What is the name meaning of VERGE. Phrases containing VERGE
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Boy/Male
Shakespearean
Much Ado About Nothing' A Headborough.
Boy/Male
Anglo Saxon
Owns four acres of land.
Surname or Lastname
French and English
French and English : from Old French bastun ‘stick’, hence a nickname for a person of authority, an officious person, or perhaps for a beadle or verger.English : habitational name from Baston in Lincolnshire, named with the Old Norse personal name Bak + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’.
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English (Kent and London)
English (Kent and London) : from Old French verge ‘half-acre’, hence a status name for the owner of that amount of land.Catalan (Vergé) : variant of Verger, topographic name from Catalan verger ‘orchard’ (Latin viridiarium)Catalan : possibly also a nickname from verge ‘maiden’ (Latin virgo ‘maiden’).
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n.
The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
n.
An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
n.
The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
a.
Divided by pallets, or pales; paly.
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.
n.
A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
n.
See Verger.
n.
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.
n.
A garden or orchard.
n.
A wand. See Verge.
n.
The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
imp. & p. p.
of Verge
v. i.
To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
n.
One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
n.
A small pale.
n.
A small stick; a rod; a verge.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Verge
n.
The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
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.
v. i.
To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.