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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Verge  \Verge\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Verged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Verging}.]  [L.  vergere  to  bend,  turn,  incline;  cf  Skr.  v?j 
  to  turn.] 
  1.  To  border  upon  to  tend;  to  incline;  to  come  near  to 
  approach. 
 
  2.  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. 




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