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.
