Hypertext Webster Gateway: "edged"

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) 1.7 (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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