ECUMENIC
ECUMEN'ICECUMEN'ICAL, adjective [Gr. the habitable world.] General; universal; as an ecumenical council.
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ECUMENICAL
ECUMEN'ICAL, a. [Gr. the habitable world.] General; universal; as an ecumenical council.
ECURIE
EC'URIE, noun A stable; a covered place for horses.
ED
EAD, ED, in names, is a Saxon word signifying happy, fortunate; as in Edward, happy preserver; Edgar, happy power; Edwin, happy conqueror; Eadulph, happy assistance; like Macari...
EDACIOUS
EDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin edax, from edo, to eat.] Eating; given to eating; greedy; voracious.
EDACITY
EDAC'ITY, noun [Latin edacitas, from edax, edo, to eat.] Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.
EDDER
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 o...
EDDERS
ED'DERS, noun A name given to a variety of the Arum esculentum, an esculent root.
EDDISH
ED'DISHED'DOESED'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, ...
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EDDY
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.]1. A current of water running back, or in a directio...
EDDY-WATER
ED'DY-WATER, noun Among seamen, the water which falls back on the rudder of a ship under sail, called dead-water.
EDDY-WIND
ED'DY-WIND, noun The wind returned or beat back from a sail, a mountain or any thing that hinders its passage.
EDELITE
ED'ELITE, noun A siliceous stone of a light gray color.
EDEMATOUS
EDEM'ATOUS, adjective [Gr. a tumor; to swell.] Swelling with a serous humor; dropsical. An edematous tumor is white, soft and insensible.
EDEN
E'DEN, noun [Heb. pleasure, delight.] The country and garden in which Adam and Eve were placed by God himself.
EDENIZED
E'DENIZED, adjective Admitted into paradise.
EDENTATED
EDEN'TATED, adjective [Latin edentatus, e and dens.] Destitute or deprived of teeth.
EDGE
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 nea...
EDGED
EDG'ED, participle passive Furnished with an edge or border.1. Incited; instigated.2.adjective Sharp; keen.
EDGELESS
EDGELESS, adjective Not sharp; blunt; obtuse; unfit to cut or penetrate; as an edgeless sword or weapon.
EDGETOOL
EDGETOOL, noun An instrument having a sharp edge.
EDGEWISE
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.
EDGING
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...
EDIBLE
ED'IBLE, adjective [from Latin edo, to eat.] Eatable; fit to be eaten as food; esculent. Some flesh is not edible
EDICT
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 p...
EDIFICANT
ED'IFICANT, adjective [infra.] Building. [Little used.]