Definitions for the word "verge" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A virgate; a yardland.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
The edge or outside of a bed or border.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
The penis.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v. i.
To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. v. i.
To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
1 edge or border. 2 brink (on the verge of tears). 3 grass edging of a road etc. [latin virga rod]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
17. v.
(-ging) 1 (foll. By on) border on. 2 incline downwards or in a specified direction. [latin vergo bend]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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