Definition of "vernish" [ver•nish]

• Obsolete form of varnish. (noun)
• Obsolete form of varnish. (verb)

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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."
• "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."
• "a picture shop to choose a print for him to vernish, but did not agree for one then."