verge

verge is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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. noun. A virgate; a yardland.
5. noun. A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
6. noun. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
7. noun. The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
8. noun. The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
9. noun. The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
10. noun. The edge or outside of a bed or border.
11. noun. A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
12. noun. The penis.
13. noun. The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
14. intransitive verb. To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
15. intransitive verb. To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
16. noun. a grass border along a road
17. noun. the limit beyond which something happens or changes

    "on the verge of tears"

    "on the brink of bankruptcy"

    Synonyms: brink

18. noun. a ceremonial or emblematic staff

    Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand

19. noun. a region marking a boundary

    Synonyms: brink, threshold

20. verb. border on; come close to

    "His behavior verges on the criminal"

Synonyms

brink, scepter, sceptre, wand, threshold

Common word forms

verged, verger, verges, verging

Words from these letters

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