Note: Very is sometimes used to make the word with which it is connected emphatic, and may then be paraphrased by same, self-same, itself, and the like. "The very hand, the very words." Shak. "The very rats instinctively have quit it." Shak. "Yea, there where very desolation dwells." Milton. Very is used occasionally in the comparative degree, and more frequently in the superlative. "Was not my lord the verier wag of the two" Shak. "The veriest hermit in the nation." Pope. "He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood." Hawthorne. Very Reverend. See the Note under Reverend.
VERY
Ver"y, adv.
Defn: In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.
VERY'S NIGHT SIGNALS; VERY NIGHT SIGNALS; VERY'S LIGHT SIGNALS; VERY
LIGHT SIGNALS
Ver"y's, or Ver"y, night signals . [After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who
invented the system in 1877.] (Naut.)
Defn: A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.
VESBIUM
Ves"bi*um, n. Etym: [NL., from L. Vesuvius, contr. Vesbius,
Vesuvius.] (Chem.)
Defn: A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
VESE
Vese, n. Etym: [Cf. Frese, n.]
Defn: Onset; rush; violent draught or wind. [Obs.] Chaucer.
VESICA
Ve*si"ca, n. Etym: [L.]