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.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy. A native of Verona; collectively, the people of Verona.

A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on the alleged handkerchief of Saint Veronica, preserved at Rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the Savior. Formerly called also Vernacle, and Vernicle.

Very; true.

Verily; truly.

See Ferrule.

Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.

A wart.

Shaped like a wart or warts.

Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.

Verrucose.

Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.

An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.

A verse or verses. See Verse, n.

The quality or state of being versable.

Capable of being turned.

Versability.

Universal.

The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect.

Capable of being turned round.

The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.

To make verses; to versify.

Turned.

Same as Versemonger.

A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.

A versifier.

A verse.

A little verse; especially, a short verse or text said or sung in public worship by the priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people.

Having various colors; changeable in color.

Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.

The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

A versifier.

One who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet.

To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse.

A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.

One who makes or favors a version; a translator.

The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.

The turning factor of a quaternion.

A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.

Of or pertaining to a verse.

Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.

Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.

Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer. The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.

A vertebra.

A vertebrate.

At or within a vertebra or vertebrae; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.