\Verge\, n. [F. verge, L. virga; perhaps akin to E. wisp.]
1. A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the
   verge, carried before a dean.
2. 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. [Eng.]
3. (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.
4. A virgate; a yardland. [Obs.]
5. A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin,
   or brink of something definite in extent.
         Even though we go to the extreme verge of
         possibility to invent a supposition favorable to it,
         the theory . . . implies an absurdity. --J. S. Mill.
         But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched
         with light, one snowy sail.           --M. Arnold.
6. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
         The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round
         my brow.                              --Shak.
7. (Arch.)
   (a) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
       --Oxf. Gloss.
   (b) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a
       roof. --Encyc. Brit.
8. (Horol.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one
   with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under
   {Escapement}.
9. (Hort.)
   (a) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
   (b) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing
       them from the borders in a parterre.
10. The penis.
11. (Zo["o]l.) The external male organ of certain mollusks,
    worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Syn: Border; edge; rim; brim; margin; brink.

\Verge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Verged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Verging}.] [L. vergere to bend, turn, incline; cf. Skr. v?j
to turn.]
1. To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to
   approach.
2. 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.                    --Barrow.
         I find myself verging to that period of life which
         is to be labor and sorrow.            --Swift.