▪ I. † ˈverder1 Obs.
Also 6 vardar.
[var. of verdour1, with weakened ending on the analogy of agent-nouns in -our, -er, -ar.]
1. = verdour1 2, verdure 3: a. In plural.
| 1500 Inv. in Ann. Reg. (1768) ii. 134 One dozen of cushions of verders stuffed with feathers. 1542 in Harrison Ann. Old Manor Ho. (1893) 207, vij peces of smale verders storyed with bests & ffowles; iiij peces of verders paued with redd and white. 1547 in Kempe Losely MSS. (1836) 152 Sixe longe carpytts of grene vardars, with flowers lyned with canvys. 1660 in Statutes of Realm (1819) V. 198/1 Verders of Tapistry with haire. 1662 in Stat. at Large, Ireland (1765) II. 417 Verders Tapistry, containing eight or ten ells with hair. |
b. In singular.
| 1522–3 Inv. in Archaeol. (1860) XXXVIII. 364 A counter⁓paynt of verder and a pleyn cubborde. Ibid., ijo gret cownterpoyntes of verder. 1535–6 in Dugdale Monast. Angl. (1823) IV. 542 One chare of lether frynged with one cuysshon of verder. 1594 Inv. in Archaeol. (1884) XLVIII. 126 Item two wollen blancketes and a coveringe of verdere xl s. |
2. = verdure 4. rare—1.
| 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 357/1 That the olde holsome wine..offend their dronken taste, because it is not so walowe swete but drinketh more of the verder. |
▪ II. † verder2 Obs. rare.
[a. AF. verder (13–14th c.) = OF. and F. verdier verdier. See also verdour2.]
= verderer2 1.
| a 1625 Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 497 De exonerando viridario forestæ, to discharge a verder of the forest in like sort. 1717 Hist. Reg., Chronol. Reg. 41 Thomas Gage, Esq., elected Verder of the Forest of Dean. |
▪ III. † verder3
? mispr. for verger3.
| a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 214 [The] high Constable of England bearyng the verder of siluer appertainyng to y⊇ office of Constableship. |