EDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin edax, from edo, to eat.] Eating; given to eating; greedy; voracious.

EDAC'ITY, noun [Latin edacitas, from edax, edo, to eat.] Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

ED'DER, noun In husbandry, such wood as is worked into the top of hedge-stakes to bind them together.

ED'DER, verb transitive To bind or make tight by edder; to fasten the tops of hedge-stakes, by interweaving edder

ED'DERS, noun A name given to a variety of the Arum esculentum, an esculent root.

ED'DISH

ED'DOES

ED'DY, noun [I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax.ed, backward, and ea, water.]

1. A current of water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main stream. Thus a point of land extending into a river, checks the water near the shore, and turns it back or gives it a circular course. The word is applied also to the air or wind moving in a circular direction.

2. A whirlpool; a current of water or air in a circular direction.

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.

Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

ED'DY, verb intransitive To move circularly, or as an eddy.

ED'DY, adjective Whirling; moving circularly.

ED'DOES

ED'DY, n. [I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax.ed, backward, and ea, water.]

ED'DY, v.i. To move circularly, or as an eddy.

ED'DY, a. Whirling; moving circularly.

ED'ELITE, noun A siliceous stone of a light gray color.

EDEM'ATOUS, adjective [Gr. a tumor; to swell.] Swelling with a serous humor; dropsical. An edematous tumor is white, soft and insensible.

E'DEN, noun [Heb. pleasure, delight.] The country and garden in which Adam and Eve were placed by God himself.

E'DENIZED, adjective Admitted into paradise.

EDEN'TATED, adjective [Latin edentatus, e and dens.] Destitute or deprived of teeth.

EDGE, noun [Latin acies, acus.]

1. In a general sense, the extreme border or point of any thing; as the edge of the table; the edge of a book; the edge of cloth. It coincides nearly with border, brink, margin. It is particularly applied to the sharp border, the thin cutting extremity of an instrument, as the edge of an ax, razor, knife or scythe; also, to the point of an instrument, as the edge of a sword.

2. Figuratively, that which cuts or penetrates; that which wounds or injures; as the edge of slander.

3. A narrow part rising from a broader.

Some harrow their ground over, and then plow it upon an edge

4. Sharpness of mind or appetite; keenness; intenseness of desire; fitness for action or operation; as the edge of appetite or hunger.

Silence and solitude set an edge on the genius.

5. Keenness; sharpness; acrimony.

Abate the edge of traitors.

To set the teeth on edge to cause a tingling or grating sensation in the teeth.

EDGE, verb transitive

1. To sharpen.

To edge her champion's sword.

2. To furnish with an edge

A sword edged with flint.

3. To border; to fringe.

A long descending train,

With rubies edged.

4. To border; to furnish with an ornamental border; as, to edge a flower-bed with box.

5. To sharpen; to exasperate; to embitter.

By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.

6. To incite; to provoke; to urge on; to instigate; that is, to push on as with a sharp point; to goad. Ardor or passion will edge a man forward, when arguments fail.

7. To move sideways; to move by little and little; as, edge your chair along.

EDGE, verb intransitive To move sideways; to move gradually. edge along this way.

1. To sail close to the wind.

To edge away, in sailing, is to decline gradually from the shore or from the line of the course.

To edge in with, to draw near to, as a ship in chasing.

EDG'ED, participle passive Furnished with an edge or border.

1. Incited; instigated.

2. adjective Sharp; keen.

EDGELESS, adjective Not sharp; blunt; obtuse; unfit to cut or penetrate; as an edgeless sword or weapon.

EDGETOOL, noun An instrument having a sharp edge.

EDGEWISE, adverb [edge and wise.] With the edge turned forward, or towards a particular point; in the direction of the edge.

1. Sideways; with the side foremost.

EDG'ING, participle present tense Giving an edge; furnishing with an edge.

1. Inciting; urging on; goading; stimulating; instigating.

2. Moving gradually or sideways.

3. Furnishing with a border.

EDG'ING, noun That which is added on the border, or which forms the edge; as lace, fringe, trimming, added to a garment for ornament.

Bordered with a rosy edging

1. A narrow lace.

2. In gardening, a row of small plants wet along the border of a flower-bed; as an edging of box.

ED'IBLE, adjective [from Latin edo, to eat.] Eatable; fit to be eaten as food; esculent. Some flesh is not edible

E'DICT, noun [Latin edictum, from edico, to utter or proclaim; e and dico, to speak.]

That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action; an order issued by a prince to his subjects, as a rule or law requiring obedience; a proclamation of command or prohibition. An edict is an order or ordinance of a sovereign prince, intended as a permanent law, or to erect a new office, to establish new duties, or other temporary regulation; as the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.

ED'IFICANT, adjective [infra.] Building. [Little used.]

EDIFICA'TION, noun [Latin oedificatio. See Edify.]

1. A building up, in a moral and religious sense; instruction; improvement and progress of the mind, in knowledge, in morals, or in faith and holiness.

He that prophesieth, speaketh to men to edification 1 Corinthians 14:3.

2. Instruction; improvement of the mind in any species of useful knowledge.

ED'IFICATORY, adjective Tending to edification.

ED'IFICE, noun [Latin oedificium. See Edify.] A building; a structure; a fabric; but appropriately, a large or splendid building. The word is not applied to a mean building, but to temples, churches or elegant mansion-houses, and to other great structures.

EDIFI'CIAL, adjective Pertaining to edifices or to structure.

ED'IFIED, participle passive Instructed; improved in literary, moral or religious knowledge.

ED'IFIER, noun One that improves another by instructing him.

ED'IFY, verb transitive [Latin oedifico; oedes, a house, and facio, to make.]

1. To build, in a literal sense. [Not now used.]

2. To instruct and improve the mind in knowledge generally, and particularly in moral and religious knowledge, in faith and holiness.

Edify one another. 1 Thessalonians 5:11.

3. To teach or persuade. [Not used.]

ED'IFYING, participle present tense Building up in christian knowledge; instructing; improving the mind.

ED'IFYINGLY, adverb In an edifying manner.

E'DILE, noun [Latin oedilis, from oedes, a building.] A Roman magistrate whose chief business was to superintend buildings of all kinds, more especially public edifices, temples, bridges, aqueducts, etc. The ediles had also the care of the highways, public places, weights and measures, etc.

E'DILESHIP, noun The office of Edile in ancient Rome.

ED'IT, verb transitive [from Latin edo, to publish; e and do, to give.]

1. Properly, to publish; more usually, to superintend a publication; to prepare a book or paper for the public eye, by writing, correcting or selecting the matter.

Those who know how volumes of the fathers are generally edited.

2. To publish.

Abelard wrote many philosophical treatises which have never been edited.

ED'ITED, participle passive Published; corrected; prepared and published.

ED'ITING, participle present tense Publishing; preparing for publication.

EDI'TION, noun [Latin editio, from edo, to publish.]

1. The publication of any book or writing; as the first edition of a new work.

2. Republication, sometimes with revision and correction; as the second edition of a work.

3. Any publication of a book before published; also, one impression or the whole number of copies published at once; as the tenth edition

ED'ITOR, noun [Latin from edo, to publish.] A publisher; particularly, a person who superintends an impression of a book; the person who revises, corrects and prepares a book for publication; as Erasmus, Scaliger, etc.

1. One who superintends the publication of a newspaper.

EDITO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to an editor, as editorial labors; written by an editor, as editorial remarks.

ED'ITORSHIP, noun The business of an editor; the care and superintendence of a publication.

EDIT'UATE, verb transitive [Low Latin oedituor, from oedes, a temple or house.]

To defend or govern the house or temple. [Not in use.]

ED'UCATE, verb transitive [Latin educo, educare; e and duco, to lead.]

To bring up, as a child; to instruct; to inform and enlighten the understanding; to instill into the mind principles of arts, science, morals, religion and behavior. To educate children well is one of the most important duties of parents and guardians.

ED'UCATED, participle passive Brought up; instructed; furnished with knowledge or principles; trained, disciplined.

ED'UCATING, participle present tense Instructing; enlightening the understanding, and forming the manners.

EDUCA'TION, noun [Latin educatio.] The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

EDUCA'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to education; derived from education; as educational habits.

ED'UCATOR, noun One who educates.

EDU'CE, verb transitive [Latin educo, eduxi; e and duco, to lead.]

To bring or draw out; to extract; to produce from a state of occultation.

Th' eternal art educing good from ill.

EDU'CED, participle passive Drawn forth, extracted; produced.

EDU'CING, participle present tense Drawing forth; producing.

E'DUCT, noun [Latin eductum, from educo.] Extracted matter; that which is educed; that which is brought to light, by separation, analysis or decomposition.

We must consider the educts of its analysis by Bergman, etc.

EDUC'TION, noun The act of drawing out or bringing into view.

EDUCT'OR, noun That which brings forth, elicits or extracts.

Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.

EDUL'CORATE, verb transitive [Low Latin edulco, from dulcis, sweet.]

1. To purify; to sweeten. In chimistry, to render substances more mild, by freeing them from acids and salts or other soluble impurities, by washing.

2. To sweeten by adding sugar, syrup, etc.

EDUL'CORATED, participle passive Sweetened; purified from acid or saline substances, and rendered more mild.

EDUL'CORATING, participle present tense Sweetening; rendering more mild.

EDULCORA'TION, noun The act of sweetening or rendering more mild, by freeing from acid or saline substances, or from any soluble impurities.

1. The act of sweetening by admixture of some saccharine substance.

EDUL'CORATIVE, adjective Having the quality of sweetening.