Vert

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vert \Vert\, n. [F., green, from L. viridis. See {Verdant}, and
     cf. {Verd}.]
     1. (Eng. Forest Law)
        (a) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within
            the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the
            duty of the verderer.


        (b) The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Her.) The color green, represented in a drawing or
        engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the
        right.
        [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  VERT. Everything bearing green leaves in a forest. Bac. Ab. Courts of the 
  Foreat; Manwood, 146.