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A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.

Undergrown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.

That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees. Milton.

To undermine. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

See Virgalieu.

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

n 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.

The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach. [R.]

One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: --

Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.

eric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope. Poor man's weatherglass. (Bot.) See under Poor.

A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromat…

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)

On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the ru…