verge
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1. verge - Noun
2. verge - Verb
3. Verge - Proper noun
Meaning
A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
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.
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.
A virgate; a yardland.
A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
The edge or outside of a bed or border.
A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
The penis.
The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
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You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.