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that the statements in it are true. ('<) T" -up- 
?ort liy proof or by argument. =syn. 1, 3, ami 4. 
o authenticate, rahtUntllta, rMir,ii..iniie, utifnt. 
veriioquentt (ve-ni'o-kwent), a. [< I.. !;.<, veritas (vei-'i : 
true, + /</ //I'H.V, ppr. nf /I/MI, speak. | 
Speaking truth; truthful; truth-tolling; \< IM 
eions. 
verily i ver'i-li), rtr/r. [< M' 1 '- ''"'''. wW, r< 
'//, ri-i-fiilil. rrrn iln-lli- : < 1 1 ril + -/;/-. ] 1. I 
Vermetidae 
3. In ijildiiii/. a liquid eompnseil ,if aruotto, 
gamboge, vermilion, driigon's-lilood. -alt .1!' 
tartar, an. I sail ron. lioilcd in water and applied 
to .1 -.lirl'liec that is to lie gilded, to ^i\e 1 
to the gold. I-:. II. Kiiiijlil. 4. A crim.-on-red 
garnet inclining slightly to orange: a jewelers' 
name. 
used tor the same purpose in Norway and in yermeiledt, .1. [Also re i mili-d ; < ..-/-../ + 
-(-<(-.] (iilded. 
When two augurs cannot meet each other with 
in-ir craft U cerilaUy In danm-i 
// .\. iljc-itlMin, Short Studies, p. 878. 
, _. - |F. nnliiv i also lniri-iiH 
1-ii-itn.t], < I, .ni-itiis, t nit h: sec M n'ty.] A name 
given to a register of shipping in France on the 
The name h 
Austria. 
trut'ii: in very truth or deed: 'i.eyond doubt or verity (ver'i-ti). .; ]il. nnti,-* (-ti/.). [Karly ".,',,''. 
question; certainly. mod. K. also i-inlii-. nri/ln-; < MK. ct-rit>;< Or. 
Hi-Hi-, I-', iii-iti- = Sp. i-inliid = Pg. verdade = 
It. veritA, < L. verita(t-)s, truth, truthfulness, < 
verus, true: see very.] 1. The quality of bcini; 
true or real; true or real nature or principle ; vermelett, . [< OK vermetllet, somewhat red, 
reality; truth; fact. 
Tlii lime i* tn us mnbutjnffe 
Fro that tymi- Hlat we ni:iy it r. rriVi [rli-. 
llilmMli, Virgin, elr. (I'.. I). T. S.), p. 23. 
But the centurion . . . sclde, ferity this man was Goddls 
sune. Wycltf, Mark xv. 3. 
I ,,i/ : i*,, in.' snrh matter It was as want of a fat Dloces 
that kept our Britain Hisli'ip- .-.o poon> in the piiniifhr 
inn. -. Milt<ni, kofonnatlon in l.nu- , i. 
2. Really; truly; in sincere earnestness; with 
conviction and confidence : as, he verily believes 
the woman's story. 
It wan verily thought that, had it not been for fourgreat 
ilisfavmin isof that voyage, the enterprizc had succeeded. 
Bacon. 
verimentt, rfr. [ME., also verrayment, vera- 
ntent, < OF. veraiemeut, F. rriiinn-ut, truly, < 
verm, vrai, true: see very.} Truly; verily. 
I wol telle temynunt 
Of mirthe and of solas. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 2. 
verimentt, [Also verarnent; an erroneous 
use, as a noun, of verimi-nt, a dr.'] Truth; ver- 
ity. 
Tell unto you 
What la veriment and true. 
Greene, Friar Bacon, p. 164. (Daviet.) 
In verament and sincerity, I never crouded through this 
confluent llerrlng-faire. 
Xathe, Lenten Stutfe (Harl. Misc., VI. 163). (Daeiet.) 
verisimilar (ver-i-sim'i-lar), a. [After similar 
(cf. Sp. rerixintil = Pg. verisimil = It. verinimile), 
< L. verisimilis, prop, reri aimilis, having the 
appearance of truth 
(neut. of verus } true) , 
similar.] Having the appearance of truth 
able; likely. 
Various anecdotes of him [Dante] are related by Boc- 
caccio, Sacchetti, and others, . . . none of them veriiimi- 
lar. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d scr., p. 1. 
verisimilarly (ver-i-sim'i-liir-li), rfc. In a veri- 
similar mariner; probably. 
Wordsworth [was] talked of ... land] represented 
verisiinilarli/ enough as a man full of Knglish prejudices. 
Carli/le, in Fronde (First Forty Years), II. xiv. 
verisimilitude (ver'i-si-mil'i-tud), H. [= Sp. 
rerisimilitiul = Pg. verisimilitude = It. vcrisimili- 
lui/iite, < L. veriximilitmlo, prop, reri similitudo, 
likeness to truth: reri, gen. of verum, truth; 
similitudo, likeness: see similitude, and cf. reri- 
xiinilar.] 1. The quality or state of being veri- 
similar; the appearance of truth; probability; 
likelihood : as, the verisimilitude of a story. 
The story is as authentic as many histories, and the 
reader need only give such an amount of credence to it as 
he may judge that its verisimilitude warrants. 
Thackeray, Philip, iii. 
reues painted and veriniled with gold. 
l-h ,lrCumminet, D d 8. 
It Is all of square marble, and all the front vermiled 
iih unlili-. Ibid. (Nam.) 
Vermil- 
Kfclre frende. now telle me what ye be, and of youre fel- 
owes telle me the ivn'/c, Ifor longe me thinketh It towlte. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), II. 372. 
So he gan do in trouth and verite, 
At for to see hyin gret plte it was. 
His mornyng, his wallyng, his hiking bas. 
Horn, a/ Partenay (E. E. T. .\ I 6K. 
dim. of r-riiinl. red: see vermeil.] 
ion. 
O bright Reglna. who made the so fain? 
Who made thy colour eermelet and white? 
Court o/ Lott, 1. 14*. 
vermeologist (ver-me-ol'o-jist), ii. [< vermtf- 
iilni/-!/ + -ixt.\ One who is versed in verme- 
ology; a helminthologist. 
tenet ; a truth ; a reality ; a fact. 
Mark what I say, which you shall find 
By every syllable a faithful rrritii. 
descripti 
zoology which treats of the Vermen; helmin- 
thology. 
That which seems faintly possible. It is so refined, is 
often faint and dim because it is deeply seated in the 
mind among the eternal veritiei. Kinertun, Nature, vill. 
3f. Honesty; faith; trustworthiness. 
Justice, eerily, temperance. Shak., Macbeth, Iv. 3. 02. 
And fair Marg'ret, and rare Marg'ret, 
And Marg'ret o' veritie. 
Clerk Saunden (Child's Ballads, II. 52). 
Of a verity, In very truth or deed ; certainly. 
Of a verity his position denoted no excess of ease or en- 
joyment. Lever, Davenport Dunn, H. 
Shak., M. for M , iv. 3. 131. VermeS (ver'me/.), n.pl. [XL., pi. of I 
a worm, = E. worm.] 1. Worms: formerly in- 
cluding animals resembling the common earth- 
worm, but having no exact elassilieatory Kelise, 
and hence no standing in zoology. 2f. The 
sixth and last division of animals in the l.iu- 
8ystemaNaturSB"(17G6), defined as con- 
sisting of those animals which have tentacles, 
cold white blood, and an inauriculate unilocu- 
lar heart, and comprising all animals which 
l.iiiMicus did not dispose under the five other 
classes Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, I'isces, and 
Insecta (or vertebrates and insects). This cla 
An acid liquor" expressed from crab-apples, -.""f,? 1 eignt primary aivwons 01 the 
unripe grapes, etc., used for culinary and other animal kingdom ; a sutkingdom or phylum, one 
of the leading types of animal life, comprising 
all those animals which have a body-cavity 
These devices were adopted to heighten the veritimili- 
tvde of the scene. Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 119. Vermale's Operation. 
purposes 
3lt Moyses this reaoun rad, 
"Ete xoure lambe with soure veryemu." 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 203. 
Haying a crabbed face of her own, shell eat the less 
verjuice with her mutton. 
Middleton, Women Beware Women, ill. 3. 
Many leave roses and gather thistles, loathe honey and 
love verjuice. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 550. 
I pray . . . get a good ship and forty hogsheads nf 
meal, ... a hogshead of wine vinegar, and another of cer- 
juice, both In good casks and Iron-bound. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 454. 
2. Sourness or acidity of temper, manner, or 
expression ; tartness. 
Verjuice (ver'jOs), v. t. ; pret. and pp. verjtticcd, 
ppr. verjuiciny. [< verjuice, n.] To make sour 
or acid. 
His sermons with satire are plenteous!)- verjuiced. 
LotteU, Fable for Critics. 
See operation. 
Obsolete forms of 
2. That which is verisimilar; that which has vermaylet, venneilet, 
the appearance of a verity or fact. vermeil. 
Shadows of fact,_ d e., not ^verities 
Lamb, Old Be 
verisimilityt (ver'i-si-miri-ti), n. [< L. *ceri (EarIy editions have the spelling vermeil*. The French 
similita(t-)s, equiv. to wri timiUfuaO, likeness has vermeiUe.] 
to truth: see n-rixiiiiilititde.] Verisimilitude, vermeil (ver'mil), n. 
i , 
[Early mod. E. also rer- 
The spirit of man cannot be satisfied but with truth or mil, vermeil (the mod. spelhngbeing a rever- 
t least eerisimUitij. Dryden, Essay on Dram. Poesy, gion to the F. spelling); < ME. rermeile, ver- 
matjle, < OF. vermeil (= It- vermifilio), bright 
verisimilous ( ver-i-sim'i-lus), a. [< L. verisimi- 
lis: see verisimilar.] Probable; verisimilar. 
A fresh and more appalling, because more self-assertive 
and verisimilou*, Invasion of the commonplace. 
Geo. MacDonald, Thomas Wingfold, Curate, xli. 
veritable (ver'i-ta-bl), a. [< OF. veritable, F. 
n'-ri table = It. vehtevole, true, < L. verita( t-)s, 
truth: see verity.'] 1. Agreeable to truth or 
fact; true; real; actual; genuine. 
Notwithstanding that their writings [those of the seven- 
ty-two Biblical interpreters) be veritable, also it is in some 
matter obscure, and in other some diminished. 
Ouevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 381. 
The Inward work and worth 
Of any mind what other mind may judge 
Save God, who only knows the thing He made, 
The writable service He exacts ? 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. --'Is. 
2. Truthful ; veracious. 
In verities he was very veritable. Golden Book, xlv. 
veritably (ver'i-ta-bli), mlr. In a veritable or 
true manner; verily; truly; genuinely. 
red, vermilion, < L. vermiculiis, a little worm, 
LL. (in Vulgate) used for the kermes-insect, 
from which the color crimson or carmine was 
obtained, dim. of L. vermis, a worm, = E. worm: 
see vermicle, vermicale, and worm, and cf. crim- 
son and carmine, which are ult. connected with 
worm. Hence vermilion.'] 1. A bright red; 
vermilion ; the color of vermilion. Also used 
adjectively, and frequently as the first element 
of a compound. [Now only poetical.] 
How oft that day did sad Brunchildis see 
The greene shield dyde in dolorous vermeil-' 
(Afetazoa), no backbone (Invertebrata), nor- 
mally an intestinal canal (which Ccelentera 
have not), not a radiate structure (which Echi- 
nodermata have), legs if any not jointed (they 
are always jointed in Arthropoda), and body 
vermiform if there are no legs. In this acceptation 
y.-riiii-t form a most comprehensive group, of great diver- 
sity of form, but agreeing in certain fundamental struc- 
tural characters, being generally soft vermiform animals, 
oftenest segmented and bilaterally symmetrical, without 
limbs or with unjofnted limbs. Vennet thus defined are 
approximately equivalent (a) In Lamarck's system (1801- 
1812), to a class of animals divided into the four orders Mal- 
let, Hiyiduli, Uifpiduli, and Epizoarije (the last including 
li-nnriin crustaceans); (!>) In the Curlerian classification 
(1817), to the whole of Cuvler's first class of Articvlata (the 
annelids of Lamarck, or red-blooded worms with nnjointed 
legs) plus his second and third classes of liadiata (Auoda 
and Knl"ziii\ plus some of his fourth class of Jtadiata 
(some I'ulypi), plus his first order (Kotijera) of hi* fifth 
class of lladiata (e) In Huxley's classification (1869X 
to the classes Polyzoa, Scoleeida, Annelida, Chxtognatha, 
and therefore to his two subklngdoms, Anmiluida and 
Annvlon, without the Kchintnlermata of the former, and 
without the Crwttaeea, Araehnida, Myriapoda, and Intecta 
of the latter; or, in other tenua, to his Annuloida minus 
Ecfunodennata and pins the whole of the anarthropodous 
Annulom. Verme*** here defined have been divided Into 
seven classes: (1) Platyelwintha, with three orders, re- 
spectively the turbellarfan, trematoid, and cestoid worms ; 
(2) yematelmintha, with two orders, the nematoid and 
acanthocephalous worms most of these two classes, ex- 
cepting the Turltellaria, being entozoic or ectozotc para, 
sites, as tapeworms, threadworms, etc.; (3) Cturtotrnattia, 
based on the single exceptional form Sagitta ; (4) Grphy- 
rea (being Cuvier's second order of Echinodennata); (5) 
.{nn.H'lii or ordinary segmented woims. with four orders 
Himdinea (leeches), Olitjochxta (earthworms, etc, X Poly- 
chseta (lobworms, sea-mice, etc.). and Cephalfibranchia 
(tublcolous worms, etc.) ; () Kotifera, the wheel-animal- 
cules; (7) J'olyzixt (by most naturalists now dissociated 
from Vermet). The tendency at present Is to break up 
nd discard the name. 
A i> n/i. i/.tiiii-tiir. il lip. 
Daisies, wrmril-riinni'd and white. 
Kfiitf, Endymion, I. 
2. Silver gilt. 
The iconostase or screen is a high wall of burnished ver- 
meil, with five superposed rows of figures framed In richly 
ornamented cases of embossed metal. 
Harper i Mag., LXXIX. 334. 
the unmanageable group and 
The total abandoning of the indefinite and Indefensible 
group of Vermet. Kneye. Brit., XXIV. 812. 
4. [I. c.] Plural of vermis. 
Vermetacea (ver-me-ta'se-S), n. pi. [NLi., < 
1'rriiirtii.i + -acea.] 'Same as Vermetids. 
Spen*r, F. g., II. x. 24. yermetida (ver-met'i-de), . pi. [NL., < Ver- 
Jtttom Comus, 1. 752. metllx + .,,/jp.] A family of taenioglossate gas- 
tropods, whose typical genus is rermttus; the 
worm-shells. The animal has a reduced foot, a single 
elongated gill, short tentacles, and the eyes at the exter- 
nal sides of the tentacles. The opercnlum is corneous 
and circular. The young shells are regularly conk and 
spiral, like those of Turrittlla ; but as they grow the whorls 
separate, and often become crooked or contorted. 
