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  • English Word Vermin Definition An animal, in general.
  • English Word Vermin Definition A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.
  • English Word Vermin Definition Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.
  • English Word Verminate Definition To breed vermin.
  • English Word Vermination Definition The generation or breeding of vermin.
  • English Word Vermination Definition A griping of the bowels.
  • English Word Verminly Definition Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin.
  • English Word Verminous Definition Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.
  • English Word Verminous Definition Caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin; as, verminous disease.
  • English Word Verminously Definition In a verminous manner.
  • English Word Vermiparous Definition Producing or breeding worms.
  • English Word Vermivorous Definition Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds.
  • English Word Vermuth Definition A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.
  • English Word Vernacle Definition See Veronica, 1.
  • English Word Vernacular Definition Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
  • English Word Vernacular Definition The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
  • English Word Vernacularism Definition A vernacular idiom.
  • English Word Vernacularization Definition The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular.
  • English Word Vernacularly Definition In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular.
  • English Word Vernaculous Definition Vernacular.
  • 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.