Verge
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( 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.
(2): ( 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.
(3): ( n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
(4): ( n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
(5): ( n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.
(6): ( n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
(7): ( n.) A virgate; a yardland.
(8): ( n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
(9): ( n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
(10): ( n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
(11): ( n.) The penis.
(12): ( n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
(13): ( n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
(14): ( v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
(15): ( v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(Lat. viigya) is a staff of wood or metal, surmounted with a figure, emblem, or device, borne before a bishop, dean, rector, or vicar, in entering or leaving church, and on other public occasions. Several specimens of verges of the period of the Restoration, made of precious metals, exist in some of the churches of London. The term is also used for a rod or staff carried as an emblem of authority; also a stick or wand with which people are admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the owner.
