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Webster 1913 Edition
Vernish
Ver′nish
,Noun.
& Verb.
Varnish.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
vernish
vernish
English
Noun
vernish (countable and uncountable, plural vernishes)
- Obsolete form of varnish.
Verb
vernish (third-person singular simple present vernishes, present participle vernishing, simple past and past participle vernished)
- Obsolete form of varnish.
- c1386, Langland, “Passus V. 70”, in Piers Plowman:
- Venim or vernisch · or vinegre, I trouwe, Walleþ in my wombe · or waxeþ, ich wene.
- 1392, Chaucer, “The Reeve's Tale 229-230”, in The Canterbury Tales[The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]:
- Wel hath this miller vernisshed his heed; Ful pale he was for-dronken, and nat reed.
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