a. poet. Also 7 vertick. [Irregular shortening of next, after tropic, etc.] Vertical, esp. of the sun.
1607. Barksted, Mirrha (1876), 51. Thus much the Goddesse of the floods doth deign to change thy shape, into a vertick flower.
1763. Falconer, Shipwr., I. 745. While Phœbus down the vertic-circle glides. Ibid. (a. 1769), Occ. Elegy, ix. Unfelt by you the vertic sun may glow.
1800. T. Sanderson, Orig. Poems, 9. Where vertic suns, that torrid fervour pour, Check the grove’s music and the vernal flow’r.
1876. J. Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, 79. Their sacred Well, One day illumined by the vertic Sun.
