Chapter Voider to Voltaplast of V by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Vole
(Vole) n. [F.] A deal at cards that draws all the tricks. Swift.

Vole
(Vole), v. i. (Card Playing) To win all the tricks by a vole. Pope.

Vole
(Vole), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinæ. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.

The water vole, or water rat, of Europe (Arvicola amphibius) is a common large aquatic species. The short-tailed field vole (A. agrestis) of Northern and Central Europe, and Asia, the Southern field vole and the Siberian root vole (A. œconomus), are important European species. The common species of the Eastern United States (A. riparius) (called also meadow mouse) and the prairie mouse (A. austerus) are abundant, and often injurious to vegetation. Other species are found in Canada.

Volery
(Vol"er*y) n. [F. volerie a flying, volière a large bird cage, fr. voler to fly, L. volare. See Volatile.]

1. A flight of birds. [R.] Locke.

2. A large bird cage; an aviary.

Volge
(Volge) n. [L. vulgus.] The common sort of people; the crowd; the mob. [Obs.] Fuller.

Volitable
(Vol"i*ta*ble) a. Volatilizable. [Obs.]

Volitation
(Vol`i*ta"tion) n. [L. volitare, volitatum, to fly to and fro, v. freq. from volare to fly.] The act of flying; flight. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Volitient
(Vo*li"tient) a. [See Volition.] Exercising the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will. "What I do, I do volitient, not obedient." Mrs. Browning.

Volition
(Vo*li"tion) n. [F., fr. L. volo I will, velle to will, be willing. See Voluntary.]

1. The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.

Volition is the actual exercise of the power the mind has to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it.

Locke.

Volition is an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action.

Locke.

2. The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.

3. The power of willing or determining; will.

Syn. — Will; choice; preference; determination; purpose. — Volition, Choice. Choice is the familiar, and volition the scientific, term for the same state of the will; viz., an "elective preference." When we have "made up our minds" (as we say) to a thing, i. e., have a settled state of choice respecting it, that state is called an immanent volition; when we put forth any particular act of choice, that act is called an emanent, or executive, or imperative, volition. When an immanent, or settled state of, choice, is one which controls or governs a series of actions, we call that state a predominant volition; while we give the name of subordinate volitions to those particular acts of choice which carry into effect the object sought for by the governing or "predominant volition." See Will.

Volitional
(Vo*li"tion*al) a. Belonging or relating to volition. "The volitional impulse." Bacon.

Volitive
(Vol"i*tive) a. [See Volition.]