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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Vergette :: Vergette (a.) Divided by pallets, or pales; paly..
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Edge :: Edge (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice..
Wand :: Wand (n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
Divergence :: Divergence (n.) Alt. of Divergenc.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..
Convergent :: Convergent (a.) tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
Divaricate :: Divaricate (v. i.) To diverge; to be divaricate.
Brink :: Brink (n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig..
Verge :: 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..
Verge :: Verge (n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean..
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..
Verge :: Verge (n.) 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..
Bargeboard :: Bargeboard (n.) A vergeboard.
Verge :: Verge (n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent..
Convergence :: Convergence (n.) Alt. of Convergenc.
Virge :: Virge (n.) A wand. See Verge.
Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus..
Verge :: Verge (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..
Vergette :: Vergette (n.) A small pale.
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