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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of edge.

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  • noun Obsolete spelling of egg.

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Examples

  • Fold a third of the egg white mixture followed by the breadcrumbs into the egge yolk mixture.

    Apple Cider Vinegar Honey Syrup Sponge Cupcakes Cupcake Queen 2007

  • Fold a third of the egg white mixture followed by the breadcrumbs into the egge yolk mixture.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Cupcake Queen 2007

  • Sweet mvses come & lend your helpinge handes to Rule my penne which quakinge standes to write ffeare bides me stay but hope doth egge me on to putt in practize what's my hartes delight ffayne would I write so 'twere without offence

    Archive 2006-12-01 DC 2006

  • Sweet mvses come & lend your helpinge handes to Rule my penne which quakinge standes to write ffeare bides me stay but hope doth egge me on to putt in practize what's my hartes delight ffayne would I write so 'twere without offence

    On 'the' in maybe Shakespeare DC 2006

  • There are the greatest, and the fairest geese, and most plenty of them to be sold in al the whole world, as I suppose: [He meaneth Pellicans, which the Spaniards cal Alcatrarzi.] they are as white as milke, and haue a bone vpon the crowne of their heads as bigge as an egge, being of the colour of blood: vnder their throat they haue a skin or bag hanging downe halfe a foot.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • The bunches aforesayd be of diuers sorts: the least be as big as a litle walnut, and very round: the greatest are as big as a litle hennes egge: some are of brasse and some of siluer: but those of siluer be for the king, and his noble men.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Out of one of the which, spronge a flame of fire: and out of the other egge two bright starres.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • The Loseley MSS. prescribe the following for all manner of fevers: "Take iii drops of a woman's mylke yt norseth a knave childe, and do it in a hennes egge that ys sedentere (or sitting), and let hym suppe it up when the evyl takes hym."

    Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

  • I find not of this proportion, vsed by any of the Greeke or Latine Poets, or in any vulgar writer, sauing of that one forme which they cal _Anacreens egge.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Next within this hard shell is a vvhite rine resembling in shew verie much euen as any thing may do, to the vvhite of an egge vvhen it is hard boyled.

    Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges

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