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voyelle 324<br />

voyelle [Fr], vowel.<br />

voyez! [Fr], see! look!: abbr. v.<br />

voyons! [Fr], let us see! come! now! now then!<br />

vraisemblable [Fr], adj. likely; probable; plausible; n. likelihood; probability;<br />

appearance of truth.<br />

vraisemblance [Fr], verisimilitude; probability.<br />

vrouw [Du], woman; housewife; madam.<br />

vuelo [Sp], flight, as of an airplane.<br />

vuelta [Sp], a turn; return; mech., revolution. —a vuelta de correo, by<br />

return mail. —<strong>and</strong>ar a vueltas, to struggle; to endeavor. —a vuelta<br />

de ojo, quickly; in a jiffy. —dar una vuelta, to take a walk or ride.<br />

—de la vuelta, brought forward. —no tiene vuelta de hoja, there<br />

are no two ways about it.<br />

vulgo [L], commonly.<br />

vulgus amicitias utilitate probat [L], the common herd values friendships<br />

for <strong>their</strong> usefulness: Ovid.<br />

vultus est index animi [L], the face is the index of the soul {or mind).

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