Dictionary entry

Edge (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Edge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Edged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Edging.] 1. To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

To edge her champion's sword. Dryden.

2. To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.

3. To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.

Hills whose tops were edged with groves. Pope.

4. To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.

By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. Hayward.

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