A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
To be short (of or for something).
To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
Made of velvet.
The drug dextromethorphan.
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
Money acquired by gambling.
Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
A female chinchilla; a sow.
To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
to retract.
To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
To soften; to mitigate.