Word Meanings - VERJUICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice. 2. Tartness; sourness, as of disposition.

Related words: (words related to VERJUICE)

• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• GREENHORN
  A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
• GREEN-STALL
  A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
• UNRIPENESS
  Quality or state of being unripe.
• JUICE
  The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers.
• GREENISH
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
• GRAPESHOT
  A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot
• LIQUORISH
  See SHAK
• GREENBACKER
  One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• GREENROOM
  The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
• TARTNESS
  The quality or state of being tart. Syn. -- Acrimony; sourness; keenness; poignancy; severity; asperity; acerbity; harshness. See Acrimony.
• GREEN-BROOM
  A plant of the genus Genista ; dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
• GRAPESTONE
  A seed of the grape.
• AYEGREEN
  The houseleek . Halliwell.
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• SHAGREEN
  To chagrin.
• SCHEELE'S GREEN
  See GREEN