Part 3605

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>edge</b> her champion's sword. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To furnish with a fringe or border; <as>as, to <ex>edge</ex> a dress; to <ex>edge</ex> a garden with box.</as></def>

<blockquote>Hills whose tops were <b>edged</b> with groves. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious <b>edged</b>. <i>Hayward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; <as>as, <ex>edging</ex> their chairs forwards</as>.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<h1>Edge</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>Edge</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To move sideways; to move gradually; <as>as, <ex>edge</ex> along this way</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To sail close to the wind.</def>

<blockquote>I must <b>edge</b> up on a point of wind. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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

<h1>Edgebone</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>Edge"bone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Aitchbone</er>.</def>

<h1>Edgeless</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>Edge"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; <as>as, an <ex>edgeless</ex> sword or weapon</as>.</def>

<h1>Edgelong</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>Edge"long</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In the direction of the edge.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck <b>Edgelong</b> into the ground. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Edgeshot</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>Edge"shot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Carp.)</fld> <def>Having an edge planed, -- said of a board.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Edgeways, Edgewise</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw><hw>Edge"ways</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Edge"wise</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.</def>

<blockquote>Glad to get in a word, as they say, <b>edgeways</b>. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Edging</h1> <Xpage=471>