Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VERB'AL, a. [Fr.; L. verbalis.]

1. Spoken; expressed to the ear in words; not written; as, a verbal message; a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
2. Oral; uttered by the mouth. – Shak.
3. Consisting in mere words; as, a verbal reward.
4. Respecting words only; as, a verbal dispute.
5. Minutely exact in words, or attending to words only; as, a verbal critic.
6. Literal; having word answering to word; as, a verbal translation.
7. In grammar, derived from a verb; as, a verbal noun.
8. Verbose; abounding with words. – Shak.

VERB'AL-ISM, n.

Something expressed orally.

VERB-AL'I-TY, n.

Mere words; bare literal expressions. – Brown.

VERB'AL-IZE, v.t.

To convert into a verb.

VERB'AL-LY, adv.

1. In words spoken; by words uttered; orally. – South.
2. Word for word; as, to translate verbally. – Dryden.

VERB-A'TIM, adv. [L.]

Word for word; in the same words; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.

VER'BEN-ATE, v.t. [L. verbena, vervain.]

Strewed with vervain.

VER'BEN-A-TED, pp.

Strewed or sanctified with vervain, according to a custom of the ancients.

VER'BEN-A-TING, ppr.

Strewing with vervain . – Drake.

VERB'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. verbero.]

To beat; to strike. [Not in use.]

VERB-ER-A'TION, n.

1. A beating or striking blows. – Arbuthnot.
2. The impulse of a body, which causes sound. – Cyc.

VERB'I-AGE, n. [Fr.]

Verbosity; use of many words without necessity; superabundance of words.

VER-BOSE', a. [L. verbosus.]

Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; prolix; tedious by a multiplicity of words; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.

VER-BOSE'LY, adv.

Wordily.

VER-BOS'I-TY, or VER-BOSE'NESS, n.

1. Employment of a superabundance of words; the use of more words than are necessary; as, the verbosity of a speaker.
2. Superabundance of words; prolixity; as, the verbosity of a discourse or argument.

VER'DAN-CY, n. [See Verdant.]

Greenness. – Norris

VER'DANT, a. [Fr. verdoyant; L. viridans, from viridis, from vireo, to be green. The radical sense of the verb is to grow or advance with strength.]

1. Green; fresh; covered with growing plants or grass; as verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
2. Flourishing.

VERD-AN-TIQUE', n. [VERD AN-TIQUE'; verd anteek'; Fr.]

1. Ancient green a term given to a green incrustation on ancient coins, brass or copper. It is a hydrated dicarbonate of copper. Turner.
2. A species of marble.

VER'DANT-LY, adv.

Freshly; flourishingly.

VER'DER-ER, or VER'DER-OR, n. [Fr. verdier, from verd, green; or Low L. viridarius.]

An officer in England, 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 . – Blackstone.

VER'DICT, n. [L. verum dictum, true declaration.]

1. The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their trial and examination. In criminal causes, the jury decide the law as well as the fact. Verdicts are general or special; general, when they decide in general terms, or in the terms of the general issue, as no wrong, no disseisin; special, when the jury find and state the facts at large, an as to the law, pray the judgment of the court. – Blackstone.
2. Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public. These enormities were condemned by the verdict of common humanity. – South.

VER'DI-GRIS, n. [Fr. verd and gris; green-gray.]

Disacetate of copper. In an impure state, it is much use as a green pigment. In a pure state, it is employed in medicine.

VER'DI-TER, n. [verde-terre, green earth; terre-verte.]

A fine azure-blue mineral. It is a hydrated subsesquicarbonate of copper. It is prepared artificially, but the process is kept secret. It is sometimes used as a pigment. – Thomas Thomson.

VER'DI-TURE, n.

The faintest and palest green.

VERD'URE, n. [Fr.; from L. vireo.]

Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June; the verdure of spring.