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Show VE Q ane s transformation %:'::g, 'the antients though to be mad b werfion of air into water. Bacon's Nat. Hiffory .;. theChang of direction ', Comets are rather gazed upon, than w.mfclyfibferved in their effeéts; that is, what kind of co met, for magnitud.e, co}om:, werfion of the beams produceth what kind of effects 7, Tranflation 1 Bacon This exa@ propiiety of Virgil I particularl regarded ; but muft confefs, that .I hqv_e not bee able to make him appear wholly like himfelf. q where the original is clofe, no werfion can reach i in the fame c(\mpafS It will be as eafy D_/:ydm eafier nay muc to inven fome pretence or other againft the reading, werfion Waterland. or conftruction 4 The a&t of traflating VerT . /o [wert, French. . thing that grows, and bears a green leaf within th Cowwel foreft, that may cover and hide a deer I find no mention in all the records of Ireland or free warren, notwithftanding the grea of a par Sir Fobn Dawvies plenty of wert and venifon Ve'rRTEBRAL. adj. [from wertebre, Lat.) Relating to the joints of the {pine The carotid, wertebraly and fplenick arteries ar not only varioufly contorted, but here and there di lated, to moderate the moticn of the blood Ray on the Creatio Ve'RTEBRE. 7. /. [wertebre, Fr. wertebra ' Latin.] A joint of the back are reflecte fro body appear a body, the whiter doe VerTI GINOUS th Locke adj [wertiginofus, Lat. I. Turning round ; rotatory This wertiginous motion gives day and night fucceffively over the whole earth, and makes it habitable all around Bentley 2. Giddy Thefe extinguith candles, make the workme faint and wertiginous; and, when very great, fuffocate and kill them Woodavard VERTIGO 3./ [Latin. A giddinefs a fenfe of turning in the head Pertigo is the appearance of vifible objeés tha tended wit fight motion as if they turne round, at a fear of falling, and a dimnefs o Quincy The forerunners of an apoplexy are dulnefs, ver tigos, tremblings Arbuthnat That old wvertigo in his hea Will never leave him tiil he's dead Savift VE'RVAIN. Y 7. /o Twerweine, Fr. verbena Ve'rvine. § Latin.] A plant She night-fhade ftrows to work him ill Therewith the werwain, and ber dift That hindreth witches of their will Drayto Some fcatt'ring pot-herbs here and theie h found Which, cultivated with his daily care And bruis'd with werwain, were his frugal fare a i e g d e g I v a VER eminent degree Th Greek orator was fo wery famous for t}ps that his antagonift reading over the oranon'whlc had procured his banifhment, afked them, if th.e were o much affe€ed by the bare reading of it how much more they would have been alarmeds Addifon had they heard him That bold challenge was thought wery fi:raLnge To VE'SICATE Latin. wv. a. [wefica To blifter Celfus propofes, thatin all thefe internal wounds the external parts be weficated, to make more powerful revuifion from within. Wifeman's Surgery I faw the cuticular weficated, and fhining with aburning heat Wifeman Vesica''Tion. #. /. [from weficate. tering ; feparation of the cuticle Blif I applied fome vinegar prepared with litharge defending the wefication with pledgets Wifeman's Surgers Vesi"caTory. n [ [weficatorium, techni cal Latin.] A bliftering medicine Ve'sicLE. n. /. [veficula, Latin.] A fmal cuticle filled or inflated Nor is the humour contained in fmaller veins but in a weficle, or little bladder Brown's Vulgar Errours The lungs are made up of fuch air pipes an wveficles intexrwoven with blood-veffels, to purify ferment, or fupply the fanguineous mafs with nitro-aerial particles Ray Vest'cuLar. adj. [from weficula, Latin. Thefe keep the wertex ; but betwixt the bea but differs from it in having its leave deeply divided Miller Ve'rveLEs. #./. [verwvelle, Fr.] Label tied to a hawk Ainfworth VE'RY VE'SPER 2.A top ofa hill ; the top of any thing Mountains efpecially abound with different fpecies of vegetables ; every werrex or eminence aftordDerbam ing new kinds VERTICAL. adj. [vertical, Fr. from vertex. ki 1. Placed in the zenith *Tis raging noon ; and wertical the fu Darts on the head direct his forceful rays. T homfo 2, Placed in a direction perpendicular t the horizon From thefe laws, all the rules of bodies afcendin or defcending in wertical lines may be deduced VerTica'LiTY Cheyne 7. / [ fro wertical. The ftate of being in the zenith . Unto them the fun is vertical twice a year; mak_18g two diftin€ fummers in the different poiuts tl:e werticality Brown's Vulgar Errour VeRTicALLY. adv. [from wertical.] I the zenith idea of whitenefs in us, the more particles of ligh Ve'RvaiN. mallow. n. f. A plant. It hat And fhining zodiack, where the planets er: A thoufand figur'd conftellations roll Creec ji a werticity about their own centers, that produce th tian grace, that very time is alfo the fpecial opporSpratt tunity of charity The feveral wertebres are {o elegantly compacte together, that they are as firong as if they wer Ray but cne bone VERTEX. n. /. [Latin. 1. Zenith; the point over head arfaly Whether they be globules, or whether they have are withou ety in the laws of the foreit, fignifies ever VE V Although it be not vertical unto any part of Afia Jet it wertically pafleth over Peru and Brafilia ERTICULLATE. adj. {fro Latin. Browwn werticillum Ver:tt;cillate; plants are fuch as have their flower \B;‘_»‘rmxxr with {mall leaves growing in a kind o ‘ ;"1 itls about the joints of 2 ftalk, as pennyroyal horehound, & Quincy ERTI'CITY - . /. [ f fro 2 wertex. ] 'Th - Power of turning; circumvolution r tation ":'hc;fe ftars do not peculiarly glance on us, bu W 0}' fi‘immon. regard unto all countries, unt M their verticity is alfo common . Brown's Pulgar Errours m;;':h?'e the werticity of the needle, withourt 1 Hom the days of old Glanville D)-y(!{‘n the whole habit of the mallow or althaea adj [wveray o wrai French whence weray in ancient Englifh has its degrees werier and werief. I A mufcle is a bundle of weficular threads, or o folid filaments, involved in one common membrane Cheyng n. f. [Latin. Th evenin ftar ; the evening Thefe figns are black Pefper's pageants I.91rue s real Why do I pity him That with his wery heart defpifeth me Hollow ; full of {fmall interftices Shakefp In wery deed, as the Lord liveth. 1 Sam. xxv. 34 O that in wery deed we might behold it Dryden and Le Shak Ve'spers. #. /. [ without the fingular from we/perus, Latin.] The evening fervice of the Romith church VE'SPERTINE. adj. [wejpertinus, Latin. Happening or coming in the evening pertaining to the evening z. Having any qualities, commonly bad in an eminent degree ; complete; per- VE'SSEL. #. /. [waffelle, Fr. vas, Lat. 1. Any thing in which liquids, or othe fecthomere Thofe who had drunk of Circe's cup, wer turned into wery beafts Dawies There, where wery defolation dwells By grots and caverns fhagg'd with horrid fhades She way pafs on Milton 3. To note things emphatically nently >Tis an ill office for a gentleman Efpecially againft his wery friend Was not my lov The werier wag o' th' two W or emiShakefpeare Shake[peare can contain ourfelves an u i to their wery ch\in Addifor's Guardian 4. Same, emphatically Women are as rofes; whofe fair lowe Being once difplay'd, doth fall that wexy hour Shakefpeare The cocks beat the partridge, which fhe laid t heart: but finding thefe wery cocks cutting on another, the comforte So catholic herfelf a grace-is charity For Banquo's iffue have I fil'd my mind Put rancours in the weffe/ of my peace Only for them Shakefpeare's Macbeth If you have two wefféls to fill, and you empty on to fill the other, there fill remains one wgffe empty Burnet 2. The containing parts of ananimal body Shakefp Were he the werieff antick in the world In a feeing age, the wery knowledge of forme times paffes but for ignorance in a better drefs South The pictures of our great grandmothers i queen Elizabeth's time, are cloathed down to th wery wrills things, are put L' Eftrange that whateve time is the fpecial opportunity of ang*other chrif Of thefe elements are conftituted ‘the fmallef fibres; of thofe fibres the weffels; of thofe weffel the organs of the body Arbutbnot on Aliments Another caufe of a wafting ulcer in the lungs is, the difruption ofa weffel, whence the blood ifiue into the cavitie an interftices of the lungs, and is thence expeétorated by a cough Blackmore 3. Any vehicle in which men or goods ar carried on the water The fons an nephew of Noah wh people the ifles, had wefféls to tranfport themfelves Raleigh's Effays The Phenicians firft invented open weffels, an the Egyptians thips with decks Heylyn The weffél is reprefented as firanded. The figur before it feems to lift it off the fhallows Addifon on Medals From florms of rage, and dangerous rocks o pride Let thy ftrong hand this little weffel guide It was thy hapd that made it through the tid Impetuon |