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Verge   /vərdʒ/   Listen
noun
Verge  n.  
1.
A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
2.
The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge. (Eng.)
3.
(Eng. Law) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.
4.
A virgate; a yardland. (Obs.)
5.
A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent. "Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favorable to it, the theory... implies an absurdity." "But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail."
6.
A circumference; a circle; a ring. "The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow."
7.
(Arch.)
(a)
The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
(b)
The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
8.
(Horol.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
9.
(Hort.)
(a)
The edge or outside of a bed or border.
(b)
A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
10.
The penis.
11.
(Zool.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
Synonyms: Border; edge; rim; brim; margin; brink.


verb
Verge  v. i.  (past & past part. verged; pres. part. verging)  
1.
To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
2.
To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north. "Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards him as its center." "I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow."





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"Verge" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a look full of intoxicating promises, a physiologist could deduce the whole scale of feminine emotion, from aversion or indifference to Phaedra's declaration to Hippolytus. Women can make it, at will, contemptuous to the verge of insult, or humble to the ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
... the reach of vision, bounded on the S.W. by woods and low ranges, and on the N.E. by higher ranges, the whole of these open downs declining to the N.W., in which direction a line of trees marked the course of a river traceable to the remotest verge of the horizon. There I found then, at last, the realization of my long-cherished hopes—an interior river falling to the N.W. in the heart of an open country, extending also in that direction. . . . From the rock where I stood, the scene ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc
... taken Ted from her, and, in some curious fashion, hates her because Mrs. Vansuythen and here the wife's eyes see far more clearly than the husband's detests Ted. And Ted that gallant captain and honourable man knows now that it is possible to hate a woman once loved, to the verge of wishing to silence her for ever with blows. Above all, is he shocked that Mrs. Boulte cannot see ...
— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling
... action, keep up their wages in spite of the invasion of their domain by new and improved machinery. On the other hand, the garment-workers, the sweaters' victims, poor, unorganized, unintelligent, despised, remain forever on the verge of pauperism, irrespective of their endless toil. If, now, by some untoward fate the printers should suddenly find themselves disfranchised, placed in a position in which their members were politically inferior to the members of other trades, no effort of their ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... situation, in almost perfect security, they fired down upon Braddock's men. The only exposure of the French and Indians, resulted from the circumstance of their having to raise their heads to peep over the verge of the cliff, in order to shoot with more deadly precision. In consequence, all of them who were killed in the early part of the action, were ...
— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers


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