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verge

vərʤ
WordNet
Watch made of silver, with verge escapement and white enamelled dial. The back bottom is guilloche with the exception of a medallion with tendrils and leaf ornament.
Watch made of silver, with verge escapement and white enamelled dial. The back bottom is guilloche with the exception of a medallion with tendrils and leaf ornament.
  1. (v) verge
    border on; come close to "His behavior verges on the criminal"
  2. (n) verge
    a grass border along a road
  3. (n) verge
    the limit beyond which something happens or changes "on the verge of tears","on the brink of bankruptcy"
  4. (n) verge
    a ceremonial or emblematic staff
  5. (n) verge
    a region marking a boundary
Illustrations
Watch made of silver, with verge escapement. The back bottom is guilloche.
Watch made of silver, with verge escapement. The back bottom is guilloche.
Watch made of silver, with verge escapement and white enamelled dial. The back bottom is smooth.
Watch made of silver, with verge escapement and white enamelled dial. The back bottom is smooth.
Watch, verge escapement, of silver in unadorned case.
Watch, verge escapement, of silver in unadorned case.
Bottom left a scale stick: Echelle de 400 verges dans une pouce de Rhinlande. Bottom right the title cartouche.
Bottom left a scale stick: Echelle de 400 verges dans une pouce de Rhinlande. Bottom right the title cartouche.
Men's watch, verge escapement, made of gold, with double case. On the loose cupboard an enamel painting, depicting a monk with a drinking bowl and a woman.
Men's watch, verge escapement, made of gold, with double case. On the loose cupboard an enamel painting, depicting a monk with a drinking bowl and a woman.
A boy is sitting on the verge with a walking stick in his hands, and a box is standing next to his feet.
A boy is sitting on the verge with a walking stick in his hands, and a box is standing next to his feet.
A man is dragging wood away from a dilapidated farm. On the verge of the road, two men watch. This print is part of a loose group of eleven prints, of which only numbers 1-6 (later?) Are numbered.
A man is dragging wood away from a dilapidated farm. On the verge of the road, two men watch. This print is part of a loose group of eleven prints, of which only numbers 1-6 (later?) Are numbered.
The deer lying on the verge, against the background of shrubs and trees, covered with a cloth and walking stick
The deer lying on the verge, against the background of shrubs and trees, covered with a cloth and walking stick
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Verge
    A circumference; a circle; a ring. "The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow."
  2. Verge
    A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
  3. Verge
    (Hort) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
  4. Verge
    A virgate; a yardland.
  5. Verge
    (Eng. Law) 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.
  6. Verge
    (Arch) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
  7. Verge
    (Hort) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
  8. Verge
    (Zoöl) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
  9. Verge
    The penis.
  10. Verge
    (Arch) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
  11. Verge
    (Horol) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
  12. Verge
    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.
  13. Verge
    To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
  14. Verge
    To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north. "Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards him as its center.", "I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) verge
    A rod, or something in the form of a rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority or ensign of office; the mace of a bishop, dean, or other functionary.
  2. (n) verge
    A 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.
  3. (n) verge
    In architecture: The shaft of a column; a small ornamental shaft, The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof, that on the horizontal part being called eaves.
  4. (n) verge
    The spindle of the balance-wheel of a watch, especially that of the old vertical movement.
  5. (n) verge
    An accentmark.
  6. (n) verge
    A quantity of land, from 15 to 30 acres; a yard-land; a virgate.
  7. (n) verge
    The extreme side or edge of anything; the brink; edge; border; margin.
  8. (n) verge
    The horizon.
  9. (n) verge
    A boundary; a limit; hence, anything that incloses or bounds, as a ring or circlet.
  10. (n) verge
    The space within a boundary or limit; hence, room; scope; place; opportunity.
  11. (n) verge
    In English law, the compass of the jurisdiction of the Court of Marshalsea, or palace-court. It was an area of about twelve miles in circumference, embracing the royal palace, in which special provisions were made for peace and order.
  12. (n) verge
    In a stocking-frame, a small piece of iron placed in front, of the needle-bar to regulate the position of the needles.
  13. (n) verge
    In anatomy and zoology, the penis, especially that of various invertebrates.
  14. (n) verge
    In horticulture, the grass edging of a bed or border; a slip of grass dividing the walks from the borders in a garden.
  15. (n) verge
    The main beam of the trebuchet, a missile engine used in medieval warfare
  16. verge
    To border.
  17. verge
    To bend; slope: as, a hill that verges to the north.
  18. verge
    To tend; incline; approach; border.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Verge
    verj a slender green branch, a twig: a rod, staff, or mace, or anything like them, used as an emblem of authority: extent of jurisdiction (esp. of the lord-steward of the royal household): the brink, extreme edge: the horizon: a boundary, limit: scope, opportunity: in gardening, the grass edging of a bed or border
  2. (v.i) Verge
    verj to bend or incline: to tend downward: to slope: to tend: to border upon
Quotations
John Foster Dulles
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
John Foster Dulles
Lord Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron
Germaine Greer
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
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. verge, L. virga,; perhaps akin to E. wisp,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. vergĕre, to bend, incline; cf. valgus, wry.

Usage in the news

For the first time in decades, we're on the verge of producing too little food to feed the planet. mercedsunstar.com

As the economic hovers on the verge of recovery, it's a message any community would be glad to hear: new jobs are coming to town. csbj.com

New York City is on the verge of a management breakthrough as transformative as the early days of CompStat and CitiStat. governing.com

There was several anxious moments when the Dirigo team appeared to be on the verge of making things happen, but it never materialized in a girls' soccer Western Class C preliminary playoff game. rumfordfallstimes.com

East Hamilton on verge of surge. timesfreepress.com

A decade ago, Ehud Barak was a popular Israeli prime minister and war hero on the historic verge of making peace with Syria and the Palestinians. cbsnews.com

Formula One owners could be on the verge of ousting Bernie. autoweek.com

The NFL's 2012 regular season is on the verge of starting, and teams are making final preparations in training camp for their first preseason games. espn.go.com

One of the most popular players in modern Detroit Red Wings history is on the verge of becoming a Flint General. blog.mlive.com

Is Microsoft On The Verge Of A Sudden Collapse Predicted By Catastrophe Theory. forbes.com

For the Supreme Court, it was the year of living on the verge. ashingtonpost.com

Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) is on the verge of a $12 billion deal that could give the world's largest brewer control of Mexico's Grupo Modelo, The Wall Street Journal reported. foxbusiness.com

Czech Republic on verge of Davis Cup title. sltrib.com

Pro Arts in Kihei on verge of delivering 'A-quality' theater. mauinews.com

Play Podcast Are Jon Daniels and company on the verge of making an offseason splash. espn.go.com

Usage in scientific papers

Within this scenario, the GRB originates in a binary system formed by a massive star on the verge of a SN and a NS close to its critical mass for the gravitational collapse to a BH.
GRB 110709B in the Induced Gravitational Collapse paradigm

We indicate that it is a binary system formed by a massive evolved star on the verge of a SN explosion and a NS.
GRB 110709B in the Induced Gravitational Collapse paradigm

Csernai, T. Øverg˚ard, and E. Østgaard, Nucl.
Effects of hyperons on the dynamical deconfinement transition in cold neutron star matter

T + 0(1), Var νk (T ) ∼ and the sequence of the the normalized random variable νk (T )−E νk (T ) √V ar νk (T ) verges in distribution to the gaussian random sequence from the Theorem 1.
Gaussian fluctuation for the number of particles in Airy, Bessel, sine and other determinantal random point fields

IV is borne out, one should be at the verge of observing a signal, not just a lower bound, for ∆ms .
New Information on B Decays to Charmless VP Final States

Usage in literature

His attitude was on the verge of incorrectness. "The Bronze Eagle" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Franklin's son William was verging on manhood. "True to His Home" by Hezekiah Butterworth

His troops were on the verge of mutiny: he had to shoot one ringleader with his own hand. "The Life of Gordon, Volume II" by Demetrius Charles Boulger

And now he was on the verge of tears. "The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch" by Edward Stratemeyer

You are on the verge of that experience. "A Black Adonis" by Linn Boyd Porter

But it did not even verge on either resentment or despondency. "Athalie" by Robert W. Chambers

Eudena and Ugh-lomi stepped back from the cliff until they could just see the bears over the verge. "Tales of Space and Time" by Herbert George Wells

We are on the verge of very important discoveries, and a word at random might ruin everything. "The Slave of Silence" by Fred M. White

Desmond watched him in a growing bewilderment that verged on impatience. "Captain Desmond, V.C." by Maud Diver

Indeed, she was on the verge of tears over the wantonly injurious statement made by the husband whom she had cherished for a lifetime. "Making People Happy" by Thompson Buchanan

Usage in poetry
And on the verge of this wild sea
Famine and death doth cry;
The cries of women and of babes
Over the field doth fly.
"Gwin King of Norway" by William Blake Author object (692)
My father's hall was a dark old spot,
With a dark old wood around,
And large quiet streams, like watery dreams,
On the verge of a haunted ground.
"The Better Hope" by Ernest Jones Author object (193)
And another from uttermost verges
Ran out with a terrible voice—
“Let him go—it is well that he goeth,
Though he break with the lot of his choice!”
"Safi" by Henry Kendall
'I'll look abroad!--'tis piercing cold!--
How the bleak wind assails his breast!
Yet some faint light mine eyes, behold:
The storm is verging o'er the West.
"Market-Night" by Robert Bloomfield Author object (562)
Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still
And glad of silence: down the wood sweeps clear
To the utmost verge where fed with many a rill
Low lies the mere.
"A Landscape" by Algernon Charles Swinburne Author object (28)
As roam'd a pilgrim o'er the mountain drear,
On whose lone verge the foaming billows roar,
The wail of hopeless sorrow pierc'd his ear,
And swell'd at distance on the sounding shore.
"Euphelia" by Helen Maria Williams