† ˈvertice Obs.—1
[a. F. vertice (= Sp., Pg., and It. vertice), ad. L. vertic-em, vertex vertex.]
The vertex or zenith.
| 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 5 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. |