VADE to fade

VAIL to lower

VAILING lowering

VAINNESS vanity

VALANCED adorned with a valence or fringe; applied to the beard

VALIDITY value

VANTAGE advantage

VANTBRACE armour for the front of the arm

VARLET a servant, valet

VAST properly a waste-place, metaphorically, the dead of night A gulf

VASTIDITY immensity

VASTLY like a waste

VASTY vast, waste

VAUNT the van, that which precedes

VAUNT-COURIERS forerunners

VAWARD the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army Hence, metaphorically, the first of anything

VEGETIVES herbs

VELURE velvet

VELVET-GUARDS literally, velvet trimmings; applied metaphorically to the citizens who wore them

VENEW a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to repartee and sallies of wit

VENEY a bout at fencing

VENGE to avenge

VENTAGES holes in a flute or flageolet

VERBAL wordy

VERY true, real

VIA int. off with you!

VICE to screw

VICE the buffoon in the old morality plays

VIE to challenge; a term at cards To play as for a wager

VIEWLESS invisible

VILLAIN a lowborn man

VINEWED mouldy

VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS a bass viol

VIRGINALLING playing as on the virginals, a kind of a spinet

VIRTUE the essential excellence valour

VIRTUOUS excellent Endowed with virtues

VIZAMENT advisement

VOLUBLE fickle

VOLUNTARY volunteer

VOTARIST votary, one who has taken a vow

VULGAR the common people

VULGAR common

VULGARLY publicly