VERANDA, Ind. The covering of houses, being extended beyond the main wall of building, by means of a slanting roof, forming external rooms or passages; a colonade; balcony; gallery.
VERBAL orders. Instructions given by word of mouth, which, when communicated through an official channel, are to be considered as equally binding with written ones.
Verbal, Fr. Verbal; given by word of mouth.
Procès VERBAL, Fr. A verbal deposition.
VERD, Fr. Green. This word is sometimes used in a figurative sense by the French, viz.
Homme VERD or VERT, Fr. A resolute man.
Tête VERTE, Fr. A giddy thoughtless fellow.
Verd pour les chevaux, Fr. Green forage or grass. In the ancien regime of France, the cavalry and dragoon horses, when quartered in a flat country, were allowed to be thirty days at grass; the particular period was left to the discretion of the commanding officers. The term was sometimes extended to forty days, without any deduction being made for the ten days; by means of which an emolument accrued to the captains of troops, not only from the horses which were actually sent to grass, but likewise for those that were returned as such.
VERDIGREASE, (Verd-de-Gris, Fr.) A kind of rust of copper, which is of great use among painters. It is also taken medicinally.
VERGE, Fr. A yard; a measure; a switch, &c.