| • | 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. |
| • | Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. |
| • | Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. |
| • | The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. |
| • | To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. |
| • | To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. |
| • | To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box. |
| • | To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. |
| • | To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards. |
| • | To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way. |
| • | To sail close to the wind. |
