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▪ I. verst|vɜːst|
Forms: α. 6–8 werste, 6, 8–9 werst, 7 worst, 7–8 wurste. β. 6– verst, 6–8 verste, 7 vorst; 6 verse (pl. versse), 7 ferse.
[ad. Russ. verstá, partly through G. werst and F. verste.]
A Russian measure of length equal to 3500 English feet or about two-thirds of an English mile.
α1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 322 From Moscouia to the citie of Vuolochda, are numbered [500] Werstes, one Werst conteynynge almoste the space of an Italyan myle. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 27 We left Novogorod and got forwards 36. Werstes, or seven Leagues. 1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5293/2 He was not gone above 12 Wurstes or Russian Miles. 1774Ann. Reg. ii. 151 Having approached this island within almost three wersts, or two English miles, their vessel was suddenly surrounded by ice. 1818Byron Mazeppa xvii, Many a werst, Panting as if his heart would burst, The weary brute still stagger'd on. 1841Motley Corr. (1889) I. iv. 73 The road from Tauroggen to Petersburg is 14 wersts.
β1557Jenkinson in Hakluyt Voy. (1886) III. 198 Vologhda and Mosco..are accompted 500 verstes asunder. c1571J. Stow Voy. & Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) II. 339 The ryuer oca, which is 20 versse distant from ye moscow; a verse is iii quarters of an yngleshe myle. 1591G. Fletcher Russe Commw. (Hakl. Soc.) 7 A little isthmus or narrow slippe of lande, a fewe versts ouerthwart. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 295 In Russia among the Moscovites confining upon Poland, a mile is called a ferse. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. 23 From the furthest part westward..to Siberia Eastward, is 4400. verst or thereabouts. a1670[S. Collins] Pres. St. Russia (1671) 83 Some ran away ten Versts before they could be overtaken. 1760Phil. Trans. LI. 490 It runs from a great lake, which lies a verste and a half from its mouth. 1775Wraxall Tour North. Europe 218 Muscovite lords commonly go fifty and sixty versts..to make visits to each other. 1808R. K. Porter Trav. Sk. Russ. & Swed. (1813) I. iv. 27 Seventy or eighty versts above St. Petersburgh. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. ii. 204 A country house of the Tzaar's seven versts from Moscow. 1879Browning Ivan Ivanovitch 194 No strength, old crone,—not she!—to crawl forth half a verst!
▪ II. verst(e
southern ME. varr. first a. and adv.; obs. Sc. ff. worst a. |