Verderer
(Ver"der*er Ver"der*or) n. [F. verdier, LL. viridarius, fr. L. viridis green.] (Eng. Forest Law)
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.
Verdict
(Ver"dict) n. [OE. verdit, OF. verdit, veirdit, LL. verdictum, veredictum; L. vere truly (fr. verus
true) + dictum a saying, a word, fr. dicere, dictum, to say. See Very, and Dictum.]
1. (Law) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or
criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter
legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
The decision of a judge or referee, upon an issue of fact, is not called a verdict, but a finding, or a
finding of fact. Abbott.
2. 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. Verdigris
(Ver"di*gris) n. [F. vert-de-gris, apparently from verd, vert, green + de of + gris gray, but
really a corruption of LL. viride aeris from L. viridis green + aes, aeris, brass. See Verdant, and 2d
Ore.]
1. (Chem.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic
acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.
2. The green rust formed on copper. [Colloq.]
This rust is a carbonate of copper, and should not be confounded with true verdigris. U. S. Disp.
Blue verdigris (Chem.), a verdigris having a blue color, used a pigment, etc. — Distilled verdigris
(Old Chem.), an acid copper acetate; — so called because the acetic acid used in making it was obtained
from distilled vinegar. — Verdigris green, clear bluish green, the color of verdigris.
Verdigris
(Ver"di*gris), v. t. To cover, or coat, with verdigris. [R.] "An old verdigrised brass bugle."
Hawthorne.
