Vert vs Vext - What's the difference?
vert | vext |
(label) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
(label) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
(label) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
:* 1819': “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of '''vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
(label) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.
(archaic) (vex)
* What happiness to reign a lonely king,
Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
'''Vext with waste dreams?
— Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
* And that same night, the night of the new year,
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born [...]
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
* [...] and thence
Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"
English irregular simple past forms
As a noun vert
is .As a verb vext is
(archaic) (vex).vert
English
(wikipedia vert)Etymology 1
, from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)See also
* vt. in heraldic contexts.Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (vertical).Noun
(en noun)See also
*Anagrams
* * ----vext
English
Verb
(head)Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
'''Vext with waste dreams?
— Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born [...]
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"