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.

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

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.

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.

A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

Capable of effervescing.

Tending to produce effervescence.

The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.

the capacity or power to produce a desired effect.

Efficacy.

Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.

a small apartment{4}, sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pulled out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency.

The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.

Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.

An efficient cause; a prime mover.

With effect; effectively.

To make fierce.

Relating to an effigy.

To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt.

The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy.

See Effigy.

The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.

To ask urgently.

To fill with breath; to puff up.