VERGE
\vˈɜːd͡ʒ], \vˈɜːdʒ], \v_ˈɜː_dʒ]\
Definitions of VERGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
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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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A virgate; a yardland.
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A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
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A circumference; a circle; a ring.
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The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
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The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
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The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
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The edge or outside of a bed or border.
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A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
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The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
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To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
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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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A virgate; a yardland.
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A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
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A circumference; a circle; a ring.
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The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
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The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
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The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
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The edge or outside of a bed or border.
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A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
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The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
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To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A rod or staff carried as a sign of authority; a limit or boundary; an extreme edge; as, the verge of a precipice.
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To be on the edge or border: with on; to tend; to incline.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A slender green branch, a twig: a rod, staff, or mace, or anything like them, used as an emblem of authority: extent of jurisdiction (esp. of the lord-steward of a royal household.).
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French, Latin] A kind of rod carried as an emblem of authority; the mace of a dean;—the shaft of a column; or a small ornamental shaft; — the spindle of a watch-balance.
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n. [Latin] The extreme side or end of any thing which has length;—edge; margin ; brink ;—in law, the compass or extent of the king's court;—in horticulture, the edge or outside of a border;—a slip of grass between the gravel walks and the parterre.
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