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English Dictionary: verdin by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
variation
n
  1. an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
    Synonym(s): variation, fluctuation
  2. an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported"
    Synonym(s): variation, variance
  3. a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
  4. something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father"
    Synonym(s): version, variant, variation, edition
  5. an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard; "he patented a variation on the sandal"
  6. the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
    Synonym(s): magnetic declination, magnetic variation, variation
  7. the process of varying or being varied
  8. (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
  9. (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
    Synonym(s): mutant, mutation, variation, sport
  10. (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
    Synonym(s): pas seul, variation
  11. the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard; "who is responsible for these variations in taxation?"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
variedness
n
  1. characterized by variation
    Antonym(s): unvariedness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
variety meat
n
  1. edible viscera of a butchered animal [syn: variety meat, organs]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verd antique
n
  1. a dark green impure marble [syn: verd antique, {verde antique}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verdancy
n
  1. the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation [syn: greenness, verdancy, verdure]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Verdandi
n
  1. goddess of fate: an elf who personified the present [syn: Verdandi, Verthandi]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verdant
adj
  1. characterized by abundance of verdure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verde antique
n
  1. a dark green impure marble [syn: verd antique, {verde antique}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
verdin
n
  1. very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America
    Synonym(s): verdin, Auriparus flaviceps
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Verdun
n
  1. a battle in World War I (1916); in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I the German offensive was stopped
    Synonym(s): Verdun, battle of Verdun
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Verthandi
n
  1. goddess of fate: an elf who personified the present [syn: Verdandi, Verthandi]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Variation \Va`ri*a"tion\, n. [OE. variatioun, F. variation, L.
      variatio. See {Vary}.]
      1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form,
            position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification;
            alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a
            variation of color in different lights; a variation in
            size; variation of language.
  
                     The essences of things are conceived not capable of
                     any such variation.                           --Locke.
  
      2. Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a
            position or state; amount or rate of change.
  
      3. (Gram.) Change of termination of words, as in declension,
            conjugation, derivation, etc.
  
      4. (Mus.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful
            embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or
            harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a
            musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the
            essential features of the original shall still preserve
            their identity.
  
      5. (Alg.) One of the different arrangements which can be made
            of any number of quantities taking a certain number of
            them together.
  
      {Annual variation} (Astron.), the yearly change in the right
            ascension or declination of a star, produced by the
            combined effects of the precession of the equinoxes and
            the proper motion of the star.
  
      {Calculus of variations}. See under {Calculus}.
  
      {Variation compass}. See under {Compass}.
  
      {Variation of the moon} (Astron.), an inequality of the
            moon's motion, depending on the angular distance of the
            moon from the sun. It is greater at the octants, and zero
            at the quadratures.
  
      {Variation of the needle} (Geog. & Naut.), the angle included
            between the true and magnetic meridians of a place; the
            deviation of the direction of a magnetic needle from the
            true north and south line; -- called also {declination of
            the needle}.
  
      Syn: Change; vicissitude; variety; deviation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Variation \Va`ri*a"tion\, n. [OE. variatioun, F. variation, L.
      variatio. See {Vary}.]
      1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form,
            position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification;
            alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a
            variation of color in different lights; a variation in
            size; variation of language.
  
                     The essences of things are conceived not capable of
                     any such variation.                           --Locke.
  
      2. Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a
            position or state; amount or rate of change.
  
      3. (Gram.) Change of termination of words, as in declension,
            conjugation, derivation, etc.
  
      4. (Mus.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful
            embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or
            harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a
            musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the
            essential features of the original shall still preserve
            their identity.
  
      5. (Alg.) One of the different arrangements which can be made
            of any number of quantities taking a certain number of
            them together.
  
      {Annual variation} (Astron.), the yearly change in the right
            ascension or declination of a star, produced by the
            combined effects of the precession of the equinoxes and
            the proper motion of the star.
  
      {Calculus of variations}. See under {Calculus}.
  
      {Variation compass}. See under {Compass}.
  
      {Variation of the moon} (Astron.), an inequality of the
            moon's motion, depending on the angular distance of the
            moon from the sun. It is greater at the octants, and zero
            at the quadratures.
  
      {Variation of the needle} (Geog. & Naut.), the angle included
            between the true and magnetic meridians of a place; the
            deviation of the direction of a magnetic needle from the
            true north and south line; -- called also {declination of
            the needle}.
  
      Syn: Change; vicissitude; variety; deviation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      4. Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of
            his eye; the compass of imagination.
  
                     The compass of his argument.               --Wordsworth.
  
      5. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits;
            -- used with within.
  
                     In two hundred years before (I speak within
                     compass), no such commission had been executed.
                                                                              --Sir J.
                                                                              Davies.
  
      6. (Mus.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity
            of a voice or instrument.
  
                     You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of
                     my compass.                                       --Shak.
  
      7. An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's
            surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning
            freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and
            southerly direction.
  
                     He that first discovered the use of the compass did
                     more for the supplying and increase of useful
                     commodities than those who built workhouses.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      8. A pair of compasses. [R.] See {Compasses.}.
  
                     To fix one foot of their compass wherever they
                     please.                                             --Swift.
  
      9. A circle; a continent. [Obs.]
  
                     The tryne compas [the threefold world containing
                     earth, sea, and heaven. --Skeat.]      --Chaucer.
  
      {Azimuth compass}. See under {Azimuth}.
  
      {Beam compass}. See under {Beam}.
  
      {Compass card}, the circular card attached to the needles of
            a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two
            points or rhumbs.
  
      {Compass dial}, a small pocket compass fitted with a sundial
            to tell the hour of the day.
  
      {Compass plane} (Carp.), a plane, convex in the direction of
            its length on the under side, for smoothing the concave
            faces of curved woodwork.
  
      {Compass plant}, {Compass flower} (Bot.), a plant of the
            American prairies ({Silphium laciniatum}), not unlike a
            small sunflower; rosinweed. Its lower and root leaves are
            vertical, and on the prairies are disposed to present
            their edges north and south.
  
                     Its leaves are turned to the north as true as the
                     magnet: This is the compass flower.   --Longefellow.
  
      {Compass saw}, a saw with a narrow blade, which will cut in a
            curve; -- called also {fret saw} and {keyhole saw}.
  
      {Compass timber} (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber.
  
      {Compass window} (Arch.), a circular bay window or oriel
            window.
  
      {Mariner's compass}, a kind of compass used in navigation. It
            has two or more magnetic needles permanently attached to a
            card, which moves freely upon a pivot, and is read with
            reference to a mark on the box representing the ship's
            head. The card is divided into thirty-two points, called
            also rhumbs, and the glass-covered box or bowl containing
            it is suspended in gimbals within the binnacle, in order
            to preserve its horizontal position.
  
      {Surveyor's compass}, an instrument used in surveying for
            measuring horizontal angles. See {Circumferentor}.
  
      {Variation compass}, a compass of delicate construction, used
            in observations on the variations of the needle.
  
      {To fetch a compass}, to make a circuit.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Variation \Va`ri*a"tion\, n. [OE. variatioun, F. variation, L.
      variatio. See {Vary}.]
      1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form,
            position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification;
            alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a
            variation of color in different lights; a variation in
            size; variation of language.
  
                     The essences of things are conceived not capable of
                     any such variation.                           --Locke.
  
      2. Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a
            position or state; amount or rate of change.
  
      3. (Gram.) Change of termination of words, as in declension,
            conjugation, derivation, etc.
  
      4. (Mus.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful
            embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or
            harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a
            musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the
            essential features of the original shall still preserve
            their identity.
  
      5. (Alg.) One of the different arrangements which can be made
            of any number of quantities taking a certain number of
            them together.
  
      {Annual variation} (Astron.), the yearly change in the right
            ascension or declination of a star, produced by the
            combined effects of the precession of the equinoxes and
            the proper motion of the star.
  
      {Calculus of variations}. See under {Calculus}.
  
      {Variation compass}. See under {Compass}.
  
      {Variation of the moon} (Astron.), an inequality of the
            moon's motion, depending on the angular distance of the
            moon from the sun. It is greater at the octants, and zero
            at the quadratures.
  
      {Variation of the needle} (Geog. & Naut.), the angle included
            between the true and magnetic meridians of a place; the
            deviation of the direction of a magnetic needle from the
            true north and south line; -- called also {declination of
            the needle}.
  
      Syn: Change; vicissitude; variety; deviation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Variation \Va`ri*a"tion\, n. [OE. variatioun, F. variation, L.
      variatio. See {Vary}.]
      1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form,
            position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification;
            alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a
            variation of color in different lights; a variation in
            size; variation of language.
  
                     The essences of things are conceived not capable of
                     any such variation.                           --Locke.
  
      2. Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a
            position or state; amount or rate of change.
  
      3. (Gram.) Change of termination of words, as in declension,
            conjugation, derivation, etc.
  
      4. (Mus.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful
            embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or
            harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a
            musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the
            essential features of the original shall still preserve
            their identity.
  
      5. (Alg.) One of the different arrangements which can be made
            of any number of quantities taking a certain number of
            them together.
  
      {Annual variation} (Astron.), the yearly change in the right
            ascension or declination of a star, produced by the
            combined effects of the precession of the equinoxes and
            the proper motion of the star.
  
      {Calculus of variations}. See under {Calculus}.
  
      {Variation compass}. See under {Compass}.
  
      {Variation of the moon} (Astron.), an inequality of the
            moon's motion, depending on the angular distance of the
            moon from the sun. It is greater at the octants, and zero
            at the quadratures.
  
      {Variation of the needle} (Geog. & Naut.), the angle included
            between the true and magnetic meridians of a place; the
            deviation of the direction of a magnetic needle from the
            true north and south line; -- called also {declination of
            the needle}.
  
      Syn: Change; vicissitude; variety; deviation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verd antique \Verd` an*tique"\ [F. vert antique a kind of
      marble; verd, vert, green + antique ancient: cf. It. verde
      antico.] (Min.)
            (a) A mottled-green serpentine marble.
            (b) A green porphyry called {oriental verd antique}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verdancy \Ver"dan*cy\, n.
      The quality or state of being verdant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verdant \Ver"dant\, a. [F. verdoyant, p. pr. of verdoyer to be
      verdant, to grow green, OF. verdoier, verdeier, fr. verd,
      vert, green, fr. L. viridis green, fr. virere to be green:
      cf. OF. verdant verdant, L. viridans, p. pr. of viridare to
      make green. Cf. {Farthingale}, {Verjuice}, {Vert}.]
      1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh;
            flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
  
                     Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass. --Milton.
  
      2. Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw;
            green; as, a verdant youth. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verdantly \Ver"dant*ly\, adv.
      In a verdant manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verdin \Ver"din\, n. [Cf. Sp. verdino bright green, F. verdin
      the yellow-hammer.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A small yellow-headed bird ({Auriparus flaviceps}) of Lower
      California, allied to the titmice; -- called also {goldtit}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verdine \Ver"dine\, n. [F. verd, vert, green.] (Chem.)
      A commercial name for green aniline dye.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verdingale \Ver"din*gale\, n.
      See {Farthingale}. [Spelled also {verdingall}.] [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Verdingale \Ver"din*gale\, n.
      See {Farthingale}. [Spelled also {verdingall}.] [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vireton \Vir"e*ton\, n. [F. See {Vire}.]
      An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass
      placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Viridine \Vir"i*dine\, n. [L. viridis green.] (Chem.)
      A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, {C12H19N7},
      obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture
      of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives
      of the base pyridine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Viridness \Vir"id*ness\, n.
      Viridity; greenness.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Vardaman, MS (town, FIPS 76320)
      Location: 33.88174 N, 89.17858 W
      Population (1990): 920 (410 housing units)
      Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 38878

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Verden, OK (town, FIPS 77000)
      Location: 35.08375 N, 98.08713 W
      Population (1990): 546 (257 housing units)
      Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 73092

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Verdon, NE (village, FIPS 50510)
      Location: 40.14886 N, 95.71076 W
      Population (1990): 242 (108 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 68457
   Verdon, SD (town, FIPS 66660)
      Location: 45.24469 N, 98.09806 W
      Population (1990): 7 (6 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 57434

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Virden, IL (city, FIPS 78149)
      Location: 39.50489 N, 89.76949 W
      Population (1990): 3635 (1523 housing units)
      Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 62690
   Virden, NM (village, FIPS 83200)
      Location: 32.68855 N, 109.00197 W
      Population (1990): 108 (48 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Vredenburgh, AL (town, FIPS 79272)
      Location: 31.82328 N, 87.31753 W
      Population (1990): 313 (105 housing units)
      Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 36481

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Variational Graphics eXtended
  
      (VGX) {Software} developed by {SDRC} for use in 3D
      {CAD} {solid modelling}.
  
      (1998-02-06)
  
  
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