VERDIGRIS

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.

2.
n.

The green rust formed on copper. [Colloq.]

3.
v.

To cover, or coat, with verdigris. [R.] "An old verdigrised brass bugle." Hawthorne.


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