[ad. L. vertĕre to turn, overturn, etc.]
† 1. trans. To turn up, root up (the ground).
1578. Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (1848), II. 32. It sall be lesum to quhatsumewir personne apprehendand the said swyne … vertand the ertht, to distroy the samen.
2. To turn in a particular direction; to turn or twist out of the normal position. Now spec. in Path. or Anat. Hence Verting ppl. a.
c. 1590. J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 47. His sourd … did clinck and clak, Quhair euir he verts his force And awfull face.
1659. Fuller, App. Inj. Innoc., III. 21. When a Writer’s words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, against his true intent, and their Grammaticall sense.
1883. Duncan, Clin. Lect. Dis. Wom. (ed. 2), viii. 59. A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted.
1903. Med. Record, 7 Feb., 210. All of the muscles of the eyes may be relatively weak. The ducting or verting power is not as great as it should be.
3. intr. To change direction; to dart about.
1859. Meredith, R. Feverel, II. x. 198. He flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.
