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The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.

A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.

The quality or state of being verdant.

Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn. Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass. Milton.

In a verdant manner.

An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses. Blackstone.

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.

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.