VERGE

Definitions for the word, verge

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

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

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

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

(n.) A virgate; a yardland.

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

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

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

(n.) The penis.

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

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

(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.

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

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