or Cape-Verd, a promontory of Africa, forty miles north-west of the mouth of the river Gambia: W. long. 18°, N. lat. 15°.

There are a number of islands in the Atlantic ocean, called Cape-Verd islands, from their being situated off this cape.

VERDIGREASE, a kind of rust of copper, much used by painters as a green colour.

Verdigrease is properly no other than copper dissolved by a mild acid into the form of an ærugo, or rust.

This rust of copper is rarely used internally; nor ought it, unless in the most desperate case, where instantaneous vomiting is necessary. Externally it is much used as a detergent or desiccative: it eats off fungous flesh in ulcers, and, mixed with honey, is used in aphthæ and ulcerations of the mouth.