Turmeric: The root of a plant called Curcuma longa, a native of the East-Indies, used as a yellow dye.

Twaddle: Idle, foolish talk or conversation.

Unbolted: Unsifted. Unslacked: Not loosened or deprived of cohesion. Lime, when it has been slacked, crumbles to powder from being deprived of cohesion.

Valance: The drapery or fringe hanging round the cover of a bed, couch, or other similar article.

Vascular: Relating to or full of vessels.

Venetian: A kind of carpeting, composed of a striped woolen warp on a thick woof of linen thread,

Verisimilitude: Probability, resemblance to truth.

Verbatim: Word for word.

Vice versa: The side being changed, or the question reversed, or the terms being exchanged.

Viscera, (plural of viscus:) Organs contained in the great cavities of the body, the skull, the abdomen, and the chest. Generally applied to the contents of the abdomen.