About The Word Verge
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Verge
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What's The Definition Of Verge?
[n] (British) a grass border along a road
[n] the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy" [n] a ceremonial or emblematic staff [n] a region marking a boundary [v] border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal" Synonyms | Synonyms for Verge: brink | brink | scepter | sceptre | threshold | wand Related Terms | Find terms related to Verge: See Also | bauble | border | border | bound | bound | boundary | boundary | bounds | edge | limit | staff Verge In Webster's Dictionary \Verge\, n. [F. verge, L. virga; perhaps akin to E. wisp.]
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. --J. S. Mill.
But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched
with light, one snowy sail. --M. Arnold.
6. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round
my brow. --Shak.
7. (Arch.)
(a) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
--Oxf. Gloss.
(b) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a
roof. --Encyc. Brit.
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. (Zo["o]l.) The external male organ of certain mollusks,
worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Syn: Border; edge; rim; brim; margin; brink.
\Verge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Verged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Verging}.] [L. vergere to bend, turn, incline; cf. Skr. v?j to turn.] 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. --Barrow. I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow. --Swift. |
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