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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Edge \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 [Obs.] By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. --Hayward. 5. To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as edging their chairs forwards. --Locke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: edged adj 1: having a specified kind of border or edge; "a black-edged card"; "dried sweat left salt-edged patches" 2: (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment" [syn: {cutting}, {stinging}] 3: having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination; "an edged knife"; "a two-edged sword"
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