virid

UK /ˈvɪɹɪd/ US /ˈvɪɹɪd/
noun 2adj 1

Definitions

adj

1

Green, verdant.

Her tombe vvas not of viride Spartane greet, / Nor yet by cunning hand of Scopas vvrought, / But built of poliſht ſtone, and thereon laid / The liuely ſhape and purtrait of the maid.

The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry ſpot of graſſy ground.

noun

1

A green colour.

In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin 'like our other chaplains', […]

As to the regulation of the fire, if it is too hot the colour of the flowers will be yellow; if it is too cold the colour of the flowers will be virid or purple[…].

noun

1

Any of a group of related viruses.

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