Obs. Also 5 vergere, vergier, Sc. virger. [a. OF. verger (11th c.; so in mod.F.), vergier (12th c.; Pr. vergier):—L. virdiārium, viridiārium (also viridārium), f. viridis green.] A garden or orchard; a pleasure-garden.

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13[?].  Seuyn Sag., 167. Thai wolde make a riche halle, Withouten Rome, in on verger … bi o riuer.

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c. 1400.  Rom. Rose, 3831. Why hast thou ben so necligent, To kepen … This verger heere left in thi warde?

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c. 1450.  Merlin, xix. 310. Merlin lete rere a vergier, where-ynne was all maner of fruyt and alle maner of flowres.

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1480.  Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XIV. xii. To wede and pyk oute alle the evyl herbes and wedes out of her verger or gardyn.

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1501.  Douglas, Pal. Hon., I. Prol. 44. The greshoppers amangis the vergers gnappit.

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