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virid
/ˈvɪɹɪd/
noun 2adj 1
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4ADJ.
purple, red, white, yellow
VERB + VIRID
flowers, types
VIRID + NOUN
burnet, confine, fields, heave, mound
PREP.
with
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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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.
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The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry ſpot of graſſy ground.
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Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.
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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', […]
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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[…].
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To inspect (a patient's) color includes (an examination) of the skin of (his/her) face and of the entire body. (Among the colors) the five types of virid, red, yellow, white, and black are distinguish
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