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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.

A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.

One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.

eral climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as C. Vitalba of Europe, and C. Virginiana of North America.

American lungwort (Mertensia Virginica). -- Virginia creeper (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy. [U.S.] -- Virginia fence. See Worm fence, under Fence. -- Virginia nightingale (Zoöl.), th…

st numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.

nsporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.

; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament. Round his waist his belt of wampum. Longfellow. Girded with his wampum braid. Whittier.

In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds. [Written also wapentac.] Selden. Blackstone.

dian war cry. -- War dance, a dance among savages preliminary to going to war. Among the North American Indians, it is begun by some distinguished chief, and whoever joins in it thereby enlists as one of the party engaged in a warlike excursion. Schoolcraft. -- War field, a field of war or battle. -- War horse, a ho…

An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.

o separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.

A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.

A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.

A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis).

Weak; feeble. Sir T. North.

Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. Shak. Fair weather cometh out of the north. Job xxxvii. 22.

A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.

A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidæ.