Mettre la main à la verge. To dispossesse himselfe of an inheritance in presence of his Landlord, or of his Officer, by the deliuerie of a rod, or little sticke, to him he passes it to. La verge ennoblit, & le ventre affranchit. The gentleman ennobles his child, a free woman enfranchises hers; Looke Ventre. Vergé: m. ée: f. Made of rods, or twigs; also, streaked with long, and rod-like rayes; also, worme-eaten.
Vergée: f. A yard of, the length of a yard in; also, a yard-*land, or, a rood of land.
Verger: m. A Verger; one that beares a Verge before a Magistrate, &c.
se Verger. To be rewed, or streaked all ouer.
Vergeteux. as Vergeux. Vergette: f. A small rod, or wand; a twig, or sprig; also, a boyes play with rods or wands pecked at a heape of points. Des vergettes. A brush.
Vergettons: m. Small twigs, or sprigs.
Vergeux: m. euse: f. Roddie, full of rods; of a rod, rod-like.
Vergier: m. An Orchard; also, as Verger. Vergilies: f. The seuen starres.
Verglacer. To freeze vpon raine.
Verglas: m. Frost, or a freezing, presently after a misling raine, wherby the ground seemes in a manner glazed; also, a glazing vpon a wall; or a painting that represents, and stands for, glaße.
Verglassant. vent verglas: A sharpe freezing, or sleeting wind.
Vergne. Th' Aller, or Alder tree.
Vergobert: m. A Maior, or Burgomaister.
Vergongne: f. Shame, bashfulnesse, blushing; also, the priuie parts.
Vergongner. To shame, to make ashamed, to disgrace, or dash out of countenance. se Vergongner. To blush, or be ashamed at, to be out of countenance with.
Vergongneux: m. euse: f. Shamefull, shame-fac'd, bashfull, blushfull, demure, modest; also, shamelesse, impudent, brasen-fac'd, past shame.
Vergue: f. The sayle-yard of a ship; whence; Vergues hautes; with hoised sailes, or sayle-yards (Sayed of a ship that hath weighed anchor, and wants but wind to be gone with.)
Veridique: com. Truth-telling.
Ver-jettons. as Vergettons. Verification: f. A verification, verifying, auerring, approuing.
Verifié: m. ée: f. Verified, auerred, approued, confirmed, made good.
Verifier. To verifie, auerre, approue, cōfirme, proue true, make good.
Verin: m. as Varin. Verineux: m. euse: f. Full of, troubled with, gnawne by, wormes.
Verisimilitude: f. Likelihood, possibilitie, resemblance of truth.
Veritable: com. True, sincere, vpright, a man of his word.
Veritablement. Verily, truely, certainely; without faile, doubt, or question.
Verité: f. Veritie, truth, sooth, verie deed.
Franche verité. (Looke Franc;) whence; Comparoir à la franche verité: &, Tenir veritez; &, Tenir, ou Avoir, verité speciale. A Sessions, or priuie Sessions.
Grande dispute la verité rebute: Pro. Wrangling contention is truthes preuention; The like is; Par trop debatre la verité se perd: Prov. Too much debating makes truth to be lost.
Verjus: m. Veriuyce; especially that which is made of sowre, and vnripe grapes; also, the grapes whereof it is made. Verjus miellé. Three parts of grape-veriuyce, and one of clarified honie incorporated, or well mingled together. Estre mis au verjus. To be trounst, or courst.
Verm: m. A worme: ¶Auvergnois. Vermeil: m. Vermillion, ruddinesse, a beautifull red.
Vermeil: m. eille: f. Vermillion, ruddie, reddish, claret, of a cleere or beautifull red. Soupe vermeille. Looke Soupe. Vermeiller. To root for wormes, like a hog.
Vermeillet: m. ette: f. Somewhat ruddie, prettie and red.
Vermeilleur: m. A rooter, or digger for wormes.
Vermeillon, & Vermeillonner. as Vermillon, & Vermillonner. Vermelet: m. A verie little worme.
Vermeniers: m. Vermine; or as Verminiere. Vermerie: f. Wormes.
Vermet: m. A little worme.
Vermiculaire: f. Wild Prick-madame, great Stone-*crop, Worme-grasse.
Vermiforme: com. Fashioned like a worme.
Vermiformes. Two worme-resembling parts of the Cervelet. Vermiller. To worme, to root for wormes.
Vermillon: m. Vermillion; a ruddie colour made of Brimstone and Quicksiluer; also, as Chermes; also, a little worme. Arbre de vermillon. The Skarlet Oke, or Skarlet Holme Oke.
Vermillonné: m. ée: f. Made ruddie, painted red; of a Vermillion hue.
Vermillonner. To paint, or make Vermillion, or of a Vermillion hue; also, to blush, or wax red.
Vermine: f. Vermine; also, little beasts ingendred of corruption and filth; as Lice, Fleas, Ticks, Mice, Rats; and (most particularly) wormes.
Vermineux: m. The name of a certaine Spider whose bodie is full of spots.
Vermineux: m. euse: f. Wormie, or full of vermine. Herbe vermineuse. Moath Mulleine.
Verminiere: f. A worme-hill; or a place neere a countrey house, wherin wormes are, of purpose, bred for pulleine.
Vermisseau: m. A little worme.
se Vermoulir. To grow worme-eaten, mouldie, rotten.
Vermoulissure: f. A being worme-eaten, or full of worme-holes; rottennesse; mouldinesse.
Vermoulu: m. uë: f. Worme-eaten, full of worme-holes, rotten; mouldie.
Verne. as Vergne. Vernedé. A certaine charme, or charming prayer, for the tooth-ache.
Vernicer. as Vernisser. Vernillage. ce n'est que vernillage. (Speaking of the starching of two or three bands at a time) this is but a pidling.
Vernilles: f. Nifles, trifles, things of nothing, or no value.
Vernis: m. Varnish; (made of Linseed oyle and) the Gumme of the Juniper tree.
Vernis liquide. Tarre.
