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Vignette [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. VIGNETTE ,

2. VIG'OR, noun [Latin from vigeo, to be brisk, to grow, to be strong; allied to vivo, vixi, to live.]

3. Active strength or force of body in animals; physical force.

4. The vigor of this arm was never vain.

5. Strength of mind; intellectual force; energy. We say, a man possesses vigor of mind or intellect.

6. Strength or force in vegetable motion; as, a plant grows with vigor.

7. Strength; energy; efficacy.

8. In the fruitful earth his beams, unactive else, their vigor find.

Vignette [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To invigorate. [not in use.]

Vignette [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.

2. A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.

Vignette [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.