Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Very \Ver"y\, a. [Compar. {Verier}; superl. {Veriest}.] [OE.
   verai, verray, OF. verai, vrai, F. vrai, (assumed) LL.
   veracus, for L. verax true, veracious, fr. verus true; akin
   to OHG. & OS. w[=a]r, G. wahr, D. waar; perhaps originally,
   that is or exists, and akin to E. was. Cf. {Aver}, v. t.,
   {Veracious}, {Verdict}, {Verity}.]
   True; real; actual; veritable.

         Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. --Gen. xxvii.
                                                  21.

         He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he
         that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
                                                  --Prov. xvii.
                                                  9.

         The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.
                                                  --Milton.

         I looked on the consideration of public service or
         public ornament to be real and very justice. --Burke.

   Note: Very is sometimes used to make the word with which it
         is connected emphatic, and may then be paraphrased by
         same, self-same, itself, and the like. ``The very hand,
         the very words.'' --Shak. ``The very rats instinctively
         have quit it.'' --Shak. ``Yea, there where very
         desolation dwells.'' --Milton. Very is used
         occasionally in the comparative degree, and more
         frequently in the superlative. ``Was not my lord the
         verier wag of the two?'' --Shak. ``The veriest hermit
         in the nation.'' --Pope. ``He had spoken the very
         truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood.''
         --Hawthorne.

   {Very Reverend}. See the Note under {Reverend}.

Very \Ver"y\, adv.
   In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly;
   excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very
   bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he
   was very much hurt.

Very's \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.

Source : WordNet®

very
     adj 1: precisely as stated; "the very center of town" [syn: {very(a)}]
     2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the
        identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his
        stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation
        in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing
        he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: {identical},
         {one and the same(p)}, {selfsame(a)}, {very(a)}]
     3: used to give emphasis to the relevance of the thing
        modified; "his very name struck terror"; "caught in the
        very act" [syn: {very(a)}]
     4: used to give emphasis; "the very essence of artistic
        expression is invention"- Irving R. Kaufman; "the very
        back of the room" [syn: {very(a)}]

very
     adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally
            for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very
            gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable
            evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good
            yarn" [syn: {really}, {real}, {rattling}]
     2: precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very
        opposite"