英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Vernacular
(a.)
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by
birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language;
as, English is our vernacular language.
Vernacular
(n.)
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often,
the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
Vernacularism
(n.)
A vernacular idiom.
Vernacularization
(n.)
The act or process of making vernacular, or the
state of being made vernacular.
Vernacularly
(adv.)
In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular.
Vernaculous
(a.)
Vernacular.
Vernaculous
(a.)
Scoffing; scurrilous.
Vernage
(n.)
A kind of sweet wine from Italy.
Vernal
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring;
as, vernal bloom.
Vernal
(a.)
Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.
Vernant
(a.)
Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
Vernate
(v. i.)
To become young again.
Vernation
(n.)
The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as
regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
Vernicle
(n.)
A Veronica. See Veronica, 1.
Vernicose
(a.)
Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
Vernier
(n.)
A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a
graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a
barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a
certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain
number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the
instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing
what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
Vernile
(a.)
Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious.
Vernility
(n.)
Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility.
Vernine
(n.)
An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red
clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
Vernish
(n. & v.)
Varnish.