Ver"dit (?), n. Verdict. Chaucer.
Ver"di*ter (?), n. [F. vert-de-terre, literally, green of earth.]
(Chem.) (a) Verdigris. [Obs.] (b) Either one of two pigments (called
blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper
nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk,
etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the
minerals azurite and malachite.
Verditer blue, a pale greenish blue color, like that of the pigment
verditer.
Ver"di*ture (?; 135), n. [Cf. Verditer.] The faintest and palest green.
Ver"doy (?), a. [F. verdoyer to become green. See Verdant.] (Her.)
Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; — said of a border.
Ver"dure (?), n. [F., fr. L. viridis green. See Verdant.] Green;
greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in
June.
A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves,
fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea.
Motley.
Ver"dured (?), a. Covered with verdure. Poe.
Ver"dure*less (?), a. Destitute of verdure.
Ver"dur*ous (?), a. Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green
of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures. Milton.
Ver"e*cund (?), a. [L. verecundus, fr. vereri to feel awe.] Rashful;
modest. [Obs.]
Ver`e*cun"di*ous (?), a. Verecund. [Obs.] "Verecundious generosity."
Sir H. Wotton.
Ver`e*cun"di*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being verecund;
modesty. [Obs.]
||Ver`e*til"lum (?), n. [L., dim. of veretrum the private parts.]
||(Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound
||Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe
||Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple
||animal.
||
{ Ver"ga*lien, Ver"ga*loo } (?), n. [Cf. Virgouleuse.] (Bot.) See
Virgalieu.
Verge (?), n. [F. verge, L. virga; perhaps akin to E. wisp.] 1. A rod
or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried
before a dean.
2. The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants,
they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such
tenants were called tenants by the verge. [Eng.]
3. (Eng. Law) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace
court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's
household had special jurisdiction; — so called from the verge, or
staff, which the marshal bore.