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Definition of vet:

  • (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
  • (noun) a person who has served in the armed forces
  • (verb) work as a veterinarian;
  • (verb) provide (a person) with medical care

Sentence Examples:

When I broke it to the Little Red Doctor, the mildest thing he said to me was to ask me why I should take him for a dash-binged vet!

Such a nature could comfortably withdraw into itself; vet even here we discover in him the ancient characteristic of always being occupied with himself, but without really observing himself.

A flutter passed through the crowd below, vet not one of the Gridley H.S. boys stirred from the ranks just within the school yard gate.

Vet said that the pony would be worth a dollar or two for his hide, but wouldn't be worth anything alive.

Let us say that I'm a vet, to whom you have appealed for an opinion, regarding Nero's queer conduct.

Carrying him into the study, the Master gave first aid to the serious dislocation; then phoned for the nearest good vet.

When the vet had worked over Lad for an hour and had patched him up and had declared there was no doubt at all about his getting well, Wolf and Bruce were brought in to see the invalid.

If the dear girl wanted to keep the thing we would have it vetted, definitely named, and warned as to followers.

"You wouldn't say that if you'd seen some of the Johnnies who passed the Vet with me," he replied.

Why couldn't we have a smart 'vet' look him over on the sly before he goes to the post the next time?

Our boys, however, were "vets" now, and joined in the "reception" with a zest quite usual under such circumstances.

Tell him he must keep your mother's pony in the stables altogether, till the second vet has seen it on Monday.'

Justin was too proud to begin any discussion with the coachman before the 'vet,' who was an important person in his way.

Vet with a low, majestic sweep of tail, to continue to claim the lazy privileges of an invalid.

I know all a horse needs when well, and might probably treat a sick horse as correctly as some country vets.

Now, the trouble with the vet reporter is that by the time he gets to an age that is considered the prime of life in any other line, why, he can't half trot past anybody, and he gets scratched.

Then, without a sound or other sign of warning, he launched his mighty bulk straight at the vet's throat.

As the dog had no outward and glaring signs of disease, the vet' did not so much as touch him, but with a nod suffered him to pass.

At the lowest computation Joe was not less than fifteen, and a "vet." who wanted to buy him once pledged his professional credit that he was twenty-six at least.

"I'll bet that's the Major's wrong-headed horse, the one that the vet said was a calf in process of becoming a cow."

Now I begin to understand; the very servants did not expect to find a professional vet in any company but their own!

And we're making it easier for vets to translate their training and experience into civilian jobs.

I remember hearing my father say once when I was a kid that old Nancy, the carriage horse, was dying and that he guessed it was time to call in the vet and let him have the credit for it.

I offered him to a vet, who had a commission to buy a chestnut horse for an officer, telling him he was more suited to a younger man than myself.

Her son had brought her to inspect Sally Winslow, as a man brings a vet to the horse he fancies.

It came near to pathos to see her play the great lady and the petted kitten before the vet, who came to prescribe for her.

If the trouble persists and the dog is valuable, consult a vet; the dog, perhaps, needs constitutional treatment.

Block, the vet, when he drew my attention to two men who were contemplating the scene from an opposite doorway.