Middle English Dictionary Entry
vert n.
Entry Info
| Forms | vert n. Also verte, verd, wert & vērt. |
| Etymology | OF vert, verte, (chiefly AF) verd n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Under forest law, all forest trees, underwood, or brush bearing green leaves; ~ and venesoun, ~…venesoun, all forest vegetation and game;
(b) the color green;
(c) her. green as one of the heraldic tinctures.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450 Forest Laws (Dc 335)241 : As touching the kinges veert, that is to say the kinges wodes, if ther be ony man that hath felled ony gret okes…ye shul do vs to wete and the price of his hors and his cart for it is forfetable to the kinge.
- (1455) RParl.5.319b : That this Acte of Resumption and of Adnullation extende not…to his heirs…of the oversight of verte and venyson in all the Parkes and all the Baillifwykes within the said Forrest.
- (1464) RParl.5.533b : By us graunted to the seid Rauff for his fees and occupation of the seid Office…of the surveying aswell of the Verte as of the Venyson of oure forest of Rokyngham.
b
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)566 : I haue begunne to descriue the spere; Breuely I schal conclude, omyttyng colourys, as off syluer and sabyl, Asure, gold, goulys, and verd.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)802 : Hhere was…a portrature meruulus In a boke that Cleopes had to sey on her deuocionys Portrayd with gold and verd.
c
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)978 : For Arge, hos kyng a lebard passaund, Off syluer in uerd bare, he vsyd greuys that with grene were dyght.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.5 (Hrl 2169)187 : A beryth goulys and wert ix pecys, iiij lebardys hedys of gold.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.9 (Hrl 2169)174 : Tomas Porthelyne beryth sylvyr a cheveron goulys iij popye bolles of wert dessendaunte.