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Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public. These were enormities condemned by the most natural verdict of common humanity. South. Two generations have since confirmed the verdict which was pronounced on that night. Macaulay.

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

A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.

A commercial name for green aniline dye.

See Farthingale. [Spelled also verdingall.] [Obs.]

Verdict. Chaucer.

Verdigris. [Obs.]

The faintest and palest green.

Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border.

Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea. Motley.

Covered with verdure. Poe.

Destitute of verdure.

Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures. Milton.

See 1st & 2d Yard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The day last past; the day next before the present. All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak. We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. Job viii. 9.

Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Mohammedans; as, the Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees.

The fennec.

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier.