Vanhorne (Miss), “an old woman with black eyes, a black wig, shining false teeth, a Roman nose and a high color,” who munches aromatic seeds coated with sugar, and tries to make or mar the fortunes of everybody she knows. Lonely, crabbed and rich.--Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne (1882).
Van Ness (Aunt), sentimental, worldly old woman, who succeeds in marrying her niece, Constance Varley, to the man she does not want to accept.--Julia Constance Fletcher, Mirage (1878).
Vanoc, son of Merlin, one of the knights of the Round Table.
Young Vanoc, of the beardless face
(Fame spoke the youth of Merlin’s race),
O’erpowered, at Gyneth’s footstool bled,
His heart’s blood dyed her sandals red.
Sir W. Scott, Bridal of Triermain, ii. 25 (1813).
Vantom (Mr.). Sir John Sinclair tells us that Mr. Vantom drank in twenty-three years 36,688 bottles (i.e., 59 pipes) of wine.--Code of Health and Longevity (1807).
⁂ Between four and five bottles a day.