vernish

English

Noun

vernish (countable and uncountable, plural vernishes)

Obsolete form of varnish.

Verb

vernish (third-person singular simple present vernishes, present participle vernishing, simple past and past participle vernished)

Obsolete form of varnish.
- c1386, Langland, “Passus V. 70”, in Piers Plowman‎:
  Venim or vernisch · or vinegre, I trouwe, Walleþ in my wombe · or waxeþ, ich wene.
- 1392, Chaucer, “The Reeve's Tale 229-230”, in The Canterbury Tales‎^{[The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]}:
  Wel hath this miller vernisshed his heed; Ful pale he was for-dronken, and nat reed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vernish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

nervish, shriven

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