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VERTICALLY.
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VERTIGINOUS.
effect of verticality. 1884 G. M. Dawson in Handhk, Dom.
Cttnada 325 Gctod sections of. .Cretaceous rocks.. become
folded together and lie at all angles up to verticality.
b. Of buildings, or architecture.
1843 Civil Eng. ^ Arch. Jml. VI. 99/1 The verticality
which is designed and usually conveyed by the orders he
communicated to his buildings by rustic quoins. x86o
CocKBURsMum/'d^ifw tf''CV:r/j//a«.' 61 The first and most
striking feature [of the architecture of the 12th and i3lhc.]
is the Verticality of composition, as directly opposed to the
Horizontality of all anterior structural modes, a 1890
LiCHTFooT Hist. Ess. tii. (1895) 146 The leading conception
of Gothic architecture,..! mean its verticality, as contrasted
with the horizontal lines of the Greek.
c. In weakened sense : Krectness, uprightness.
1838 Eraser's Mag. XVII. 687 She walked.. in unswerving
verticality.
VeTtically, adv. [f. Vertical a. + -ly 2,]
In a vertical manner, direction, or position ; so as
to be vertical to the plane of the horizon, the
earth's surface, or some other horizontal line or
plane ; perpendicularly, or approximately so
directly overhead or down below.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. x. 326 The Dogstarre,
..although it be not verticall unto any part of Asia,., yet is
it so unto America, and vertically passeih over the habitations
of Peru and Brasilia. 1677 Grew Ana/. Eruits v. § 17
The Seed-Case of Anagaliis. .opens not by its Meridian or
Vertically, .but hy its Horizon. 1679 Moxom Math. Diet.
s.v. Vertex, A Star is said to be Vertical, that.. Vertically
hangs over any place. 1686 V\jy\ Staffordsh. 17 If Lightening
causes these Circles, it must also be allowed that it
descends vertically. 1794 G. Adams Nat. ^ Exp. Philos,
II. xvii. 361 mr/r, The pupil in animals of the cat kind. .is
oblong vertically. 1796 Withkring Brit. Plants fed. 3) 1 1 1.
763 Capsules opening vertically. i8>8 Stark Elem. Nat.
Hist. II. 221 Some [msects], as the butterflies, raise their
wings vertically in repose. 184a Loudon Suburban Hort.
615 Some modification of lateral training will, in almost
every case, be found preferable to training vertically. 1880
Haughton Phys. Geog. ii. 21 An earthquake occurred, ver.
tically under tne town of Arica.
Comb. 1TO3 Martyn Lang. Bot. s,v. Veriicale, A vertically
ovate leaf is the same with an obverse I y-ovate or obovate
leaf; and a vertically cordate leaf is the same with an obversely
cordate or obcordate leaf. 1878 Abnev Treat.
Photogr. xxxiii. 268 A fair general focus can.. be obtained
by using with the camera a vertically-pivoted swing-back.
b. Math, (Cf. Vertical a, 2).
1660 Barrow Euclid i. xv. ScHol., If four right lines, proceeding
from one point, make the angles vertically opposite
equal. 1840 Lardner Geom. 24 When two straight lines
cross each other, ..the angle B.\D is said to be vertically
oppos te to the angle EAC
tVe-ptice. Obs.-^ fn. F. Venice (= Sp., Pg.,
and It, vertue), ad. L. vertiC'Cfn, vertex Vebtex.]
The vertex or zenith.
1665 Sir T Herbert Trav. (1677) ^ But the Periscii have
their shadow circulating, their meridional shadow having
no existence from the vertice, but oblique and extended to
the plain of the terrestrial Horizon.
Verticil (v5-Jtisil). Also 8-9 verticel. [ad. L.
t;^r/?Vj7A«5- Verticillus. Cf. F. verticille in sense
2 (also, in earlier use, a whorl).]
tL (Seequot.). Obs."^
1703 A. DE La Prime Let. to Sir H. Sloan (Sloan MSS.
4056) fol. 33 Verticels or glass Beads formed on purpose to
wind thread on.
2. Bot, A number or set of organs or parts
arranged, disposed, or produced in a circle round
an axis (see quot. 1882); a whorl. False or
spurious verticil^ a verticillaster.
Also similarly in Zool. (in recent Diets.).
«. 1793 Martvn Diet. Bot. s.v., A Verticil or Whirl may
be I. oessile or pcduncled. z. Naked.. .3, Crowded. 1806
J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 5258 Ajuga. ..l\3Axy: verticils
crowded into a pyramidal form, many-flowered. 18*6-34
Encyct. Metrop. {1845) VII. 43/2 The stamens in the same
verticil are sometimes joined together, and sometimes with
the neighbouring verticils. i88a Vines Sachs" Bot. jjo An
axial structure may produce either several equivalent lateral
members at the same level, or only one; in the second case
the members formed in succession are termed solitary, in
the first case a Whorl or Verticil.
(5. 1856 Hrnsi.ow Diet. Bot, Terms i\^ Verticel, Verticiilus,..z
whorl. 1871 Nicholson Palaeont. 483 The joints
of the stems give on verticels of leave:*. 1881 Spencer in
Science Gossip No. 20a. 229 It is generally supposed that
the branches were aI>o arranged in verticels.
t Verticillary, a. Obs. rare, [f. L. verticill-
«j Verticillus: see -art.] Of motion: Rotatory,
whirling, vertiginous. «
1757 E. Darwin in Phil, TroJis. L. 947 The verticillary
motion given to charcoat*dust thrown on nitre in fusion.
i7S^-tf — Zoon. (1801) III. 145 When the legs are straight,
as in standing erect, there is no verticillary motion in the
knee-joint.
Verticillaster (v5:jtisilx'st3j), Bot. [mod.
L., f. L. vcrticill-tis Vebticillus + -asteu.] A
form of inflorescence occurring in certain labiate
plants (see quots.) ; a false whorl.
1831 Lindlev tntrod. Bot. 112 If the cyme is reduced to
a. very few flowers, and those few become corymbose, such a
disposition has been called a verticiliasterhy Hoffmansegg.
1861 Bkntlev Matt. Bot. 213 The Verticillaster.—This kind
of cyme is seen in the WHite Dead-nettle. 187a Oliver
EUm. Bot. II. 217 A coarse perennial herb, with. .axillary
cymes (forming verticillastcrs) of bilabiate white flowers.
Verticillate (vMtisi-lrt, vajti-silA), a. Also 9
vertioellate. [ad. mod.L. verticilldt-us ^ f. L. verticillus
Vebticillus : see -ate '* lalo, Sp. verticilado , Pg. verticillado, F. verticilU Very common in the 17th c; now rare or Obs.
^ 1625 N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. iv.
(1694).]
(1635) 72 The Verticity
Ls that whereby the Poles of the Earthly Spheare, conforme
1. a. Bot. Of plants : Having leaves, flowers, and settle themselues vnto the Poles of the Heauen. 1661
branches, etc., arranged or produced in circles or Glanvill Van. Dogni. 140 We believe the verticity of the
whorls around the stem. Now rare or Obs.
Needle, without a Certificate from the dayes of old. 1705
1668 WiLKiss Real
Derham in
Char. it. iv. §4. 81 Herbs
PhiL Trans. XXV. considered
2136 And having again
straitened it, I
according
was surprized to find it
to their flower . . may be distinguished into . . Ver'
had quite lost its Verticity.
ticillatc ; by which those kinds of Plants are meant, whose
1794 G. Adams Nat. rp. Philos, (1806) IV. 1. 393
flowers grow
His poker and tongs were natural magnets,
in rundles or whirles about the stalk. x686
and had their
verticity fixed
Phil. Trans. XVI. 286 The
by being heated and cooled in a vertical
Verticillate Herbs, so called
position.
from
1837 Brewster Magnet. i6§
the Flowers embracing
The little
the stalk like a whirl, or wherle.
magnet
or needle turned itself briskly,, .shewing great verticity.
4:1711 Petiver Gazophyl. x. 94 A Verticillate Water Herb,
1867 S.MVTH Sailor's
whose Husks
Wordhk. 712.
stick to Cloaths like Burrs or Clivers. 17*0
P. liLAiR Bot.
Jig. 1687 Norris Coll. Misc. 184
Ess, iii. 135 The Verticillate Kind
The Soul will then point
are for the
to the center of Happiness with her full bent
most part Irregular. 1796 C. Marshall Garden,
and verticity.
xix. (1813)
i6«ji — Praet. Disc. 170 His Will has lost
357 Coreopsis, verticillate, yellow. 1822-7 Oood
much of its Ver-
Study
ticity or Magnetick Inclination towards the chief
J\/t'd. {1829) I. 174 The verticillate order affords an abundant
Good,
stock, from which we may select [carminatives] at pleasure. b. With a and pi.
/did. IV. 568 Many of the warmer sedatives and antispas- 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 68 A Loadstone flred..
modics, as assafoetida, camphor, most of the verticillate according to the position in cooling contracts a new verti-
plants, and cajeput.
city. 1658 — Gard. Cy>'us v. 72 If any shall further quaery
b. Eftt.y etc. (See quots.)
why magneticall Philcsophy excludeth decussations, and
needles transversly placed
1826 K1R8V & Sp. Entomol,
do naturally distract their verti-
IV. xlvj. 324 Verlicillaie..,
cities.
antennae beset with
1705 C. PuRSHALL Mech. Macrocosm 265 If
hair in whorls. 1883 Le Conte & Horn
you heat
an Iron Red, and let it cool perpendicular to the Earth,., its
Classif. Coleoptera N. Atner. Introd. p. xv, In this form
lowest end will gain a Verticity towards the
the joints are frequently surrounded at tip with a
North Pole.
circle of
1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v.
longer hairs, in which
Magnet, A Bar of Iron that has
case the antennie are said to be
gain'd a Verticity by being heated red-hot and cool'd again.
veriiceilate. _
fig. 1661 Glanvill Van, Dogm. 244 Though the body by
2. a. Bot. Of leaves, flowers, branches, etc. a kind of Magnetism be drawn down.. ; yet the thus im-
Disposed in, or forming, verticils or whorls.
pregnate spirit contracts a Verticity to objects above the
1793 Martvn Diet. Bot. s.v., Verticillate flowers; or Pole.
flowers growing in a Whirl; or round the stem in rings one 2. The power of turning or revolving ; rotation,
above another at each joint. 1830 Lindlev Nat. Syst. Bot.
revolution, ? Obs,
202 Square stems and verticillate leaves [of the Madder
i6^2 Hooker in Rigaud Corr, Sci.
tribe]. 1851 Mantell
Men (1841) I. 181
Petrifactions i. § 2. 26 Specimens The
of
verticity of Jupiter and • a common,
Mars on their axes.
.tribe of coal-plants.., whose
1690 Locke
verticillate foliage
Hum, Und. iv. ii. §11 (i6c)5) 307 A certain
is too remarkable to escape notice. 1882 Vines
number of
Sachs' Bot.
Globules, . . having a verticity about their
396 The
own Centres.
branches and roots spring exclusively from within
1819 H. Busk Banquet in. 241 Hence on all subjects sparks
the base of the leaf-sheath; and as this forms a whorl, the
of light you throw.. : Blaze with the comet in his swift
branches and roots are also verticillate.
verticity, Or rouse us with a flash of electricity.
b. Similarly in Zool., Ent., etc.
II. + 3. The vertex or top of something. Obsr~^
1828 Stark ^/^/w. Nat. Hist. II. 378 Antennae filiform,
1656 Blount Glossogr.
long, of from fifteen to sixteen globular joints, furnished
with verticillate hairs, 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 675 Ver- 1 4. Vertical position in the heavens. Obs. rare.
rucae ascending,, .verticillate. _ 1871 Duncan Transform. 1646 J. Gregory Notes ^ Obs. (1650) 151 The verticity of
Insects III Each tubercle carries several verticillate hairs. any of those [stars] could not haue come and 'stood over
the
3. Marked or characterized place by
where the young child was'. 1686 Goad Celest.
verticillation.
Bodies II. xiii.
183a Lindlev Introd. Bot. 113 The most exterior
333 The ./Estival Part of Heaven does more
verticil-
invigorate those Planets which attend the
late series of the integuments
0, not only by
of the flower within tlie
their higher Exaltation or Approches to Verticity, but [etc. J.
bractea;.^ 1836-9 Todd's Cycl. Anat, II. 414/1 Simple tubes,
divided in a verticillate manner. 1877 CouES& Allen 6. Pole A''.
of verticity^ (see quot.).
Awer. Rod. 475 The veriicillate whorls of scales between x886 Cu.MMiNG Electricity 54 There are two points, one in
which the short hairs spring. 1882 Vines .Jatr/w' Bot. 464
the northern hemisphere and one in the southern, at which
The phyllota.vis is ."^onietimes verticillate, sometimes spiral. the dip is 90'^, or the magnetic force is vertical. These
points are called the
Verti'Cillated, a. Now rare, [Cf. prec]
Magnetic Poles of the earth... The
term Pole of Verticity is sometimes applied to them.
1. =^ prec. I and i b.
+ Ve*rticle, erron. f. Vertical a, and sb, Obs.
1698 J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XX. 315 Like tfae Whorles
161X CoTGR., Azimuth, an Azimuth, or Vertlcle circle,
on a Verticillated Plant. 1752 J. Hill Hist, Anint. no which discends from the Zenith. 1653 Waterhouse Apol.
The Lacerta, with the tail verticillated with denticulated
Learning 51 Now grows Our Nation to its Zenith: Fame
scales. 1822-7 Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 531 The ver-
is no friend to Continuance ; the Verticle is near, when
ticillated stimulant plants have, in many instances, also,
Admiration from abroad, and Luxury at home, threaten
been found serviceable. 1882 Gard. Chron. XVIII. 70 To our Change.
make trial of seeds of any verticillated plants.
2. = prec. 2, 2 b, and + Ve*3?ticle. Obs. rare. [ad. L. verlicula, •us^
3.
1718C11AMBERLAVNE Relig.Philos. I. x. § 17. 184 Tho' the 'Um joint, vertebra, dim. of vertex Vertex, or OF.
Calculation bad been made from a greater Plumber of the verticule (rare) vertebra.] A vertebra.
Fibres of a verticillated Body, c 1789 Encycl. Brit. {ed. 3) 1658 A. Fox Wurtz* Surg, v, 363 Some Childrens back
III. 440/3 Different species of stellated or verticillated bone have I seen crackt in two, and the verticles thereof
leaves.^ x8»8 Stark EUm. Nat. Hist. II. 377 Antenna were disjoyned.
..furnished with verticillated hairs, or simply pubescent. t VerticO'rdiouS, a. Obs.~^ [f. L. verticordia
1844 Florist's Jml. (1846) V. 84 Flowers produced from the
turner of hearts (an epithet of Venus), f. vert^re to
base of the bulb on a long drooping raceme, verticillated
along the raceme. 1857 H. Miller Test. Rocks \. 20 Its turn + cord'y cor heart : see -ous.] That turns the
fluted stem and verticillated series of linear branches.
heart (from evil) ; regenerative.
Verticillation (vaitisil^Jan). [f. Verticil- 1701 C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. 11. xxvi. 149/1 The
late a. : see-ATiON.] The formation of
Regenerating and Verticordious Grace of Heaven, took
verticils ;
advantage from his Religious Education . . to steal into the
a verticillate form or structure, a verticil.
Heart of this young Disciple.
1830 Lindlev Nat, Syst. Bot. iiyj The degree of verticillation
requisite to constitute a calyx. 1843 Penny Cycl. t Vertixularly, ^/z'. Obs.-"^ [i.'L.verticula,
XXVI. 131/2 The tail is rounded.. ; its verticillations are etc., Verticle.] In a whorled or verticillate
composed, above, of large tubercles, and below, of flat, manner.
quadrangular scales. 1888 Riverside Nat. Hist. I. 167 In 1657 Tomlinson Renou*s Disp. 610 Spinous cups do ver-
the Diadematidae the spines are hollow, long, and set with ticularly circumvest its Caulicles.
rings or verticillations.
t Vertiginal, a. Obs,-^ [f. L. vertTgin-^ ver-
Verticillato-| combining form, on Greek tigo Vertigo.] « Vertiginous a, 2,
models, of mod.L. verticilldfns Verticillate a., x6i2 Benvenuto's Passenger i. ii. 177 For vertiginall
as verticillato-piniiate (see quot.).
dizzines.
1829 T. Castle Introd. Bot.-ji Veriicillato-pinnate—when Verti'ginate, ff. rare~°, [Cf.next.] 'Turned
the leaflets, instead of being arranged in the same piano on round, giddy* (Webster, iS6i).
each side of the common leaf-stalk, are placed around it.
Vertagiuate (vajti-dgin^'t), v, rare. [f. L.
II Verticillus Cvajtisi-iiJs). Bot, PI. verti-
vertigin-, vertigo Vertigo.] intr. To turn round,
cilll (-si'bi). [L. verticillus (Pliny) whorl (sc,
spin, or rush dizzily.
of a spindle), dim. of vertex Wz'B.ttyi. Cf. Verti-
(1767 A. Campbell Lexiph. (ed. a) 23 My steed, .with an
cil.] A verticil or whorl.
incredible acceleration of velocity, vertiginated along^ the
1760 I. Le& Introd Bot. in. iv. (1765) 174 Verticillus, a arable. Ibid. 52 Brine, that once vertiginated in the pacifick
IVhor/f expresses a Number of Flowers that are subsessile, ocean.] a 1814 Last Act i. iii. in Neiu Brit. Theatre II.
and are produced in Rings round the Stems. 1783 Encycl. 372, I, your great Chiron, was your instructor ; and thither-
Brit. (ed. 2) X. 8570/2 The.. smaller creeping germander, ward my glory vertiginates, a 1834 Coleridge in Lit. Rem.
hath, .reddish flowers, growing almost in a verticillus, or (18-^9) IV. 212 Surely never did argument vertiginate more !
whorls, round the stalk. 1829 T. Castle Introd. Bot. 94 V"ertigine, -inie : see Vertiginy.
In the verticillus or whorl, the flowers surround the stem in Vertigino'Sity. rare, [ad, F. vertiginositS
a sort of ring. 1830 Lindlev iWi/. Syst. Bot. Introd. p. xxv,
In most orders the sepals occupy one series or verticillus (i6thc.). Cf.next.] (See quot.)
only. 1870 tr. Pouchet's Universe 388 When the floral 1656 Blount Glossogr. (copying Cotgr.), Vertiginosity, a -
apparatus is complete it is formed of four ro.settes, or verti- giddiness, dizziness, swimming of the head or brain.
cilli, of depressed concentrated leaves.
Vertiginous (v3Jti'd5rn3s), a. Also 7 yirt-.
Verticity (vojti-siti). Now rare. [ad. mod.L. [ad. L. vertiginostts one suffering from giddiness,
verticitdSj f. L. vertic-^ stem of vertex Vertex. So f. vertigin-, vertigo Vertigo. So F. vertigineux,
F. verticitiy Sp. verticidad, Pg. verticidade,']
Sp., Pg., It. vertiginoso.']
I, 1. Thefaculty of turning, or tendency to turn, i. Of persons, the head, etc. : Affected with,
towards a vertex or pole, esp. as exhibited in the suffering from, vertigo or giddiness giddy, dizzy.
;
2. So It. verticil- loadstone or magnetic needle.
i63z Burton AncU. Mel, l iii. i. i. Many phantasticall