A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root of hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.
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A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.
A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
A word; a vocable.
A noun derived from a verb.
Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.
A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.
The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression.
The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.
To be verbose.
In a verbal manner; orally.
One who coins words; a neologist.
A game in word making. See Logomachy, 2.
Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.
A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceae) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.
To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.
To beat; to strike.
The act of verberating; a beating or striking.
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.
To talk; chat.
Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel. The right of pasturing animals in a forest.
The quality or state of being verdant.
Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
In a verdant manner.
An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses.
The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
To cover, or coat, with verdigris.
A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.
A commercial name for a green aniline dye.
See Farthingale.
Verdict.
Verdigris. Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.
The faintest and palest green.
Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border.
Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.
Covered with verdure.
Destitute of verdure.
Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures.
Bashful; modest.
Verecund.
The quality or state of being verecund; modesty.
A union, association, or society; -- used in names of German organizations.
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.
See Virgalieu.
To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
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 a position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
A garden or orchard.
A small pale.
Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.
Capable of being verified; confirmable.
The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.
Serving to verify; verifying; authenticating; confirming.
One who, or that which, verifies.
To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.
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.
Verisimilar.
Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.
The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.
Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red.
One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.
A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of Zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.
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. 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 whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
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.
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 intestines. See Peristaltic.
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.
Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
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.
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, open out into wormlike forms.
Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.
Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.
Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
See Vermeil.
A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name. A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.
To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
Vermeil.
An animal, in general.
To breed vermin.
The generation or breeding of vermin.
Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin.
Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.
In a verminous manner.
Producing or breeding worms.
Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds.
A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.
See Veronica, 1.
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.
A vernacular idiom.
The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular.
In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular.
Vernacular.
A kind of sweet wine from Italy.
Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.
Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
To become young again.
The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
A Veronica. See Veronica, 1.
Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
Suiting a slave; servile; obsequious.
Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility.
An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
Varnish.
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