verge

Definitions

1. 1noun

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

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   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. 4noun

   A virgate; a yardland.

5. 5noun

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

6. 6noun

   A circumference; a circle; a ring.

7. 7noun

   The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

8. 8noun

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

9. 9noun

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

10. 10noun

    The edge or outside of a bed or border.

11. 11noun

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

12. 12noun

    The penis.

13. 13noun

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

14. 14intransitive verb

    To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.

15. 15intransitive verb

    To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.

16. 16noun

    a grass border along a road

17. 17noun

    the limit beyond which something happens or changes

    "on the verge of tears"

    "on the brink of bankruptcy"

    Synonyms

    brink
18. 18noun

    a ceremonial or emblematic staff

    Synonyms

    sceptersceptrewand
19. 19noun

    a region marking a boundary

    Synonyms

    brinkthreshold
20. 20verb

    border on; come close to

    "His behavior verges on the criminal"