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VICTUAL , food, provisions, most commonly in the plural, " victuals." The word and its pronunciation came into English from the O. Fr. vitaille. The modern French and English spelling are due to a pedantic approximation to the Latin original
familiar
term
licence from a justice of the peace. Properly a " victualling house
VICUGItA, one of the two wild living South
presentatives of the camel-tribe, a Camelidae (see TYLOPODA). Head of Vicugna. From its relative the guanaco the vicugna (Lama vicunia) differs by its inferior stature, more slender build and shorter head, as well as by the absence of bare patches or callosities on the hind limbs. The general colour of the woolly coat is orange-red. Vicugnas live in herds on the bleak and elevated parts of the mountain range bordering the region of perpetual snow, amidst rocks and precipices, occurring in various parts of Peru, in the southern part of Ecuador , and as far south
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