Ver"dan*cy (?), n. The quality or state of being verdant.
Ver"dant (?), a. [F. verdoyant, p. pr. of verdoyer to be verdant, to
grow green, OF. verdoier, verdeier, fr. verd, vert, green, fr. L.
viridis green, fr. virere to be green: cf. OF. verdant verdant, L.
viridans, p. pr. of viridare to make green. Cf. Farthingale, Verjuice,
Vert.] 1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh;
flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass.
Milton.
2. Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a
verdant youth. [Colloq.]
Verd` an*tique" (?). [F. vert antique a kind of marble; verd, vert,
green + antique ancient: cf. It. verde antico.] (Min.) (a) A
mottled-green serpentine marble. (b) A green porphyry called oriental
verd antique.
Ver"dant*ly (?), adv. In a verdant manner.
{ Ver"der*er (?), Ver"der*or (?), } n. [F. verdier, LL. viridarius, fr.
L. viridis green.] (Eng. Forest Law) An officer who has the charge of
the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes,
view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of
trespasses. Blackstone.
Ver"dict (?), n. [OE. verdit, OF. verdit, veirdit, LL. verdictum,
veredictum; L. vere truly (fr. verus true) + dictum a saying, a word,
fr. dicere, dictum, to say. See Very, and Dictum.] 1. (Law) The answer
of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any
cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and
determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally
submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
The decision of a judge or referee, upon an issue of fact, is not
called a verdict, but a finding, or a finding of fact. Abbott.
2. Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the
verdict of the public.
These were enormities condemned by the most natural verdict of common
humanity.
South.
Two generations have since confirmed the verdict which was pronounced
on that night.
Macaulay.
Ver"di*gris (?), n. [F. vert-de-gris, apparently from verd, vert, green
+ de of + gris gray, but really a corruption of LL. viride aeris
(equivalent to L. aerugo), from L. viridis green + aes, aeris, brass.
See Verdant, and 2d Ore.] 1. (Chem.) A green poisonous substance used
as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper,
and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper
acetates.