Advancing edge

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• Advancing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Advance>>. ...

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• Edge

  ·vi To sail close to the wind. II. Edge ·vt To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. III. Ed...

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• to edge

  To excite, stimulate, or provoke; or as it is vulgarly called, to egg a man on. Fall back, fall edge...

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• to edge

  To move sideways; to move gradually.--Webster. Well, says I, I must be a goin'; I can't think of pa...

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• Advancing surface

  ·add. ·- The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; — contr. with following surface, whi...

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• Deckle edge

  ·add. ·- The rough, untrimmed edge of paper left by the deckle; also, a rough edge in imitation of t...

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• Feather-edge

  ·noun Any thin, as on a board or a razor. II. Feather-edge ·noun The thin, new growth around the ed...

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• Following edge

  ·add. ·- ·see Advancing-edge, above. ...

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• Gilt-edge

  ·adj ·Alt. of Gilt-edged. ...

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• Knife-edge

  ·noun A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving...

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• Leading edge

  ·add. ·- ·same·as Advancing edge, above. ...

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• Trailing edge

  ·add. ·- A following edge. ·see Advancing edge, above. ...

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• moulding edge

  That edge of a timber to which, in shaping it, the mould is applied. ...

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• sea-edge

  The boundary between the icy regions of the "north water" and the unfrozen portion of the Arctic Sea...

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• edge away, to

  To decline gradually from the course which the ship formerly steered, by sailing larger, or more off...

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• edge down, to

  To approach any object in an oblique direction. ...

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