vert1 (vert)

[F. vert, green, Cum furca, fo a, sock, vert, veth, venison. Charter, Q. Anne, 1707. (Jamie son.) The Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe. Scott , Ivanhoe, xl. I was interested in the preservation of the venison and the vert more than the hunters or wood-choppers. Thoreau , Walden, p. 269. 2. In her., the tincture green. It is represented by diagonal lines from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Abbreviated v. -Nether vert, underwoods. - Over vert or overt vert, trees serving for browse, shelter, and defense; the great forest as distinguished from underwoods. Special vert, in old Eng. forest law, trees and plants capable of serving as covert for deer, and bearing fruit on which they feed: so called because its destruction was a more serious offense than the destruction of other vert. Vert .