To edge awayorTo 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.

Edgebone
(Edge"bone`) n. Same as Aitchbone.

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

Edgelong
(Edge"long) adv. In the direction of the edge. [Obs.]

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

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

Edgeways
(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.

Edging
(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.

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

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

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

Edge
(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.


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