Edged (imp. & p. p.) of Edge
Edging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edge
Edge (v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
Edge (v. t.) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
Edge (v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
Edge (v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
Edge (v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
Edge (v. i.) To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
Edge (v. i.) To sail close to the wind.
Edgebone (n.) Same as Aitchbone.
Edgeless (a.) Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
Edgelong (adv.) In the direction of the edge.
Edgeshot (a.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board.
Edgeways (adv.) Alt. of Edgewise
Edgewise (adv.) With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Edging (n.) That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.
Edging (n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
Edgingly (adv.) Gradually; gingerly.
Edgy (a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
Edgy (a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
Edh (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth."
Edibility (n.) Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.
Edible (a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
Edible (n.) Anything edible.
Edibleness (n.) Suitableness for being eaten.
Edict (n.) 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 (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.
Edificant (a.) Building; constructing.
Edification (n.) 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.
Edification (n.) A building or edifice.
Edificatory (a.) Tending to edification.
Edifice (n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.
Edificial (a.) Pertaining to an edifice; structural.
Edifier (n.) One who builds.
Edifier (n.) One who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction.
Edified (imp. & p. p.) of Edify
Edifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edify
Edify (v. i.) To build; to construct.
Edify (v. i.) To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.
Edify (v. i.) To teach or persuade.
Edify (v. i.) To improve.
Edifying (a.) Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.
Edile (n.) See Aedile.
Edileship (n.) The office of aedile.
Edingtonite (n.) A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.
Edited (imp. & p. p.) of Edit
Editing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edit
Edit (v. t.) 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.
Edition (n.) 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.
Edition (n.) 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 (n.) An editor.
Editor (n.) One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.
Editorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.
Editorial (n.) A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.
Editorially (adv.) In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.
Editorship (n.) The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.
Editress (n.) A female editor.
Edituate (v. t.) To guard as a churchwarden does.
Edomite (n.) One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.
Edriophthalma (n. pl.) A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca.
Edriophthalmous (a.) Pertaining to the Edriophthalma.
Educability (n.) Capability of being educated.
Educable (a.) Capable of being educated.
Educated (imp. & p. p.) of Educate
Educating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Educate
Educate (v. t.) 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 (a.) Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.
Education (n.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to education.
Educationist (n.) One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
Educative (a.) Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
Educator (n.) One who educates; a teacher.
Educed (imp. & p. p.) of Educe
Educing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Educe
Educe (v. t.) 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.
Educible (a.) Capable of being educed.
Educt (n.) That which is educed, as by analysis.
Eduction (n.) The act of drawing out or bringing into view.
Eductive (a.) Tending to draw out; extractive.
Eductor (n.) One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
Edulcorant (a.) Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.
Edulcorant (n.) An edulcorant remedy.
Edulcorated (imp. & p. p.) of Edulcorate
Edulcorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edulcorate
Edulcorate (v. t.) To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.
Edulcorate (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify.
Edulcoration (n.) The act of sweetening or edulcorating.
Edulcoration (n.) The act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water.
Edulcorative (a.) Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.
Edulcorator (n.) A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.
Edulious (a.) Edible.
-ee () A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.
Eek (v. t.) Alt. of Eeke
Eeke (v. t.) See Eke.
Eel (n.) 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.
Eelbuck (n.) An eelpot or eel basket.
Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.
Eelgrass (n.) A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.
Eel-mother (n.) The eelpout.