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_Vegetabilia_ are things that grow by having a root fixt in the earth, and having stock, branches in the aire, as hearbes, plants, and trees, &c.

_Veneris gradus_ is a mild and sweet nature.

_Verto_ is the fourth part of a pound.

_Viltrum philosophorum_ is an Alembick, but being taken absolutely is a strainer.

_Vinum correctum_ is the Alcool of Wine.

_Vinum essatum_ is Wine impregnated with the vertues of hearbs or any thing else.

_Viriditas salis_ is the green oyle of salt.

_Virgulta fossorum_ are certain rods which Miners use to discover mines withall.

_Viscaleus_ is _Misleto_.

_Viscus_ is properly pitch boiled out of the tender tops of trees.

_Viscus secundæ generationis_ is bloud dropping from salts.

_Visio_ is a supernatural apparition of spirits after a manner seen by men.

_Vitriolatum_ is Vitriall which is liquid, and never can be coagulated.

_Vitriolum Novum_ is white Vitriall.

_Vlcus æstiomenum_ is a cancerous aposteme that feeds upon the place.

_Vmbragines_ are Pigmies.

_Vmbratiles_ are astrall bodies.

_Vndæ_, or _Vndenæ_ are aiery, and earthy spirits.

_Vndosa_ are called the excrements of any Animalls.

_Vnitas Trithemii_ is the reduction of the number of Three into a unity by casting away the number of Two, and it is supernaturall, and spagiricall.

_Vniones_ are pretious pearls, or gemmes.

_Volans_, or _Vnquasi_ is Quicksilver.

_Volatile_ is in generall any light matter which is carryed upward.

_Vrina vini_ is Vineger, and sometimes it is used for the urine of a man that alwaies drinks wine.

_Vulcanii_, or _Vulcanici_ are such as alwaies worke about the fire.

_Vulcanus_ is fire.

_Vzifur_ is Cinnabar.

W.

_Warnus_ is the Vineger of Philosophers.

_Wismodt_ is Tin that is foule and immalleable, and cannot be wrought upon.

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