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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Heraldry The color green.
2. n. Green vegetation that can serve as cover for deer. Used in English forest law.
3. n. The right to cut such vegetation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To turn: noting the movements of the eyeball.
2. An abbreviation of Vertebrata
3. of vertebrate.
4. n. In English forest law, everything within a forest bearing a green leaf which may serve as a cover for deer, but especially great and thick coverts; also, a power to cut green trees or wood.
5. n. In heraldry, the tincture green. It is represented by diagonal lines from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Abbreviated verb
6. n. One who leaves one church for another; a convert or pervert, according as the action is viewed by members of the church joined or members of the church abandoned: said especially of persons who go from the Church of England to the Church of Rome.
7. To become a “vert”; leave the Church of England for the Roman communion, or vice versa.

Wiktionary

1. abbr. vertebrate
2. abbr. vertical
3. n. heraldry A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
4. n. archaic Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
5. n. archaic The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
6. adj. heraldry In blazon, of the colour green.
7. n. colloquial In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
8. n. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest.
2. n. The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
3. n. (Her.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.