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VERDEN, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, on the navigable Aller, 3 m. above its confluence with the Weser, 22m. S.E. of Bremen by the railway to Hanover. Pop. (1900) 9842. The most noticeable edifices are the beautiful Gothic cathedral, ...

EMDEN, a maritime town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, near the mouth of the Ems, 49 m. N.W. from Oldenburg by rail. Pop. (1885) 14,019; (1903) 20,754. The Ems once flowed beneath its walls, but is now 2 m. distant, and connected with the town

ERODE, a town of British India, in the Coimbatore district of Madras, situated on the right bank of the river Cauvery, which is here crossed by an iron railway girder bridge of 22 spans. Pop. (1001) 15,529. Here the South Indian railway joins the South-Western

VEERE, a town in the province of Zeeland, Holland, on the island of Walcheren, 4 m. N.N.E. of Middelburg, with which it is connected by canal (1867-72). It contains several interesting architectural remains of the days of its former prosperity, many of its qua

VERGE (Lat. iiirga, a rod), originally a staff denoting authority, whence (from the ceremony in swearing fealty to a lord) the sense of a measurement, and so boundary or border, of land, or generally a margin of space. In architecture, a verge is the edge of t

... In 1698 she brought out a third volume of sacred verse, Et kristeligt Valet fra Verden (" A Christian Farewell to the World ") , a very tame production. She died on the igth of February 1716. The first verses of Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter are the best; her Sang ...