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VAPOURGRAPH.
Orgyia, esp. 0. antiqua, the male of which flies
with a rapid quivering motion.
178a W. Curtis Br&wn-iait Moth. 6 The Phalaena
Antiqna^ or Vapourer Moth, which I have seen to thrive
on -the deadly Nightshade and poisonous Laurel. 183a T.
Brown Bk. ButterJUes ^ M. (183^) I. 49 The following
figure of the female Vapourer Moth. 1871 Kingsley At
Last viii, A crawling grub, like the female of our own
Vapourer moth. 1890 Ormerod Injur, [itsects (ed. 2) 322
The pretty and easily distinguishable caterpillar of the
Common Vapourer Moth.
ellipt, 1819 Samouelle EntomoL Compend. 418 Bomhyx
gonostigmata. The scarce Vapourer. 1861 Morris Brit.
Moths \. 77 Orgyia. antiqua, Vapourer.
Va'pourgraph. = Vaporogbaph.
1903 Sat. Rev. 11 Apr. 457/1 These '
* vapourgraphs show
the deepest stain . . where the object emitting the vapour is
in actual contact with the cloth.
Vapouring (vf'-pariij), vbi. sb. [f. Vapoub ».]
1. Emission of vapour ; evaporation, rare,
1548 Elvot, Respiratioy a breathynge, or vapourynge.
1651 French DistiiL \x\. 64 That Liquor. .may be rectified
by the vapouring away of the flegme.
2. The action of talking or acting in a high-flown
or pretentious manner.
C1630 Sanderson 5tfr;«. (i58i) IL 306 The tongue may
boast great things, and talk high. ..We call it vapouring;
and well may we so call it. 1656 Earl ^Io^M. tr. Boccaiini's
Pol. Touchstone (1674) 269 Spanish Officers, ..with their
vapouring, distaste the good servants of so great a Queen.
1706 Vanbrugh Mistake iv. 293 Take thy satin pincushion
..thou madest such a vapouring about yesterday. 1773
Johnson Lett. 25 March (1788) \. 80 Harry will be happier
now he goes to school and reads Milton. Miss will want
him for all her vapouring. k8i6 Earl Dudley Lett. 22
June {1840) 146 It is really amazing, that after all their
vapouring.. they should not have ventured to assail him.
1840 Carlyle Heroes v. (1904) 176 Consider them, with their
tumid sentimental vapouring about virtue. 1879 McCarthy
O'jjn Times IL 197 The errors of which Lord Derby had
been guilty and the preposterous vapourings of some of his
less responsible followers.
3. jig, in pi. Vain imaginations.
1873 Dixon Ttuo Queens i. vi, I. 44 These stings of con-
•cienccwere not the vapourings of an idle fancy.
VapOnring (v^-parii)),///. a. [f. as prec]
1. Acting or talking in a pretentions or highflown
manner.
1647 R. JossELiK Diary (1908) 45, 25 Troops came to
quarter with us, somewhat bold and vapouring, ctfyjo
0. Ht.vv.ooo ^Biaries (1881) II. 311 To make big of it,
as if it did constitute us righteous before god, as the
vapouring pharisee. 1691 The Bragadocio 33 'Tis that
Fierce, Vapouring, Coward, Bravado, I fancy. 1794 Man^
Hers France 29 Prussia's fame and Glory's fled, And you're
a vapouring fool. 1834 Gentl. Mag. CIV. i. 26 The bustling,
vapouring, chattering Dukeof Newcastle. 184s Thackeray
Contrib. to Punch Wks. igoo VI. 47 It is always a comfort
to read of those absurd vapouring vainglorious Frenchmen
obtaining a beating. 1864 C. Knight Passages l^ork. Lift
1. i. 57 The burly Englishman regarded the vapouring little
man with something like.. contempt.
2. Having a fantastical, pretentious, or foolishly
boastful character.
1649 tr. Boehme's Epistles To Rdr. (1886)2 The frame and
structure of our knowledge, which by our artificial reason
we should build unto ourselves upon that foundation, would
be but a vapouring notion. _ 1711 Stryi-e EccL Mem. xvii.
II. 380 They told Barnaby, in a vapouring sort, (which that
Nation was then much addicted to) how little Harm England
in their Wars was like to do them. 1795 Burke in
Ellis Orig. Lett. Scr. 11. IV. 543 We shall not. .employ a
person capable of writing such miserable, vapouring and
empty stuff. 1806 Slhr IVinter in Lond. Ill, 240 The
vapouring vanity of one struggling against opinion, and
fearing to sink m human estimation. 1859 Green Ox/.
Stud, (O.H.S.) 165 In this burst of vapouring Toryism open
persecution had at last reached its close. 1877 Owen
WellesUy*s Desp. p. xxxiii, Buonaparte's vapouring letter to
TJDpoo and gasconading demeanour in Egypt.
3. Full of vapour ; emitting or giving offa vapour.
1648 Hexham ii, Een domp-gat^ asmoakie or a vapouring
hole. s8oa Coleridcs PiccoTom. 11. i. Now the vapouring
wine Opens the heart and shuts the eyes.
4. Of the nature of vapour ; vaporous.
1811 Clark ViU. Minstr. IL 102 As vap'ring clouds by
summer's suns arc driven. 1854 S. Dobell Balder xxv. iBi
Like some great vapouring cloud Topping a cumuloua
heaven of m>-stcries.
Hence Va'ponrinffly adv,
1653 Lilbttrn Tryed ^ Cast 154 It would make a man
sinilcj to read what bee vapouringly talks. 1767 Sterne
Tr. Shaiidy ix. iii.The Corporal, .gave a slight flourish with
his stick— but not vapouringly. x89a.S'aA Rei\ 20 Aug. 209/2
[HeJ spoke rather vapouringly.. about the House of Lords.
Vapotiriah(v^*pariJ),o. [f. Vapour j^. +-i3h.]
1. Of the nature of vapour; dim through the I
presence of vapour ;
vapoury.
1647 Hkxhah I, Vaporish, dompigh, roockacktigh. 1781 !
Havley Trimuphs 7W///^ri. 287 To drive gross atoms from I
the rays of noon Or chase the halo from the vapourish moon. \
1844 Blackw. Mag. LV. 166 The conception is generally j
vague, vapourish, and metaphysical. 1887 Hall Caine Son
o/Hagar 11. viii, When Greta set out, the atmosphere was
yellow and vapourish.
2. Apt to be troubled with the vapours ; inclined
to depression or low spirits,
i!7lt^ ^^"' -^^"^'^ y*^^- (1722) I- 97 For, aa most other
old Maids, she is exceedingly vapourish and fanciful. 1740
KiCHAKDSOS Pamela II. 315 Everyone sees, that the yawning
Husband, and the vapourish Wife, are truly insupportable
to one another. 178a Sir J. E. Smith Mem. (1833) 1.
48 It made me vapourish to see so many students going
away. 1803 Anna Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 60, I see him,
45
with all his inherent good properties, a vapourish egotist,
1844 Thackeray Barry Lymion xix, Lady Lyndon, always
vapourish and nervous, .. became more agitated than ever.
t). Of the nature of, connected with, arising
from, nervous depression.
1733 Chevne Eng. Malaiiy ii. iv. § 4 (1734) 148 Some
Headachs . . may
properly enough be call'd Vapourish or
Nervous. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 288, I am
in the depth of vapourish despondency. 1703 \V. Roberts
Looker-on No. 4r (1794) II. 107 Be tender of using it in this
torpid and vapourish condition. 1835 Mrs. Carlyle Lett.
I. 22 This 'very penetrating world^—as a maid of my
mother's used to call it in vapourish moods. 1879 Miss
Eraddou Vixen 1 1 1. 85 His pretty, . . middle-aged wife, whose
languid airs and vapourish graces were likely to pall.. after
a year of married life.
3. Apt to produce vapours, rare-^.
1725 Fam. Diet. s.v. Flux^ He must forbear every thing
that IS hot and vapourish.
Hence Va-ponxlshness.
1748 Richardson Clarissa {181 1) IV. 41 You will not
wonder that the vapourishness which has laid hold of my
heart should rise to my pen. i8«o Cockburn Muir Ess.,
Pa^an or Christ. 116 There is a vapourishness about the
design of French Cathedrals and French work generally.
Va-pourized, ///. a. [f. Vapour sb. 3 b.]
= Vapoubed a. 3.
183s Macaulay in Trevelyan Life ^ Lett. (1883) I. 413 Our
masters^ run from station to station at our cost, as vapourised
ladies at home run about from spa to spa.
Vaponrless.o. Also vaporless. [f. Vapoub
si.] Destitute of, free from, vapour.
i8so B. Taylor Eldorado xxxiii. II. 99 The walls of white
rock.. stand out distinctly in the vaporless atmosphere.
i860 Maury Phys. Ceof. xi. § 645 And why should these
winds be almost vaporless? 1884 Q, Rev. April 339 The
deep purple of a vapourless sky.
Vapoury (v^-pari), a. Also 6 vaporie, 8-9
^ ^.5. vapory; 7-8vap'ry. [f. Vapour j4. + -Y.]
1. Of the nature or consistency of vapour ; composed
of, or caused by, vapour.
1598 Sylvester Dh Barlas IL i. Furies 262 The heat,
hidden in a vapoury Cloud, Striving for issue. 1598 Drayton
Heroical Ep., Ros. to Hen. II (1605) M 4, The waxen
taper. .With hisdull vapory dimnesse mocks my sight. 1608
TopsELL Serpents (1658) 748 A vapoury adherency.. which
flyeth from the strokes of hammers upon hot burning iron.
17*7-46 Thomson Summer 1724 They see the blazing
wonder rise anew. . : From his huge vapoury train perhaps to
shake Reviving moisture. 1770 Langhorne Plutarch (1851)
I I. 1030/1 The vapoury steam is diffused over the surface of
the body. 1805-6 Carv Dante, Inf. xxv. 84 One from the
wound, the other from the mouth Breathed a thick smoke,
whose vapoury columnsjoin'd. 1824 Miss Mitfobo Village
Ser. L (1863) 77 The clouds have gathered into one thick low
canopy, dark and vapoury as the smoke which overhangs
London, i860 Tyndall Glac, 1. xvi. 106 The Jungfrau..
had wrapped her vapoury veil around her. 1885 Manch.
Exam. ', hypochondriac, scrofulous, &c. all resort here.
II Va'ppa.
Nov? rare. [L,] Flat or sour wine.
Also yig.
[1601 Holland Pliny I. 424 Whereupon it getteth the
name of Vappa, and is cleane turned to bee dead or soure.]
1619 H. Burton ffaiet no Bethel ^ Rome or Trent hath
made a dead vappa of the word of God. 1631 Massinger
Believe as Vou List iv. i, Your viper wine [is].. But vappa
to the nectar of her lippc. 1666 Boyle Orig. Forms ff Quat.
202 Whether Must, Wine, spirit of Wine, Vinegar, Tartar,
and Vappa. be specifically distinct Bodies? 184a Ue
Quincev Wks. (1862) X. 217 But how that can be, when
you recollect the philosophic Vappa of XenophoD, seems
to pass the deciphering power of Cbdipus.
trans/. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Vappa,. .3. peculiar
state of the blood, when it is in a low, dispirited condition.
t Vappe. Obs. rare. [Anglicized f. prec,] a.
= prec, b, fig. A stupid person.
i6Js7 Reeve Cod's Plea 105 Wilt thou not at last be the
meer underwit, and the grand Vappe? 1660 Jer. Taylor
Ductor 11. iil rule 11 f 14 The Norvegians complain'd that
they could very seldom get any Wine into their Country,
and when it did come it was almost vinegar or vappe,
Vappin, obs. Sc. form of Wkapon.
tVa'ppouS, a. Obs.-^ [f. L. vappa: see
above.] Flat, insipid.
1673 Phil. Trans. VIII. 6021 If the boyled Must by too
violent an Effervescence cast out the Lee (by which it grows
vappous or dead).
vapnlary, a. rare-^. [See next and -aby.]
^ Vapulatoby.
VABANGIAN.
1864 Sat. Rev. 7 May 567 Who but a hoary-headed Etonian
would recur with affectionate fondness to his vapulary
memories of Dr. Keate?
Vapulate (v«-pijJkit), v. rare. [ad. L. vdpulat-,
ppl. stem of vapulare to be beaten. Cf.
obs. F. vapuler, Sp. and Pg. vapular^
1. trans. To beat or strike.
1603 Dekker & Chettle Crissill 1315, 1. .with my pon.
yard vapulating and checking his engine, downe it cut mee
a payre of very imperiall cloth ofgolde hose. 1613 Cockeram
I, Vapulate, to beat, to strike.
b. absol. To administer a flogging.
1818 J. Brown Psyche 198 If they vapulate in vain.
2. inir. To suffer vapulation or flogging.
1783 Parr Let. Wks. 1828 VII. 390 Blunders for which a
boy ought to vapulate,
Vapulation (vxpiwU'-Jan), rare. [ad. L,
*vapuldlio, n. of action f. vapulare: see prec. Cf.
Sp. vapiilacion.'\ A beating or flogging. Also
trans/.
1656 Blount G/(7jj^^n, Fa/»/a/