These are the meanings of the letters VELIC when you unscramble them.
- Ceil (v. t.)
To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.
- Ceil (v. t.)
To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
- Evil (a.)
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
- Evil (a.)
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
- Evil (a.)
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
- Evil (adv.)
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
- Evil (n.)
Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
- Evil (n.)
malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
- Evil (n.)
Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
- Lice (n.)
pl. of Louse.
- Lice (pl. )
of Louse
- Live (a.)
Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.
- Live (a.)
Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.
- Live (a.)
Having life; alive; living; not dead.
- Live (a.)
Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.
- Live (a.)
Vivid; bright.
- Live (n.)
Life.
- Live (v. i.)
To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.
- Live (v. i.)
To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
- Live (v. i.)
To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
- Live (v. i.)
To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.
- Live (v. i.)
To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
- Live (v. i.)
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
- Live (v. i.)
To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.
- Live (v. i.)
To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
- Live (v. i.)
To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
- Live (v. t.)
To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
- Live (v. t.)
To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.
- Veil (n.)
A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
- Veil (n.)
A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
- Veil (n.)
A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
- Veil (n.)
Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
- Veil (n.)
Same as Velum, 3.
- Veil (n.)
Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
- Veil (n.)
The calyptra of mosses.
- Veil (n.)
To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
- Vice (n.)
A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
- Vice (n.)
A gripe or grasp.
- Vice (n.)
A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
- Vice (n.)
A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
- Vice (n.)
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- Vice (n.)
The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
- Vice (prep.)
Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
- Vice (prep.)
In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
- Vice (v. t.)
To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
- Vile (superl.)
Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
- Vile (superl.)
Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.