Avarice :: Avarice (n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

Avarice :: Avarice (n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

Avaricious :: Avaricious (a.) Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Divaricate :: Divaricate (v. i.) To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

Divaricate :: Divaricate (v. i.) To diverge; to be divaricate.

Divaricate :: Divaricate (v. t.) To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.

Divaricate :: Divaricate (a.) Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.

Divaricate :: Divaricate (a.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc..

Divaricated :: Divaricated (imp. & p. p.) of Divaricat.

Divaricately :: Divaricately (adv.) With divarication.

Divaricating :: Divaricating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divaricat.

Divarication :: Divarication (n.) A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

Divarication :: Divarication (n.) An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.

Divarication :: Divarication (n.) A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles..

Divaricator :: Divaricator (n.) One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. t.) To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.

Prevaricated :: Prevaricated (imp. & p. p.) of Prevaricat.

Prevaricating :: Prevaricating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevaricat.

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) One who prevaricates.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) One who betrays or abuses a trust.

Varicella :: Varicella (n.) Chicken pox.

Varices :: Varices (n. pl.) See Varix.

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