edge (used in various fig. applications of literal phrases “take away, take off, turn, blunt, abate the edge”; cf. sense 2; humorously misused in Mer.V. II. ii. 180 “ of a feather-bed,” H5 III. vi. 50 “ of penny cord” )
1.
cutting
weapon, sword
Cor. V. v. 113
“Stain all your edges on
me.”
2.
keenness of appetite
or desire
Shr. I. ii. 73
“Affection's ,”
R2 I. iii. 296
“cloy the hungry of
appetite.”
3.
“give” (a person) “an ,” stimulate,
incite him Ham. III. i. 26.
4.
perilous path on a
narrow ridge
2H4 I. i. 170
“he walk'd . . . on an
”
; cf. the phr. ‘on a razor's edge’.
5.
utmost point or limit
Troil. IV. v. 68.
