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Veritas
n.
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The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.
Verities
pl.
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of Verity
Verity
n.
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The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
Verity
n.
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That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
Verjuice
n.
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The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.
Verjuice
n.
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Tartness; sourness, as of disposition.
Vermeil
n.
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Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red.
Vermeil
n.
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Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
Vermeil
n.
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A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.
Vermeologist
n.
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One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.
Vermeology
n.
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A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.
Vermes
n. pl.
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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.
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A more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.
Vermetid
n.
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Any species of vermetus.
Vermetus
n.
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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.
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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.
Vermicide
n.
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A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
Vermicious
a.
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Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
Vermicular
a.
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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.
Vermiculated
imp. & p. p.
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of Vermiculate
Vermiculating
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Vermiculate
Vermiculate
v. t.
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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.
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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.
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Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
Vermiculated
a.
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Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
Vermiculation
n.
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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.
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The act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble the motion, track, or work of a worm.
Vermiculation
n.
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Penetration by worms; the state of being wormeaten.
Vermiculation
n.
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A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
Vermicule
n.
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A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.