Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EDGE, v.t. [W. hogi; Sax. eggian; Dan. egger.]

1. To sharpen. To edge her champion's sword. Dryden.
2. To furnish with an edge. A sword edged with flint. Dryden.
3. To border; to fringe. A long descending train, / With rubies edged. Dryden.
4. To border; to furnish with an ornamental border; as, to edge a flower-bed with box.
5. To sharpen; to exasperate; to embitter. By such reasonings, the simple were blinded and the malicious edged. Hayward.
6. To incite; to provoke; to urge on; to instigate; that is, to push on as with a sharp point; to goad. Ardor or passion will edge a man forward, when arguments fail. [This, by a strange mistake, has been sometimes written egg, from the Sax. eggian, Dan. egger, to incite; the writers not knowing that this verb is from the noun ecg, eg, an edge. The verb ought certainly to follow the noun, and the popular use is correct.]
7. To move sideways; to move by little and little; as, edge your chair along.