Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
varnish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Varnish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
varnish . - verb Obsolete form of
varnish .
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Examples
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Then I took him with me to a picture shop to choose a print for him to vernish, but did not agree for one then.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Then I took him with me to a picture shop to choose a print for him to vernish, but did not agree for one then.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1666 Pepys, Samuel 1666
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John Tradescant brought a small ozier from S. Omers in Flanders, which makes incomparable net-works, not much inferior to the Indian twig, or bent-works which we have seen; but if we had them in greater abundance, we should haply want the artificers who could employ them, and the dexterity to vernish so neatly.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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a picture shop to choose a print for him to vernish, but did not agree for one then.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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a picture shop to choose a print for him to vernish, but did not agree for one then.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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