Dictionary
Found: 1,810 words.
Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures.
Rashful; modest.
Verecund.
The quality or state of being verecund; modesty.
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 ...
Verfication
3 defs
A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.
Alt. of Vergaloo
See Virgalieu.
Verge
15 defs
A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
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...
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Vergency
2 defs
The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
Verger
4 defs
A garden or orchard.
Vergette
2 defs
A small pale.
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Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.
Capable of being verified; confirmable.
Serving to verify; verifying; authenciating; confirming.
of Verify
One who, or that which, verifies.
Verify
4 defs
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.
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Speaking truth; truthful.
In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly.
An alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.
Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely.
The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.
Verisimilitude.
Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.
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Verity
2 defs
That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
Verjuice
2 defs
Tartness; sourness, as of disposition.
Vermeil
3 defs
A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.
One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.
A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.
Vermes
2 defs
A more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.
Any species of vermetus.
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 ...
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 p...
A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
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 ...
Vermiculate
3 defs
Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
Vermiculated
2 defs
Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
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Vermiculation
4 defs
A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.
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...
Alt. of Vermiculous