The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Verbiage \Ver"bi*age\ (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a
   word. See Verb.]
   The use of many words without necessity, or with little
   sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
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         Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.
                                                  --W. Irving.
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         This barren verbiage current among men.  --Tennyson.
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Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003):

verbiage
 n.

   When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers
   to documentation. This term borrows the connotations of mainstream
   `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility
   and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the
   ostensible subject.


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "verbiage":
   choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution,
   cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness,
   expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words,
   formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution,
   logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance,
   periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm,
   prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech,
   stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage,
   use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity,
   vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words