JOHN BRUCE.
_Engine-a-verge_ (Vol. vii., p. 619.).--Is not this what we term a garden
engine? The French _vergier_ (_viridarium_) is doubtless so named, quia
_virga_ definita; and we have the old English word _verge_, a garden, from
the same source.
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