW>Tunica
Retina</KW>; which vibrations being propagated, as far as the brain by the
<KW>solid
fibres of th Optick Nerves</KW>, do there cause the sense of
<KW>Seeing</KW>.</TEXT>
<TEXT>For
as dense bodies do retain their heat longest, and that in proportion to their
density, they retain it longer as they are more dense; so the vibrations of
their particles are of more durable nature than those of rarer bodies, and can
be propagated to greater distances; wherefore the solid and dense fibres of the
nerves, whose matter is of an homogeneal and uniform nature, are very proper to
transmit to the brain such motions as are impress'd on the external organs of
our senses.</TEXT>
<TEXT>For
that motion, which can preserve itself a good while in one and the same part of
any body, can also be propagated a great way from one part of it to another;
provided the body be of an homogeneal nature, and that the motion be not
reflected, refracted, interrupted, or disturbed by any inequality in that
body.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADPHRASE>Clear <HEADWORD>Vision</HEADWORD></HEADPHRASE><DEFINITION><EXPLICATION>in <FIELD>Opticks</FIELD></EXPLICATION>
<TEXT>is
caused by a great quantity of rays in the same pencil enlightening the
corresponding points of the image strongly and
vigorously.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADPHRASE>Confused <HEADWORD>Vision</HEADWORD></HEADPHRASE><DEFINITION>
<TEXT>is
caused by the pencils of rays being intermix'd one with
another.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Vitellia&stress;ni</HEADWORD><DEFINITION>
<TEXT>a kind of pocket or table-book, in which the antients  wrote down their ingenious humours, wanton fancies, and impertinencies; what we call a <KW>Trifle-Book</KW>.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Under-chamberlain</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><EXPLICATION>of the <FACE REASON="UNKNOWN">Exchequer</FACE></EXPLICATION>
<TEXT>an officer who cleaves the tallies written by the clerk, and reads the same, that the clerks and comptrollers of the pell may see that their entrance be true.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Unle&stress;ttered</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><ETYMOLOGY>of <DERIVATION LANGUAGE="L.">un</DERIVATION> and <DERIVATION LANGUAGE="L.">Litera</DERIVATION></ETYMOLOGY>
<TEXT>illiterate, not having letters on the back as books.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Voy</HEADWORD><DEFINITION>
<TEXT>the tripthong <HW>Uoy</HW> is no where found in the <KW TYPE="language">English</KW> tongue but in the word <KW>bouy</KW> and it's derivatives, in which it is pronounc'd little differing from <FACE REASON="UNKNOWN">oy</FACE>. </TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Upwhi&stress;rled</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><ETYMOLOGY>of
<DERIVATION LANGUAGE="English">up</DERIVATION>
and
<DERIVATION LANGUAGE="Saxon">hwyrfan</DERIVATION></ETYMOLOGY>
<TEXT>whirled
upwards.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Ura&stress;nia</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><EXPLICATION>in <FIELD>Painting</FIELD> &ampersand;c.</EXPLICATION>
<TEXT>is represented as a beautiful lady in an azure
robe, having her head adorned with a coronet of bright stars, and holding in
her right-hand the celestial globe, and the terrestrial in her left.
</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Urano&stress;scopist</HEADWORD><DEFINITION>
<TEXT>one
who observes the course of the heavenly bodies, an
astronomer.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Urano&stress;scopy</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><ETYMOLOGY><DERIVATION LANGUAGE="Greek" ENCODING="Greek">x
x x x</DERIVATION></ETYMOLOGY>
<TEXT>astronomy, a contemplating the heavenly
bodes.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY><HEADWORD>Urbane</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><ETYMOLOGY><DERIVATION LANGUAGE="Latin">urbanus</DERIVATION></ETYMOLOGY>
<TEXT>courteous,
civil</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY></LETTER>

