Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic.

A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole.

Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness.

See Edentate, a. One of the Edentata.

See Edentate, a.

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.

One of the Edentata.

Same as Edentate, a.

A depriving of teeth.

Toothless.

To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

Same as Aitchbone.

having a specified kind of border or edge; as, a black-edged card; dried sweat left salt-edged patches.

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

In the direction of the edge.

Having an edge planed, -- said of a board.

With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.

That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.

Gradually; gingerly.

Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as /English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth./

Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.

Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Anything edible.

Suitableness for being eaten.

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.

Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.

Building; constructing.

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.

Tending to edification.

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

Pertaining to an edifice; structural.

One who builds.

To improve.

Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.

See /dile.

The office of /dile.

A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.

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.

improved or corrected by critical editing.

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.

An editor.

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

A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.

to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.

In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.

The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.

A female editor.

To guard as a churchwarden does.

One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.

A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca.

Pertaining to the Edriophthalma.

Capability of being educated.

Capable of being educated.

To bring up 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.

Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.

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.

Of or pertaining to education.

a specialist in the theory of eduction.

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

One who educates; a teacher.

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.

Capable of being educed.

That which is educed, as by analysis.

The act of drawing out or bringing into view.

Tending to draw out; extractive.

One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.

An edulcorant remedy.

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.

The act of sweetening or edulcorating.

Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.

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

Edible.

See Eke.

An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.

The eelpout.

An eelpot or eel basket.

A brood of eels.

A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value. A fresh-water fish, the burbot.

A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

The old plural of Eye.

In a strange, unearthly way.

Causing fear; eerie.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

imp. of Eat.

Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

Capable of being effaced.

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

To charm; to bewitch.

A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded.

To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.

One who effects.

Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible.

Creation; a doing.

That which produces a given effect; a cause.

With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.

The quality of being effective.

Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless.

An effecter.

Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.

the power to be effective.

With effect; efficaciously.

The quality of being effectual.

To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

Act of effectuating.

Effective.

Effectively.

Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men.

To grow womanish or weak.

In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.

The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.

Effeminacy; womanishness.

To make effeminate.

Master; sir; -- a Turkish title of respect, applied esp. to a state official or man of learning, as one learned in the law, but often simply as the courtesy title of a gentleman.

An efferent duct or stream.

Like a wild beast; fierce.

To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.