Word Meanings - VILLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance. Dryden. Cowper. (more info) vicus a village: cf. It. & F. villa. See Vicinity, and cf. Vill,

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• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• VILLAGERY
  Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
• VILLANETTE
  A small villa.
• VILLANIZER
  One who villanizes.
• VILLA
  A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance. Dryden. Cowper. (more info) vicus a village: cf. It. & F. villa. See Vicinity, and cf. Vill,
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• VILLANEL
  A ballad. Cotton.
• VILLAINOUS
  1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
• VILLANY
  See VILLAINY
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• VILLATIC
  Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural. "Tame villatic fowl." Milton.
• VILLANELLE
  A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. E. W. Gosse.
• VILLANELLA
  An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.
• VILLAINY
  1. The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak. 2. Abusive, reproachful
• VILLANAGE
  The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. Milton. Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the
• VILLAGER
  An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak.
• VILLANOUS; VILLANOUSLY; VILLANOUSNESS
  See ETC
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• ALGAROVILLA
  The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree . It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.
• CONVICINITY
  Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.