VERGE

verge

Noun

  1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  2. The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
  3. An edge or border.
  4. The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street; a tree lawn.
  5. The phallus.
  6. The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
  7. An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
    I was on the verge of tears.
  8. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
  9. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
  10. The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  11. The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
  12. The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

Verb

  1. To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
    Eating blowfish verges on insanity.


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