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- Verge - n. - A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
- 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 - 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.
- Verge - n. - A virgate; a yardland.
- Verge - n. - A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
- Verge - n. - A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- Verge - n. - The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- Verge - n. - The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
- Verge - n. - The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
- Verge - n. - The edge or outside of a bed or border.
- Verge - n. - A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
- Verge - n. - The penis.
- Verge - n. - The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
- Verge - v. i. - To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
- Verge - v. i. - To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
- 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.
- Verged - imp. & p. p. - of Verge
- Vergency - n. - The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
- Vergency - n. - The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
- Verger - n. - One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
- Verger - n. - An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
- Verger - n. - The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
- Verger - n. - A garden or orchard.
- Vergette - a. - Divided by pallets, or pales; paly.
- Vergette - n. - A small pale.
- Greencloth - n. - A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates.
- About - prep. - On the point or verge of; going; in act of.
- Potance - n. - The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
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