n. The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
In all thy ways acknowledge Him. Prov. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
They his gifts acknowledged none. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. Capable of being acknowledged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
pos>adj. Generally accepted or recognized as correct or reasonable. Opposite of
adv. Confessedly. [ 1913 Webster ]
Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
Acknowledgment money,
n. One who acknowledges. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Aëronautics) The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with
v. t. See Allege. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This spelling, corresponding to abridge, was once the prevailing one. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. Clay. ] (Mining.) The upper stratum of fuller's earth. [ 1913 Webster ]
. The rough, untrimmed edge of paper left by the deckle; also, a rough edge in imitation of this. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
v. t.
v. t. To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. [ 1913 Webster ]
Served a little to disedge
The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. drège, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. √73. See Draw. ]
v. t.
Dredging machine,
n. [ OE. dragge, F. dragée, dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr.
v. t. To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
Dredging box.
n.
n. (Cookery) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also
n. (Mil.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to OHG. ekka, G. ecke, Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr.
He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. Rev. ii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]
Slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Upon the edge of yonder coppice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
Of battle. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Edge joint (Carp.),
Edge mill,
Edge molding (Arch.),
Edge plane.
Edge play,
Edge rail. (Railroad)
Edge railway,
Edge stone,
Edge tool.
To be on edge,
on edge,
To set the teeth on edge,
v. t.
To edge her champion's sword. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hills whose tops were edged with groves. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
I must edge up on a point of wind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
To edge away
To edge off
To edge down (Naut.),
To edge in,
To edge in with,
n. Same as Aitchbone. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
a. Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse;
adv. In the direction of the edge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck
Edgelong into the ground. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Carp.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.
to get a word in edgewise
Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To surround as with a hedge. [ R. ] Vicars. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OE. flegge, flygge; akin to D. vlug, G. flügge, flücke, OHG. flucchi, Icel. fleygr, and to E. fly. √84. See Fly, v. i. ] Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. [ 1913 Webster ]
His shoulders, fledge with wings. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. & i.
The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]
Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
adj. not equipped with feathers; -- of an arrow.
. (Aëronautics) See Advancing-edge, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. [ 1913 Webster ]
If I foreknew,
Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Frank free + pledge. ] (O. Eng. Law)
The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. [ OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. √12. See Haw a hedge. ] A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. [ 1913 Webster ]
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Through the verdant maze
Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hedge bells,
Hedge bindweed
Hedge bill,
Hedge garlic (Bot.),
Hedge hyssop (Bot.),
Hedge marriage,
Hedge mustard (Bot.),
Hedge nettle (Bot.),
Hedge note.
Hedge priest,
Hedge school,
Hedge sparrow (Zool.),
Hedge writer,
To breast up a hedge.
To hang in the hedge,
v. t.
I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hos. ii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
To hedge a bet,
v. i.
I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads. Saintsbury. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Born under a hedge; of low birth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Eng. Law) Same as Haybote. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. [ p. p. from hedge, v. i. { 3 }. ] qualified; limited or restricted;