Definition of verge

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Verge (v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.

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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..
Verge :: Verge (n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
Verge :: Verge (n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean..
Diverged :: Diverged (imp. & p. p.) of Diverg.
Planula :: Planula (n.) In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula..
Sea Holly :: Sea holly () An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
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
Sasin :: Sasin (n.) The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica, / cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. It has long, spiral, divergent horns..
About :: About (prep.) On the point or verge of; going; in act of.
Sapodilla :: Sapodilla (n.) A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum..
Side :: Side (n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc..
Divergement :: Divergement (n.) Divergence.
Top :: Top (n.) Eve; verge; point.
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..
Convergency :: Convergency (n.) The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point.
Knight Marshal :: Knight marshal () An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties..
Concentre :: Concentre (v. i.) To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center..
Verge :: Verge (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north..
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
Verge :: Verge (n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent..
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