Definition of verge

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Verge (n.) 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..

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Edge :: Edge (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice..
Decomposed :: Decomposed (a.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..
Devergency :: Devergency (n.) See Divergence.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
About :: About (prep.) On the point or verge of; going; in act of.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..
Convergency :: Convergency (n.) The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point.
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Diverging :: Diverging (a.) Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
Obliquity :: Obliquity (n.) The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator..
Greencloth :: Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates..
Diverge :: Diverge (v. i.) To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
Corradiate :: Corradiate (v. t.) To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays..
Converge :: Converge (v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.
Verge :: Verge (v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
Divarication :: Divarication (n.) A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
Verger :: Verger (n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office..
Margin :: Margin (n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake..
Verger :: Verger (n.) A garden or orchard.
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