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Feather-edge/ The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. n.
Feather-edge/ Any thin, as on a board or a razor. n.

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Sea feather Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
Water feather Alt. of Water feather-foil
Water feather-foil The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
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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.
v. t.
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Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
v. t.
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Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
v. t.
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The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
v. t.
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To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
v. t.
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To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
v. t.
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To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
v. t.
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To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
v. t.
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To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
v. t.
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To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
v. i.
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To sail close to the wind.
v. i.
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One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
n.
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Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
n.
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The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
n.
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A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
n.
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One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
n.
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A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
n.