edacity
-greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

edda
-the religious or mythological book of the old scandinavian tribes of german origin, containing two collections of sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

eddaic
-alt. of eddic

eddas
-of edda

edder
-an adder or serpent.
-flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
-to bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge.

eddic
-relating to the eddas; resembling the eddas.

eddied
-of eddy

eddies
-of eddy

eddish
-aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. see arrish.

eddoes
-the tubers of colocasia antiquorum. see taro.

eddy
-a current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
-a current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
-to move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
-to collect as into an eddy.

eddying
-of eddy

edelweiss
-a little, perennial, white, woolly plant (leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the alps.

edema
-same as oedema.

edematose
-same as oedematous.

edematous
-alt. of edematose

eden
-the garden where adam and eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

edenic
-of or pertaining to eden; paradisaic.

edenite
-a variety of amphibole. see amphibole.

edenized
-admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness.

edental
-see edentate, a.
-one of the edentata.

edentalous
-see edentate, a.

edentata
-an order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters;
-- called also bruta. the incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

edentate
-destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.
-belonging to the edentata.
-one of the edentata.

edentated
-same as edentate, a.

edentation
-a depriving of teeth.

edentulous
-toothless.

edge
-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.
-any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
-sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
-the border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
-to furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
-to shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
-to furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
-to make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
-to move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
-to move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
-to sail close to the wind.

edgebone
-same as aitchbone.

edged
-of edge

edgeless
-without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

edgelong
-in the direction of the edge.

edgeshot
-having an edge planed,
-- said of a board.

edgeways
-alt. of edgewise

edgewise
-with the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.

edging
-of edge
-that which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.
-the operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.

edgingly
-gradually; gingerly.

edgy
-easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
-having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.

edh
-the name of the anglo
-saxon letter /, capital form /. it is sounded as "english th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth."

edibility
-suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.

edible
-fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
-anything edible.

edibleness
-suitableness for being eaten.

edict
-a public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the roman emperors; the edicts of the french monarch.

edictal
-relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the roman edictal law.

edificant
-building; constructing.

edification
-the act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.
-a building or edifice.

edificatory
-tending to edification.

edifice
-a building; a structure; an architectural fabric;
-- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

edificial
-pertaining to an edifice; structural.

edified
-of edify

edifier
-one who builds.
-one who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction.

edify
-to build; to construct.
-to instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.
-to teach or persuade.
-to improve.

edifying
-of edify
-instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.

edile
-see aedile.

edileship
-the office of aedile.

edingtonite
-a grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. it is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.

edit
-to superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.

edited
-of edit

editing
-of edit

edition
-a literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of chaucer; chalmers' edition of shakespeare.
-the whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

edition de luxe
-see luxe.

editioner
-an editor.

editor
-one who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

editorial
-of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.
-a leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.

editorially
-in the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.

editorship
-the office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.

editress
-a female editor.

edituate
-to guard as a churchwarden does.

edomite
-one of the descendants of esau or edom, the brother of jacob; an idumean.

edriophthalma
-a group of crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the arthrostraca.

edriophthalmous
-pertaining to the edriophthalma.

educability
-capability of being educated.

educable
-capable of being educated.

educate
-to bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

educated
-of educate
-formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

educating
-of educate

education
-the act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.

educational
-of or pertaining to education.

educationist
-one who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

educative
-tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

educator
-one who educates; a teacher.

educe
-to bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.

educed
-of educe

educible
-capable of being educed.

educing
-of educe

educt
-that which is educed, as by analysis.

eduction
-the act of drawing out or bringing into view.

eductive
-tending to draw out; extractive.

eductor
-one who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.

edulcorant
-having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.
-an edulcorant remedy.

edulcorate
-to render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.
-to free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify.

edulcorated
-of edulcorate

edulcorating
-of edulcorate

edulcoration
-the act of sweetening or edulcorating.
-the act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water.

edulcorative
-tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.

edulcorator
-a contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

edulious
-edible.