Vinatico. A coarse mahogany wood, obtained in Madeira, from Persea Indica.
Vinculum, R. (vincio, to bind). A general term to denote anything that binds, fastens, or clasps; such as a string, lace, ribbon, chaplet, or garland, strap, dog or slave-collar, manacles, fetters. (See Amentum, Collare, Compes, Corona, &c.)
Vindiciæ (vindico, to claim). A fragment of any property under dispute which, under the old Roman jurisprudence, the plaintiff was compelled to bring before the court and to place beneath his foot while stating his case; if the property in question were a flock, the vindiciæ consisted of a tuft of wool; if an estate or field, of a clod or turf taken from the said estate or field.
Vindicta, R. (vindico, to deliver). The rod with which the prætor or his lictor struck a slave on the head in the ceremony of manumissio, by way of declaration that he was free. (See Festuca.)
Vine. (See Vitis.)
Vine Black. Ink used in copper-plate printing; prepared from the charred husks of grapes and the residue of the vine press.
Vinea, R. (lit. a bower of vine-branches). The vineæ, also called under the emperors causiæ, were a kind of mantelets or sheds employed in siege operations, made of light timbers covered with planks and the skins of animals.
Vinum Saccatum. (See Collum Vinarium.)
Viol. (See Fiddle.)
Viola or Alto-viola. A tenor violin; tuned an octave above the violoncello. It is larger than the ordinary violin and has four gut strings, of which the third and fourth are covered with silver-plated copper wire. Its name in the ancient “set of viols” was viola di braccio.