Noah Webster
Vignette
VIGNETTE,
VIG'OR, noun [Latin from vigeo, to be brisk, to grow, to be strong; allied to vivo, vixi, to live.]
1. Active strength or force of body in animals; physical force.
The vigor of this arm was never vain.
2. Strength of mind; intellectual force; energy. We say, a man possesses vigor of mind or intellect.
3. Strength or force in vegetable motion; as, a plant grows with vigor.
4. Strength; energy; efficacy.
In the fruitful earth his beams, unactive else, their vigor find.
VIG'OR, verb transitive To invigorate. [Not in use.]