vergee (verje)

[F. terre vergée, measured land.] A unit of superficies in the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, equal to 40 of the perches there used, or four ninths of an English acre. verge-escapement (verj'es-kāpment), n. See escapement, 2. verge-file (vérj'fil), n. A watchmakers' fine file with one safe side. It was used in working on the verge of the old E. H. Knight. vertical escapement. [ vergency (ver'jen-si), n. 1. The act of verging, tending, or inclining; approach.-2. In optics, the reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, a measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays. vergent (ver'jent), a. [L. vergen (t-)s, ppr. of vergere, bend, turn: see verge2.] Literally, drawing to a close; specifically [ cap.], in geol., naming one of the divisions of the Paleozoic strata of Pennsylvania, according to the nomen clature of H. D. Rogers. As defined by him, the Vergent series consisted of the Vergent flags, the equivalent of the Portage flags of the New York Survey, and the Vergent shales, the equivalent of the Chemung group of New York. These rocks are not thus divided at the present time, and the name Vergent, as well as most of the others belonging to this fanciful nomenclature, has become entirely obsolete. vergerl (vėrʻjėr), n. [ bishop, dean, canon, or other dignitary or ecclesiastic. An of a similar title precedes vice-chancellor on special occasions in the English universities. (b) One who has charge of the details of any company or proce ion. Mynstrells 14; whereof one is verger, that direct eth them all in festivall daies to their stations, to blowings, pipings, to such officers as must be warned to prepare for the King and his household att meate and supper. Harl. MSS., No. 610, quoted in Collier's Eng. Dram. [Poetry, I. 31. (c) An official who takes care of the interior of a church, exhibits it to visitors, and a igns seats to worshipers. I was loitering about the old gray cloisters of Westminster Abbey,.. and applied to one of the vergers for admi ion to the library. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 158.