When after the long vernal day of life.
Thomson.
And seems it hard thy vernal years Few vernal joys can show?
Keble.
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Vernal equinox (Astron.), the time when the sun crosses the equator
when proceeding northward. — Vernal grass (Bot.), a low, soft grass
(Anthoxanthum odoratum), producing in the spring narrow spikelike
panicles, and noted for the delicious fragrance which it gives to
new-mown hay; — also called sweet vernal grass. See Illust. in
Appendix. — Vernal signs (Astron.), the signs, Aries, Taurus, and
Gemini, in which the sun appears between the vernal equinox and summer
solstice.
Ver"nant (?), a. [L. vernans, p. pr. vernare to flourish, from ver
spring.] Flourishing, as in spring; vernal. [Obs.] "Vernant flowers."
Milton.