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A word; a vocable. [Obs.] South.

spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony. Made she no verbal question Shak. We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind. Mayhew.…

Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.

A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.

The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression. [R.] "More verbality than matter." Bp. Hall.

The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

In a verbal manner; orally.

Of or pertaining to words; verbal. [R.] Coleridge.

A game in word making. See Logomachy, 2.

Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it. Verbatim et literatim Etym: [LL.], word for word, and letter for letter.

A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceæ) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.

To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.

To beat; to strike. [Obs.] "The sound . . . rebounds again and verberates the skies." Mir. for Mag.

The act of verberating; a beating or striking. Arbuthnot.

The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. W. Irving. This barren verbiage current among men. Tennyson.

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize. [R.] Earle.

To talk; chat. [Obs.]

g more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument. Too verbose in their way of speaking. Ayliffe. -- Ver*bose"ly, adv. -- Ver*bose"ness, n.