verditer, verditure

[Fr. verd - de - terre =green of earth.] Chem.: A blue pigment prepared by adding chalk or whiting to a solution of copper in nitric acid. It is made into crayons, or used as a water-color. ver-doy, a. [Fr. verdoyer =to be green.] Her.: Applied to a border charged with flowers, leaves, or other vegetable charges; as, a border -verdoy of trefoils, cinquefoils, . *ver-du-gō, s . [Sp. (See defs.)] 1. An executioner. 2. A severe stroke. "Have you got the pot verdugo?" Beaum, & Flet.: Scornful Lady, ii. 1. *ver-du-go-ship, s. [Eng. verdugo; -ship.] 1. The office of a hangman. 2. A mock formal style of addre ing a hangman or executioner. "His great Verdugoship has not a jot of language." Ben Jonson: Alchemist, iii. 2. ver-dure, s. [Fr.=greenne , vegetation, from verd, vert (Lat. virid is )=green.] Green, greenne ; fresh vegetation. "The earth will not appear painted with flowers, nor the fields covered with verdure."-Locke: Human Understand., bk. iv., ch. xiii. tver-dured, a. [Eng. verdur(e); -ed.] Covered with verdure. "One small island, profusely verdured."-Poe: Island of the Fay. tver-dure-le , a. [Eng. verdure; -le .] Destitute of verdure or vegetation; barren, bleak. "The district is one wide verdurele waste of black basalt."-Chambers' Journal , Feb. 27, 1886.