They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of
heaven.
Jer. Taylor.
— Ver*tig"i*nous*ly, adv. — Ver*tig"i*nous*ness, n.
Ver"ti*go (?; 277), n.; pl. E. Vertigoes (#), L. Vertigines (#). [L.,
fr. vertere to turn. See Verse.] 1. (Med.) Dizziness or swimming of the
head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary,
appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it
difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness. Quian.
2. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging
to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and
usually teeth in the aperture.
Ver`ti*lin"e*ar (?), a. [Vertical + linear.] Straight; rectilinear.
[R.]
Ver"tu (?), n. 1. Virtue; power. See Virtue. [Obs.] Chaucer.