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Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.

Verrucose.

Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.

An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.

Worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.]

A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.

Of or pertaining to the Viverridæ, or Civet family.

The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.

War. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To warray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box. (the ear); as, to wherret a child. [Obs.]

from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze. Dr. Prior.

In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.

The bilberry.

An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.

An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.

Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.

perly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.