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verditer|ˈvɜːdɪtə(r)|
Forms: α. 6– verditer, 6 viriditer, 8 verdeter. β. 6 verdytor, 7 verditor. γ. 7–9 verditure, 7 virditur.
[a. OF. verd de terre (later F. vert de terre), lit. ‘green of earth’: see verd n. Holland Pliny (1601) II. 528 employs the OF. form.]
1. A kind of pigment of a green, bluish green, or (more freq.) light blue colour, usu. prepared by adding chalk or whiting to a solution of nitrate of copper, and much used in making crayons and as a water-colour.
α1505–6Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 184, iij di. pund verditer; ilk pund vjs. 1558in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 94 Rosset j lb. viiid; verditer xiiijd. 1662in Statutes at Large, Ireland (1765) II. 417 Verditer, the hundred weight,..{pstlg}1 6s. 8d. 1674W. Leybourn Compl. Surveyor 310 Verditer, washed and tempered with Gum-water, is a good Blew. 1738Chambers Cycl. s.v. Dyeing, Bright green is first dyed blue, then back-boiled with braziletto, and verdeter. 1783Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 406 An ounce of copper from verditer absorbed 403 ounce measures. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 150 Bremen blue, or verditer, a greenish blue colour obtained from copper mixed with chalk or lime. Ibid. 1275 Verditer, or Bremen Green..is a light powder, like magnesia, having a blue or bluish green colour. 1873Beeton's Dict. Comm., Sealing-Wax..is a composition of gum-lac, melted and incorporated with resin, and afterwards coloured with some pigment, as vermilion, verditer.
β1532in E. Law Hampton Crt. Pal. (1885) 363, 2 lb. of verdytor, at 16d. the lb. 1660Act 12 Chas. II, c. 4 (1786) III. 157/2 Verditor, the hundred weight,..j li. vjs viijd.
γ1606Peacham Art Drawing 54 Take your Verditure, and grind it with a weak Gum Arabick Water, it is the faintest and palest green that is. 1674W. Leybourn Compl. Surveyor 310 Verditure washed and tempered with Gum water, makes a Green not transparent.
b. With particularizing terms, as blue verditer, green verditer, refined blue verditer, refiners' verditer.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋17 Virdigreace, and Green Virditur, for Greens... But all must be ground with soft Varnish. 1732J. Peele Water-Colours 62 Blue Verditer is a very bright, pleasant blue. 1799G. Smith Laboratory (ed. 6) I. 184 Blue verditer or smalt, mixed with enamel, will make a good blue paint. 1837Penny Cycl. VII. 504/2 It [blue carbonate of copper] is of a fine light blue colour, and known by the name of refiners' verditer. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade s.v., There are refined blue, and green verditers. 1867Bloxam Chem. 345 The paint known as blue verditer is hydrated oxide of copper obtained by decomposing nitrate of copper with hydrate of lime.
c. Hence occas. in pl.
1665Hooke Microgr. 72 For Smalts and verditures, I have been able with a microscope to perceive their particles very many of them transparent. 1835G. Field Chromatography 113 These blues..as pigments are precisely of the character of verditers.
2. The blue or green colour characteristic of verditer.
1819H. Busk Vestriad v. 422 The sacred hill..Clad in bright verditure and Prussian blue. 1858Sat. Rev. 20 Nov. 507/2 Flies..done in the brightest of verditer and ultramarine. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile vii. 185 The prevailing colours..are verditer and chocolate.
3. attrib.
a. With names of colours, esp. verditer blue.
1551–2in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 71 Grownde white leade, viijd. Verditer grene, ixd. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋17 Virditur Indico and Bice for Blews. Ibid., Virditur Indico..and Green Virditur. 1732J. Peele Water-Colours 62 Verditer-Green is a light Green. 1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 571 Greenish blue approaching in richness to verditer blue. 1864–5Wood Homes without H. xiii. (1868) 239 A large patch of feathers on the top of the head glows and flashes with metallic splendour, and is of a vivid verditer blue. 1891G. E. Shelley Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XIX. 95 Throat verditer-blue, with paler blue central lines. 1901Q. Rev. July 18 The magnificent verditer-blue giant plantain-eater.
b. In the sense ‘of the colour of verditer’.
1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 571 A grayish white chin is followed by a verditer throat. 1893Symonds In Key of Blue 11 Verditer hues of water-snakes. |