Viking: Definition and part of speech

Viking

n. One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

a. Of or pertaining to the vicu/a; characterizing the vicu/a; — said of the wool of that animal, used in felting hats, and for other purposes.

n. The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.

v. t. To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
n. A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
n. 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.

n. A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; — usually written 24mo, or 24?.
a. Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.

v. i. A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
v. i. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
v. i. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
v. i. Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
v. i. Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.