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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Vergeboard :: Vergeboard (n.) The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard..
Potance :: Potance (n.) The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
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..
Overget :: Overget (v. t.) To reach; to overtake; to pass.
Wand :: Wand (n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
Diverging :: Diverging (a.) Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
Diverge :: Diverge (v. i.) To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun..
Marge :: Marge (n.) Border; margin; edge; verge.
Verged :: Verged (imp. & p. p.) of Verg.
Overget :: Overget (v. t.) To get beyond; to get over or recover from.
Rhipidoglossa :: Rhipidoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix..
Vergency :: Vergency (n.) The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays..
Verge :: Verge (n.) The penis.
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Virge :: Virge (n.) A wand. See Verge.
Concentre :: Concentre (v. i.) To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center..
Sea Holly :: Sea holly () An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
Margin :: Margin (n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake..
Aberrate :: Aberrate (v. i.) To go astray; to diverge.
Homogeny :: Homogeny (n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence
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