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

Edge, v. i. 1. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

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