Crossword-Solution: VERGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Verge | n. | A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean. |
| Verge | 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. |
| Verge | 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. |
| Verge | n. | A virgate; a yardland. |
| Verge | n. | A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent. |
| Verge | n. | A circumference; a circle; a ring. |
| Verge | n. | The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft. |
| Verge | n. | The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof. |
| Verge | n. | The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement. |
| Verge | n. | The edge or outside of a bed or border. |
| Verge | n. | A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre. |
| Verge | n. | The penis. |
| Verge | n. | The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| Verge | v. i. | To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach. |
| Verge | v. i. | To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VERGE | anagram | EVERG, GREVE |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with VERGE (5)
But say, what mean those colourd streaks in Heavn, Distended as the Brow of God appeas’d, Or serve they as a flourie verge to binde The fluid skirts of that same watrie Cloud, Least it again dissolve and showr the Earth? To whom th’ Archangel.
Others argue that the Swedish model is on the verge of collapsing by pointing to the serious economic problems Sweden faces in 1991: high inflation and absenteeism, growing unemployment and deficits, and declining international competitiveness.
The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
Glancing at the looking-glass, we behold—deep within its haunted verge—the smouldering glow of the half-extinguished anthracite, the white moon-beams on the floor, and a repetition of all the gleam and shadow of the picture, with one remove further from the actual, and nearer to the imaginative.
The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved—it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge—had driven him to the very verge of his reason.
Quotes with VERGE (3)
I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away. In high school, I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. In college, the post-college “adult” person was always looming in front of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. Th…
There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love. A first glance A first smile A first kiss A first fall…(I remove the Darth Vader house shoes from my satchel and look down at them.) You were wearing these during one of those moments. One of the moments I first started to fall in love with you. The way you gave me butterflies that morning Had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else, and everything to do with you. I was falling in lov…
Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored. Beauty cannot be imprisoned in the lens of a camera. The images of beauty are a moment of its essence. Beauty cannot be displayed to evoke pleasure for all on a cinema screen. Those are just…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 126 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).