Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 7
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.
To edge her champion's sword. -- Dryden.
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.
Hills whose tops were edged with groves. -- Pope.
Edge (v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. [Obs.]
By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. -- Hayward.
Edge (v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards. -- Locke.
Edge (v. i.) To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
Edge (v. i.) To sail close to the wind.
I must edge up on a point of wind. -- Dryden.
To edge away or To edge off (Naut.), To increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object.
To edge down (Naut.), To approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward.
To edge in, To get in edgewise; to get in by degrees.
To edge in with, As with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.
Edge (n.) The boundary of a surface [syn: edge, border].
Edge (n.) A line determining the limits of an area [syn: boundary, edge, bound].
Edge (n.) A sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box".
Edge (n.) The attribute of urgency in tone of voice; "his voice had an edge to it" [syn: edge, sharpness].
Edge (n.) A slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition".
Edge (n.) The outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something; "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge".
Edge (v.) Advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car" [syn: edge, inch].
Edge (v.) Provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery" [syn: border, edge].
Edge (v.) Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on].
Edge (v.) Provide with an edge; "edge a blade".
EDGE () Enhanced Data rate for GSM / Global Evolution (GSM, mobile-systems).
Compare: Aitchbone
Aitchbone (n.) The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]
Edgebone (n.) Same as Aitchbone.
Edgeless (a.) Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
Edgeless (a.) Lacking a cutting edge.
Edgelong (adv.) In the direction of the edge. [Obs.]
Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck Edgelong into the ground. -- B. Jonson.
Edgeshot (a.) (Carp.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. -- Knight. Edgeways
Edgeways (adv.) Alt. of Edgewise.
Edgewise (adv.) With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
To get a word in edgewise, To succeed in expressing an opinion in a conversation, in spite of constant speech from another or others; as, he talked incessantly and I couldn't get a word in edgewise.
Note: the form edgeways is now uncommon.
Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. -- Sir W. Scott.
Edgeways (adv.) As if by an edge; barely; "I could not get a word in edgewise" [syn: edgewise, edgeways].
Edgeways (adv.) With the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge; "he sawed the board edgeways"; "held it edgewise" [syn: edgeways, edgewise].
Edging (n.) That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. -- Dryden.
Edging (n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
Edging machine, A machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.
Edging (n.) Border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug).
Edgingly (adv.) Gradually; gingerly. [R.]
Edgy (a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
Edgy (a.) (Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of sculpture." -- Hazlitt.
Edgy (a.) Being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight].
Edh (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter [eth], capital form [Edh].
It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: [=o][eth]er, other, d[^o][eth], doth." -- March.
Edibility (n.) Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.
Edibility (n.) The property of being fit to eat [syn: edibility, edibleness].
Edible (a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. -- Bacon.
Edible (n.) Anything edible.
Edible bird's nest. See Bird's nest, 2.
Edible crab (Zo["o]l.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab ({Callinectes hastatus). See Crab.
Edible frog (Zo["o]l.), The common European frog ({Rana esculenta), used as food.
Edible snail (Zo["o]l.), Any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.
Edible snail (n.) One of the chief edible snails [syn: edible snail, Helix pomatia].
Edible (a.) Suitable for use as food [syn: edible, comestible, eatable] [ant: inedible, uneatable].
Edible (n.) Any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals].
Edible (a.) Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Edibleness (n.) Suitableness for being eaten.
Edibleness (n.) The property of being fit to eat [syn: edibility, edibleness].
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.
It stands as an edict in destiny. -- Shak.
Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), An edict issued by Henry IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants.
Syn: Decree; proclamation; law; ordinance; statute; rule; order; manifesti; command. See Law.
Edict (n.) A formal or authoritative proclamation.
Edict (n.) A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript].
Edict. () A law ordained by the sovereign, by which he forbids or commands something it extends either to the whole country, or only to some particular provinces.
Edict. () Edicts are somewhat similar to public proclamations. Their difference consists in this, that the former have authority and form of law in themselves, whereas the latter are at most, declarations of a law, before enacted by congress, or the legislature.
Edict. () Among the Romans this word sometimes signified, a citation to appear before a judge. The edict of the emperors, also called constitutiones principum, were new laws which they made of their own motion, either to decide cases which they had foreseen, or to abolish or change some ancient laws. They were different from their rescripts or decrees. These edicts were the sources which contributed to the formation of the Gregorian, Hermogenian, Theodosian, and Justinian Codes. Vide Dig. 1, 4, 1, 1; Inst. 1, 2, 7; Code, 1, 1 Nov. 139.
Edictal (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.
Edificant (a.) Building; constructing. [R.] -- Dugard.
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.
The assured edification of his church. -- Bp. Hall.
Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification. -- Addison.
Edification (n.) A building or edifice. [Obs.] -- Bullokar.
Edification (n.) Uplifting enlightenment [syn: edification, sophistication].
Edificatory (a.) Tending to edification. -- Bp. Hall.
Edifice (n.) 大廈；雄偉的建築物 [C] A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.
Edifice (n.) A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" [syn: building, edifice].
Compare: Permanently
Permanently (adv.) 永久地；長期不變地 In a way that lasts or remains unchanged indefinitely; for all time.
‘His lungs are permanently damaged.’
Permanently (adv.) In a way that lasts or continues without interruption; continually.
‘We need to be permanently vigilant.’
Edificial (a.) Pertaining to an edifice; structural.
Edifier (n.) One who builds. [Obs.]
Edifier (n.) 陶冶者 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 improve. [R.] -- Swift.
Edify (v. i.) To build; to construct. [Archaic]
There was a holy chapel edified. -- Spenser.
Edify (v. i.) To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.
It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public. -- Gibbon.
Edify (v. i.) To teach or persuade. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Edify (v.) Make understand; "Can you enlighten me -- I don't understand this proposal" [syn: enlighten, edify].
Edify (v. t.) (Formal) 教化；啟迪；訓誨 To improve someone's mind.
Compare: Enlighten
Enlighten (v.) [With object] 啟發，啟迪；使擺脫矇昧； 教育，教導 Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.
‘Christopher had not enlightened Francis as to their relationship.’
Enlighten (v.) [With object] Give (someone) spiritual knowledge or insight.
‘The Holy Spirit enlightened the Apostles.’
Enlighten (v.) [With object] [Archaic] Shed light on (an object).
‘The sun enlightened some such clouds near him.’
Edifying (a.) 有教化意味的 Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n.
Edifying (a.) Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read" [syn: edifying, enlightening] [ant: unedifying, unenlightening].
Edile (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) See Aedile.
Edileship (n.) The office of aedile. -- T. Arnold.
Edingtonite (n.) (Min.) 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.
Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. -- Enfield.
Edit (v.) Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" [syn: edit, redact].
Edit (v.) Supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years".
Edit (v.) Cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape" [syn: edit, cut, edit out].
Edit (v.) Cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit, blue-pencil, delete].
Edit, () Use of some kind of editor program to modify a document. Also used to refer to the modification itself, e.g. "my last edit only made things worse".
To edit something usually implies that the changes will persist for some time, usually by saving the edited document to a file, though one might open an editor, create a new document in memory, print it and exit without saving it to disk.
Editing is normally done by a human but see, e.g., sed. (2007-07-11)
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 (n.) The form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published.
Edition (n.) All of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings".
Edition (n.) An issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times".
Edition (n.) Something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" [syn: version, variant, variation, edition].
Luxe (n.) Luxury. [Obs.] -- Shenstone.
['E]dition de luxen. [F.] (Printing) A sumptuous edition as regards paper, illustrations, binding, etc.
'Edition de luxe [F.] See Luxe.
Editioner (n.) An editor. [Obs.]
Editor (n.) One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.
Editor (n.) A person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) [syn: editor, editor in chief].
Editor (n.) (Computer science) A program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data [syn: editor program, editor].
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.
Editorial (a.) Of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives; "editorial column".
Editorial (a.) Relating to or characteristic of an editor; "editorial duties".
Editorial (n.) An article giving opinions or perspectives [syn: column, editorial, newspaper column].
Editorially (adv.) In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.
Editorially (adv.) By means of an editorial; "the paper commented editorially on the scandal".
Editorship (n.) The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.
Editorship (n.) The position of editor.
Editress (n.) A female editor.
Edituate (v. t.) To guard as a churchwarden does. [Obs.] -- J. Gregory.
Edomite (n.) One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.
Edriophthalma (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. [Written also Edriophthalmata.]
Edriophthalmous (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to the Edriophthalma.
Educability (n.) Capability of being educated.
Educable (a.) Capable of being educated. "Men are educable." -- M. Arnold.
Educated (imp. & p. p.) of Educate.
Educating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Educate.
Educate (v. t.) 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.
Syn: To develop; instruct; teach; inform; enlighten; edify; bring up; train; breed; rear; discipline; indoctrinate.
Educate (v.) Give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better".
Educate (v.) Create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future" [syn: train, develop, prepare, educate].
Educate (v.) Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise].
Educated (a.) Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.
Educated (a.) Possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) [ant: uneducated].
Educated (a.) Characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate" [syn: educated, enlightened].
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.
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. -- H. Spenser.
Syn: Education, Instruction, Teaching, Training, Breeding.
Usage: Education, properly a drawing forth, implies not so much the communication of knowledge as the discipline of the intellect, the establishment of the principles, and the regulation of the heart. Instruction is that part of education which furnishes the mind with knowledge. Teaching is the same, being simply more familiar. It is also applied to practice; as, teaching to speak a language; teaching a dog to do tricks.
Training is a department of education in which the chief element is exercise or practice for the purpose of imparting facility in any physical or mental operation. Breeding commonly relates to the manners and outward conduct.
Education (n.) The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded" [syn: education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity].
Education (n.) Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education".
Education (n.) The gradual process of acquiring knowledge; "education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's".
Education (n.) The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university).
Education (n.) The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: education, training, breeding].
Education (n.) The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979 [syn: Department of Education, Education Department, Education].
Education, (n.) That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Educational (a.) Of or pertaining to education. "His educational establishment." -- J. H. Newman.
Educational (a.) Relating to the process of education; "educational psychology".
Educational (a.) Providing knowledge; "an educational film".
Educationist (n.) One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
Syn: educationalist.
Educationist (n.) A specialist in the theory of education [syn: educationist, educationalist].
Educative (a.) Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
Educative (a.) Resulting in education; "an educative experience"
Educator (n.) [L.] One who educates; a teacher.
Educator (n.) Someone who educates young people [syn: educator, pedagogue, pedagog].
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.
The eternal art educing good from ill. -- Pope.
They want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest in themselves. -- M. Arnold.
Educe (v.) Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" [syn: educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out].
Educe (v.) Develop or evolve from a latent or potential state [syn: derive, educe].
Educible (a.) Capable of being educed.
Educt (n.) That which is educed, as by analysis. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Eduction (n.) [L. eductio.] The act of drawing out or bringing into view.
Eduction pipe, & Eduction port. See Exhaust pipe and
Exhaust port, under Exhaust, a.
Eductive (a.) Tending to draw out; extractive.
Eductor (n.) [L., tutor.] One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether. -- E. Darwin.
Edulcorant (a.) [See Edulcorate.] 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.
Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar. -- Evelyn.
Edulcorate (v. t.) (Chem.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify. [R.]
Edulcorate (v.) Make sweeter in taste [syn: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate] [ant: acetify, acidify, acidulate, sour].
Edulcoration (n.) The act of sweetening or edulcorating.
Edulcoration (n.) (Chem.) The act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water. [R.] -- Ure.
Edulcorative (a.) Tending to sweeten 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. [Obs.] "Edulious pulses." -- Sir T. Browne.
-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. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Eek, AK -- U.S. city in Alaska
Population (2000): 280
Housing Units (2000): 83
Land area (2000): 0.911522 sq. miles (2.360830 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.134598 sq. miles (0.348608 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.046120 sq. miles (2.709438 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21040
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 60.218662 N, 162.025928 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99578
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Eek, AK
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Eel (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Eel (n.) The fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled.
Eel (n.) Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins.
Eelbuck (n.) An eelpot or eel basket.
Eelfare (n.) (Zool.) A brood of eels. [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Zostera
Zostera (n.) [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Naiadaceae, or Pondweed family.
Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.
Eelgrass (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.
Eelgrass (n.) Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts [syn: eelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina].
Eelgrass (n.) Submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia [syn: tape grass, eelgrass, wild celery, Vallisneria spiralis].
Eel-mother (n.) (Zool.) The eelpout.