a. [ad. L. virent-, virens, pres. pple. of virēre to be green. Cf. It. virente.]

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  † 1.  Verdant; fresh, not faded. Obs.

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1595.  Locrine, III. ii. 11. By reason of the fatall massacre Which shall be made vpon the virent plaines.

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1606.  N. Baxter, Sidney’s Ourania, Song, E iv b. Then comes the Deaw, and doth them recreate: Making them fresh, virent, and fortunate.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 94. In these [roots] yet fresh and virent, they carve out the figures of men and women.

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1646.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. (Grosart), I. 23. For through ye Place is nothing witherd; but still-virent Bayes … Appeare.

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  2.  Green, in color.

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1830.  J. Wright, Retrospect, II. 89.

        Let not the virent snake entwine thee round,
Upon thy path, or near thy footstep stray.

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1837.  Tait’s Mag., IV. 107. The sun … illuminated its virent tints.

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1852.  Bailey, Festus (ed. 5), 490. One hand a staff of virent emerald held.

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