verter
noun
1.
English Forest Law.
a.
vegetation bearing green leaves in a forest and capable of serving as a cover for deer.
b.
the right to cut such vegetation.
2.
Heraldry. the tincture, or color, green.
adjective
3.
Heraldry. of the tincture green: a lion vert.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English verte < Anglo-French, Middle French vert, verd < Latin viridis green, equivalent to vir(ēre) to be green + -idis, apparently irregular for -idus -id4
1400–50; late Middle English verte < Anglo-French, Middle French vert, verd < Latin viridis green, equivalent to vir(ēre) to be green + -idis, apparently irregular for -idus -id4
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | English legal history |
| a. the right to cut green wood in a forest | |
| b. the wood itself | |
| 2. | heraldry |
| a. the colour green | |
| b. (as adjective, usually postpositive): a table vert | |
| [C15: from Old French verd, from Latin viridis green, from virēre to grow green] | |
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