Verdureless (a.) Destitute of verdure.
Verdurous (a.) Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures.
Verecund (a.) Rashful; modest.
Verecundious (a.) Verecund.
Verecundity (n.) The quality or state of being verecund; modesty.
Veretillum (n.) 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.
Vergalien (n.) Alt. of Vergaloo
Vergaloo (n.) See Virgalieu.
Verge (n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
Verge (n.) 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.
Verge (n.) 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.
Verge (n.) A virgate; a yardland.
Verge (n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
Verge (n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.
Verge (n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
Verge (n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
Verge (n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
Verge (n.) The penis.
Verge (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Verged (imp. & p. p.) of Verge
Verging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Verge
Verge (v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
Verge (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
Vergeboard (n.) The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
Vergency (n.) The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
Vergency (n.) The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
Verger (n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
Verger (n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
Verger (n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
Verger (n.) A garden or orchard.
Vergette (a.) Divided by pallets, or pales; paly.
Vergette (n.) A small pale.
Veridical (a.) Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.
Verifiable (a.) Capable of being verified; confirmable.
Verfication (n.) The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.
Verfication (n.) Confirmation by evidence.
Verfication (n.) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.
Verificative (a.) Serving to verify; verifying; authenciating; confirming.
Verifier (n.) One who, or that which, verifies.
Verified (imp. & p. p.) of Verify
Verifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Verify
Verify (v. t.) To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.
Verify (v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.
Verify (v. t.) To maintain; to affirm; to support.
Veriloquent (a.) Speaking truth; truthful.
Verily (adv.) In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly.
Verine (n.) An alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.
Verisimilar (a.) Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely.
Verisimilitude (n.) The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.
Verisimility (n.) Verisimilitude.
Versimilous (a.) Verisimilar.
Veritable (a.) Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
Veritas (n.) The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.
Verities (pl. ) of Verity
Verity (n.) The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
Verity (n.) That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
Verjuice (n.) The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.
Verjuice (n.) Tartness; sourness, as of disposition.
Vermeil (n.) Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red.
Vermeil (n.) Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
Vermeil (n.) A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.
Vermeologist (n.) One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.
Vermeology (n.) A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.
Vermes (n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnaeus and his followers.
Vermes (n. pl.) A more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.
Vermetid (n.) Any species of vermetus.
Vermetus (n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
Vermicelli (n.) The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
Vermicide (n.) A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
Vermicious (a.) Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
Vermicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic.
Vermiculated (imp. & p. p.) of Vermiculate
Vermiculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vermiculate
Vermiculate (v. t.) To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.
Vermiculate (a.) Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
Vermiculate (a.) Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
Vermiculated (a.) Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
Vermiculation (n.) The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines.
Vermiculation (n.) The act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble the motion, track, or work of a worm.
Vermiculation (n.) Penetration by worms; the state of being wormeaten.
Vermiculation (n.) A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
Vermicule (n.) A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.
Vermiculite (n.) A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms.
Vermiculose (a.) Alt. of Vermiculous
Vermiculous (a.) Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.
Vermiform (a.) Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
Vermiformia (n. pl.) A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.
Vermifugal (a.) Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
Vermifuge (n.) A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
Vermil (n.) See Vermeil.
Vermilinguia (n. pl.) A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.
Vermilinguia (n. pl.) A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.
Vermilion (n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.
Vermilion (n.) Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.
Vermilion (v. t.) To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
Vermily (n.) Vermeil.
Vermin (n. sing. & pl.) An animal, in general.
Vermin (n. sing. & pl.) A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.