Obs. rare. Also verzina. [It.] Brazil-wood.
[1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 80. None other trees then brasile, whiche the Italians caule Verzino.]
1588. T. Hickock, trans. C. Frederick’s Voy., 23 b. In whose harbour euerie yere there ladeth some Shippes with Uerzina, Nypa, and Beniamin, [etc.].
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. I. 229. There goeth another ship for the said Captaine of Malacca to Sion, to lade Verzino.
