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pos>a. Everlasting. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. & i. To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To date later than the true or proper period; to postdate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The excess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The overdeal in the price will be double. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too delicate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Delighted beyond measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To develop excessively; specif. (Photog.), to subject (a plate or film) too long to the developing process. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Covered over. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Overdid p. p. Overdone p. pr. & vb. n. Overdoing. ] 1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To surpass; to excel. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To labor too hard; to do too much. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who overdoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cooked too long; overcooked. [ PJC ]

n. Too great a dose; an excessive dose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Banking) The act of overdrawing; a draft in excess of the credit balance; also, the amount or sum overdrawn. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. to present in an overly dramatic manner. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. Overdrew p. p. Overdrawn p. pr. & vb. n. Overdrawing. ] 1. To exaggerate; to overdo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Banking) To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit; to draw more than the balance in one's account. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much; to dress too formally for an informal occasion. Pope. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. & i. To drink to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Machinery) A gearing device which causes the drive shaft of an automobile or other machine to rotate at a speed greater than that of the engine crankshaft. [ PJC ]

2. (Automotive) The gear setting of a motor vehicle at which the overdrive{ 1 } is operative; as, cruising at 80 mph in overdrive. [ PJC ]

3. Hence: [ fig. ] A state of unusually intense activity; as, when they got their new supercomputer, their research kicked into overdrive; one look at her made his heart jump into overdrive; -- used mostly of the activities of persons or groups. [ PJC ]

v. t. To wet or drench to excess. [ Obs. ] W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dry too much. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival, payment, return, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note; a book overdue at the library; an overdue payment. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another). Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Turacou, and Verdant. ] (Physiol.) (Chem.) A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. The veltfare. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Vert, Verdant. ] 1. (Eng. Forest Law) (a) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel. (b) The right of pasturing animals in a forest. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Greenness; freshness. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being verdant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. verdoyant, p. pr. of verdoyer to be verdant, to grow green, OF. verdoier, verdeier, fr. verd, vert, green, fr. L. viridis green, fr. virere to be green: cf. OF. verdant verdant, L. viridans, p. pr. of viridare to make green. Cf. Farthingale, Verjuice, Vert. ] 1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the earth
Put forth the verdant grass. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. vert antique a kind of marble; verd, vert, green + antique ancient: cf. It. verde antico. ] (Min.) (a) A mottled-green serpentine marble. (b) A green porphyry called oriental verd antique. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a verdant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. verdier, LL. viridarius, fr. L. viridis green. ] (Eng. Forest Law) An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. verdit, OF. verdit, veirdit, LL. verdictum, veredictum; L. vere truly (fr. verus true) + dictum a saying, a word, fr. dicere, dictum, to say. See Very, and Dictum. ] 1. (Law) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The decision of a judge or referee, upon an issue of fact, is not called a verdict, but a finding, or a finding of fact. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public. [ 1913 Webster ]

These were enormities condemned by the most natural verdict of common humanity. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two generations have since confirmed the verdict which was pronounced on that night. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. vert-de-gris, apparently from verd, vert, green + de of + gris gray, but really a corruption of LL. viride aeris (equivalent to L. aerugo), from L. viridis green + aes, aeris, brass. See Verdant, and 2d Ore. ] 1. (Chem.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The green rust formed on copper. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This rust is a carbonate of copper, and should not be confounded with true verdigris. U. S. Disp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue verdigris (Chem.), a verdigris having a blue color, used as a pigment, etc. --
Distilled verdigris (Old Chem.), an acid copper acetate; -- so called because the acetic acid used in making it was obtained from distilled vinegar. --
Verdigris green, clear bluish green, the color of verdigris. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover, or coat, with verdigris. [ R. ] “An old verdigrised brass bugle.” Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sp. verdino bright green, F. verdin the yellow-hammer. ] (Zool.) A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. verd, vert, green. ] (Chem.) A commercial name for a green aniline dye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Farthingale. [ Spelled also verdingall. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Verdict. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. vert-de-terre, literally, green of earth. ] (Chem.) (a) Verdigris. [ Obs. ] (b) Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. [ 1913 Webster ]

Verditer blue, a pale greenish blue color, like that of the pigment verditer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Verditer. ] The faintest and palest green. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. verdoyer to become green. See Verdant. ] (Her.) Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. viridis green. See Verdant. ] Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with verdure. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]