heart vs verge

heart

noun
  • A wight or being. 

  • A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. 

  • A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols. 

  • The centre, essence, or core. 

  • Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. 

  • One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character. 

  • The twenty-fourth Lenormand card. 

  • The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. 

  • Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete. 

  • A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3. 

verb
  • To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage. 

  • To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. 

  • To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. 

verge

noun
  • An edge or border. 

  • A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. 

  • The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road. 

  • The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge. 

  • An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland. 

  • The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. 

  • The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft. 

  • A circumference; a circle; a ring. 

  • An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen. 

  • The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof. 

verb
  • To be or come very close; to border; to approach. 

  • To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope. 

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