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vermily

vermily noun: vermilion.

Noun

vermily

  1. (obsolete, rare) Vermilion.
    • The same she tempred with fine Mercury / And virgin wax that never yet was seald, / And mingled them with perfect vermily […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about vermily

What does vermily mean?
Vermily means vermilion.
What part of speech is vermily?
Vermily is a noun.

Words near vermily in the dictionary

  1. vermillion
  2. Vermillion County
  3. vermillioned
  4. vermillioning
  5. vermillions
  6. vermily
  7. Vermilyea
  8. Vermilyeas
  9. vermimetry
  10. vermin
  11. verminate

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