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|Edger ||n||One who edges or puts an edge on something. |
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|Edgeware ||n||In ceramics, pottery vessels with decorated rims. 2. computer software that is very much cutting-edge, significantly innovative, either by taking a new approach to a task or by creating a completely new class of application or a completely new class of software.. |
|Edgeware ||n||In ceramics, pottery vessels with decorated rims. 2. computer software that is very much cutting-edge, significantly innovative, either by taking a new approach to a task or by creating a completely new class of application or a completely new class of software.. |
Revision as of 09:33, 29 October 2019
Old English | sb | English |
Ed | adj | Distinguished in war, brave |
Ed | pfx | An OE prefix meaning 'again', 'back', 'anew', equivalent to 're' as in eddish, eddy, edgrowth, 'edquicken'.. after, once more. 2. forming words with the sense of 'again', 'against', 'backwards', as 'ednew', 'edwit' (disgrace, reproach, shame). 3. turning as in 'eddy' (The turning 'ed' of water 'ea'. |
Edbote | n | Restitution, amends, satisfaction. |
Edcher | n | Blood vessel, vein, eddre |
Edder | n | Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes in order to bind them together. |
Edder | vb | To bind the top of a hedge stake; interweaving. |
Eddish | adj | An after-growth of grass (or other plants) which grow after it has been mowed; also a field of such growth. |
Eddre | n | Blood vessel, vein, eddre. |
Eddy | n | OE: 'ed' (turning) & 'ea' (water) |
Edge | n | The boundary line of a surface. 2. an advantage, upside. 3. the thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument. 4. that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply. 5. any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge. 6. the sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. 7. rim, border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part. |
Edge | vb | To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. 2.to move slowly and carefully towards a particular direction. 3. to win by a small margin. 4.to trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger; to harrow. 5. to furnish with an edge; to build or construct an edging; to harrow. 6. to furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. 7. (figuratively) to make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. 8. to delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm. |
Edge | phr | "Be a Two Edged Sword" - to involve both advantages and disadvantages of similar significance. |
Edge | phr | "Be On a Knife's Edge" - to be in danger. |
Edge | phr | "Dull the Edge Of" - to deprive something a sharp edge; dull, take the edge off. 2. to diminish the effects of (something unpleasant or severe). |
Edge | phr | "Edge Away" - gradually move away. |
Edge | phr | "Edge (Get) In a Word" - to cautiously and politely push into a conversation. |
Edge | phr | "Edge One's Way Along" - move slowly and with great care across etc. |
Edge | phr | "Edge Out" - gradualy get rid of somebody. |
Edge | phr | "Edge Up" - to increase or crept up gradually to a target bit by bit. |
Edge | phr | "Edge With" - put around the edge of. |
Edge | phr | "Fall by the Edge of" - be slain in battle. 2. be cut from the sword. |
Edge | phr | "Fiddle at the Edges" - to do some relatively minor things which do not deal with the substance of the problem. |
Edge | phr | "Get By the Edges" - to obtain information indirectly or imperfectly. |
Edge | phr | "Give Somebody the Rough Edge of the Tongue" - scold, reprimand somebody. |
Edge | phr | "Have a Leading Edge" - to have an advantage. |
Edge | phr | "Have the Edge On" - have an advantage over. |
Edge | phr | "Live On Edge" - to have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle. 2. to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself. 3. to be caught in a distressful economic or social situation which one did not choose and which may threaten one's being. |
Edge | phr | "Not Get a Word in Edgeways" - be unable to interrupt somebody who is talking continuously. |
Edge | phr | "On Edge" - be anxious or nervous. |
Edge | phr | "On the Edge of One's Seat" - be very excited at what is currently happening. |
Edge | phr | "Plow On Edge" - to plow the soil on edge (into ridges). |
Edge | phr | "Take the Edge Off" - take less severe, stringent. |
Edge | phr | "Thin Edge of the Edge" - insignificant start of a worsening situation. |
Edge | phr | "With One's Teeth on Edge" - to induce a tingling or grating sensation in one's teeth as afrom acid or harsh noises. 2. to jar one's nerves or to feel aversion. |
Edged | adj | Furnished with edges or cutting edge. 2. sharpened, trenchant. 3. having an edged or lateral border, boundary; only with a defining prefix, indicative of colour, number, as 'red-edged'. 4. having a border of ornamental edging. |
Edgeful | adj | Having an abundance of edge(s); keen, cutting. |
Edgelands | n | The transitional areas of "fringe" space at the boundaries of a country, city, or other artificial geographical entity, often distinguished by a partly manmade, partly natural landscape that is in the earliest stages of human management and organization. |
Edgeless | adj | That has no edge (lit. & fig.) |
Edgelong | adj | Edgeling, edgeways, on the edge; with an edge. |
Edgepath | n | A path comprising edges laid end to end. |
Edge play | n | Any sexual activity involving the risk of physical harm, such as blood play or asphyxiation. |
Edger | n | One who edges or puts an edge on something. |
Edge tool | n | A hand-worked or machine-operated cutting tool. 2. any implement with with a sharp cutting edge. |
Edgeware | n | In ceramics, pottery vessels with decorated rims. 2. computer software that is very much cutting-edge, significantly innovative, either by taking a new approach to a task or by creating a completely new class of application or a completely new class of software.. |
Edgeways | adv | Of position: with the edge of the broad surface uppermost, foremost, or turned towards the spectator. 2. edge to edge. 3. of motion: with the edge foremost. 4. on the edge, instead of the broadside. |
Edgeways | phr | "To Get a Word in Edgeways" - (or, edgewise) to break into or take part in a conversation. |
Edginess | n | The condition of having the outlines too clearly marked. 2. angularity, hardiness of outlines. 3. the state of being edgy. |
Edging | n | The setting on edge of the teeth. 2. the putting of an edge or border to anything. 3. trimming of the edge of a lawn. 4. that which forms an edge to anything; a border, surrounding of a flower bed. 5. fringe, etc. on a sewn on the edge of a garment; a hem. 6. the trimming on a seam. 7. the action of moving by insensible degrees; an edging movement. |
Edging | adj | That moves by imperceptible degrees; hence, edgingly. |
Edgingly | adv | While edging, with short, timid. |
Edging shears | n | Shears for trimming the edges of a lawn. |
Edgrew | n | The aftermath; the aftergrowth of grass. |
Edgy | adj | Of a knife: having an edge; sharp, cutting. 2. of a painting: having the outlines too hard; sharply defined. 3. full of edge or keenness; eager. 4. nervy, anxious, irritable. 5. in entertainment, on the edge between acceptable and good taste, risque. |
Edhalde | n | Withstand, keep back, edhold |
Edith | n | OE: 'Ead' riches & 'gyth', 'guth' war, strife, battle. |
Edlen | n | Reward |
Edmede | n | Gentleness, humbleness, humility; edmood. |
Edmod | adj | Edmede, humble, meek, gentle. |
Edmodded | adj | Meek, humbled. |
Edmodlock | n | Humility, gentleness. |
Edmodly | adv | Humbly, meekly. |
Edmodness | n | Gentleness, humility, meekness. |
Edocke | n | OE: eadocke: a broad leaf, water plant, the Clote or yellow waterlily. |
Edwin | n | OE: 'ead' riches & 'wine' friend. |
Edwite | n | Edwit, reproach, rebuke, taunt, taunting speech. |
Edwite | vb | To taunt, blame, reproach. 2. to make one the subject of reproaach. |
Edwiting | n | The action of rebuking or reproaching; a rebuke, reproach. |