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verdigris|ˈvɜːdɪgrɪs|
Forms: α. 4 verdegrez, 4–6 -gres(e, 5 -greys, 7 -gresse, -griese, 7–8 -grease; 5–6 verdegrece, 6–7 -greace, 7–8 -greece; 6–9 verdigrease, 6 -grese, 6–8 -greese (7 verdie-), 6 verdigrece, 7 -greace, -greece; 6 verdygresse, -grace, 7 virdigreace, -greese. β. 4 vertegrez, 5–6 -grece (5 vertagrece, 6 verthigreace), 5 vertgrez, -grees, 6 -grese, -gresse, 7 -greece. γ. 5 vert de grece, 7 vertdegrease. δ. 6, 8–9 verdegris (6 verddegris), 7–9 verdigrise, 8– verdigris. ε. 6 vargrasse, vergres(se (wer-), vergrys, Sc. vern-, varngris.
[a. AF. and OF. vert de Grece (c 1170), OF. verte grez (13th c.), vert de grice (1314), vert-de-gris (15th c.; also mod.F.), lit. ‘green of Greece’: see vert n.1 Cf. med.L. viride grecum (14–15th c.). The terminal syllable at an early date was no longer understood and hence underwent various corruptions of spelling and pronunciation.]
1. A green or greenish blue substance obtained artificially by the action of dilute acetic acid on thin plates of copper (or a green rust naturally forming on copper and brass), and much used as a pigment, in dyeing, the arts, and medicine; basic acetate of copper.
α1336–7Ely Sacr. Rolls (1907) II. 92 In ij libris dim. de verdegrez empt., ijs. vd. c1386Chaucer Chanon Yeom. Prol. & T. 791 (Corpus), Ȝit wol I telle hem,..As boole armonyak, Verdegres, Boras. 1417in For. Acc. 8 Hen. V, D j/2 Vermelone, Coperos, Verdegres, Vernysshe. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 619 Viride grecum, verdegrece. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xix. xxxviii. 879 In the same wyse as Cerusa is verdegreys made,..and comyth of vapour of stronge vyneygre shed vpon plates of brasse. 1532in E. Law Hampton Crt. Pal. (1885) 363, 3 sackes of verdygrace conteynyng 23 lb. 1582Batman Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. Add. 259 Verdigrese, which as it is a colour for Painters, so it is a fretting poison. 1626Bacon Sylva §291 Metalls give Orient and Fine Colours..in their Putrefactions or Rusts; as Vermilion, Verdegrease, Bise. 1681Grew Musæum iii. iii. i. 341 A sort of Native Verdegriese, from the Copper-Mines of Herngrundt. 1691Patent Specif. No. 270, Verdigrease being a commodity of great vse in this our realme, especially for painting and dying, and never hitherto made here. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. ii. iii. (1734) 97 The Verdigrease which is made by the pressings of the Wine put upon plates of Copper. 1758Ann. Reg. 292 That their process in salt-making would dissolve the surface of the copper, into verdigreese. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iii. 107 The head of a Roman spear..of brass..and..encrusted with verdigrease.
β1300–1Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 502 In vertegrez, melle, atramento. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 791 (Ellesm.), Boole armonyak, vertgrees, Boras. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 82 Wax and oile..dulle þe scharpnez of vertgrese, and vertgrese represseþ þeir putrefaccion and humeccacion. 1487–8in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 412 Pro xj li. de colore viridi, anglice, vertagrece, xs. xd. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 151 [Turpentine] is good for lepres, wyth vert gresse. 1573Art of Limming 6 To temper Vertgrese, called Spanishe greene. 1612Peacham Gentl. Exerc. 82 Vert-greece is nothing else but the rust of brasse. 1656Blount Glossogr., Verd-grease or vert-greece.
γc1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 257 Take hony..& þan do þerto ᵹ .ij. of vert de grece. 1674Vertdegrease [see 2].
δ1565Cooper Thesaurus, Aerugo,..verd degris: the rust of brasse either artificiall or naturall. 1578Lyte Dodoens 196 Gladyn pounde with a little Verdegris..draweth forth al kindes of thornes. 1601Holland Pliny II. 471 This is altogither artificiall, and is made of Cyprian verdegris or rust of brasse. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. ii. §4 (1689) 9 Half a Pound of green Copperas, [and] as much Verdigrise. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 279 Corrosive drugs..Dry allum, verdigrise, or vitriole keen. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 378 Here is a brassy scent in the air as of verdigris. 1819Shelley Œdipus ii. i. 76 Scorpions are green, and water-snakes, and efts, And verdigris. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1273 Verdigris is a mixture of the crystallized acetate of copper and the sub-acetate, in varying proportions. 1853Royle Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 172 ærugo or Verdigris must have been early known, from the employment of Copper vessels.
ε1505–6Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 187 For tua pund verngreis to him, xij s. 1506Ibid. 193, vj pund varngreis. 1531–2in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 65 Pro duabus libris ly wergresse, ijs. 1595Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 103 For vargrasse to dresse the oxe feete.
b. transf. (See quots.) rare.
1608Topsell Serpents 186 There is no part of the Frog so medicinable as is the bloud... The same also being made into a Verdigreace, & drunke [etc.]. [1844Hood The Turtles 116 He mention'd Aldermen deceased,..And speculated on that verdigrease That isn't poison.]
c. With qualifying adjs. (see quots.).
1747Wesley Prim. Physick (1762) 91 One or two Drams of distill'd Verdigrease. 1755Dict. Arts & Sci. s.v., These are the crystals of verdegrease, improperly called distilled verdegrease. 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 339 Crystallized verdigrise or acetite of copper. 1855J. Scoffern Elem. Chem. 490 Neutral acetate of copper is known popularly by the absurd term distilled verdigris. 1863Watts Dict. Chem. I. 14 The bibasic salt or blue verdigris is prepared at Montpellier. Ibid. 15 Green Verdigris.
2. attrib., as verdigris blue, verdigris colour, verdigris water; verdigris green, a green of a bright, bluish hue; æruginous green.
1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iii. i. 129 His skin became of a Verdigreese or yellow-green colour. 1674W. Leybourn Compl. Surveyor 311 Vertdegrease water and yellow berry water make a transparent Green. 1758in Dodsley Fug. Pieces (1761) II. 84 The Unwholesomeness of the Rust and Verdegrease Suffusions. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 28 Verdigris green—that [colour] in which no shade of yellow is perceptible, rather bluish. 1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 67 Verdigris-green is emerald-green mixed with much Berlin-blue, and a little white. 1832T. Brown Bk. Butterflies & M. (1834) I. 213 A rich verdigris blue, of fine satiny lustre. 1896G. M. Stisted True Life Sir R. F. Burton ii. 31 That leek-like verdigris green which one associates only with early spring in the temperate zone.
Hence ˈverdigrisy a., of the colour of verdigris.
1897C. Morley Stud. Board Schools 193 Can that bit of verdigrisy green be dried salt? |