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Meaning of VERY'S

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ver"y's\, or Very \Ver"y\, night signals \night signals\
. [After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who invented the system in
1877.] (Naut.)
A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire
are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting
numbers having a code significance.
 
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