vertn.1adj.1
/vəːt/, U.S. /vərt/ 1. in extended use.1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory sig. c7v 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.† c. nether vert, over vert, special vert: (see quots.). Obsolete.
a. Green vegetation growing in a wood or forest and capable of serving as cover for deer.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > green parts of
vert14..
vert1455
greenhew1598
verd1641
14.. Forest Laws (Douce 335) f. 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.].
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. xv. f. 89v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The better preseruation of such venery and vert of all sortes as were nourished in the same.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest vi. §1. f. 33v. [Hence in later Dicts., etc.]
1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1073 While this Country was a Chace, and while the Vert was preserv'd.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 71 The punishment of all injuries done to the king's deer or venison, to the vert or greenswerd.
1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 166 Destruction of vert, is destruction of venison.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 62 A royal demesne..covered with vert, and well stocked with deer.
1871 Daily News 18 Sept. The Lord of the Manor..had..enclosed four hundred acres of waste land, and had destroyed the vert on parts thereof.
b. Coupled with venison. (The common use.) Frequently without article.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > green parts of
vert14..
vert1455
greenhew1598
verd1641
1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 319/2 The oversight of verte and venyson, in all the Parkes.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 459/2 The k[ing]..appointed foure iustices..to be as surueyers aboue all other Foresters of vert & venison.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xvii. f. 102v That which tendeth to the hurt and annoyance of the Vert and the Venison.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 163 The great plenty both of Vert and Venison within this Land.
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 820 Every Forester in Fee shall..Attach Pleas of the Forest, as well concerning Vert as Venison.
1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 316 If a man was taken with vert, or venison, it was declared to be equivalent to indictment.
1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson III. xxxvii. 3 He therefore gave much of his time to the concerns of vert and venison.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 175/1 The master-keepers' and groom-keepers' duty is to preserve the vert and venison in their respective bailiwicks and walks.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > forest or park
park1222
hainc1275
forest1297
firth?a1400
nether vert1598
haya1640
the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > clearing
sladec893
riddingOE
wood lay?c1225
wood lind?c1225
wood rise?c1225
laund1340
cockshoot1353
gladea1535
cock-glade1574
nether vert1598
cock-roada1613
opening1678
opening1743
patana1854
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > overwood or canopy
over vert1598
storey?1888
overwood1889
canopy1905
overstorey1914
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > fruit-tree > collectively
special vert1598
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest vi. §2. f. 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.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest vi. §2. f. 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.]
1727 W. Nelson 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. elliptical. The right to cut green trees or shrubs in a forest. Now archaic.
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society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > forest rights
frank-chase1587
free-bound1639
vert1639
freeboard1640
forestry1681
1639 in W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. (1753) II. 151/1 All their antient Rights,..with Pit and Gallows, Sack and Soke, Thole, Theam, Vert, Wrack, Waifs [etc.].
1707 in State, Fraser of Fraserfield 310 (Jam.) Cum furca, fossa,..vert, veth, venison,..pit et gallows.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. x. 266 The Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.
1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. vii. 128 His rights of vert and venison, extended over a wide distance around.
1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton ix. 257 The nobles about gave up to him their rights of venison, and vert, and pasture, and pannage of swine.
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the world > plants > [noun] > green plant
verduresc1475
verdoire1586
vert1648
chlorophyte1882
1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 129 Bayes, Locusts, Pomegrannets, and such like Verts, that grow wild in the Hedges.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > other pigments
vert1481
verditer1505
green bice1548
sap1572
sap-green1578
terre-verte1658
verditer1665
ultramarine blue (or colour)1686
emerald1712
Prussian green1738
Saxon green1753
verditel1778
Brunswick green1790
mountain green1822
Vienna green1825
bladder-green1830
Verona green1835
mitis green1839
Paris green1847
Hooker's green1860
Guignet's green1862
emerald green1879
silk green1880
viridian1882
Cassel green1885
Milori green1885
Victoria green1890
Montpellier green1930
cadmium green1934
guaco1936
Monastral1936
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 339 Item,..for iiij. dos. of golde paper, and silver rowche clere and verte, viij. s.
1572 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 178 Vert,..Sapp,..Crymsen,..White,..Broune.
1582 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 359 Paste bord, paper, and paste, white, sise, verte, Syneper.
5. spec. in Heraldry. The tincture green. Also as adj.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > colour > green
verd1449
sinople1489
vert?1507
emerald1572
Venus1572
?1507 C. Brandon et al. Iustes of Maye (de Worde) sig. A.iv For a cognysaunce Of Mayes month they bare a souenaunce Of a verte cocle was the resemblaunce Tatched ryght fast.
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 15 b That is greene, & blased Vert.
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 15 b And nowe we to the fourth colour, Vert.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella xiii In vert field Mars bare a golden speare.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xiii. 169 A plaine crosse Vert, by the name of Hussey.
1655 T. Fuller Antheol. (1867) 278 The whole field was vert or green.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia [Hence in Phillips, etc.]
a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 44 [To] tell you how they beare Gules, or, vert, azure,—heathen words for Red, Yellow, green, blue.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Vert (in Heraldry) signifies Green, and in Graving, is expressed by Diagonal Lines, drawn from the Dexter Chief Corner, to the Sinister Base.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. 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.
c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Vert, the common French term for green, and the proper heraldic term for that colour.
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vertn.2
/vəːt/, U.S. /vərt/ One who converts from one religion to another, esp. to the Roman Catholic faith.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > one who has undergone
proselytec1384
converse1388
convert1561
convertitec1592
convertist1611
missionary1834
mihanere1840
vert1864
proselytess1879
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > conversion to Catholicism > [noun] > person practising
papalizer1842
vert1864
1864 Union 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.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 May 4/2 Cardinal Manning stands alone.., and as he is an Anglican 'vert he does not count.
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vertn.3adj.3
/vəːt/, U.S. /vərt/ In Skateboarding and similar sports.
A. n.3
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.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > [noun] > place or track
skatepark1976
slalom1976
quarter pipe1978
vert1979
1979 Skateboarder Nov. 67/2 And on banks and vert, Alexis has his own model Benjyboard, a 30″ x 9½″ maple laminate with the ‘tail as wide as the nose’.
1981 Action Now Feb. 11/1 Skateboarding still rules! Whether freestyle, vert, downhill, slalom, or just plain radical cruising.
1992 Los Angeles Times 23 Apr. (San Diego County ed.) (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.
1997 BMX 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.
2004 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 7 May d1/3 The 12,500-square-foot facility features street elements and ‘vert’ for skate[board] enthusiasts.
B. adj.3
Of, designating or relating to skateboarding, etc., performed ‘on vert’; vertical.
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1987 R.A.D./BMX Action Bike Sept. 39/2 In the Masterclass Ramps Andy Brown ripped up a high vert Can-can.
1990 Poweredge 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.
1992 Trans 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.
1996 Calif. CitySports July 24 The vert contest was dope with a big upset by Matt Lindenmuth.
2002 T. 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.
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vertadj.2
/vəːt/, U.S. /vərt/ poetic.
Turning.Apparently an isolated use.
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1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 49 O Primal Age When we danced deisal, our dream-wishes Vert and volant.
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vertv.1
/vəːt/, U.S. /vərt/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (transitive)] > root about
wort1510
vert1578
grout1877
1578 Burgh 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 Pathology or Anatomy.
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the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > turn (something) to a (different) direction > from normal direction
writheOE
wreathec1429
wryc1460
vertc1590
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > affect with muscular disorder [verb (transitive)] > sprain or strain
wrench1530
wrestc1550
strain1612
sprain1622
wrincha1625
rick1638
subluxate1743
turn1758
throw1790
wramp1808
vert1883
stave1887
crink1888
wrick1904
pull1908
c1590 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 47 His sourd..did clinck and clak, Quhair euir he verts his force And awfull face.
1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence iii. 21 When a Writer's words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, against his true intent, and their Grammaticall sense.
3. intransitive. To change direction; to dart about.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)]
charec1000
stintc1330
turnc1330
to turn awaya1382
windc1385
casta1475
rebatea1500
strike1576
to cast about1591
veer1769
to come around1797
twist?1801
vert1859
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. x. 198 He flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.
Derivatives
ˈverting adj.
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the world > space > direction > [adjective] > turning or able to face any direction > able to turn (something)
verting1903
1903 Med. 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.
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vertv.2
/vəːt/, U.S. /vərt/ intransitive. To become a convert from one religion to another, esp. to Roman Catholicism.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > convert [verb (intransitive)]
turnc1225
converta1400
to come through1708
to get religion1772
to see the light1812
to experience religion1837
vert1888
to find religion (also Christ, God, Jesus, etc.)1957
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > conversion to Catholicism > convert to Catholicism [verb (intransitive)]
catholicize1611
Romanize1637
to go over1658
papalize1835
vert1888
popec1916
1888 Echo 17 Mar. (Cassell's) As a man he is welcome to vert and re-vert as often as he pleases.
1891 Hist. Sk. Par. St. Martin, Colchester 7 William Murray..'verted to the Roman Church after J. H. Newman.
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