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To EDGE, v. a. To lliarpen ; to enable to cut : 
There fat the rolling her alluring eyes, 
To edge her champion’s fvvord, and urge my ruin. Dryden. 
To furnifh with an edge : 
I fell’d along a man of bearded face, 
.His limbs all cover’d with a (hining cafe ; 
So wond’rous hard, and fo fecure of wound, 
It made my fvvord, tho’ edg'd with flint, rebound. Dryd. 
To border with any thing ; to fringe.—T rid over hang¬ 
ing hills, whofe tops were edged with groves, and whofe 
feet were watered with winding rivers. Pope .—To exaf- 
perate ; to embitter.—By fuch reafonings the Ample were 
blinded, and the malicious edged. Hayzoaerd. —To put for¬ 
ward beyond a line.— Edging by degrees their chairs for¬ 
wards, they were in a little time got up clofe to one an¬ 
other. Locke. 
To EDGE, v. v. [perhaps from eb, Sax. backward.] 
To move forward again!! any power; going clofe upon a 
wind, as if upon its fkirts or border, and fo failing flow j 
I mlift edge upon a point of wind, 
And make How way. Dryden. 
EDGE-TOO'Ljy. A tool made ftiarp to cut.—There 
muft be no playing with things facred, nor jefting with 
edge-tools. L’ EJ!range. 
The manufadfure of edge-tools has of late received 
very confiderable improvement in moft parts of England ; 
but particularly in the manufactory of Mr. Arnold Wilde, 
at Sheffield in Yorkfhire, from an union or preparation 
of ca(t-(teel and iron. The method is as follows : Take 
a mould of caft-iron, or other fit material, of a climention 
that will beft fuit the fize of the article intended to be 
manufactured; then take a piece ofwrought-iron, and 
prepare it, by heating in a fire and hammering it, or in 
any other manner you may think proper, to the fize you 
want it; then fix the iron in the mould, (leaving a fuf- 
ficient vacancy to receive the caft-fteel in a fluid ffate,) 
in fuch a direction as that, when the caft-fteel is poured 
into the mould, the iron may be either in the middle or 
the center of the caft-fteel; or on one or both fides of 
the caft-fteel; or in fuch other direction as may beft fuit 
the purpofe for which the iron and caft-fteel, when incor¬ 
porated, fhall be wanted. Then put the crucible or pot 
into the furnace ; when the crucible or pot is hot put 
fleet into it; then fix on the lid to the crucible or pot, 
and continue it in the furnace or fire till the fteel be¬ 
comes fluid. When you fuppofe the fteel to be nearly 
in a fluid ftate, take your piece of iron, which you in¬ 
tend to incorporate with the caft-fteel, put it into a fire, 
and heat it to what is ufually called a welding heat; 
then take the iron out of the fire, clean it from any fcale 
or dirt, and fix it in the mould, in the like direction you 
had before fitted it; take care that your fteel be now in 
a fluid ftate, and, immediately on your taking the iron 
out of the fire, take the crucible or pot containing the 
melted (teel from the furnace or fire, and, immediately 
after the iron thus heated fhall be fitted in the mould, 
pour or turn the fluid fteel into the fpace or vacancy left 
in the mould to receive the fame, which will incorporate 
with the iron, and become one folid mafs or body of caft- 
fteel and iron united. To make all forts of plane-irons, 
feythes, fickles, drawing-knives, hay-knives, and all other 
kinds of edge-tools, of caft-fteel and iron, united as here¬ 
inbefore-mentioned, take a piece of the caft-fteel and iron, 
united ; then forge, roll, flit, or tilt it, in fuch way as is 
proper, for any, or either, of the articles intended to be 
manufactured ; then the article niay be made in the above 
manner, or by fuch other mode as a workman may judge 
moft convenient. This invention is functioned by letters 
patent, dated January 19, 1795. 
ED'GED, part. adj. Sharp ; not blunt.*—We find that 
fubtile or edged quantities do prevail over blunt ones. 
Dig by. 
EDGEFIELD COUNTY, in South Carolina, is the 
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fouthernmoft in the diftriCt of Ninety Six ; bounded 
north by Saluda river, which divides it from Newbury 
county ; fouth-weft by Savannah river, which fepafates 
it from the ftate of Georgia; eaft by Orangeburg dif- 
triCt; and weft by Abbeville county. The ridge of el - 
vated land which divides the waters of Saluda from thofe 
of Savannah river, palfes nearly through the middle of 
the county. Edgefield county is about thirty-four miles 
long and twenty-four broad, and contains 13,289 inhabi¬ 
tants. In this county is Edgefield court-houfe, where is 
a poll-office : twenty miles from Abbeville court-houfe, 
twenty-five from Augufta, and fixty from Columbia. 
ED'GELESS, adj. Blunt; obtufe ; unable to cut.—. 
They ar 6 cdgelcjs weapons virtue hath to encounter. De¬ 
cay of Piety. 
To-morrow in the battle think on me, 
And fall thy edgclefs fword ; defpair and die. Shakfpeare. 
ED'GEMONT, a townfliip of the American States, in 
Delaware county, Pennfylvania. 
ED'GEWISE, adv. With the edge put into any par¬ 
ticular direction.—Should the flat fide be objected to the 
ftream, it would be foon turned eclgewif by the force of 
it. Ray. 
EDG'HILL, a place of England, in the county of War¬ 
wick, memorable for the firft battle fought between the 
unfortunate Charles I. and the army of the parliament, 
on the 22d of OCtober.1642, in which 5000 men were kill¬ 
ed. On the king’s fide the earl of Lindfey, fir Edward 
Verney, and lord Aubigny, brother to the duke of Rich¬ 
mond, were (lain ; lord Willoughby, fir Thomas Lunf- 
ford, and fir Edward Stradling, were taken prifoners. On 
the parliament fide, lord St. John of Bletfo, and Charles 
Effex, were the only two perfons of confequence who were 
flain. Neither party could claim the victory. Effex, 
who commanded for the republicans, retired to War¬ 
wick, and the king to Banbury : two miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Kineton. 
EDG'EIIR, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Golconda : ten miles weft of Rachore, and feventy-five 
fouth-weft of Hydrabad. 
EDG'ING,yi What is added to any thing by way of 
ornament.—A woman branches out into a long diflerta- 
tion upon the edging of a petticoat. Addfon. —A narrow 
lace. 
EDG'ING, part. adj. Furniftiing with an edge, fring¬ 
ing ; putting forward, exafperating. 
EDG'WARE, a market town in the county of Mid- 
dlefex, eight miles from London, on the road to Aylef- 
bury. Here are two churches, Edgware and Little Stan- 
more. The latter, built by the duke of Chandos, is a 
neat and elegant ftruCture ; the infide beautifully orna¬ 
mented with paintings, and to it his grace gave the name 
of Whitchurch ; the weft fide of the ftreet of Edgware 
being in the parifh of Whitchurch, or Little Stanmore. 
Edgware is on the very edge of the county ; whence its 
name. The-market is on Thurfdays, and a fair on the 4th 
of May. The old Roman caufey, called Watling-ftreef, 
pafles by here from London. 
Adjoining to Edgware is Canons, where, in the eigh¬ 
teenth century, rofe and vaniftied a moft magnificent pa¬ 
lace, ereCted by the firft duke of Chandos, whofe princely 
jpirit was fuch, that the people in this neighbourhood 
ftill emphatically ftile him, “ The Grand Duke.” The 
fliort time that intervened between the ereftion and de¬ 
molition of this ftruCture, affords fuch a remarkable in- 
ftance of the inftability of human grandeur, that the hif- 
tory of it merits particular regard. The duke, hav¬ 
ing accumulated a vaft fortune, as paymafter to the 
army, in queen Anne’s reign, formed a plan of living in 
a ftate of regal fplendour, and, accordingly, ereCted this 
magnificent ftruCture, which, with its decorations and 
furniture, coft 250,0001. The pillars of the great hall 
were of marble, as were the fteps of the principal ftair- 
cafe, each ftep confiding of one piece, twenty-two feet 
long; 
