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Hayward.

5. To move little by little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards. Locke.

Edge, v. i. 1. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

2. To sail close to the wind.

I must edge up on a point of wind.

Dryden.

To edge away or To edge off (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object. -- To edge down (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward. -- To edge in, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees. -- To edge in with, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.

Edge"bone` (?), n. Same as Aitchbone.

Edge"less, a. Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

Edge"long (?; 115), adv. In the direction of the edge. [Obs.]

Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck Edgelong into the ground.

B. Jonson.

Edge"shot (?), a. (Carp.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.

{ Edge"ways (?), Edge"wise (?), } adv. With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.

Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways.

Sir W. Scott.

Edg"ing (?), n. 1. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. Dryden.

2. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.

Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

Edg"ing*ly, adv. Gradually; gingerly. [R.]

Edg"y (?), a. [From Edge.] 1. Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

2. (Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of sculpture." Hazlitt.

Edh (?), n. The name of the Anglo- Saxon letter ð, capital form Ð. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: ðer, other, dôð, doth." March.

Ed`i*bil"i*ty (?), n. Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.

Ed"i*ble (?), a. [L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See Eat.] Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n. Anything edible.

Edible bird's nest. See Bird's nest, 2. -- Edible crab (Zoöl.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab (Callinectes hastatus). See Crab. -- Edible frog (Zoöl.), the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food. -- Edible snail (Zoöl.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.

Ed"i*ble*ness, n. Suitableness for being eaten.

E"dict (?), n. [L. edictum, fr. edicere, edictum, to declare, proclaim; e out + dicere to say: cf. F. édit. See Diction.] A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.