Definition of verge

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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..

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Sea Holly :: Sea holly () An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft..
Divergent :: Divergent (a.) Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement..
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
Verged :: Verged (imp. & p. p.) of Verg.
Divergency :: Divergency (n.) A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines..
Convergent :: Convergent (a.) tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
Concentre :: Concentre (v. i.) To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center..
Virger :: Virger (n.) See Verger.
Diverging :: Diverging (a.) Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
Corradiate :: Corradiate (v. t.) To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays..
Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence..
Border :: Border (n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink..
Convergence :: Convergence (n.) Alt. of Convergenc.
Extreme :: Extreme (n.) The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
Divergence :: Divergence (n.) Alt. of Divergenc.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
Axil :: Axil (n.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs..
Diverged :: Diverged (imp. & p. p.) of Diverg.
Verger :: Verger (n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc..
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