\Vi"a\, n. [L. See {Way}.]
A road way.
{Via Lactea} [L.] (Anat.), the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See
   {Galaxy}, 1.
{Via media} [L.] (Theol.), the middle way; -- a name applied
   to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as
   being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term
   extreme Protestantism.

\Vi"a\, prep. [L., ablative of via way. See {Way}.]
By the way of; as, to send a letter via Queenstown to London.