Definition of Verge

vergo

(v. i.)
To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
  

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

(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.
  

(n.)
The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
  

(n.)
The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  

(n.)
The penis.
  

(n.)
The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
  

(n.)
The edge or outside of a bed or border.
  

(n.)
The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
  

(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.
  

(n.)
A virgate; a yardland.
  

(n.)
A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
  

(n.)
A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
  

(n.)
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
  

(n.)
A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
  

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verge
\verge\ (?), n. [f. verge, l. virga; perhaps akin to e. wisp.]
1. a rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
2. 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. [eng.]
3. (eng. law) 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.
4. a virgate; a yardland. [obs.]
5. a border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent. even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favorable to it, the theory implies an absurdity. s. mill. but on the horizon's verge descried, hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail. arnold.
6. a circumference; a circle; a ring. the inclusive verge of golden metal that must round my brow.
7. (arch.) (a) the shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft. gloss. (b) the edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof. brit.
8. (horol.) the spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. see under escapement.
9. (hort.) (a) the edge or outside of a bed or border. (b) a slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
10. the penis.
11. (zo?l.) the external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. see illustration in appendix.

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Cant = n. an orb, rim, or verge of a circle; a hundred

Sawd = n. drift, plight, verge; a siege

Sawdio = v. to tend, to verge

brink,threshold
EG:All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.(G.GREER)

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Noun
1. a region marking a boundary
(synonym) brink, threshold
(hypernym) boundary, edge, bound
2. the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"
(synonym) brink
(hypernym) limit, bounds, boundary
3. a ceremonial or emblematic staff
(synonym) scepter, sceptre, wand
(hypernym) staff
(hyponym) bauble
4. a grass border along a road
(hypernym) border
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Verb
1. border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal"
(hypernym) bound, border
(derivation) brink

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