Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 12
Verdureless (a.) 沒有草木的 Destitute of verdure.
Verdurous (a.) 碧綠的；綠葉的 Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures. -- Milton.
Verecund (a.) Rashful; modest. [Obs.]
Verecundious (a.) Verecund. [Obs.] "Verecundious generosity." -- Sir H. Wotton.
Verecundity (n.) The quality or state of being verecund; modesty. [Obs.]
Veretillum (n.) (Zool.) 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. Vergalieu
Vergalieu (n.) Alt. of Vergaloo.
Vergaloo (n.) (Bot.) See Virgalieu.
Virgalieu (n.) (Bot.) A valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor; -- more properly called White Doyenn['e]. [Written also virgaloo, vergalieu, vergaloo, etc.]
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. [Eng.]
Verge (n.) (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.
Verge (n.) A virgate; a yardland. [Obs.]
Verge (n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favorable to it, the theory . . . implies an absurdity. -- J. S. Mill.
But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail. -- M. Arnold.
Verge (n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.
The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. -- Shak.
Verge (n.) (Arch.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft. -- Oxf. Gloss.
Verge (n.) (Arch.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof. -- Encyc. Brit.
Verge (n.) (Horol.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
Verge (n.) (Hort.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
Verge (n.) (Hort.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
Verge (n.) The penis.
Verge (n.) (Zool.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Syn: Border; edge; rim; brim; margin; brink.
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.
Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards him as its center. -- Barrow.
I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow. -- Swift.
Verge (n.) A region marking a boundary [syn: brink, threshold, verge].
Verge (n.) The limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy" [syn: verge, brink].
Verge (n.) A ceremonial or emblematic staff [syn: scepter, sceptre, verge, wand].
Verge (n.) A grass border along a road.
Verge (v.) Border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal."
Vergeboard (n.) (Arch.) 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. [R.]
Vergency (n.) (Opt.) The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays. [R.] -- Humphrey Lloyd.
Verger (n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically:
Verger (n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. [Eng.] -- Strype.
Verger (n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
Verger (n.) [F.] A garden or orchard. [Obs.]
Verger (n.) A church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies.
Vergette (a.) Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. -- W. Berry.
Vergette (n.) (Her.) A small pale.
Veridical (a.) Truth-telling; truthful; veracious. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Veridical (a.) Coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception" -- F.A.Olafson [syn: veridical, real].
Verifiable (a.) Capable of being verified; confirmable. -- Bp. Hall.
Verifiable (a.) Capable of being verified; "a verifiable account of the incident."
Verifiable (a.) Capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation [syn: confirmable, verifiable, falsifiable].
Verification (n.) The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.
Verification (n.) (Law) Confirmation by evidence.
Verification (n.) (Law) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.
Verification of an equation (Math.), The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it expresses truly the conditions of the problem. -- Davies & Peck. (Math. Dict.)
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.
This is verified by a number of examples. -- Bacon.
So shalt thou best fulfill, best verify.
The prophets old, who sung thy endless reign. -- Milton.
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.
To verify our title with their lives. -- Shak.
Verify (v. t.) To maintain; to affirm; to support. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Veriloquent (a.) Speaking truth; truthful. [Obs.]
Verily (adv.) In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly. -- Bacon.
Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. -- Ps. xxxvii. 3.
Verine (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.
Verisimilar (a.) 好像是真的；好像有道理的 Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely. "How verisimilar it looks." -- Carlyle.
Verisimilar (a.) Appearing to be true or real; "a verisimilar tale."
Verisimilitude (n.) 貌似真實；逼真的事物 The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.
Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. -- Glanvill.
All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. -- Sir. W. Scott.
Verisimilitude (n.) The appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true.
Verisimility (n.) Verisimilitude. [Obs.]
The verisimility or probable truth. -- Sir T. Browne.
Verisimilous (a.) Verisimilar. [Obs.]
Veritable (a.) 真可稱得上的；真正的，名副其實的 [Z] Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine. "The veritable Deity." -- Sir W. Hamilton. -- Ver"i*ta*bly, adv.
Veritable (a.) Often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine" [syn: regular(a), veritable(a)].
Veritable (a.) Not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable].
Veritas (n.) The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.
Verities (n. 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. "The verity of certain words." -- Shak.
It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised. -- South.
Verity (n.) That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
Mark what I say, which you shall find By every syllable a faithful verity. -- Shak.
Verity (n.) Conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true, verity, trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity].
Verity (n.) An enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth.
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. [Poetic & R.]
In her cheeks the vermeill red did show Like roses in a bed of lilies shed. -- Spenser.
Vermeil (n.) Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
Vermeil (n.) A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold. -- Knight.
Vermeologist (n.) One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.
Vermeology (n.) (Zool.) A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology. [R.]
Vermes (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) A more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.
Vermetid (n.) (Zool.) Any species of vermetus.
Vermetus (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Vermicelli (n.) Pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti.
Vermicide (n.) A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer. --.Pereira.
Vermicide (n.) An agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines).
Vermicious (a.) Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
Vermicular (a.) 蠕蟲的，似蠕蟲的，蠕動的 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. "A twisted form vermicular." -- Cowper.
Vermicular work. See under Vermiculated.
Vermicular (a.) Decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" [syn: vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated].
Vermicular (a.) 蠕蟲的；似蠕蟲的；蠕動的 Resembling a worm in form or motion.
Vermicular (a.) Vermiculate.
Vermicular (a.) Of, relating to, or caused by worms.
Vermiculated (imp. & p. p.) of Vermiculate.
Vermiculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vermiculate.
Vermiculate (v. t.) 給……飾以蟲蝕狀圖紋 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.) 蠕蟲狀的；蠕動的；彎曲的；蟲蛀的 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. "Vermiculate questions." -- Bacon. "Vermiculate logic." -- R. Choate.
Vermiculate (a.) Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn: vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy].
Vermiculate (a.) Decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" [syn: vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated].
Vermiculate (v.) Decorate with wavy or winding lines.
Vermiculated (a.) Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
Vermiculated work, or Vermicular work (Arch.), Rustic work so wrought as to have the appearance of convoluted worms, or of having been eaten into by, or covered with tracks of, worms. -- Gwilt.
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.) (Zool.) A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
Vermiculation (n.) The process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along [syn: peristalsis, vermiculation] [ant: anastalsis]
Vermiculation (n.) A decoration consisting of wormlike carvings.
Vermicule (n.) A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body. [R.] -- Derham.
Vermiculite (n.) (Min.) 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
Vermiculite (n.) Any of a group of yellow or brown hydrous silicate minerals having a micaceous structure.
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.
Vermiform appendix (Anat.), A slender blind process of the caecum in man and some other animals; -- called also vermiform appendage, and vermiform process. Small solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.
Vermiform (a.) Resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical [syn: vermiform, worm-shaped].
Vermiformia (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.
Vermifugal (a.) (Med.) Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
Vermifuge (n.) (Med.) A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
Vermifuge (n.) A medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms [syn: vermifuge, anthelmintic,
anthelminthic, helminthic].
Vermil (n.) See Vermeil. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vermilinguia (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.
Vermilion (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Note: The kermes insect has long been used for dyeing red or scarlet. It was formerly known as the worm dye, vermiculus, or vermiculum, and the cloth was called vermiculatia. Hence came the French vermeil for any red dye, and hence the modern name vermilion, although the substance it denotes is very different from the kermes, being a compound of mercury and sulphur. -- R. Hunt.
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.
vermilion
Vermilion (a.) Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color [syn: vermilion, vermillion, cinnabar, Chinese-red].
Vermilion (n.) A variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge [syn: scarlet, vermilion, orange red].
Vermilion (v.) Color vermilion.
Vermilion -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 83919
Housing Units (2000): 36349
Land area (2000): 899.080050 sq. miles (2328.606541 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.056357 sq. miles (7.915927 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 902.136407 sq. miles (2336.522468 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.156797 N, 87.692434 W
Headwords:
Vermilion
Vermilion, IL
Vermilion County
Vermilion County, IL
Vermilion -- U.S. Parish in Louisiana
Population (2000): 53807
Housing Units (2000): 22461
Land area (2000): 1173.781395 sq. miles (3040.079728 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 364.532580 sq. miles (944.135007 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1538.313975 sq. miles (3984.214735 sq. km)
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 29.961979 N, 92.221910 W
Headwords:
Vermilion
Vermilion, LA
Vermilion Parish
Vermilion Parish, LA
Vermilion, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 10927
Housing Units (2000): 4713
Land area (2000): 10.791184 sq. miles (27.949038 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.051579 sq. miles (0.133589 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.842763 sq. miles (28.082627 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79716
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.417656 N, 82.344351 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44089
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Vermilion, OH
Vermilion
Vermilion, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 239
Housing Units (2000): 105
Land area (2000): 0.762124 sq. miles (1.973891 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.762124 sq. miles (1.973891 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77551
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.580343 N, 87.588492 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Vermilion, IL
Vermilion
Vermily (n.) Vermeil. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vermin (n. sing. & pl.) An animal, in general. [Obs.]
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and vermin, and worms, and fowls. -- Acts x. 12. (Geneva Bible).
This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast, a dangerous vermin, used to both elements. -- Holland.
Vermin (n. sing. & pl.) A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc. "Cruel hounds or some foul vermin." -- Chaucer.
Great injuries these vermin, mice and rats, do in the field. -- Mortimer.
They disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest . . . is before them. -- Burke.