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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Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..
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..
Border :: Border (v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
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..
Virge :: Virge (n.) A wand. See Verge.
Verge :: Verge (n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent..
Divergement :: Divergement (n.) Divergence.
Verge :: Verge (n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.
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..
To :: To (prep.) In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty
Edge :: Edge (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice..
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..
Converging :: Converging (a.) Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines..
Devergency :: Devergency (n.) See Divergence.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
Converged :: Converged (imp. & p. p.) of Converg.
Border :: Border (n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink..
Convergent :: Convergent (a.) tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
Vergette :: Vergette (n.) A small pale.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft..
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