tverdurous

[Eng. verdur(e); -ous.] Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh color of vegetation; verdant. "From the verdurous uplands rolled A sultry vapor fraught with death." T. B. Aldrich: Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book . *věr-ě-cund, a. [Lat. verecund us , from vereor =to fear, to feel awe of.] Bashful, modest. *věr-ě-cun-dl-ous, adj . [Latin verecund us .] Modest, bashful, una uming. "A certain verecund i ous generosity graceth your eyes." -Reliquice Wottoniane , p. 156. *věr-ě-cun-di-ty, s. [Latin verecund it as , from verecund us verecund (q. v.).] The quality or state of being modest or bashful; modesty, bashfulne . věr-ě-til-11-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. veretill (um); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ide.] Tool family of Sclerobasic Zoantharia, having an elongate axis, with retractile zoõids over its entire surface, and its lower part bulbous, naked, or soft. It is divided longitudinally by two inter secting membranes, with a calcareous axis in the lower part of the stem, or it may be simple and fleshy.