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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



... family, which the doctor's presence would inevitably recall. Once before, Mrs. Carteret's life had been endangered by encountering, at a time of great nervous strain, this ill-born sister and her child. She was even now upon the verge of collapse at the prospect of her child's suffering, and should be protected from the intrusion of any idea which ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... whatever it was, ought now to be within the range of our vision, and Murdock intently scrutinised the darkening sea ahead for some sign of it, but in vain. Then he turned his glances shoreward and saw Cunningham standing on the verge of the bluff, vigorously waving us to ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood
... Worse, with the pious Sara Torvested, and the attempts of his mother-in-law to convert him, are described, not with the merely superficial drollery to which the subject invites, but with a sweet and delicate humor, which trembles on the verge ...
— Tales of Two Countries • Alexander Kielland
... worked, and her clothing was mended to the verge of impending ruin, and her boots leaked, and she had grown thin, but life still held out hope of a sort, a vague promise of better things, some day, at some dim period that would be reached later, ever so much later, perhaps. ...
— The Peace of Roaring River • George van Schaick
... subjects,—one and all are of vital, human interest, and are extremely attractive on account of their importance in the civilization of today. Mighty, sublime, wonderful, as have been the achievements of past science, as yet we are but on the verge of the continents of discovery. Where is the wizard who can tell what lies in the womb of time? Just as our conceptions of many things have been revolutionized in the past, those which we hold to-day of the cosmic processes may have ...
— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing


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