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Here . . . is cow's milk. Milk, a lactic or lactal substance obtained from the mammary glands of er vaccine quadrupeds.

--Burgess, Napoleon Symphony, p. 323.

VELLEITY :  noun  a state of desiring wishfully but making no effort to fulfill the desire. VELLEITARY, adj. Compare antonym CONATION

Can he have loved her for nearly a decade? It's incredible. This connoisseuse of "splendid weakness," run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope. She is frightening.

--Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, p. 149.

. . . life itself, had not been a velleity, but a genuine impulse, of which he still even could feel the sickening and desperate volition.

--Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola, p. 301.

Wignall's themes . . . occasionally exhibited perverse velleities of a fetishistic order. . . .

--Burgess, Earthly Powers, p. 20.

So that each kiss was in reality two kisses, first Watt's kiss, velleitary, anxious, and then Mrs. Gorman's, unctious† [sic] and urbane.

--Beckett, Watt, p. 140.

VELLICATION :  noun  twitches, tickling, irritation, the feeling of being "picked on." VELLICATIVE, adj. See also EUTRIPSIA. Compare FLOCCILLATE

At sight of how ready he was for her, she started to tremble. At his advance, a patent fury, a torment, of inner vellications that would not admit of delay made her encounter him instantly.

--Cozzens, By Love Possessed, p. 412.

VELUTINOUS :  adj  velvety, smooth and soft

. . . a huge mug of soft, white, sweet, milk-warm café au lait, a pleasant, mild, consoling, velutinous tonic. . . .

--Aczel, Illuminations, p. 321.

VENEREAN :  adj  having to do with Venus, with sexual desire. See also ACROAMATICAL

She had a slight venerean strabismus† and a strong straight French nose.

--Burgess, Earthly Powers, p. 64.

VERMIFUGE :  noun  something which gets rid of worms. See DIABOLIFUGE

VITULINE :  adj  referring to calves, veal. See FREMESCENT. Compare BOANTHROP, UNGULATE, VACCINE