VADE
to fade
VAIL
to lower
VAILING
lowering
VAINNESS
vanity
VALANCED
adorned with a valence or fringe often applied to the beard
VALIDITY
value
VANTAGE
advantage
VANTBRACE
armour for the front of the arm
VARLET
a servant, valet
VAST
A gulf
VASTIDITY
immensity
VASTLY
like a waste
VASTY
vast, waste
VAUNT
precedes
VAUNT-COURIERS
forerunners
VAWARD
the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army, the first of anything
VEGETIVES
herbs
VELURE
velvet
VELVET-GUARDS
literally velvet trimmings applied metaphorically to the citizens who wore them
VENEW
a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to repartee and sallies of wit | VENEY
a bout at fencing
VENGE
to avenge
VENTAGES
holes in a flute or flageolet
VERBAL
wordy
VERY
true, real
VIA
off with you!
VICE
to screw, the buffoon in old morality plays
VIE
to challenge, a term at cards, to play as for a wager
VIEWLESS
invisible
VILLAIN
a lowborn man
VINEWED
mouldy
VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS
a bass viol
VIRGINALLING
playing as on the virginals, a kind of a spinet
VIRTUE
the essential excellence valour
VIRTUOUS
excellent, endowed with virtues
VIZAMENT
advisement
VOLUBLE
fickle
VOLUNTARY
volunteer
VOTARIST
votary, one who has taken a vow
VULGAR
the common people
VULGARLY
publicly |
