vernaget (vernaj)

[ like malmesie or mukadine or bastard wine" (Florio, 1598) (ML. vernachia ), lit. 'winter wine,' He drynketh ypocras, clarree, and vernage , Of spices hoote, to encre en his corage. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 563. Sche brouzthe hem Vernage and Crete. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 111, Index. vernal (ver'nal), a. [ In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenne against Nature not to go out and see her riches. Milton , Education. if The vernal breeze that drives the fogs before it, augmented to a tempest, will... desolate the garden. Goldsmith, National Concord. And beg an alms of spring-time, ne'er denied Indoors by vernal Chaucer. Lowell, Under the Willows. 2. Of or belonging to youth, the springtime of vernal digenous; belonging to the country of one's birth; belonging to the speech that one naturally acquires: as, English is our vernacular language. life. The vernal fancies and sensations of your time of life. Choate, Addre es, p. 134. 3. In bot., appearing in spring: as, vernal flowers.-4. Done or accomplished in spring: as, the vernal migration or molt of birds. Vernal equinox. See equinox, and equinoctial points (under equinoctial ). - Vernal fever, malarial fever.- Vernal gra , a gra , Anthoxanthum odoratum, native in the northern Old World, introduced in North America. It is a slender plant a foot or two high, with a loose cylindrical spike. From the presence of coumarin it exhales an agreeable odor, especially at flowering time, and though not specially nutritious is prized as an admixture in hay for the sake of its flavor. Often called sweet vernal gra , spring gra , sometimes sweet-scented gra . - Vernal signs, the signs in which the sun appears in spring. Vernal whitlow-gra . See whitlow - gra . vernally (ver'nal-i), adv. In a vernal manner. vernant (ver'nant), a. [L. vernan (t-)s, ppr. of vernare, flourish, bloom: see vernate.] Flourishing as in spring; vernal. IMG:content-1794.png:[blocks in formation] vernate (vér'nāt), v. i.; pret. and pp. vernated, ppr. vernating. [