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Verge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. verj. [Latin virga, a rod, that is, a shoot.]

2. A rod, or something in the form of a rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; the mace of a dean.

3. The stick or wand with which persons are admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. On this account, such tenants are called tenants by the verge

4. In law, the compass or extent of the king's court, within which is bounded the jurisdiction of the lord steward of the king's household; so called from the verge or staff which the marshal bears.

5. The extreme side or end of any thing which has some extent of length; the brink; edge; border; margin. [This seems to be immediately connected with the Latin vergo.]

6. Among gardeners, the edge or outside of a border; also, a slip of grass adjoining to gravel-walks, and dividing them from the borders in the parterre-garden.

7. A part of a time piece.

Verge [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

2. To tend; to incline; to approach.

3. I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow.

Verge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. 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. 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. A virgate; a yardland.

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

6. A circumference; a circle; a ring.

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

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

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

10. The edge or outside of a bed or border.

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

12. The penis.

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

Verge [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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

Vergeboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.

Verged [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Verge

Vergency [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.

2. The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.

Verger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. He that carries the mace before the bishop, dean, etc.

2. An officer who carries a white wand before the justices of either bend in England.

Verger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.

2. An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.

3. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.

4. A garden or orchard.

Vergette [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Divided by pallets, or pales; paly.

Vergette [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small pale.

End Roget’s Thesaurus §67

N. end, close, termination, desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega, extreme, extremity, gable end, butt end, fag-end, tip, nib, point, tail, verge, tag, peroration, bonne bouche, bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard, consummation, denouement, finish, fate, doom, doomsday, crack of doom, day of judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain, goal, destination, limit, determination, expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination, death, end of all things, finality, eschatology, break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point, coup de grace, deathblow, knock-out, -blow, sockdolager*

V. end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over, expire, die, come to a close, draw to a close, have run its course, run out, pass away, bring to an end, put an end to, make an end of, determine, get through, achieve, stop, shut up shop, hang up one's fiddle

Adj. ending, final, terminal, definitive, crowning, last, ultimate, hindermost, rear, caudal, vergent, conterminate, conterminous, conterminable, ended, at an end, settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest, conclusive, penultimate, last but one, last but two, &c. unbegun, uncommenced, fresh

Adv. finally, in fine, at the last, once for all

Phr. "as high as heaven and as deep as hell", deficit omne quod nascitur, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, finem respice, ultimus romanorum

Tendency Roget’s Thesaurus §176

N. tendency, aptness, aptitude, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility, conatus, nisus, liability, quality, nature, temperament, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, cast, vein, grain, humor, mood, drift, conduciveness, conducement, applicability, subservience

V. tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards, promote

Adj. tending, conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to, liable, subservient, useful, subsidiary

Adv. for, whither

Edge Roget’s Thesaurus §231

N. edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, # confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth, jaws, chops, chaps, fauces, lip, muzzle, threshold, door, porch, portal, coast, shore, frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp

Adj. border, marginal, skirting, labial, labiated, marginated

Limit Roget’s Thesaurus §233

N. limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, # bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of hercules, rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate

Adj. definite, conterminate|, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering

Adv. thus far, thus far and no further

Phr. stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, special

Direction Roget’s Thesaurus §278

N. direction, bearing, course, vector, set, drift, tenor, tendency, incidence, bending, trending, dip, tack, aim, collimation, steering steerage, point of the compass, cardinal points, north east, south, west, n by e, ene, ne by n, ne, &c, rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation, line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march, alignment, allignment, air line, beeline, straight shoot

V. tend towards, bend towards, point towards, conduct to, go to, point to, point at, bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine, steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards, aim at, level at, take aim, keep a course, hold a course, be bound for, bend one's steps towards, direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape one's course, align one's march, allign one's march, to straight, go straight to the point, march on, march on a point, ascertain one's direction, s'orienter, see which way the wind blows, box the compass, take the air line

Adj. directed, directed towards, pointing towards, bound for, aligned, with alligned with, direct, straight, undeviating, unswerving, straightforward, north, northern, northerly, &c. n

Adv. towards, on the road, on the high road to, en avant, versus, to, hither, thither, whither, directly, straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow, point blank, in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with, in a line with, full tilt at, as the crow flies, before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind, windwards, in the wind's eye, through, via, by way of, in all directions, in all manner of ways, quaquaversum, from the four winds

Phr. the shortest distance between two points is a straight line