资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {To set over}.
       (a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
           ruler, or commander.
       (b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

   {To set right}, to correct; to put in order.

   {To set sail}. (Naut.) See under {Sail}, n.

   {To set store by}, to consider valuable.

   {To set the fashion}, to determine what shall be the fashion;
      to establish the mode.

   {To set the teeth on edge}, to affect the teeth with a
      disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
      contact with them.

   {To set the watch} (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
      watch on duty.

   {To set to}, to attach to; to affix to. ``He . . . hath set
      to his seal that God is true.'' --John iii. 33.

   {To set up}. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
      up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
      pillar.
       (b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. ``I will . . . set
           up the throne of David over Israel.'' --2 Sam. iii.
           10.
       (c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
           establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
           set up a school.
       (d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
           son in trade.
       (e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
       (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.

                 I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
                                                  --Dryden.
       (g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
           to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
       (h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
           as, this good fortune quite set him up.
       (i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
       (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
           arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
           as, to set up type.

   {To set up the rigging} (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
      tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

   Syn: See {Put}.

Edge \Edge\, n. [OE. eg, egge, AS. ecg; akin to OHG. ekka, G.
   ecke, Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr. ? point,
   Skr. a?ri edge. ??. Cf. {Egg}, v. t., {Eager}, {Ear} spike of
   corn, {Acute}.]
   1. 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.

            He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. --Rev.
                                                  ii. 12.

            Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme
      verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.

            Upon the edge of yonder coppice.      --Shak.

            In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of
            battle.                               --Milton.

            Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. --Sir
                                                  W. Scott.

   3. Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness;
      intenseness of desire.

            The full edge of our indignation.     --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

            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.

   4. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the
      beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. ``On
      the edge of winter.'' --Milton.

   {Edge joint} (Carp.), a joint formed by two edges making a
      corner.

   {Edge mill}, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll
      around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used
      for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also {Chilian mill}.
      

   {Edge molding} (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of
      two curves meeting in an angle.

   {Edge plane}.
      (a) (Carp.) A plane for edging boards.
      (b) (Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles.

   {Edge play}, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or
      cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point,
      is employed.

   {Edge rail}. (Railroad)
      (a) A rail set on edge; -- applied to a rail of more depth
          than width.
      (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch.
          --Knight.

   {Edge railway}, a railway having the rails set on edge.

   {Edge stone}, a curbstone.

   {Edge tool}.
      (a) Any tool instrument having a sharp edge intended for
          cutting.
      (b) A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an edging
          tool.

   {To be on edge}, to be eager, impatient, or anxious.

   {To set the teeth on edge}, to cause a disagreeable tingling
      sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact
      with them. --Bacon.