Verminate to Versute
Verminate
(Ver"mi*nate) v. i. [L. verminare to have worms, fr. vermis a worm.] To breed vermin.
Vermination
(Ver`mi*na"tion) n. [L. verminatio the worms, a disease of animals, a crawling, itching
pain.]
1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham.
2. A griping of the bowels.
Verminly
(Ver"min*ly) a. & adv. Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin. [Obs.] Gauden.
Verminous
(Ver"min*ous) a. [L. verminosus, fr. vermis a worm: cf. F. vermineux.]
1. Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.
Some . . . verminous disposition of the body.
Harvey. 2. Caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin; as, verminous disease.
Verminously
(Ver"min*ous*ly), adv. In a verminous manner.
Vermiparous
(Ver*mip"a*rous) a. [L. vermis a worm + parere to bring forth.] Producing or breeding
worms. "Vermiparous animals." Sir T. Browne.
Vermivorous
(Ver*miv"o*rous) a. [L. vermis a worm + vorare to devour: cf. F. vermivore.] (Zoöl.) Devouring
worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds.
Vermuth
(Ver"muth) n. [F. vermout.] A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic
drugs, used to excite the appetite. [Written also vermouth.]
Vernacle
(Ver"na*cle) n. See Veronica, 1. [Obs.]
Vernacular
(Ver*nac"u*lar) a. [L. vernaculus born in one's house, native, fr. verna a slave born in his
master's house, a native, probably akin to Skr. vas to dwell, E. was.] Belonging to the country of
one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; — now used chiefly of language; as, English
is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey.
His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue.
Fuller.
Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted.
Pope. Vernacular
(Ver*nac"u*lar), n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms
of expression in a particular locality.
Vernacularism
(Ver*nac"u*lar*ism) n. A vernacular idiom.
Vernacularization
(Ver*nac"u*lar*i*za"tion) n. The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of
being made vernacular. Fitzed. Hall.
Vernacularly
(Ver*nac"u*lar*ly) adv. In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular. Earle.
Vernaculous
(Ver*nac"u*lous) a. [L. vernaculus. See Vernacular.]
1. Vernacular. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
2. [L. vernaculi, pl., buffoons, jesters.] Scoffing; scurrilous. [A Latinism. Obs.] "Subject to the petulancy
of every vernaculous orator." B. Jonson.
