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

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.

The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays. [R.] Humphrey Lloyd.

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

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

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge. The mountains converge into a single ridge. Jefferson.

The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point. The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. Berkeley.

each other; converging. As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent. Boyle. The vast dome of its cathedral . . . directing its convergent curves to heaven. Hallam.

See Divergence. [Obs.]

d to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Divergence.

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines. Rays come to the eye in a state of divergency.

es radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.

To reach; to overtake; to pass. [Obs.]

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…

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

es, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. Gray. Alternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH,…

ring into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. Gray.