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n.
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
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Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.
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Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
v. t.
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
v. t.
To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
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To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
v. t.
To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
adv.
In the direction of the edge.
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Alt. of Edgewise
adv.
With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
v. t.
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
v. t.
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
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Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.
imp. & p. p.
of Edge
v. i.
To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
n.
The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.
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Having an edge planed, -- said of a board.
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Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as, a two-edged sword.
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Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
v. t.
To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
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