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Edged

adjective

1.

Having a specified kind of border or edge. "Rough-edged leaves" , "Dried sweat left salt-edged patches"

2.

(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character. Synonyms: cutting, stinging. "Edged satire" , "A stinging comment"

3.

Having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination. "A two-edged sword"

Edge

verb

(past & past part. edged; pres. part. edging)

1.

Advance slowly, as if by inches. Synonym: inch.

2.

Provide with a border or edge. Synonym: border.

3.

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary. Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march. "England marches with Scotland"

4.

Provide with an edge.

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"Edged" Quotes from Famous Books

... overpower me I had levelled my revolver. The first speaker tried to disarm me, but I shook him off and shot him. He fell, and as far I know, or could see, was not fatally wounded. The other man, thinking discretion the better part of valour, disappeared in the darkness, and my unfaithful guide had edged away as soon as he saw ...

— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen

... "the right kind of inhabitant is worth a thousand of the wrong kind. It is a good rule in business, when you come across a gilt-edged security, to make a specialty ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... believe in the probability of its being read in vain. In reply he had a very violent and unsparing letter, with all the letters I had written to papa through these five years sent back unopened, the seals unbroken. What went most to my heart was that some of the seals were black with black-edged envelopes; so that he might have thought my child or husband dead, yet never cared to solve the doubt by breaking the seal. He said he regretted to have been forced to keep them by him until now, through his ignorance of where he should send them. ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

... F. lineata (Pl. Fig. 1). The glass bells twined about this Sertularia are Campanularia syringa (Pl. I. Fig. 9); and here is a tiny plant of Cellularia ciliata (Pl. I. Fig. 8). Look at it through the field-glass; for it is truly wonderful. Each polype cell is edged with whip-like spines, and on the back of some of them is - what is it, but a live vulture's head, snapping and ...

— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley

... she poked her way about the place she saw a glass case and inside among bottles, books, old china and other objects, she saw several fans. She edged closer to the case and glanced through the assortment, but the fan ...

— The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan • Lizette M. Edholm

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