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Vekd, Caps, de, Islands of, are seated in 'tlie AtlanticOcean , about 400 miles W. of the Cape. They are between the13th and 19th degree of latitude; and the principal are ten innumber, lying in a semicircle. Their names, are, St. Anthony,St. Vincent, St. Lucia, St. Nicholas , the Isle of Sal. Pona Vista,A’layo, St. Jago, Fuego, and Brava.

VERDEN, a duchy of Lower Saxony , bounded E. S. and N.by Lunenburg; W. by Bremen, about 2S miles square.

Verpen, the capital of the above duchy, is seated on the Al-lier, 26 miles S. E. of Bremen. Lon. 9. 0. E. Lat. 53. 10. N.

VERDICT, the answer of a Jury made upon any cause, civil,°r criminial, committed by the court to their examination. SeeLaw.

VERDIGRISE, or the acctite of copper, is much used bypainters as a green colour. It is chiefly manufactured at Mont-pelier; the vines of Languedoc being very convenient for thisPurpose.

VERD1TER, or VERDATER, is a preparation of copper,sometimes used by the painters, &c. fora blue; but more usually•nixed with a yellow for a green colour. See Colour-Mak-ing.

VERDOY, in heraldry, denotes a bordure of a coat of arms,charged with any kinds or parts of flowers, fruits, seeds,Plants, &c.

VERDUN, a city of France, in the department of the Meuse ,and province of Lorrain, 42 miles S. VV, of Luxemburgh, and 150E. of Paris . Lon. 5. 28. E. Lat. 49. 9. N.

Vf.rdun, a town of France , in the department of Upper Ga-ronne, and late Languedoc; 12 miles N. W. of Toulouse . Lon.L 20. E. Lat. 43. 54. N.

VERGE signifies the compass of the king’s court, whichhounds the jurisdiction of the lord steward of the household, andwhich is thought to have been 12 miles round. The term vergeis also used for a stick or rod, whereby one is admitted tenant to acopyhold-estate, by bolding it in his hand, and swearing fealty tofile lord of the manor.

VERGERS, certain officers of the courts of the king’s-benchand common-pleas, whose business it is to carry white wands be-fore the judges. They are also vergers of cathedrals, who carrya rod tipped with silver before the bishop, dean, &c.

VERJUICE is obtained from grapes or apples when unfit for'vine or cyder; or from sweet ones, whilst yet acid and unripe.Its chief use is in sauces, ragouts, See. it is also an ingredient insome medicinal compositions, and is used by the wax-chandlers to

purify their wax. . . _.

VERMANDOIS, a province or trance, in 1 icardy, whichwith that of Soissonnois, now forms the department of Aisne . It

abounds in corn and flax. . , , . .

VERMANTON, a town of France , in the department ofYonne; 12 miles N. W. of Avalon, and 12 S. E. of Auxerre .

L °n. 3/49. E. Lat. 47. 40. N. „ ,

VERMES, the sixth class of animals m the Linnaean bvstem,comprehending five orders. See Natural History, and Zoo-logy

vermicelli or vermichelly, a composition of

cheese, yolks of eggs, sugar, and saffron, reduced to aP‘ Vste , ami funned into long slender pieces ike worms by forcing1 with a piston through a number of little holes. It was firstNought f r u m Italy , where it is in great vogue; rt is chiefly used,n soups and pottages, to provoke venery, &c.a VERMICULAR is an epithet given to any thing that bears

V ER M*! FOR MIS, in anatomy, a term applied to variouspa «s in the human body, bearing some resemblance to worms. _

VERMIFUGE, [from r emus and Jugo, Lat.] a medicine' Vl ‘ lc| i expels worms from the intestines. See Medicine.

V ER\1ILI ION is a very bright and beautiful red colour,'““•Posed or quicksilver and sulphur, in great esteem among thea “cu-nts under the name of .minium; but what goes by the name^ ni ‘ | iium amongst us, is a preparation of lead, known also by theof red-lead.

an; V EH Mines' a collective name, including all kinds of littleti'walsand insects, which are hurtful or troublesome to mankind,joists, or f rmlS) g- Ci as worms, lice, fleas, caterpillats, ants,cs, &c.

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VERMONT, one of the United Slates of North America ,bounded on the N. by Canada, on the E. by the Connecticut ,which divides it from New Hampshire, on the S. by Massachu-setts, and on the W. by New York . The natural growth upon themountain which gives name to the state, is hemlock, pine, spruce,and other evergreens ; lienee it has always a green appearance!It is finely watered, the soil is very fertile, and there is not a bet-ter climate in the world.

VERNIER SCALE, a scale excellently adapted for the gra-duation of mathematical instruments, thus called from its inventorPeter Vernier, a person of distinction in the Tranche Comte.See Nonius. Vernier’s method is derived from the followingprinciple. If two equal right lines, or circular arcs, A, B, are sodivided, that the number of equal divisions in B is one less thanthe number of equal divisions of A, then will the excess of onedivision of B above one division of A be compounded of the ra-tios of one of A to A, and of one of B to B.

For let A contain 11 parts, then one of A to A, is as 1 to 11,

or-jjN-. Let B contain 10 parts, then one of B to B is as 1 to 10,

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VERONA, a city of Italy , capital ofthe Veronese, andahishop’ssee. The river Adige divides it into two parts, which communicateby four bridges: It is 17 miles N. E. of Mantua, and 62 S. W. ofVenice . Lon. 11. 24. E. Lat. 45. 26. N.

VERONESE, a territory of Italy , bounded on the N. bythe Treutino, on the E. by the Vicentiuo and Paduano, on theS. by Mantua, and on the W. by the department of Olona. It isabout 35 miles long and 27 broa’d, and is one of the most fertilecountries in Italy , abounding in corn, wine, fruits, and cat-tle.

VERONICA, in botany, a genus of plants of the class dian-dria, and order monogynia, natural order, Pcrsonutx. Corollafour-cleft, wheel-shaped, with the lowest segment narrower: cap-sule superior, two-celled. There are fifty-seven species.

VERSAILLES, a city of France , in the department of theSeine and Oise, and province of the Isle of France , 10 miles W. S.W. of Paris . Lon 2. J2. E. Eat. 48. 48. N.

VERSED SIN E OF AN ARCII, a segment of the diameter?of a -circle, lying between the foot of a right sine, and the lowerextremity of the arch. See Trigonometry.

VERT, in heraldry, the term for a green colour. It is calledvert in the blazon of the coats of all under the degree of nobles;but in coats of nobility it is called emerald ; and in those of kingsvenus. In engraving it is expressed by diagonals, or lines drawnathwart from right to left, from the dexter chief corner to the si-nister base.

VERTEBRJE, in anatomy, the twenty-four bones of which thespine consists, and on which the several motions of the trunk ofour bodies are performed.

VERTEX is used, in astronomy, for the point of heaven per-pendicularly over our heads, properly called the zenith.

VERTICAL CIRCLE, in astronomy, a great circle of thesphere, passing through the zenith and nadir, and cutting the ho-rizon at right angles: it is otherwise called azimuth circle. SeeAstronomy.

Vertical Dial, is a sun-dial drawn on the plane of a verticalcircle, or perpendicular to the horizon. See Dialing.

VERTIC1LLATJE, a class irr Ray’s and Boerhaave ’s Me-thods, consisting of herbaceous vegetables, having four nakedseeds, and the flowers placed in whorls round the stalk.

VERTICILLUS, a mode of flowering, in which the flowersare produced in rings at each joint of the stem, with very short

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