very : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: very	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
very adv used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" Synonym(s): very, really, real, rattling precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" adj precisely as stated; "the very center of town" being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" Synonym(s): identical, selfsame(a), very(a)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Very \Ver"y\, a. [Compar. {Verier}; superl. {Veriest}.] [OE. verai, verray, OF. verai, vrai, F. vrai, (assumed) LL. veracus, for L. verax true, veracious, fr. verus true; akin to OHG. & OS. w[be]r, G. wahr, D. waar; perhaps originally, that is or exists, and akin to E. was. Cf. {Aver}, v. t., {Veracious}, {Verdict}, {Verity}.] True; real; actual; veritable. Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. --Gen. xxvii. 21. He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. --Prov. xvii. 9. The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness. --Milton. I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice. --Burke. 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. [bd]The very hand, the very words.[b8] --Shak. [bd]The very rats instinctively have quit it.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Yea, there where very desolation dwells.[b8] --Milton. Very is used occasionally in the comparative degree, and more frequently in the superlative. [bd]Was not my lord the verier wag of the two?[b8] --Shak. [bd]The veriest hermit in the nation.[b8] --Pope. [bd]He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood.[b8] --Hawthorne. {Very Reverend}. See the Note under {Reverend}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Very \Ver"y\, adv. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Very's \Ver"y's\, [or] Very \Ver"y\, night signals \night signals\ . [After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who invented the system in 1877.] (Naut.) 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.