Webster's Dictionary 1913

838

Vernacularism

Ver‐nac″u‐lar‐ism (?), n. A vernacular idiom.

839

Vernacularization

Ver‐nac″u‐lar‐i‐za″tion (?), n. The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular. Fitzed. Hall.

840

Vernacularly

Ver‐nac″u‐lar‐ly (?), adv. In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular. Earle.

841

Vernaculous

Ver‐nac″u‐lous (?), a. [L. vernaculus. See Vernacular.] 1. Vernacular. Sir T. Browne.2. [L. vernaculi, pl., buffoons, jesters.] Scoffing; scurrilous. “Subject to the petulancy o...

842

Vernage

Ver″nage (vẽr″nā̍j), n. [It. vernaccia.] A kind of sweet wine from Italy. Chaucer.

843

Vernal

Ver″nal (–nal), a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. ἔαρ, Skr. vasanta, Icel. vār, and E. Easter, east.] 1. Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in t...

844

Vernant

Ver″nant (vẽr″nant), a. [L. vernans, p. pr. vernare to flourish, from ver spring.] Flourishing, as in spring; vernal. “Vernant flowers.” Milton.

845

Vernate

Ver″nate (?), v. i. [See Vernant.] To become young again.

846

Vernation

Ver‐na″tion (?), n. [F. vernation: cf. L. vernatio the sloughing of the skin of snakes.] (Bot.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coil...

847

Verner's law

Ver″ner's law (?). (Philol.) A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original pos...

848

Vernicle

Ver″ni‐cle (?), n. A Veronica. See Veronica, 1. Piers Plowman.A vernicle had he sowed upon his cap. Chaucer.

849

Vernicose

Ver″ni‐cose′ (?), a. [See Varnish.] (Bot.) Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.

850

Vernier

Ver″ni‐er (?), n. [So named after the inventor, Pierre Vernier.] A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scal...

851

Vernile

Ver″nile (?), a. [L. vernilis servile. See Vernacular.] Suiting a slave; servile; obsequious.The example... of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.

852

Vernility

Ver‐nil″i‐ty (?), n. [L. vernilitas.] Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility. Bailey.

853

Vernine

Ver″nine (?), n. [Vernal + -ine.] (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

854

Vernish

Ver″nish (?), n. & v. Varnish. Chaucer.

855

Vernonin

Ver″no‐nin (?), n.(Chem.) A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.

856

Veronese

‖Ver′o‐nese″ (?), a. [It. Veronese.] Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy. — n. sing. & pl. A native of Verona; collectively, the people of Verona.

857

Veronica

Ve‐ron″i‐ca (?), n. [LL.; — so called from Veronica, a woman who, according to an old legend, as Christ was carrying the cross, wiped his face with a cloth, which received an im...

858

Verray

Ver″ray (?), a. Very; true. Chaucer.

859

Verrayment

Ver″ray‐ment (?), adv. [OF. veraiement. See Very.] Verily; truly. Chaucer.

860

Verrel

Ver″rel (?), n. See Ferrule.

861

Verriulate

Ver‐ri″u‐late (?), a. [L. verriculum a net, seine.] (Zoöl.) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.

862

Verruca

‖Ver‐ru″ca (?), n.; pl. Verrucæ (#). [L. Cf. Verrugas.] 1. (Med.) A wart.2. (Zoöl.) A wartlike elevation or roughness.

863

Verruciform

Ver‐ru″ci‐form (?), a. [L. verruca wart + -form.] Shaped like a wart or warts.

864

Verrucose

Ver″ru‐cose′ (?), a. [L. verrucosus, fr. verruca a wart.] Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.