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VAUNTY.
Vauntward(e, variants of Vantward Obs,
Vau'llty,
pular legend that an expert Vauxhall
waiter could cover the entire garden (about eleven acres)
with slices from one ham. ,
Hence Taaxha-llian rz., Vanxlia'lllfy v. trans.
iStj SoUTHRY Lett. (1856) II. 429 There is an illumination
to-night in the Allee Vert, or Green Walk, which is to be
Vauxhallified in honour of the Emperor. 1837 Westm. Rer.
VI U. 353 Here follows a description of a very gay festival,
much more VauxhalUan than Attic,
Vav (vsev), variant of Vau. Vav conversive
see Conversive a.i 2 b.
i8j8 Gibbs Cesenius* Hebr. Lex. (1833) 54/1 A prefix..
usually called Vav conversive of the future. 1869 Liddell
& Scott Cr. Lex. s.v. iiyoMfia, But the Lat. F. holds the
same place in the alph[abet] with the Hebr. vav. 1870
J. F. Smith Ewal(CsIntrod. Hebr. Gram. 229 Iheii the calm
regular narration may come In with the Vav of sequence.
Vavasory. Also 7 valuasserie, 9 vavassory.
[ad. OF. vavas' s^orie^ va'^uvasserie, or med.L.
vavasoria^i. vavasor \ see next.] An estate held
by a vav.Tsour.
161 X CoTGR., V'avassoriey a Valuasserie; th'estate, land, or
lerritorie of a Vavassor, Mesne Lord. 1656 Harrington
Oceana (1700) 65 The Middle.Thane. .was also call'd a
Vavasor, and his Lands a Vavasory. Ibid. 67 It cannot be
imagin'd, that the Vavasorys or Freeholds in the People
amounted to any considerable proportion, i7»8 Chambers
Cycl. S.V., I'herc are base Vavasories, .and frank, or noble
Vavasories.according as it hath pleas'd the Lord to make his
Vavasour. 1839 Stonf.house Isle o/Axholme 124 He was
enfeoffed with the vavasories of Camvilte and Wyville. a 1861
SirF. VkiXi9^K\^ Norm.9f Eng. lU. 405lt is not practicable
to ascertain the others who received their rewards by Vava->sortes
or Sul>tenancits,
69
Vavasour (v3e-vasQ»i), Now arch, and Hist.
Forms :
a. 4 vauasour(e, 4, 7- vavasour (4
-cure), 5 favasour, Sc. wawasour, vauesowre,
7 vavesour; 5 vavyssoure, vauyssour, 7 vauessour,
vauassour, 9 vavassour. &, 5 vauaser,
7, 9 vavasor, vavasaor. 7. 6-7 valuasor, 6-8
-vasor, 7-8 valvasour, 9 valvassor. [a. OK.
vavas{s)ourj vavas{s)orj vavasseur (so mod.F.), or
med.L. vavassor^ valvassor, also vasvassor^ app. f,
vassi vassorum * vassals of vassals *. Cf. OProv.
vaiJjVdsory It. varvassore, -oro, barbassore^ •oro.'] A
feudal tenant ranking immediately below a baron.
a. 13.. A'. Alis. 3300 (Laud MS.), Noot ich no tale of his
squyers, Ne of vavasours, ne of Bachilers. c 1330 R. Brunnk
Chron. l^'ace (Rolls) 10996 He gaf gifies of honurs, & landes
& rentes, to vauasours. 61380 S/r Ftrumb. 430 Litel
§rowesse for me it were wit> a vauasour for to meile. 1456
iR G. Have Bk. Knthood. iii. (S.T.S.) 21 All kingis suld
have under thame dukkis and princis, ErlHs and vicountes,
and vauvassouris and barouns. a 1500 Lancelot ijQg Syne
to thi tennandis & to thi wawasouris, If [ = give] essy haknays,
palfrais, and cursouris. 1614 Seldkn Titles Honour
II. v. § 4 Now for the nature of a vavasour;, .it is plain that
he was ever beneath a baron. 1647 N. Bacon Disc, Govt,
Eng. I. xxxi. (1^39) 47 Others served on horseback, and were
called Rad- Knights, . . and these I take to be the Vavasour^
noted in the Conqueror's Laws. 1660 Sheringham King's
Supremacy Asserted {\(i%i) v. 32 There are other great men
under the King which are called Barons, and other which
arecalled Vavasours, men of great dignity. 1756 Connoisseur
No. 102 Pi Upon my accession, .to my elder brother's
estate and title of a Baronet I received a visit from Rouge
Dragon . . to congratulate me upon my new rank of a Vavasour.
iTfieBLACKSTONECff/ww/. IL65 William the conqueror
. .directing., that a certain quantity., should be paid by the
earls, barons, and vavasours respectively. 1831 Scott Cast.
Dang, vii, One or two Scottish retainers or vavasours, .sat
at the bottom of the table. 1848 Lvttom Harold 111. ii, The
..ignominious flight of the counts and vavasours of great
William the Duke. 187S Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xv. 207
It was ordered that the sheriff should be a vavasour of the
County,
^. c 1386 Chauckh Prologue 360 A schirreue hadde he
ben and a counter, Was nowher such a worthi vauaser.
1605 Camden Rem., Surnames (1623) no Baron, Knight,..
Vavasor, Squire, Castellan. 164a Bird Mag, Honour 8
There be others which are called Vavasors,.. men of great
dignity. 1656 Harrington Oceana 35 The Middle-Thane
be was also call'd a Vavasor.
was feudall, but not honorary ;
18x8 Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 194 The vassals of this
high nobility, who., were usually termed Vavassors. 1875
K. E. DiGBV Real Prop. (1876) 41 note. Similar provisions
follow as to the relief to be paid by barons, vavassors, and
villeins.
y, 1577 Habrison England w. v. (1877) i. 113 As for the
valvasors, it was a denomination applied unto all degrees of
honor under the first three. x6io Holland Camden's Brit.
696 The Kings Valvasors in times past they were. 1614
Selden Titles Hon. 289 For a Coroilarie to this Discourse
of Barons, we add.. the ancient title of Vauassours or
Valuasors. 1708 J. Chamberlavne St. Gt. Brit. 1. 111. iv.
(1710) i8d Baronets, .arc constituted in the Room of the
Ancient Valvasours, between the Barons of England, and the
Orders of Knights. 1765 BlacksTdne Comm. I. 403 The first
name of dignity, next beneath a peer, was antiently that of
vidames, vice domini^ or valvasors. 1840 Browning Sordello
1. 768 Lord, liegeman, valvassor and suzerain, Ere he could
choose, surrounded him. 1854 Milman Lat. Chr. III. 57
Heribert refused to admit the valvassors of the Church of
Milan to this privilege.
Vavengeour (obs. Sc.) : see Wavkngeb.
t Vaver, obs. southern variant of Favour j^.
1536 Co/. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 499 That he mythe the
rather bye youre grases mene obtaync the kyng his vaverys.
Vavte, obs. form of Vault sby
Vaward. Obs. exc. arch. Forms : a, 4vaward
(6 va-ward), 5-6 vawarde. 0. Sc, 5
waward(e, waywarde, 5-6 wawart. 7. 5 vau-
5-6 vawe-, 6
warde, fauward, 6-7 vauward ;
vawwarde, 6, 8 vawward. fi. 5 wowarde, 5-6
vowarde, 6-7 voward. [Reduced form oivattui'
ward Vamwabu. See VANT-/r^j:.]
1. Mil. « Vanguaed I.
a. 137^ Bakbour Bruce viii. 48 Thai saw in battale cum
arayit Ihe vaward with baner displayit. a 1400-50 Alexander
3617 pe men out of Medy he mas. .To enverom alle
J>e vaward of all )>e vile yndes. c 1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.)
3554 Abel, Jiis son bold and hard, Bare the baner in the
vaward. c\^^x Arriv. A'. Ediv. It'' (Camden) 29 His
vawarde so sore oppressyd them, with shott of arrows, that
they gave them rignt-a-sharpe shwre. a 1548 Hall Chron.,
Hen. V, 48 Beside this, he appoincted a vawarde, of the
which he made capitayne Edward duke of Yorke. 1579
piGGES Stratiot. 132 To give their attendance at the lodging
of their Chiefes of the .Armie, whether it be of the
Battaile, or Vawarde. 1610 Holland Camden^s Brit. 11.
178 The English were the first that entered with great
vigour upon the front and vaward. 1640 Habington
Edw. /y, 81 The Vaward commanded by the Duke of
Glocester, the Rere by the Lord Hastings. (1706 Phillips
(ed. Kersey), Vaward, an obsolete Word for Van-Guard.)
iBaS Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 116 He intrusted the
command of the vaward, or centre, to the Earl of Moray.
1846 ToRRENS Rem. Milit. Hist. 148 The disposition of
troops seems. .to have been a vaward, or advance, a centre,
and rear.
&• 1375 Barbour Bruce xii. 340 And thai haf tald thair
reboyttng, Thai of the waward, c 14*5 Wyntoun Cron. vi.
xix. 2261 He askyt at )k kynge Til haf {'e wawarde \.v.r.
wawart] of his batale. I5oo-ao[see bj.
y. e fauward Titus toke, ..With
six housand soudiours. C1440 Bone Florence 604 The va\\ewarde
and the myddyll soone, And the rerc-warde owte of
Rome Ihe grete oost removyd and yode. 1529 Rastkll
VEAL.
Pastyme (1811) 222 Havinge the rule of the Fienche kynges
vawewarde. 1570 Foxe A. &f (162 1) 39 The Vauward
of his armie was conducted by lohn and Andronicus. 1791
CowpER Hiad VIM. 119 Then, Diomede, unaided as he was,
Rush'd ardent to the vaw-ward.
5. 1430-40 Lydg. Bocltas ix. xxviii, In his passage to
gouerne the wowarde. 1432-50 tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 241
In the vowarde of whom were foote men with bawes. 1526
Pilgr. Per/. (W. de W. 1531) 179 Whiche is more fered of
the feendes than ony vowarde of a batayle. 15435/. Papers
Hen. Vlll (1849J IX. 393 Ihe other galees of thEmperour
appoynted for the vowarde. 1577 Holinshed Chron. II.
1593/1 Forthwith the Lord Lieutenant sent to the vowarde,
commaunding that they shoulde marche towarde the towne,
1631 Chapman Caesar 4- Pompey Plays 1873 III. 162 The
voward of the foe Is ranged already.
b. In fig. context.
X401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 57 It ar 50 that stonden blfore,
in Anticristis vauwarde. 1500-20 Dunbar Poems xlii, 58
Than to battell thai war arreyit all, And ay the wawart kepit
Thocht. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. 1. (1634) 10 Aiid
therefore he doubteth not to set their mouthes in the vaward,
as being strongly armed to subdue their madnesse. a 1586
Sidney Wrco/^/rt 1. viii. (1622)30 Her haire being laide at the
full length downe her backe, bare shew as if the voward
fayled, yet that would conquer.
c. Jig. The forefront ; the early part.
In later use only as an echo of Shakspere.
1597 Shaks. 2 Hen. /K, i. ii. 200 We that are in the
vaward of our youth. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22
The vaward or subburbes of my narration. 1827 Scott
Jrnl. I. 378 She is not in the vaward of youth. — Chron.
Canongate vi, Those who write tliemselves in the vaward
of youth. 1^4 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta Ser. 1. 208 He..
states that he and his accomplices, .are in the vaward of thetr
youth.
2. atlrib. (Cf. Vanward a.)
1808 ScoiT Marm. vi. xxiv. Myself will rule this central
host, ..My sons command the vaward post. Ibid, xxxiii,
Where's now their victor vaward wing? 1814 — Lord 0/
Isles VI. xii. To centre of the vaward'line Fitz-Louis guided
Amadine.
Vawe, ME, var. Fain a. and adv.^ Few a.
tVawegard, obs. variant of Vanguard (after
Vawarp).
a 1548 Hall Chron.^ Hen. VI, 176 b, The vawegard was
conducted by the erle of Warwytke.
Vawght, obs. form of Vault sb.^
Vawmer, -meiire, -mure, varr. Vaumuke Obs,
Vawraewarde, variant of Vamwaud Obs.
t Vaws-cornice. Obs.~^ (See quot.)
i688 YiohtAE. Armoury \\\. 102/1 Vaws-Cornice, is any small
Cornish lying under a great swelling out peece, as under a
Planchier, or swelling Friese.
Vawt(e, obs. ff. Vault sb.^ and v.^ Vawthe,
obs. f. Vault z/.i Vax, obs. Sc. f. Wax sb. and
V. Vax-cayme, obs. Sc. f. Wax-comb.
t Vay(e, obs. southern variants of Fay sb.^
1586 Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 27 By my vaye, shee looketh
lyke a foule Kite that haunteto our yarde at home. i6oa
Contention bettv. Liberality ^ Prodigality iv. ill, Come on,
suriah, chill make you vast, bum vay.
Vay, southern dial, var. Fay z/.l; obs. Sc. f.
Way. Vayage, obs. Sc, var. Voyage, Vayd,
obs. Sc. f. Wade v, Vaye, obs. Sc. f. Way sb.
Vayk, obs. Sc. f. Weak a. Vayle, obs. f. Veil
sb. Vaylliaunee, obs, f. Valiance. Vayn,
southern Mil, var. Fain a. ; obs. Sc. f. Wain ; Sc.
var. Wane sb. Obs. Vaynd, var. Waind v. Sc.
Vayndis, Sc. var. Wandish v. Vayne, obs. f.
Vein sb. Vayowre, var. Veyour Obs. Vayr,
southern ME, var. Fair a. Vayrd, obs. Sc, f.
Ward v. Vayre, southern ME. var. Fair a. \
obs. f, Vaih. Va5, southern ME. var. Faw a.
Obs, Va^t, southern ME. y^^x. fought Fight z'.
Voh(e, ME. varr. Each a. Vddir, Vder, obs.
Sc, ff. Other a. Ve, obs. Sc, f. \Szpron.j Wee a,
"fVee^t int. Naut. Obs. (See quots.)
i6s6 Capt. Smith Accid. Yttg. Seamen 30 To row a spell,
hold-water, trim the boate, vea, vca, vea, vea, vea. 16*7 —
Seaman's Gram. vi. 27 One and all, Vea, vea, vea, vea, vea,
that is they pull all strongly together.
Veadge, Veage, obs, varr. Voyage sb,
Veak, obs. Sc. form of Vake v.
Veal(v/"l),j^.i Forms: 4vel(5 veil), 5-7Tele;
5 veel (feel), 6 veele ; 5 veylle, 6 veyle {Sc,
veil, Weill) ; 6-7 veale (6 ueale, feale), 6- veal
(.SV. 7 weall, 8 veaU). [a. AF. vel, OF. vcei {vieij
vealy vaelj etc. ; mod.t. veau), vedeij = Prov.
v€del\Ji^ Cat. vcdel. It. and Pg. vitello -.—L. viteil-
uSf dim. of vitulus calf.]
1. The flesh of a calf as an article of diet.
c 1386 Chaucer Merch. T. 176 ' Bet is,' quod he, * a pyk
than a pikerell. And bet than olde boef is the tendre vel'.
( 1400 Maundev. (1830) vi. 72 Thei eten but lytille or non of
Flessche of Veel or of'^Beef. c i4ao Liber Cocorum (1862) 28
A sawce hit is For vele and venyson, iwys. C1440 I'romp.
Parv. 508/2 Veel, flesche, vitulina. 1515 Barclay Egloges
n. (1570) B iii/2 Fat porke or vele, & namely such as is
bought For easier price when they be leane & nought.
1555 Eden Decades (Arb.) 177 They also coompare the
fleshe of these tortoyses to be equall with veale in taste, 1610
Venner Via Recta iii. 51 Veale is a more odoriferous flesh
then any other. 1653H. Cogan tr./'/«(!