Definition of Verge

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Definition of Verge

Verge

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.

A circumference; a circle; a ring.

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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Verge Quotations

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.
Glenn Beck

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer

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.
Tennessee Williams

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
Willem Dafoe

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
Daniel Keys Moran

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
Michael K. Simpson

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
George William Norris

Verge Translations

verge in German is Rand
verge in Latin is vergo
verge in Swedish is kanten, rand

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