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The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular. Fitzed. Hall.

In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular. Earle.

Vernacular. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A kind of sweet wine from Italy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.

Flourishing, as in spring; vernal. [Obs.] "Vernant flowers." Milton.

To become young again. [Obs.]

The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.

A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European k, t, p, became first in Teutonic h, th, f, and appear without further change in old Teutonic, if the accent rested on the prec…

A Veronica. See Veronica, 1. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. A vernicle had he sowed upon his cap. Chaucer.

Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.

the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument. Vernier calipers, Vernier gauge, a gauge with a graduated bar and a sliding jaw bearing a vernier, used for accurate measurements. -- Vernier compass, a surveyor's compass with a ve…

Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. [R.] The example . . . of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.

Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility. [R.] Bailey.

An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

Varnish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.

The brush turkey (Talegallus Lathami) of Australia. See Brush turkey.

A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

To refuse. [Obs.] He is too great a niggard that will wern A man to light a candle at his lantern. Chaucer.