Crossword clues for vernal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vernal \Ver"nal\, a. [L. vernalis, fr. vernus vernal, ver spring; akin to Gr. ?, Skr. vasanta, Icel. v[=a]r, and E. Easter, east.]
Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.
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Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.
When after the long vernal day of life.
--Thomson.And seems it hard thy vernal years Few vernal joys can show?
--Keble.Vernal equinox (Astron.), the time when the sun crosses the equator when proceeding northward.
Vernal grass (Bot.), a low, soft grass ( Anthoxanthum odoratum), producing in the spring narrow spikelike panicles, and noted for the delicious fragrance which it gives to new-mown hay; -- also called sweet vernal grass. See Illust. in Appendix.
Vernal signs (Astron.), the signs, Aries, Taurus, and Gemini, in which the sun appears between the vernal equinox and summer solstice.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to spring," 1530s, from Late Latin vernalis "of the spring," from vernus "of spring," from Latin ver "the spring, spring-time," from PIE *wesr- "the spring" (cognates: Old Norse var "spring," Greek ear, Armenian gar-un, Sanskrit vasantah, Persian bahar, Old Church Slavonic vesna "spring," Lithuanian vasara "summer").
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to spring. 2 young; fresh. (rfex) 3 Belonging to youth.
WordNet
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Housing Units (2000): 2957
Land area (2000): 4.582314 sq. miles (11.868137 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.582314 sq. miles (11.868137 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80090
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.454758 N, 109.535471 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84078
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Wikipedia
Vernal is a city in Uintah County, Utah, United States.
Vernal may also refer to:
- Ewen Vernal (born 1964), Scottish musician
- Vernal point, the point on the celestial sphere where the Sun is located during the northern spring equinox
- Vernal keratoconjunctivitis is an allergic conjunctivitis associated with springtime
- Vernal Fall, waterfall
Vernal Crater is a crater on Mars, located at 6° north latitude and 355.5° east longitude in the Oxia Palus quadrangle. It is 57 km in diameter and was named after Vernal, Utah, USA. Because structures resembling springs on Earth were found there it is the scene of one of the most important discoveries on the quest of life on Mars.
Wikifirsoffmola.jpg|MOLA map showing Vernal Crater and other nearby craters. Colors indicate elevations. Wikivernal.jpg|Vernal Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
Usage examples of "vernal".
Winter Solstice, a young man at the Vernal Equinox, a robust man at the Summer Solstice, and an old man at the Autumnal Equinox.
Setting out from the sign Taurus, Isis, as the Moon, went seeking for Osiris through all the superior signs, in each of which she became full in the successive months from the Autumnal to the Vernal Equinox, without finding him in either.
This conjunction of the Sun with the Moon at the Vernal Equinox, in the constellation Taurus, required the Bull Apis to have on his shoulder a mark resembling the Crescent Moon.
Vernal Equinox most fully develops the creative or demiurge energy, 473-u.
But the change was also based on the findings of folklorists such as Alexander Afanasiev, who had linked these vernal cults with sacrificial rituals involving maiden girls.
The Grand Feast of the Syrian Goddess, like that of the Mother of the Gods at Rome, was celebrated at the Vernal Equinox.
The assemblies of the barons, which coincided in the south with ancient popular fetes in Maytime praise of Venus, offered apt occasions for the vernal entertainments of the chatelaines.
The intercalary month, Veadar, is introduced in embolismic years in order that Passover, the 15th day of Nisan, may be kept at its proper season, which is the full moon of the vernal equinox, or that which takes place after the sun has entered the sign Aries.
Vernal Equinox, and the Sun in which Sign, figuratively represented by the Sign itself, was Bakchos, Dionusos, Saba-Zeus, Osiris, etc.
North to those of Winter: and in this, palace the Emperor and his grandees sacrificed a lamb, the animal that represented the Sun at the Vernal Equinox.
Apis, represented by a bull, was the living and sensible image of the Sun or Osiris, when in union with Isis or the Moon at the Vernal Equinox, concurring with her in provoking everything that lives to generation.
The different emblems which accompany her in the description given by Apuleius, a serpent on either side, a golden vase, with a serpent twined round the handle, and the animals that marched in procession, the bear, the ape, and Pegasus, represented the Constellations that, rising with the Virgin, when on the day of the Vernal Equinox she stood in the Oriental gate of Heaven, brilliant with the rays of the full moon, seemed to march in her train.
One hundred and fifty years earlier, the victims of the Vernal Purge had sought refuge in cellars and attics all through Sherreen and its environs.
If you ask me, you snotty-nosed Mu Family girls are much worse sluts than the whores in Vernal Delights ever were!
He is an incorrigible scamp born to Spring Fragrance in the Yangzhou whorehouse, Vernal Delights.