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Surrounding the vertebræ.

To turnanother way; to divert. [Obs.] Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath. Shak.

One who perverts (a person or thing). "His own parents his perverters." South. "A perverter of his law." Bp. Stillingfleet.

Capable of being perverted.

A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.

Poverty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

digent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

To advertise beforehand; to preannounce publicly.

Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.

One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Of or pertaining to the protovertebræ.

The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing. [R.] Norris.

To convert again. Milton.

Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.

To turn back.

In a state of retroversion.

To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. Thomson.

Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.

A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system. [Obs.] E. Darwin.

One who, or that which, reverts.