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▪ I. vert, n.1 (and a.1)|vɜːt|
Also 5 veert, 5–7 verte.
[a. AF. and OF. vert (so mod.F.; formerly also verd verd n.), = Pr. vert, Cat. verd, Sp., Pg., and It. verde:—L. virid-em, viridis green, virid a.]
1. Green vegetation growing in a wood or forest and capable of serving as cover for deer.
14..Forest Laws (MS. Douce 335) fol. 73 As touching the kinges veert, that is to say, the kinges wodes; if ther be ony mann, that hath felled ony gret okes [etc.]. 1577Harrison England ii. xv. in Holinshed I. 89 b/1 The better preseruation of such venery and vert of all sortes as were nourished in the same. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest vi. §1. 33 b. [Hence in later Dicts., etc.] 1702Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1073 While this Country was a Chace, and while the Vert was preserv'd. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 71 The punishment of all injuries done to the king's deer or venison, to the vert or greenswerd. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 143 Destruction of vert is destruction of venison. 1839Stonehouse Axholme 62 A royal demesne..covered with vert, and well stocked with deer. 1871Daily News 18 Sept., The Lord of the Manor..had..enclosed four hundred acres of waste land, and had destroyed the vert on parts thereof.
transf.1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory c vij b, The fourth is humble Ivy, intersert, But lowlie laid,..Preserved, in her antique bed of Vert, No faith's more firme,..then where't doth creep.
b. Coupled with venison. (The common use.) Freq. without article.
1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 319/2 The oversight of verte and venyson, in all the Parkes. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 459/2 The k[ing]..appointed foure iustices..to be as surueyers aboue all other Foresters of vert & venison. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest xvii. 102 b, That which tendeth to the hurt and annoyance of the Vert and the Venison. 1612Sir J. Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1747) 164 The great plenty both of Vert and Venison within this land. 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 820 Every Forester in Fee shall..Attach Pleas of the Forest, as well concerning Vert as Venison. 1772Junius Lett. lxviii. (1788) 347 If a man was taken with vert, or venison, it was declared to be equivalent to indictment. 1835J. P. Kennedy Horse Shoe R. xxxvii, He gave much of his time to the concerns of vert and venison. 1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 175/1 The master-keepers' and groom-keepers' duty is to preserve the vert and venison in their respective bailiwicks and walks.
†c. nether vert, over vert, special vert: (see quots.). Obs.
1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest vi. §2. 34 There are two sorts of Vert in euery Forrest, that is to say, Ouer vert, and, Neather vert: Ouer vert is that, which the Lawiers do call Hault Boys, and Neather vert is that, which the Lawiers do call South Boys, and in the Forrest lawes, Ouer vert is all manner of Hault Boys, or great wood, aswel such as beareth fruit, as such as beareth none. Ibid. 35 Speciall vert, which is euery tree and bush within the Forrest, that doth beare fruite to feed the Deere withall, as Peare trees, Crabtrees, Hawthornes,..and such like. [Hence in later Law Dicts., etc.] 1727Nelson Laws conc. Game 231 Special-vert, which may be either over or nether-vert, or both if it bears fruit, for nothing is accounted special-vert but such which beareth fruit to feed the deer.
2. ellipt. The right to cut green trees or shrubs in a forest. Now arch.
1639in Maitland Hist. Edinburgh (1753) II. 151/1 All their antient Rights,..with Pit and Gallows, Sack and Soke, Thole, Theam, Vert, Wrack, Waifs [etc.]. 1707in State, Fraser of Fraserfield 310 (Jam.), Cum furca, fossa,..vert, veth, venison,..pit et gallows. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xl, The Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe. 1843James Forest Days vii, His rights of vert and venison, extended over a wide distance around. 1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. 257 The nobles about gave up to him their rights of venison, and vert, and pasture, and pannage of swine.
†3. A green plant or shrub. Obs.—1
1648J. Raymond Il Merc. Ital. 129 Bayes, Locusts, Pomegrannets, and such like Verts, that grow wild in the Hedges.
†4. A green colour or pigment. Obs.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 339 Item,..for iiij. dos. of golde paper, and silver rowche clere and verte, viij. s. 1572in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 178 Vert,..Sapp,..Crymsen,..White,..Broune. 1582Ibid. 359 Paste bord, paper, and paste, white, sise, verte, Syneper.
5. spec. in Her. The tincture green. Also as adj.
c1507Justes Moneths May & June 28 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 114 For a cognysaunce Of Mayes month they bare a souenaunce, Of a verte cocle was the resemblaunce, Tatched ryght fast. 1562Leigh Armorie 15 b, That is greene, & blased Vert. Ibid., And nowe we to the fourth colour, Vert. a1586Sidney Astr. & Stella xiii, In vert field Mars bare a golden speare. 1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. xv. (1906) 194 A plaine crosse Vert, by the name of Hussey. 1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. (Grosart) I. 44 [To] tell you how they beare Gules, or, vert, azure,—heathen words for Red, Yellow, green, blue. 1655Fuller Antheologia (1867) 278 The whole field was vert or green. 1656Blount Glossogr. [Hence in Phillips, etc.] 1727Bailey (vol. II), Vert (in Heraldry) signifies Green, and in Graving, is expressed by Diagonal Lines, drawn from the Dexter Chief Corner, to the Sinister Base. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. i. (1816) I. 10 Some [insects] she [sc. Nature] blazons with heraldic insignia, giving them to bear in fields..vert—gules—argent and or, fesses—bars..and even animals. c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Vert, the common French term for green, and the proper heraldic term for that colour.
▪ II. vert, n.2|vɜːt|
Also 'vert.
[Shortened f. convert n., pervert n.]
One who converts from one religion to another, esp. to the Roman Catholic faith.
1864Union Rev. May 277 Old friends call me a pervert: new acquaintances a convert: the other day I was addressed as a 'vert... This term ‘'vert’ I have every reason to believe has been only just coined. 1886Pall Mall G. 25 May 4/2 Cardinal Manning stands alone.., and as he is an Anglican 'vert he does not count.
transf.1886North Star 5 May, Your 'vert [to Home Rule] is ever vigorous.
▪ III. vert, n.3 and a.3 In Skateboarding and similar sports.
Brit. |vəːt|, U.S. |vərt|
[Shortened ‹vertical n.]
A. n. A tall, curved, steep ramp, such as a half-pipe or quarter pipe, used esp. for aerial manoeuvres. Chiefly as a mass noun: such ramps collectively (esp. in on vert); the style or competitive category of skateboarding, etc., associated with these.
1979Skateboarder Nov. 67/2 And on banks and vert, Alexis has his own model Benjyboard, a 30{pp} x 9½{pp} maple laminate with the ‘tail as wide as the nose’. 1981Action Now Feb. 11/1 Skateboarding still rules! Whether freestyle, vert, downhill, slalom, or just plain radical cruising. 1992Los Angeles Times (San Diego County ed.) 23 Apr. (North County Focus) 3/1 On this afternoon, Reese Simpson is king of the ‘verts’, the steep, vertical sides of the awesome new, 12-foot-high skateboard ramp at the Encinitas YMCA. 1997BMX Plus! Apr. 37/3 The bike comes with a burly 14mm rear axle, the tires work well in dirt or on vert and the rear dropouts are big enough to protect your hub without getting in the way during grinds. 2004Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 7 May d1/3 The 12,500-square-foot facility features street elements and ‘vert’ for skate[board] enthusiasts.
B. adj. Of, designating or relating to skateboarding, etc., performed ‘on vert’; vertical.
1987R.A.D./BMX Action Bike Sept. 39/2 In the Masterclass Ramps Andy Brown ripped up a high vert Can-can. 1990Poweredge Oct. 36/3, I figured why not cut the foot-and-a-half of vertical off of it and make a mid-size ramp? It wasn't too much fun being vert and only sixteen-feet-wide. 1992Trans World Skateboarding Mar. 57 He did frontside ollie-oops onto the vert wall, frontside airs off of the vert wall to disaster on the seven-foot section. 1996Calif. CitySports July 24 The vert contest was dope with a big upset by Matt Lindenmuth. 2002T. Hawk Tony Hawk xiii. 80 A 540-degree spin with a flip in it... It became the trick that defined the new era of vert skating.
▪ IV. vert a.1
see vert n.1
▪ V. vert, a.2 poet. nonce-wd.|vɜːt|
[Cf. vert v.1]
Turning.
1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 49 O Primal Age When we danced deisal, our dream-wishes Vert and volant.
▪ VI. vert, v.1
[ad. L. vertĕre to turn, overturn, etc.]
†1. trans. To turn up, root up (the ground).
1578Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (1848) II. 32 It sall be lesum to quhatsumewir personne apprehendand the said swyne..vertand the ertht, to distroy the samen.
2. To turn in a particular direction; to turn or twist out of the normal position. Now spec. in Path. or Anat. Hence ˈverting ppl. a.
c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 47 His sourd..did clinck and clak, Quhair euir he verts his force And awfull face. 1659Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. iii. 21 When a Writer's words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, against his true intent, and their Grammaticall sense.
1883Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Wom. (ed. 2) viii. 59 A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted. 1903Med. Record 7 Feb. 210 All of the muscles of the eyes may be relatively weak. The ducting or verting power is not as great as it should be.
3. intr. To change direction; to dart about.
1859Meredith R. Feveril II. x. 198 He flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.
▪ VII. vert, v.2
Also 'vert.
[f. vert n.2]
intr. To become a convert from one religion to another, esp. to Roman Catholicism.
1888Echo 17 Mar. (Cassell's), As a man he is welcome to vert and re-vert as often as he pleases. 1891Hist. Sk. Par. St. Martin, Colchester 7 William Murray..'verted to the Roman Church after J. H. Newman. |