† Verinasn.
Obsolete. rare.
A superior quality of roll tobacco (see Varinas n.).
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Trinidado1599
Verinas1624
Virginia1624
Orinoco1660
merry land1688
Virginia tobacco1700
Varinas1747
Latakia1833
tumbak1836
Shiraz1840
mahorka1857
Turkish1859
perique1865
Sobranie1899
torori1905
Yenidje1954
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 126 There are so many sofisticating Tobaco-mungers in England, were it neuer so bad, they would sell it for Verinas, and the trash that remaineth should be Virginia.
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 192 It is made more excellent than that which commonly goes under the name of Virinus-Tobacco.
1670 Merry Drollery i. 10 But all the day long you do us the wrong; When for Verrinus you bring us Mundungus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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