Obs. Also 4 verr, 5 ver, virre. [a. OF. (also mod.F.) verre:—L. vitrum glass.]
1. Glass.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. 867. And forthi, who that hath an hede of verre Fro caste of stonys ware hym in the werre.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 4351. Make we na vessall of virre ne of na clere siluir.
14[?]. Lydg., Life Virgin (MS. Antiq. Soc. 134), fol. 14 (Halliw.). In alle the erthe y-halowid and y-holde, In a closet more clere than verre or glas.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 508/2. Verre, glasse, vitrum.
2. A vessel made of glass, esp. a drinking-vessel; a glass.
1382. Wyclif, Prov. xxiii. 31. Ne beholde thou the win, whan it floureth, whan shal shine in the verr the colour of it [1388 the colour therof schyneth in a ver].
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), iv. 32. It is alle fulle of Gravelle,… of the which Men maken fair Verres and clere.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xii. Putte it in þe houndes þrote þe mountance of a verre full.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, 27. She … lepte upon the borde,… and brake the verres, and spilt all that there was on the borde.
1532. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. (1905), VI. 75. For iiij verris with thair caceis,… price of the pece vj. s.
