Vocabulary : Vagus to Vair

Vagus : Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve. ;; The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
Vail : Same as Veil. ;; Avails; profit; return; proceeds. ;; An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall. ;; Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural. ;; To let fail; to allow or cause to sink. ;; To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like. ;; To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. ;; Submission; decline; descent.
Vailer : One who vails.
Vaimure : An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure.
Vain : Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. ;; Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt. ;; Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated. ;; Showy; ostentatious. ;; Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.

Vainglorious : Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
Vainglory : Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
Vainly : In a vain manner; in vain.
Vainness : The quality or state of being vain.
Vair : The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.

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