Vertue – Vignaud
Vertue
GEORGE, an English engraver, born in Westminster, in 1684. He enjoyed the patronage of Sir Godfrey Kneller, and became engraver to the Society of Antiquaries in 1717. His best known works include 12 portraits of poets and 10 portraits of Charles I. and his friends. He died in London, July 24, 1756.
VERTUMNUS
Vertumnus
a Roman deity who presided over crops and orchards. He is generally represented as a young man crowned with flowers, and holding in his right hand fruit, and a horn of plenty in his left. He was the husband of Pomona.
Verviers
a town of Belgium; in the province of Liège, on the Vesdre, 14 miles E. S. E. of Liège. It is celebrated for its manufacture of broadcloth, which is the staple of the town. There are also cotton, leather and other manufactures. The Germans first entered Belgium in 1914 through this city.
Pop. about 50,000.
Vestments
SACRED. The use by the priesthood of a distinctive costume in public worship formed a part not only of the Jewish, but of almost all the ancient religions. Generally speaking, in
Viareggio
an Italian town on a coast; 15 miles N. W. of Pisa. Malaon the Mediterranean rious swamps have been drained, and great pine woods shelter a health resort.
Here Shelly's body was cast ashore. Pop. about 12,500. mans, an allowance made to soldiers, and
Viaud
LOUIS MARIE JULIEN.
See LOTI, PIERRE.
Denmark, and capital of a district of
Viborg
one of the oldest cities in Jutland; stands on a small lake, 28 miles W. of Randers. Its 12th-century catheof Randers. Its 12th-century cathe- 10,000. dral was rebuilt in 1726. Pop. about Finland, on the Gulf of Finland, and at
Vicar
in English canon law, the priest of a parish, the predial tithes of which are impropriated or appropriated, that is, belong to a chapter or religious house, or to a layman who receives them and allows the vicar only the smaller tithes or a salary.
Viceroy
the governor of a kingdom or country, who rules in the name of the king or queen with regal authority as the king's or queen's substitute.
Vienne
HAUTE re-
Vienna Basin
in geology, a series of beds-the lowest Oligocene, the highest Pliocene-found in a basin-shaped hollow in the older rocks in and around Vienna. The Oligocene contains mains of Mastodon tapiroides, Rhinoc eros sansaniensis, etc., and the Pliocene, dinotherium, mastodon, rhinoceros, machairodus, hyæna, cervus, antelope, etc., with birch, alder, oak, beech, chestnut, hornbeam, liquidambar.
Vignaud
(JEAN) HENRY, an American diplomatist; born in New Orleans, Nov. 27, 1830; engaged in teaching and newspaper work till the outbreak prison at DE, a French author; born during his parents' imprisonment in the pris 1797; entered the army at the Restora-