a. [f. EDGE sb. + -LESS.] That has no edge. lit. and fig.

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1617.  Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. ix. 400. His sword, which he carried neither edgeles, nor in vaine.

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1661.  J. Fountain, Rewards Vertue, I. i. 2. To save her sheers, Which else had sure been edgeless long ago.

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1869.  Ruskin, Q. of Air, § 143. The dumb and edgeless shore of darkened sand.

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1884.  H. D. Traill, in Macm. Mag., Oct., 444/2. As lustreless and edgeless as an old shilling.

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