_Miss Isabella Vere_, the laird’s daughter. She marries young Patrick Earnscliffe, laird of Earnscliffe.--Sir W. Scott, _The Black Dwarf_ (time, Anne). _Vere_ (_Sir Arthur de_), son of the earl of Oxford. He first appears under the assumed name of Arthur Philipson.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =Verges= (2 _syl._), an old-fashioned constable and night-watch, noted for his blundering simplicity.--Shakespeare, _Much Ado about Nothing_ (1600). =Vergob´retus=, a dictator, selected by the druids, and possessed of unlimited power, both in war and state, during times of great danger. This temporary king or vergobretus, laid down his office at the end of the war.--_Dissertation on the Era of Ossian._ =Verinder= (_Rachel_), pretty, strong-willed, imperious, warm-hearted young Englishwoman, the legatee of a diamond of immense value. She receives it upon her twenty-first birthday, wears it all the evening and insists upon keeping it in her room that night. She sees from the adjoining apartment, her lover, Franklin Blake, purloin the gem, and hides the name of the thief, while discarding him.--Wilkie Collins, _The Moonstone_. =Verisopht= (_Lord Frederick_), weak and silly, but far less vicious than his bear-leader, Sir Mulberry Hawk. He drawled in his speech, and was altogether “very soft.” Ralph Nickleby introduced his niece, Kate, to the young nobleman at a bachelor’s dinner-party, hoping to make of the introduction a profitable investment, but Kate was far too modest and virtuous to aid him in his scheme.--C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1838). =Vernon= (_Diana_), niece of Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone. She has great beauty, sparkling talents, an excellent disposition, high birth, and is an enthusiastic adherent of an exiled king. Diana Vernon marries Frank Osbaldistone. _Sir Frederick Vernon_, father of Diana, a political intriguer called “his excellency the earl of Beauchamp.” He first appears as Father Vaughan [_Vawn_].--Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.). _Vernon_ (_Elinor_), “a student, enthusiastic and devoted, and one of rare attainments, both in character and degree.” She becomes an author of note. Her betrothed, Walter Mayward, would wean her from devotion to letters, and loses her thereby. Frederic St. Clair appreciates the glory of her perfected womanhood, loves and marries her, and her “poetry finds in his love its triumph, its crowning, its glorious apotheosis.”--Grace Greenwood, _Heart Histories_ (1850). =Ver´olame= (3 _syl._) or VERULAM, “a stately nymph” of Isis. Seeing her stream besmeared with the blood of St. Alban, she prayed that it might be diverted into another channel, and her prayer was granted. The place where St. Alban was executed was at that time called Holmhurst.--Robert of Gloucester. _Chronicle_ (in verse), 57 (thirteenth century).