VEBTIGINOUSLY. visions about their eyes, vertiginous, apt to tremble. 1653 Jkh. Taylor Serm^/or Kco^i.xix. 233 They grew vertigin* ous and fell from the battlements of heaven. 1695 Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. 206 The former of these [damps]., makes the Workmen faint, and vertiginous. 1707 Reflex, upon Ridicule 136 The Head turns and grows vertiginous, 1787 Best Atfgiing (ed. 2) 69 By these balls fishes are rendered \-ertiginous, and as it were intoxicated. 1808 Med, ymL XIX. 299 The ocular spectra of objects.. augment the disturbance of the eyes, and thereby add to the confusion of the vertiginous person. iBaa-y Good Study Med. (1829) I. 170, I have never been able to raise it [the drug] abo^'e seven grains without making the head stupid and ventginous. 1906 G._ Tyrrell in Li/e (1912) II. xi. 260 At first f was very \'ertiginous, but am slowly getting my nerves in hand. fig^. i6«4 [Scott] Vox Regis 41 The heighthof prosperitie so amazeth the ej-es of men, as it makes them vertigmous. 1687 NoRRis Misc., Disc. Rom. xii. 3 § 19 If they can stand there without growing vertiginous, .. they are still within the Region of Humility. b. J^. Giddy-minded ; unstable or unsettled in opinions, etc. ; inconstant; apt to change quickly; marked by inconstancy, instability, or rapid change. Frequent in the 17th century. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 209 This vertiginous Vertumnus, whom Plato describes for an in- artificial! disputant. 1631 Burton Anat. Mel, (ed. 4) i. lii. I. ii 185 Inconstant they are in all their actions, vertiginous, restlesse, vnapt to resolue of any businesse. x68x Mantom Sertft. Ps.cxix. 20 Wks. 1872 VI. 190 Therefore take heed of being given up to this vertiginous spirit, to be turned and 'tossed up and down with every wind of doctrine'. 1789 Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life ^ Writ. {1832) II. 66 As all men and things are in the same vertiginous condition. 1841 DisRAEU Amen. Lit. {1859) II. 378 The sphere of publication widened, in this vertiginous era. 1898 Bodley France iiL v. 271 When one thinks of the vicissitudes of those vertiginous days, it is not surprising that . . sons of the Revolution [etc.]. 2. Of the nature of, characterized by, vertigo. 1608 TopsELL Serpents 76 Sluggish dulness, a giddy and vertiginous pace,, .are sure arguments that Bees are not in good health. i6»o Venner Via Recta vii, 134 Fisticke Nuts, .distemper the bloud, and being much eaten, oftentimes procure the vertiginous euill. 1699 Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 133 Mustard, .strengthening the Memory, expelling Heaviness, preventing the Vertiginous Palsey. 1733 Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. tv. (1734) 327, I was suddenly seiz'd with a vertiginous Paroxj-sm. zSas-^ Good Study Med. (1829) I. 460 That staggering or vertiginous disease which is provincially known by the name of Dtint. 1854 Gilfillam Beattie p. xvii, Beattie was troubled with a vertiginous complaint. 1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. IX. 183 He found that if he closed his eyes the vertiginous feeling was mitigated. 1901 Brit. Med. JrnL No. 2092. Epit. Anc. Lit. 18 Vertiginous attacks became troublesome at times. /ig. i6»6 Ailesbury Passion Serm. 13 Their theory was vertiginous, swom in the braine, there floating without anchor, and was of no credit with the will. 1643 H. Mori; Song 0/ Soul n. in. iii. 22 My strong- winged Muse feeble to sfide Into false thoughts and dreams vertiginous. 3. Liable to cause vertigo or dizziness; inducing giddiness. A\soJig. 1649 Jer. Tavlor Gt. Exemp. i. ix. 1^3 There . . the station is least firm, the posture most uneasie, the prospect vertiginous. 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 326 The Dervis and other Santoons .. express their zeal by turning round, . .and others I have seen in this vertiginous exercise at the Cavalcades, a 1701 Maundrell Journ. yents. (1721) 95 After they had by these vertiginous circulations and clamours tum'd their heads. 1865 W. Kay Crisis Hup/eldiana 78 If any one chooses to look further into this vertiginous subject, he may examine [etc.]. 1874 Stevenson Ess, Trav., Unpleasant Places (1005) 242 There is nothing more vertiginous than a wind like this amons; the woods, with all its sights and noises. 1899 Alldutt's Syst. Med, vii. 796 It is generally necessary to avoid crowded rooms and the vertiginous influence of the dance. 4. Of motion : Having the character of rotation or revolution ; rotatory. In some cases prob, implying the preceding sense. 1663 Baxter Div. Li/e 21$ The thoughts of earthly fleshly things have power to delude men, and mislead them, and hurry them about in a vertiginous motion. 1690 Leybourn 1 Curs. Math. 449 It is found to have a Vertiginous Motion about its own Axis, lytz Blackmore Creation 251 So give the air impression from above. It in a whirl vertiginous would move. 1751 Johnsos Rambler No. 117 f 10 That vertiginous motion, with which we are carried round by the diurnal revolution of the earth. 1766 G. Canning Anti- Lucretius IV. 323 We see, with whirl vertiginous, the Sun From west to east around his axis run. 183a Nat. Philos., Eleciro-Magn. xii. % 257. 80 (L.U.K.), The peculiar kind of movement.. which Dr. Wollaston attributed to the electro. magnetic agent, and which he termed its vertiginous motion. 1837 Carlvle Fr. Rev. i. iii. vii, It is the centre whereon infinite contentions unite and clash. What new universal vertiginous movement is this? 1883 Salmon in Contemf. Rev. Oct 512 All the souls in hell and purgatory ..who, in the earth's vertiginous double motion, must roll about like grains of coffee in a grocer's mill. b. Of an axis : Revolving, rotating. 1680 Counterplots 6 Whirl'd about with perpetual agita. tions upon the Vertiginous Axis of that Globe. Hence Vertiffinously adv., giddily, dizzily. 1766 G. Canning A nti- Lucretius v. 368 Which, to the centre of the cloud repair. And there.. With furious rage vertiginously roll. 1868 Browning Ring Sf Bk. xi. 2365 The smoothest safest of you all . . Will rock vertiginously m turn, and reel. And, emulative, rush to death like me. 1886 SvMONDS Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VI I, ix. 45 A new philosophy occupied his brain, vertiginously big with incoherent births of modern thought. Vertigiixousiiess, [f. prec. + -ness.] The condition or state of being vertiginous; dizziness, giddiness, Also^^. 150 1599 A.M. tr. Gahelhouers Bk. Physicke lift Applye it on his Foreheade and on the Temples of the heade,..as long as the vertiginousnes dureth and continueth. ci6a8 Donne Serm. 658 It was a staggering,a vertiginousnesse, an ignorance. 1653 Jer. Taylor Sertn. i. xxi. 282 He that commits sacriledge, is marked for a vertiginousnesse and changeable fortune, a 1677 Barrow Serm. (1810) II. 416 We would all climb into high places, not considering the precipices on which they stand, nor the veriiginousness of our own brains. 1717 Bailey (vol. II), 6^/rf(^/«fw,.. Veriiginousness. 1846 Browning Lett. (1899) II. 528, 1 got up with the old vertiginousness, or a little worse. t Verti•giny. Obs. Also 5, 7 vertigine, 6-7 -inie. [a, L. = Vertigo. vertigine, abl. sing, of vertigo.'] ^1400 Lan/ranc's Cirurg. 310 [It] is good for Jjc brayn wit-innefori^ as for scotomia h vertigine. 1583 Stubbes Atiat. Abus. Evjb, Y^ vertiginie, & instability of their more than fantastical brains. 1605 B. Jonson Volpone 11. ii, For the Vertigine, in the head,., a most soueraigne, and ap. prooued remedy. 1608 Topsell Serpents 32 It induceth a kinde of lieauines or drunkennesse in their head, with a vertiginie [i658_vertiginy] or giddines. t verti 'gious, rt. Obs, rare. = VkrtiginouS(2. 1623 CocKERAM, Vertigious, belonging to giddinesse. 1653 E. Chisenhale Cath. Hist. xv. 461 The nauseating juyce ..hath intoxicated them, making their Vertigious heads turn after the Laterane Weather.cock. 1656 Blount, Ii Vertigo (vautig^J, vsitai-gc, vsjtrgo). Also 7 vertego, -teego, virtigo, [L. vertigo a turning or whirling round, giddiness, etc., f. vertire to turn. Cf. F. and Sp. vertigo ; gem. It. vertigine. also F. veriige, Pg. verti- The various modes of pronouncing t"bis word form the subject of an elaborate note by Walker (1797), arguing in . favour of that with the stress on the first syllable. The fashionable pronunciation, however, appears to have been (vajti'go), andthis alone is given by Smart {1836-40) as really current, in spite of its divergence from English analogy.] 1. Path. A disordered condition in which the person affected has a sensation of whirling, either of external objects or of himself, and tends to lose equilibrium and consciousness ; swimming in the head ; giddiness, dizziness : a. Without article. Sometimes applied to the staggers in horses or the sturdy ^ in sheep, and in quot. i6ig to a disease of hawks. 1528 Paynell Salerne^'s Rcgim. C iij b, Tlie heed ache called vertigo:, whiche maketh a man to wene that the world turneth. 1558 Bullein Gmit. Health Av, Apoplexia and Vertigo will neuer fro th^e] starte, Untill the vitall blode be killed in the harte. 1619 E. Bert Haivkes t/«^iii. V. 85 Adisease..of .some called Vertego,it isa swimming of the braine. x68i tr. IViilis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Vertigo. 1766 Beattie Let. in Life ^ Writ. {i8o6) I. 93 Have I not headachs, like Pope ? vertigo, like Swift ? 1799 Med. yml. II. 119 The most common effects observed from full doses, are vertigo, pain, or throbbing of the forehead. 1803 Ibid. X. 3^6 The general symptoms were pain across the forehead with vertigo. 1840 Thackeray /'rt^Vj Sk. Bk. C1872) 185 He felt as if attacked by vertigo, and his thoughts whirled in his brain. 1875 Richardson Dis, Mod. Li/fTi In those who have irregular circulation through the brain, the tendency to giddiness and vertigo is more easily developed. b. With the. 1605 B. JoNSON Volpone iii. vii, Our drinke. . we will take, vntill my roofe whirle round With the vertigo. 1631 Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 316 What a circular gesture wee shall observe some use in their pace as if they were troubled with the vertigo. 1725 Fam. Diet, s.v., The Vertigo will sometimes seize upon those who look down from an high Place. 1794 E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) 1. 335 Thus on turning round on one foot, the vertigo continues for some seconds of time after the person is fallen on the ground, 1827 Scott Let. in Lockhart (1838) VII. 29 Your letter has given me the vertigo—my head turns round like a chariotwheel, a 1883 Fagge Princ. ^ Pract. Med. (1B86) I. 702 The vertigo caused by derangement of the liver. e. With fl, etc., and pi. c 1620 Fletcher & Massinger Trag. Bamavelt v. ii, <strong>Here</strong>'s a Sword . . cures all rhumes, all Catharres, megroomes, verteegoes. 1641 R. Brooke Eng. Episc. 5 Your Faulkiiers seele a Pigeons eye . . to prevent a Vertigo. 1698 Frykr Acc. P2. India ^ P. 129 The Mountains fenced with horrible Gulphs, till strange Vertigoes prejudicate Pancy. 1731 Swift On his Death Wks. 1755 lU. n, 242 That old vertigo in his head Will never leave him, till he's dead. 1789 W. Buchan Dovt. Med. (1790) 39 These, .occasion palsies, vertigoes, and other nervous affections, which often prove fatal. 1830 Galt Life Byron xlvii. 310 He complained ol frequent vertigos, which made him feel as though he were intoxicated. 1895 Zangwill Master in. ii. 302 The fumes of expensive wines and cigars gave him a momentary vertigo. 2. fig. A disordered state of mind, or of things, comparable to giddiness. 1634 Wither Etnbl. 231 Those uselesse and vaine temp'rall things . . which if thereupon our hearts we set Make men and women the vertigo get. 1661 Bagshaw in Baxter Acc. to Inhabitants Kidderminster ^-j^ For him now to be suddenly advanced so much beyond his Art, will run the poor man into a dangerous Vertigo. 1702 Steele Funeral i. ii, How dizzy a Place is this World you live in I All Human Life's a mere Vertigo ! 170^— Taller No. 29 F 7 Absolute Power is only a Vertigo in the Brain of Princes. 1810 Bentham Packing (1821) 187 The British Themis seems little,, in danger of being healed of her habitual vertigo by this one hand.^ 1831 Carlvle Sart. Res. u. v, There was a certain delirious vertigo in the thought. 1875 Jevons iI/i?MO'{i878)2i7Thatdangerouskind of intellectual vertigo which often attacks writers on the currency. 3. The act of whirling round and round. 1853 pK QviNCEY A utobio^. Sk. Wks. I. 44 It was not a humming-top that was required, but a peg-top. Now, this, in order to keep up the vertigo at full stretch, . . needed to be j whipped incessantly. j VERUMONTANUM, t Ve-rtilage. Ods. [Irreg. f. L. vert-ere to turn.] (See quots.) 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. vii. 14 Tillage generally taken may comprehend all maner of husbandings of grounds, but it is heere limited to Vertilage and Fertilage. Vertilage consists in Deluage and FJciilage. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 333/2 Vertiliage, isa preparing of Ground to receive its Seed by stirring, tossing or turning the same. fVertingale, obs. var. Farthin-, Yarding ale. 1552 Huloet, Vertingale for agentilwoman, limns. 1869 Mrs. Palliser Lace \\. 79 Under the vertingale of black taffety they wear a dozen or more petticoats. Vertious, obs. form of Verjuice. fVertoll, obs. var. Vardle, Vartiwell. 1552 Huloet, Vertoll of a dore, vertebra, vertibuluin. Vertousnes, obs. f. Virtuousness. Vertouyse, obs. Sc. f. Virtuous a, Vertre, southern ME. var. Fir-tree. + Vert-sance. Obs. rare. [ad. OF. (also mod. F.) sauce verte green sauce.] A sauce made principally with green herbs. Cf. Green sauce. 1:1440 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 441 Vert Sause. Take parsel, and myntes, and peletur [etc.]. c 1440 Protnp. Parv. 509/1 Vertesawce, or vergesawce, . . ^/Wo'tf salsamentum. c 1450 Tivo Cookery Bks. 104 And sauce ii> vergesauce \Douce MS. vert sauce]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 401/1 Vert sawse, viridis salsa. Vertu, Vertu, varr. Virtu. Vertual, obs. f. Virtual a. Vertue^less, obs. ff. Virtue(less. Vertueet, obs. superl. of Virtuous a. Vertueux, obs. var. Virtuous a. Vertugal, var. Verdugal Obs. Vertuise, obs. Sc. f. Virtuous a. Vertules(;se, obs. ff. Virtueless. t Vertu'mnal, a. Obs. rare. [f. L. Vertumnus (see next); by Adams falsely associated with vcr spring, Ver j^.l] a. Vernal, b. Of or pertaining to Vertumnus. 1622 T. Adams Firenopolis 182 Her smiles are more reuiuing then the Vertnmnall Sunneshine. 1633 — Exp. 2 Peter iii. 8 We cannot, .keep back the cowslip to August, nor the vertumnal flowers to autumn. 1705 N. Tate tr. Co%vleys Plants C.'s Wks. 1711 III. 405 The Goddess her Vertumnal Rites prepares. + Vertu 'innals, sb.pl. Obs.-" [ad. L. Vertumnal-ia sb. pi., the festival of Vertumnus, f. Verlumn-us god of the changing year.] (See quot.) 1656 Blount Glossogr. (citing Broughton), Vertumnals, Feasts dedicated to, or <strong>Book</strong>s treated [1674 treating] of the god Vertumnus. Vertuose, obs. f. Vjutuous. Vertuositie, obs. f. Virtuosity. Vertuoso, obs. f. Vibtuoso. Vertiious(ness, obs. forms of Virtuous(ness. Vertuse, -tuyse, obs. Sc. ff. Virtuous a. Vertw, obs. Sc. f. Virtue. tVertwell. Obs.-^ [ad. OF. verteveiie-. see Vartiwell.] = Vartel. 13.. Pari. Three Ages 23S Hchenntis thaym \sc. the hawks] one honde.., Lowppes in thaire lesses thorowe vertwells of siluere. Verty, a. Sc Also 5 werty, 9 vertie, vairtie. [Aphetic f. Averty a.] Attentive to business ; prudent, cautious, wide-awake, early, etc. In enrly use coupled with wise. 1375 Bakbour Bruce xvin. 439 King Robert, .was Wis in his deid and ek verty. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron.vwi. 3121 He wes wys and rycht werty. 1456 Sir G. Have Laiv Arms (S.T.S.) 115 It efferis wele to a constable to be wys and verty, and wele avisit in all his dedis. 1804 Tarras Poems 2 Archie, fu' vertie, owre the moorlan' spangs Ilk strype and stank; nae doubt he itchin langs To crack wi' San . 1825 Jamilson Snppl.^ Vairtie, early. Buchan. Hence Ve'rtyness. rare~^. 1456 Sir G. Have Bk. Knighthood V^V%. (S.T.S.) II. 54 A man can , . mend ane evill fortune apperand be vertynas.se. Veruel, obs. var. Varvel. Vemlamian, a. rare. [f. L. Vemlami-um St. Albans.] Performed by, emanating from, Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. 1671 R. BoHUN Windi^ From another of the Verulamian experiments. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 406 The discipline, .had brought the public to a temper well fitted for the reception of the Verulamian doctrine. t Verule, obs. f. Ferrule sb. and v, C1S2S Berry EncycL Her. I. Gloss., Verules, or Ferrils, several rings, one within another, which have the same centre. Ibid., ^Veruled, or Ferriled,. .are terms used in heraldry to express the ornamental rings round huntinghorns, &c. II Vernmonta num. ^Jiat, [f. L. veru spit + montdnum, neut. oi montdnus hilly.] (See quots. 1728 and 1831.) 1728 Chambers Cycl., Ve?-u-fnontaiium, in Anatomy,.. kind of little Valve, in the Place wliere the Ejaculatory Ducts enter the Urethra.. .Its use is, to prevent the Urine, in passing the Urethra, from getting in at those Ducts. 1771 Encycl. Brit. I. 2-j-^/i A small oblong oval eminence, .terminating forward in a point, called caruncula or vcrumontanum. 1831 R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 817 Ihe inferior median line ends posteriorly at an oblong, rounded prominence, about an inch long, called the I'ernmontanum {Caput Gallinagiitis), This prominence is formed by the mucous membrane. . . Anteriorly, it becomes thin and end.s in a point. x86o Sir H. Thompson Dis. _ of Prostate (1868) 16 Some minute vessels, chiefly venous, . . on either side of the verumontanum. 1876 Gross Dis. Bladder^ etc 557 The sinus in front of the verumontanum. Verunda, ,obs. form of Veranda.
VERVAIN. Veruorj), southern ME, var, Far-forth adv. Vervail(e, obs. ff.VARVEL. Vervain (vaiv^n). Bot. Forms : a. 4-6 venieyn(e, -veyn(e, 5, 7 -uoine, 4, 7 verveine, 4, 7-9 vervein. ^. 5, 7 vervaine, 5 -wayne (warwayn), 6-7 -uaine, 7- vervain. 7. 5-6 veruen(e, 6-7 -ven. 6. 6 veruyne, 6-7 veruine, 6-8 -vine ; 6 veruin, -uyn, 6-7 vervin, -vyn (7 varvin). [a. AF. and OF. vervcine (13th c. ; OF. also vervainm^ mod.F. verveine, = Prov., It. vervetia), ad. L. verbena Verbena.] 1. The common European and British herbaceous plant, Verbena officinalis^ formerly much valued for its reputed medicinal properties. Also rarely, some other species of the genus Verbetta^ or the genus itself. Cf. Verbena 2. a. 1390 GowER Con/. II. 262 Tok sche fieldwode and verveyne, Of hertes ben noghtbetre tueine. c \^oo Lau/ranc's Cimrg. 243 A 3elke of an eij, & as miche of oile of rosjs, & as miche of iuys of verueine. 'Z1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. FiiUda, etc. 64 Vitriol.. made with iuyse of moleyn, or of plantayne, or verueyn. i6n Cotgr., Verveine, Verueine, Holie hearbe, lunoes teares. 1706 Stevrns Sp. Diet, i, Verbena, the Herb Vervein. 1866 Treas. Bot. 1210/1 The common name of Verbena offichuilis,. .V^x\^\i\y our only native species. 1874 O'Shaughnessy Music Sf Moonlight 161 Between the pathway and the wood She seemed to make a softer clime For vervein, violet, and thyme. 1887 Molonky Forestry {V. Afr. 401 Vervein {Verbena officinalis^ L.).— Herbaceous plant. ^. a 1400 Stockholm Med. MS. ii. 315 in Anglia XVIII. 315 A lytyll wyl I tellyn of verwayne, Herbe ^at meche is of raayne. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wulcker 645 Hec ueruena, warwayn. 1477 Norton Ord. Alck. iiL m Ashm. (1652) 39 Vervaine, Lunara, and Martagon. itt? Gerarde Herbal ii.ccxxxv. 580 There be two kindes of Veruaine as Pliny saith, the male, and the female ; or as others affirme, vp. right, and creeping. i6ix Oravton Poly-olb. xiii. 2i3 And hard by them againe he holy Vervaine finds. 1671 Salmon Syn. Med. ui. xxii. 439 Vervain.. is good against Tertian and Quartan Agues. X7i8 Quincy Coinpl, Dtsp. 132 Vervain flowers in June and July. 1757 Burkk Abridgm, Eng, Hist. Wks. X. 196 The Druids also looked upon vervain, and some other plants, as holy. 178a J. Scott Poet, li^ks. 97 Vervain blue for magic ritei renown 'd. 1816 Scott -4 w/tqitary xxlii. You have used neither charm,, .magic mirror, nor geomantic figure. Where be.. your May-fern, your vervain ! 1830 Lindlev Nat. S^st. Bot. 239 The properties formerly ascribed to the Vervain appear to have been imaginary. 1873 ^OmnK' Pascareliw.s'x. II. 90 About the feel of the Tower of Galileo, ivy and vervain, and the Madonna's herb, grew among the grasses. y. a 14x5 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula^ etc. 63 Mirabolan ow to be dissolued in got^ my Ik, ..or in rajTie water or rose water, or of veruene, or of anot>er stiptikc herbe. 1545 Elyot, Hierobotane, the herbe called Veruen. 1567 Maixet Gr. Forest 64 Veruen, of some after their language is called Hoiy Herbe. 1591 Lodge Hist. Dk. Normandy B ij h, Thou art like the veruen, . .poyson one wayes, and pleasure an other. 8. 1530 Palscr. 284/2 Vervyn an herbe, uerueyne. 1533 Elyot Cast. Helihe (1541) 9 b, Thynges good for the eyes ; Eyebryght : Fenell : Vervyn. 1569 Tukner Herbal 11. 162 The second kinde of Veruine. . . The leaues of thys . . are good agaynst . . serpentes. 1596 Cogan Haven Health xxi, 41 Also one olde saying I haue heard of this herbe. That whosoeuer weareth Veruin and DIM, May be bold to sleepe on euery hill. 1610 Fletcher Faith/. She/h. II. i, And thou light VarrJn too, thou must go after, Provok* ing easie souls to mirth and laughter. 1638 Rawley tr. Bacon's Li/e
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