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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Very  \Ver"y\,  a.  [Compar.  {Verier};  superl.  {Veriest}.]  [OE. 
  verai,  verray,  OF  verai,  vrai,  F.  vrai,  (assumed)  LL 
  veracus  for  L.  verax  true,  veracious,  fr  verus  true;  akin 
  to  OHG.  &  OS  w[=a]r,  G.  wahr,  D.  waar;  perhaps  originally, 
  that  is  or  exists,  and  akin  to  E.  was  Cf  {Aver},  v.  t., 
  {Veracious},  {Verdict},  {Verity}.] 
  True;  real;  actual;  veritable. 
 
  Whether  thou  be  my  very  son  Esau  or  not  --Gen.  xxvii. 
  21. 
 
  He  that  covereth  a  transgression  seeketh  love;  but  he 
  that  repeateth  a  matter  separateth  very  friends. 
  --Prov.  xvii. 
  9. 
 
  The  very  essence  of  truth  is  plainness  and  brightness. 
  --Milton. 
 
  I  looked  on  the  consideration  of  public  service  or 
  public  ornament  to  be  real  and  very  justice.  --Burke. 
 
  Note:  Very  is  sometimes  used  to  make  the  word  with  which  it 
  is  connected  emphatic,  and  may  then  be  paraphrased  by 
  same  self-same,  itself  and  the  like  ``The  very  hand, 
  the  very  words.''  --Shak.  ``The  very  rats  instinctively 
  have  quit  it.''  --Shak.  ``Yea,  there  where  very 
  desolation  dwells.''  --Milton.  Very  is  used 
  occasionally  in  the  comparative  degree,  and  more 
  frequently  in  the  superlative.  ``Was  not  my  lord  the 
  verier  wag  of  the  two?''  --Shak.  ``The  veriest  hermit 
  in  the  nation.''  --Pope.  ``He  had  spoken  the  very 
  truth,  and  transformed  it  into  the  veriest  falsehood.'' 
  --Hawthorne. 
 
  {Very  Reverend}.  See  the  Note  under  {Reverend}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Very  \Ver"y\,  adv 
  In  a  high  degree;  to  no  small  extent;  exceedingly; 
  excessively;  extremely;  as  a  very  great  mountain;  a  very 
  bright  sum;  a  very  cold  day  the  river  flows  very  rapidly;  he 
  was  very  much  hurt. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Very's  \Ver"y's\,  or  Very  \Ver"y\,  night  signals  \night  signals\ 
  .  [After  Lieut.  Samuel  W.  Very  who  invented  the  system  in 
  1877.]  (Naut.) 
  A  system  of  signaling  in  which  balls  of  red  and  green  fire 
  are  fired  from  a  pistol,  the  arrangement  in  groups  denoting 
  numbers  having  a  code  significance. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  very 
  adj  1:  precisely  as  stated;  "the  very  center  of  town"  [syn:  {very(a)}] 
  2:  being  the  exact  same  one  not  any  other:;  "this  is  the 
  identical  room  we  stayed  in  before";  "the  themes  of  his 
  stories  are  one  and  the  same";  "saw  the  selfsame  quotation 
  in  two  newspapers";  "on  this  very  spot";  "the  very  thing 
  he  said  yesterday";  "the  very  man  I  want  to  see"  [syn:  {identical}, 
  {one  and  the  same(p)},  {selfsame(a)},  {very(a)}] 
  3:  used  to  give  emphasis  to  the  relevance  of  the  thing 
  modified;  "his  very  name  struck  terror";  "caught  in  the 
  very  act"  [syn:  {very(a)}] 
  4:  used  to  give  emphasis;  "the  very  essence  of  artistic 
  expression  is  invention"-  Irving  R.  Kaufman;  "the  very 
  back  of  the  room"  [syn:  {very(a)}] 
  adv  1:  intensifiers;  "she  was  very  gifted";  "he  played  very  well"; 
  "a  really  enjoyable  evening";  (`real'  is  sometimes 
  used  informally  for  `really'  as  in  "I'm  real  sorry 
  about  it";  `rattling'  is  informal  as  in  "a  rattling 
  good  yarn")  [syn:  {really},  {real},  {rattling}] 
  2:  precisely  so  "on  the  very  next  page";  "he  expected  the  very 
  opposite"




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