Vert, s. Everything that grows and bears a green leaf within the forest.
Vertebral, a. Relating to the joints of the spine.
Vertebræ, s. Joints of the back.
Vertigo, s. A giddiness, a sense of turning in the head. According to White fast trotters are particularly subject to this disease.
When a horse has been worked hard and fed high, and especially horses that excel in trotting, we often find, in the course of a few years, that they appear giddy at times, or when trotting suddenly stand still; ramble or reel a little, and shake their heads; but after a short time recover. Sometimes they reel and drop down, and lie motionless for some time; when they get up again, and recover in a short time. Sometimes after falling down, they are convulsed, and the eyes are distorted; from this state also they recover after a short time.—White.
Vesicate, v. To blister.
Vesicatory, s. A blistering medicine.
Veterinary, a. Belonging to cattle, particularly horses.
Vibrissæ (Linn.), s. In ornithology, are hairs that stand forward like feelers: in some birds they are slender, as in flycatchers, &c. and point both upwards and downwards, from both the upper and under sides of the mouth. Vibrissæ pectinatæ (Linn.), in ornithology; these hairs are very stiff, and spread out on each side like a comb from the upper sides of the mouth of the nightjar.—Montagu.
Vice, s. The course of action opposite to virtue; a fault, an offence; a kind of small iron press with screws. Vice, in horses, ill temper, savageness.