the Teutones, Saxons, Britons, &c. But till it is not used by the French, Italians, Spaniards, or Portuguese, except in proper names, and other terms borrowed from languages in which it is originally used, and even then it is founded like the single v. This letter is of an ambiguous nature; being a consonant at the beginning of words, and a vowel at the end. It may stand before all the vowels except u; as water, wedge, winter, wonder; it may also follow the vowels a, e, o, and unites with them into a kind of double vowel, or diphthong; as in saw, few, cow, &c. It also goes before r, and follows s and th; as in wrath, swear, thwart: it goes before h also, though in reality it is founded after it; as in when, what, &c. In some words it is obscure, as in shadow, widow, &c.a river of Hungary, which rises in the Carpathian mountains, and falls into the Danube opposite to the island of Schat.