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- English Word Verfication Definition A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.
- English Word Vergalien Definition Alt. of Vergaloo
- English Word Vergaloo Definition See Virgalieu.
- English Word Verge Definition A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
- English Word Verge Definition 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.
- English Word Verge Definition 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.
- English Word Verge Definition A virgate; a yardland.
- English Word Verge Definition A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
- English Word Verge Definition A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- English Word Verge Definition The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- English Word Verge Definition The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
- English Word Verge Definition The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
- English Word Verge Definition The edge or outside of a bed or border.
- English Word Verge Definition A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
- English Word Verge Definition The penis.
- English Word Verge Definition The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Verge Definition To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
- English Word Verge Definition To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
- English Word Vergeboard Definition 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.
- English Word Verged Definition of Verge
- English Word Vergency Definition The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
- English Word Vergency Definition The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
- English Word Verger Definition One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
- English Word Verger Definition An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
- English Word Verger Definition The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
- English Word Verger Definition A garden or orchard.
- English Word Vergette Definition Divided by pallets, or pales; paly.
- English Word Vergette Definition A small pale.
- English Word Verging Definition of Verge
- English Word Veridical Definition Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.