Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Heraldry The color green.
- noun Green vegetation serving as cover or food for deer. Used in English forest law.
- noun The right to cut such vegetation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn: noting the movements of the eyeball.
- An abbreviation of Vertebrata
- of vertebrate.
- noun One who leaves one church for another; a convert or pervert, according as the action is viewed by members of the church joined or members of the church abandoned: said especially of persons who go from the Church of England to the Church of Rome.
- To become a “vert”; leave the Church of England for the Roman communion, or vice versa.
- noun In English forest law, everything within a forest bearing a green leaf which may serve as a cover for deer, but especially great and thick coverts; also, a power to cut green trees or wood.
- noun In heraldry, the tincture green. It is represented by diagonal lines from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Abbreviated verb
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest.
- noun The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
- noun (Her.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- abbreviation
vertebrate - abbreviation
vertical - noun heraldry A
green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving bydiagonal parallel lines 45 degreescounter-clockwise . - noun archaic Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for
deer . - noun archaic The right to fell
trees or cut shrubs in a forest. - adjective heraldry In
blazon , of the colour green. - noun colloquial In
sport , a type ofbicycle stunt competition . - noun A
vertical surface used byskateboarders orskiers .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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