Defn: An infective sore mostly on the hands and feet, often contracted in walking on the veldt and apparently due to a specific microörganism.
VELE
Vele, n.
Defn: A veil. [Obs.] Spenser.
VELELLA
Ve*lel"la, n. Etym: [NL., dim. from L. velum a veil, a sail.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus
Velella.
Note: These creatures are brilliantly colored and float at the surface of the sea. They have an oblong, disklike body, supported by a thin chitinous plate, from which rises a thin diagonal crest which acts as a sail. The feeding and reproductive zooids hang down from the under side of the disk.
VELIFEROUS
Ve*lif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. velifer; velum a sail + ferre to bear.]
Defn: Carrying or bearing sails. [Obs.] "Veliferous chariots."
Evelyn.
VELIGER
Vel"i*ger, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. velum a veil + gerere bear.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.