inverge

present singular third person inverges · participle present inverging · participle past inverged · past inverged

1. rareTo curve so as to extend into

   The inverging flood of black, glistening stuff gave him a warm feeling of comradeship with the others; he yielded and allowed himself to drift with them.

   1942 March 29, Stirring Science Stories

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   And from Reach a Market-Towne ſtanding neere to the River Came, a great Ditch and Trench is caſt all along New-market-Heath, which for the wonder received thereat, is of the vulgar called The Devils Ditch being in truth made for a defence againſt the Mercians by the East-Angles whoſe Kingdom it inverged.

   1627, Speed, John, England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland described and abridged (1627)

   The Kingdome of the South-Saxons, containing the countries of Suſſex and Surrey, had on the Eaſt ſide Kent, on the South, the Sea and Ile of Wight; upon the Weſt, Hart-ſhiere, and the North ſide inverged with the river Thames

   1627, Speed, John., The history of Great Britaine, ... 1627

   Teleſcopes made of two Convexes, becauſe of their inverging the Poſition of the Object, are ſeldom uſed, except in obſerving the Stars, the Poſition of which is not regarded.

   1735, Gregory, David, 1659-1708, Dr. Gregory's Elements of catoptrics and dioptrics, →OCLC