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- English Word Vernaculous Definition Scoffing; scurrilous.
- English Word Vernage Definition A kind of sweet wine from Italy.
- English Word Vernal Definition Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.
- English Word Vernal Definition Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.
- English Word Vernant Definition Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
- English Word Vernate Definition To become young again.
- English Word Vernation Definition The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
- English Word Vernicle Definition A Veronica. See Veronica, 1.
- English Word Vernicose Definition Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
- English Word Vernier Definition 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.
- English Word Vernile Definition Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious.
- English Word Vernility Definition Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility.
- English Word Vernine Definition An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Vernish Definition Varnish.
- English Word Vernonin Definition 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.
- English Word Veronese Definition Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy.
- English Word Veronese Definition A native of Verona; collectively, the people of Verona.
- English Word Veronica Definition 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.
- English Word Veronica Definition A genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. See Speedwell.
- English Word Verray Definition Very; true.