·vi To sail close to the wind.
II. Edge ·vt To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
III. Edge ·vi To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
IV. Edge ·vt Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
V. Edge ·vt To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to Sharpen.
VI. Edge ·vt To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
VII. Edge ·vt Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
VIII. Edge ·vt The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
IX. Edge ·vt To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
X. Edge ·vt To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to Incite; to Exasperate; to Goad; to urge or egg on.
XI. Edge ·vt 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.