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VERJUICE. 132 VERMICELLI.
Han^ him, an austere :^rapc, That has no iuice, but what U
veriuice in him, 1685 Ckowne SirC. Nice 1, The Devil of
Knvy suck'd it ail out, and left verjuice in the roome. 1759
Mrs. Dkl.\ny in Life ^ Corr. (1862) 543 To be sure there
must be an infinite deal of verjuice in her composition I 1791
J. WoLCOT (P. Pindar) Rights 0/ Kings xviii. Wks. 1816 1 1.
209 The heart should be a medlar, not a crab ; Milk, and not
Verjuice, from its fount should flow. i8as %co^t Betrothed
xxii, Raoul, glancing towards her a look of verjuice [etc.J.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Dau. 11. xi, Miss Budd, although
she said nothing, looked vinegar and verjuice. 1873 Sv-
MONDS Grk. Poets \\, loi The temper of hisproposed son-inlaw
was a mixture of gall, wormwood, vinegar, verjuice,
vitriol and nitric acid,
3. aitrib. or as adj. a. Simple attrib., as 7^*?^juice
barrel, bottle, brake, house, sauce^ tub^ vessel.
%\V» E. E. With (1882) 91 A vergyous barell. C1450 Tivo
Cookery Bks. 103 The sauce is vergyus sauce or sauce
ginger. 1516-7 Durham Ace. Rolls (Surtees) 106 Pro
osttis le Weriushouse. 1551-60 in Hall Eliz. Soc. (1887)
150 A verguj-s tubbe. 1578 Knaresh. Wills (Surtees) I. 134
In the buttrie-.a kitt, a vergious brake. 1588 Latic. ^
Ckesh. Wills (Chetham Soc. 1893) 150, ij kneadinge tubes,
iij cheises, ij verges barrells. 16S9 Inv. liouseh. Goods in
Trans. Essex Archseol, Soc. 111. 11. j6i In the West Larder
. . 8 vergis vessells.
b. Passing into adj. in the sense of * bitter, sour,
sonr-looking ', as verjuice countenance^ face, wit.
1598 Marston Sco. Vilianie To ludiciall Perusers, I
dare defend my plainenesse against the veriuice-face of
the Crabbedst batyrist that euer stuttered. 1613 Hevwood
Brazen Age 11. iii, She scarce will let me kisse her, But shee
makes vergisse faces, 163* Uromb Co7tri Beggar 11. i, Thou
hast a verjuice wit. 1813 Scott Peveril vii, A verjuice
countenance ..is no such temptation, 1853 Hickif; tr.
Aristoph. (1887) I, 12 You bear the basket prettily, with a
verjuice face.
t C. Verjuice grape, one or other variety of
grape suitable for the naaking of verjuice (cf. quot.
1735 and F. verjus a sour or green grape), Obs,
1648 Hexham ii, Verjuys-hesien^ Verjus or Sowre grapes.
1653 Urquhart Rabelais \. xxv. The great red grapes, the
muscadine, the verjuice grape. 1664 Evklyn Kal, Hort.
Sept. 74 The Verjuyce -grape excellent for sauce^ &c. 1706
London & Wise Retir'd Card. I. xi. 52 Having planted
your Trees, you ought.. to set some Chasselas, or Verjuice
Grapes, about your Squares. tj»s Favt. Diet. s.v., There
are three sorts of Grapes to which they properly give the
Name of Verjuice, viz. the Gouais, Farineus, and Bourdelas,
otherwise te Grey; and 'tis from these three that they commonly
press Verjuice.
Hence Ve*rjuice v. trans., to embitter, make
sour ; Ve*rjniced ///. a.
1836 W, H. Maxwell Capt. Blake xv, The maid was a
vcrjuiced spinster. 1848 Lowell ^a^/^y^rCr/V/tJ(i865) 217
His sermons with satire are plenteously verjuiced. 189s
W. G. Thorpe Still Life Mid. Temple 3 Sir John Key,
where the inherent rhyme to ' donkey ' verjuiced the
baronetcy.
Verk(e, obs. Sc, forms of Work sb.
t Verken, obs. form of Firkin.
1485 Cely Papers (Camden) 184 P** per me for an verken
of gonpouder, viij d.
Verlay, Verlet(te, obs. ff. Virelay, Varlet,
Verlioh(e, ME, varr. Ferly a. and adv, Obs.
t Verling-line. Naut, Obs. (Origin and meaning
obscure.)
x4ao in For, Ace. 3 Hen. VI, ij. haunserspro verlyng-lynes
ponderis ex. lb.
,
-Verlore, var. f. pa, t, and pa. pple. Forlese v,
Obs. 'Verlot(te, obs. ff. Varlet, Verm,
southern dial, var. Farm sb. ; obs, Sc var. Worm
sb. Vennayn(e, obs. ff. Vermin sb.
tVerme. ^ef* Obs, [ad, L. vermis worm
(Honorius of Autun De Itnag. Mundi i, xiii), incorrectly
taken as the name of a fish.] An alleged
fish of the Ganges, able to seize and destroy
elephants.
Bossewell elsewhere (ri. 66) has the form vermante, prob.
an error for verme Itariante by accidental omission of letters.
157a Bossewell Armorie iii. 25 Ij, H. hathe to hys
Creste, a Verme hariante propre, subsigned aboute the tayle
w'ith a scrowe.
Ve'rmeazi, a. rare-'^, [f. Verme-s + -AN.]
= Vermian a. I
1905 p. Rev. Apr, 493 Parasites, both external and
internal, both protozoan and vermean, were met with,
Vermechuili, obs. f. Vermicelli.
Vermeil, vermil (vaumll), a. and sb. Forms
a. 5 vermaile, -mayle, -meyle, 6 vermayll, 7
-meyl; 6 vernaeill, 8-9 -meille, 6- vermeil.
/3. 6 vermeil, 7 Vermel ; 6-7 vermile, 7 -myle ;
8-^ vermil, [a. AF. and OF. vermail, vermeil
adj. and sb, (nth c, mod.F, vermeil, = Vvo\. vermelh,
vermely.-^cc. sing, of L, vermiculus, dim.
of vermis worm : see Vermicle, and cf, Vermilion
sb. and Vermily,]
A. adj. Of a bright scarlet or red colour
vermilion. Chiefly poet,
a, € i±oo Rom. Rose 3645 Ful fayre it [sc. the rose] spradde
the god of blesse For suche another as I gesse Aforne ne
was ne more vermayle. £ i4ao Lvdg. Ballad at Reverence
Our Lady 45 (Skeat), Benigne braunchelet of the py iie-tree,
Vyneyerd vermayle. 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 74
Take not cclde water in stede of vermayll wine. 1549 Compi.
Scot.^ vi, 37 The pretty fische .. vitht there rede vermeil
ftnnis, 1596 Spenskk Prothal. ii, With store of vermeil
Roses, To dccke their Brtdexromes posies. 180a Sporting
Mag. XII. 359 Nature's vermeil robe and lilied vest. 1807
WoRDSw. White Doe u. 12 This Maid, who urought-.In
vermeil colours and in gold An unhlest work. i8ia S.
Rogers Columbus Poems (1839) 42 Tinging with vermeil
light the billows blue. 1898 Menme M. Dowie Crook of
Bough 16^ The vermeil flood mounted in her cheeks, but
she met his glance fully.
fi. 159J Wvrlev Armorie, Ld. Chandos i, A vermile
crosse the Cyprian king still wore. 1637 Milton Lycidas
(MS. draft), Ihat sad Floure that strove To write his own
Woes on the Vermel Graine. 169a J. Salter Triumphs
Jesus 17 A Face with Vermile Paint still over.laid. 1791
E, Darwin Bot. Card. \. I. 4 In noon's bright blaze thy
vermil vest unfold. 1800 Moore Anacrcon Ivi, The ripe
and vermil wine, Sweet infant of the pregnant vine.
b. Freq. of the countenance, lips, etc.
c 16x4 Sir W. Mure Dido ^ Mneas 1. 626 The dimples of
a vermile cheek. 1754 Gray Pleasure fr. Vicissitude 3
With vermeil cheek and whisper soft She [sc. the morn]
woe's the tardy spring. 1780 S. J. Pratt Emwa Corhett
(ed. 4) II. 176 The invisible sigh steals through its vermeil
passages. i8«> C. R. Maturin Melmoth (1892) III. xxx.
198 A lip as vermeil as her own. 1864 Musgrave Ten Days
in Fr. Parsouage I. i. 29 The vermeil cheeks.. faded away
into creamy hues.
transf 1759 Mallet Fragment Wks. I. 50 The vivid
pulse, the vermil grace,.. Youth, beauty, pleasure, all are
thine I 1800 Moore Anncreon xiv. note 3 So many vermil,
honeyed kisses, Envy can never count our blisses.
C. With names of colours ; ts^. vermeil red.
1590 Spenser F. Q. ii. iii. 22 In her cheekes the vermeill
red did shew. 1791 Huddesford Salma^. 121 Thy vermeil
red and living green In mimic folds thou shalt display. 1859
Tennyson Enid 364 Like a blossom vermeil-white, I'hat
lightly breaks a faded flower-sheath. 1906 C. M. Doughty
Dawn in Britain I. 68 Her rud as apple blossoms, vermeilwhite.
Her locks. . Like sunny rays.
B. sb. 1. Vermilion hue or colour,
1590 Spenser F, Q. 11. xii. 45 The snowy substaunce \ante
frothy billowes] sprent With vermeil, like the boyes bloud
therein shed.^ 1633 P* Fletcher P%irple Isl. x. xli. So
when cleare ivorie vermeil fitly blois, By stains it fairer
grows. 1728 Fielding Love in Sezrici.\ 1728 Chambers Cyel., Vermes., in Medicine, a
Disease popularly call'd Worms ; arising from some of
those Reptiles being generated, and growing in the Body.
1800 I^Ied. Jrnl. I V. 203 Observations on Diseases in London.
. .Vermes, ..Epistaxis,. .Epilepsia.
2. Zool, One or other of the primary divisions,
sub-kingdoms, or groups of the animal kingdom
proposed or adopted at various times by certain
classifiers, comprehending worms and allied forms,
but differing widely as to the nature and number
of the classes or families included.
The term was introduced by Linnaeus in his Systema
Naturae {1766).
1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 362/2 Linnaeus divides the whole
animal kingdom into 6 classes. .. Class VI. Vermes, or
Worms. 1796 Morse Amer. Ceog. I. 225 The following
catalogues of insects and vermes. 1828 Stark Eiem. Nat.
Hist. \\. 418 Linnaeus, .arranged the whole in his class
Vermes. 1878 Bell Ge^enbaurs Comp. Anat. 125, I
arrange the various divisions of the Vermes in the following
order. .1. Platyhelminthes..ii. Nemathelminthes [etc.].
xM8 /iKiryc/. Brit. XXIV, 677/2 The group Vermes as used
. . by Claus includes several distinct phyla, viz., Nematoidea
[etc.]. 1888 RoLLESTON & Jackson Anim. Life 579 Other
are certainly unisegmental.
Venneselly, obs. f. Vermicelli.
Ve'rmetid. Zool. [ad. mod.L. Vermetid-se,, i.
L. vermes Vermes.] An individual of the family
Vermetids& of holostomatous gasteropods.
i860 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. SmitJisoman Insiit. iSSQ
205 [The Vermetidse (worm shells). Ibid.^ Some of the
Vermetids assume a looseness of growth as great as that of
the worm.
Vemii- (v3'imi), comb, form of L. vermis (cf.
Vermes), used in various words, as Vermicide,
Vejimiform a., Vermifuge, Vermiparouso:., etc. ;
also as a base in a few other terms, as Vermi'ceoas
a., of or pertaining to worms ; wormy (Webster,
184;); Vermi'clouB a., = prec. (Craig, 1849);
Ve'rmidom [cf. L. dom-us house] Zool. (see
quots.) ; Vermi-ferous a. [-Fergus], producing
worms ; Vermig-erous a. [-gerous], infested with
intestinal worms.
1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. v. 242 The ova undergo
their development. , in masses of gelatinous matter which
adhere to the tubes of the *vermidom in Protula. 1894
Jr7il. Marine Zocl. May 57 The examples, .were not all
from the same cluster of tubes or vermidom. 1854 H.
Miller Sch. Sf Schm. x. (1857) 206 Many a half-hour have
1 spent beside it,.. watching its numerous inhabitants,
insect, reptilian, and *vermiferous. 1853 G. Johnston
Nat. Hist. E. Bord, I. 129 The inexperienced mother is
recommended to give.. cakes and puddings tainted with
'J'ansy to her *verniigerous child, i860 Encycl. Brit. Jed. 8)
XXI. 974/1 It must not. .he concluded, that, .every individual
[animal] is vermigerous.
Venuian (vSumian), a. [f. Verm-ES + -IAN ;
see Vermi- and -an.]
1. Of or pertaining to Vertnes ; characteristic of
worms ; worm-like.
1878 Bell Gegenbanrs Comp. Anat. 307 In this point
also we can make out an affinity with Vermian larva:
(Actinotrocha). 1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life
578 The types of structure seen in most Vermian classes aie
very distinct from one another. 1905 Outlook 28 Oct. 589/2
Human nature is not the same in all ages;.. it was once
simian nature, once vermian, once lower still.
2. Anat. Pertaining or belonging to the vermis
of the cerebellum. (In recent Diets.)
t Vermicell. Sc. Obs,~-^ [a. F, vermicel,
-celle, ad. It. vermicelli: see next.]
= next 2.
Soup-vermicelli
1714 Ramsay Health 63
cray, and soles.
Soup-vermicell, sous'd turbot,
Vermicelli (v9Jmise*U, vaimitje'li). Also 7
8 ver-
vermechuili, virmizzelli, 8 vermigelly ;
micelly (-cella) , vermeselly. [a. It vermicelli,
pi. of vermiccllo, dim, of verme^ :—L. vermem^ ace.
sing, of vermis worm. Cf. prec]
1. A wheaten paste, of Italian origin, now usu.
made of flour, cheese, yolks of eggs, sugar and
saffron, prepared in the form of long, slender, hard
threads, and used as an article of diet. Cf.
Macaroni i.
1669 Davenant Man*s the Master 1. i, Vermechuili shall
my Palat please, Serv'd in with Bisques, Ragous, and Inlermets.
1674 BovLE Excell. Theol. \. i. 54 Vermicelli, wafers,
and pie-crust, are all of them diversified meal. 1709 Prior
Paulo Pnrganti 65 With Oysters, Eggs, and Vermicelli,
She let Him almost burst his Belly. 1747 Mrs. Glasse
Cookery xix. 155 It will run up like little Worms, as Vermicella
does. 1767 Ann. Reg. i. 92 The free importation of
rice, sago dust, and vermicelli . . from the American colonies.
181Q BvRON Juan n. clxx, Ceres presents a plate of vermicelli.
1839 Ure Diet. Arts 1276 The macaroni requires to