verging

Variant of verge

verge definition

verge (vʉrj)

noun

    1. the edge, brink, or margin (of something): also used figuratively the verge of the forest, on the verge of hysteria
    2. Brit. a grassy border, as along a road
    1. an enclosing line or border; boundary, esp. of something more or less circular
    2. the area so enclosed
  3. the edge of the tiling that projects over a gable
  4. the spindle of a balance wheel in a clock with an old-style vertical escapement
  5. a rod or staff symbolic of an office, as that carried before a church official in processions
  6. Eng. Feudal Law a rod held in the hand by a feudal tenant as he swore fealty to his lord

Etymology: ME < OFr, rod, wand, stick, yard, hoop < L virga, twig, rod, wand < IE *wizga- < base *wei-, to bend, twist > wire, whisk

intransitive verb verged, verging verg′·ing

to be on or as if on the verge, edge, brink, or border: usually with on or upon streets verging on the slum area, talk that verges on the ridiculous

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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