Word Finder - verge

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A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

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An edge or border.

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The phallus.

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An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.

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A circumference; a circle; a ring.

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The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

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The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.

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The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

She was on the verge of crying again.

Our clans are still on the verge of war.

Was he on the verge of divulging his troubles?

The last trees which struggle for existence on the verge of the tundras are crippled dwarfs and almost without branches, and trees a hundred years old are only a few feet high and a few inches through and thickly encrusted with lichens.'

She'd been on the verge of death for years.

We explored the road verge north from the Falcon and then followed the track leading in to the old peat diggings.

This became the standing type of an assertion which, while favoured by the church and on the very verge of dogma, was yet not a dogma 3 - till the definition came through Pius IX.

He was a pious young man, simple to the Cbaracter verge of imbecility; a little later he developed actual henry vi.

His sex appeal was amplified by the dangerous edge; he was on the verge of snapping.

For migratory species on the verge of stock collapse, we must now aim to maximize the potential to recover.

Speedway was on the verge of collapse tho, and only eleven senior tracks remained after the post-war boom.

Island Canaries and a few chaffinches were in some fields and along the roadside verge were some Small Blue butterflies.

At 11, girls are considered tweens because they are on the verge of becoming teenagers and their interests are divided between childhood and teen concerns.

Bohemia appeared to be on the verge of a revolution.

The sandhills on the verge of the ocean are carpeted with creepers and the wild convolvulus.

This is not an infrequent occurrence, and arises from the tendency on the part of manufacturers to make balances so extremely sensitive that they are on the verge of in - stability.

Hence it consists (1) partly of ranges, mostly snow-capped, which stretch from south-west to north-east, and which in several cases terminate en echelon on the verge of the desert, and (2) partly of ranges which strike away from the above at various angles, but in a predominantly north-western direction.

In 1770 he came to the verge of war with England over the Falkland Islands.

Her mouth is the verge of all repose; Her breast a smoothed-out viol tone; Her hand is an early rose.

Gian Galeazzo, partly by force and partly by intrigue, discredited these minor despots, pushed his dominion to the very verge of Venice, and, having subjected Lombardy to his sway, proceeded to attack Tuscany.

In truth, owing to its isolated position on the very verge of Italy, and to its close connexion with the East, Venetian architecture was an independent development.

Her foreign policy was flighty to the verge of foolishness.

The rocks on the verge of the Kisumu province of East Africa are mainly volcanic (basalt, tuff, lava, kenyte).

Its position " on the dangerous verge of two contending empires," Parthia and 12 On a possible restoration under the name of " Antioch on the Callirrhoe " see above.

Gabriel wanted to say something to her, to apologize, to rationalize what happened … He felt like he was on the verge of snapping, unable to settle the turmoil of his emotions.

That it emerged now, when the Council was on the verge of disintegrating, couldn't be a coincidence.

However the invention of the verge escapement in Europe in the 14 th century led to a revolution in mechanical clocks.

We had now won 20, drawn 13 and lost just 4 games in the league and were on the verge of promotion.

He has been on the verge of working as a full-time film scriptwriter for several years.

He manages to embody the spirit of a man on the verge of a great change with ease.

But these eight songs still present 32 minutes of barely suppressed emotions on the verge of kindling.

Even before the foot and mouth outbreak, thousands of small farmers were already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.

Up and coming student, Peter Abelard, leads his teacher to the verge of a nervous breakdown with his philosophical tenets.

Divided on Europe, rejected by the electorate, the Conservatives now totter on the verge of self-destruction over the euro.

The grass in the verge is getting untidy As landlord, South Essex Homes will cut the grass outside council housing properties.

Common Spotted Orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii Summer 2002 was a disappointing year for Spotted Orchids on the local protected verge.

For a wager he rode his horse to the extreme verge of the cliff.

Poppy was put on a running tether to allow grazing on the narrow verge whilst I visited a feed store to buy some wormer.

Some of the liquid covering a grass verge had also dried out during the summer causing asbestos fibers to be released into the air.

People keep parking their cars on the highway verge near my property which is making them unsightly, can you repair them?

There is limited parking on the wide road verge.

Abathur sits on the farthest verge of the world of light that lies towards the lower regions, and weighs in his balance the deeds of the departed spirits who ascend to him.

The Danish rule had, during the centuries following the Reformation, gradually brought Iceland to the verge of economic ruin; the ancient Parliament of the island, which had degenerated to a mere shadow, had been abolished in 1800; all the revenue of Iceland went into the Danish treasury, and only very small sums were spent for the good of the island; but worst of all was the notorious monopoly which gave away the whole trade of Iceland to a single Danish trading company.

Beyond the cloister, at the extreme verge of the convent area to the south, stands the "factory" (Z), containing workshops for shoemakers, saddlers (or shoemakers, sellarii), cutlers and grinders, trencher-makers, tanners, curriers, fullers, smiths and goldsmiths, with their dwellings in the rear.

At the time of her abdication the state was on the verge of bankruptcy, and the financial difficulty had superinduced a serious political agitation.

Comisene, the districts on the verge of the desert; (10) Hyrcania; (II) Astabene, with the royal town Asaac on the Attruck (see PARTHIA);

But they seemed to be on the verge of rave culture there, more so than here then.

A naive acceleration run was also setup with too little run off forcing the car skid off to the grass verge.

Due to a decrease in investment from abroad, these economies appear to be tottering on the verge of economic collapse.

Against all odds, Manx Gaelic has clawed itself back from the verge of extinction over the past thirty years.