Definition of verge

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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..

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Verge :: Verge (v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
Decomposed :: Decomposed (a.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
Divergency :: Divergency (n.) A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines..
Convergent :: Convergent (a.) tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
Border :: Border (v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
Verger :: Verger (n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office..
Greencloth :: 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..
Vergette :: Vergette (n.) A small pale.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The penis.
Axil :: Axil (n.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs..
Border :: Border (n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink..
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..
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Wand :: Wand (n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
Virge :: Virge (n.) A wand. See Verge.
Point :: Point (n.) An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge..
Myopia :: Myopia (n.) Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens..
Edge :: Edge (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice..
Infurcation :: Infurcation (n.) A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching.
Radiately :: Radiately (adv.) In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center.
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