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I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease. Swift.
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The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness]. Golding.
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Écorché (?), n. [F.] (Fine Arts) A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.
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Écossaise (?), n. [F.] (Mus.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style.
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Ecostate (?), a. [Pref. e- + costate.] (Bot.) Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.
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Écoute (?), n. [F., a listening place.] (Mil.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.
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Ecphasis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �, fr. � to speak out.] (Rhet.) An explicit declaration.
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Ecphonema (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � a thing called out, fr. � to cry out; 'ek out + � voice.] (Rhet.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle.
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Ecphoneme (?), n. [See .] A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.
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Ecphonesis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �. See .] (Rhet.) An animated or passionate exclamation.
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The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various. Gibbs.
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Ecphractic (?), a. [Gr. �, from � to open; 'ek out + � to block up: cf. F. ecphractique.] (Med.) Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent. -- n. An ecphractic medicine. Harvey.
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Écrasement (?), n. [F.] (Surg.) The operation performed with an écraseur.
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Écraseur (?), n. [F., fr. écraser to crush.] (Surg.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.
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Écru (?), a. [F., fr. L. crudus raw.] Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
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Ecstasy (?), n.; pl. Ecstasies (#). [F. extase, L. ecstasis, fr. Gr. �, fr. � to put out of place, derange; � = 'ek out + � to set, stand. See , and .] [Also written extasy.] 1. The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.
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Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy. Dryden.
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This is the very ecstasy of love. Shak.
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2. Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
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He on the tender grass
Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy. Milton.
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3. Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.]
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That unmatched form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy. Shak.
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Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.
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4. (Med.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.
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Ecstasy, v. t. To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. [Obs.]
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The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits. Jer. Taylor.
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Ecstatic (?), a. [Gr. �, fr. �: cf. F. extatique. See , n.] 1. Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.
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This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy. Hammond.
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2. Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.
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Ecstatic, n. An enthusiast. [R.] Gauden.
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Ecstatical (?), a. 1. Ecstatic. Bp. Stillingfleet.
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2. Tending to external objects. [R.] Norris.
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Ecstatically, adv. Rapturously; ravishingly.

{ Ect- (?), Ecto- (?) }. [Gr. 'ektos outside outside.] A combining form signifying without, outside, external.
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Ectad (?), adv. [Ect- + L. ad towards.] (Anat.) Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad. B. G. Wilder.
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Ectal (?), a. [See .] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental. B. G. Wilder.
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Ectasia (?), n. [NL. See .] (Med.) A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.
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Ectasis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �; 'ek out + � to stretch.] (Pros.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
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Ectental (?), a. [Gr. 'ektos outside + � inside.] (Biol.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the “ectental line” or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.
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Ecteron (?), n. [See .] (Anat.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. -- Ecteronic (#), a.
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Ectethmoid (?), a. [Ect- + ethmoid.] (Anat.) External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.
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Ecthlipsis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �, fr. � to squeeze out.] 1. The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
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2. (Lat. Pros.) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.
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Ecthoreum (?), n.; pl. Ecthorea (#). [NL., fr. Gr. � to leap out; ek out + �, �, to leap, dart.] (Zoöl.) The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See . [Written also ecthoræum.]
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Ecthyma (?), n.; pl. Ecthymata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. � pimple, fr. � to break out.] (Med.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. Dunglison.
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Ecto- (?). See .
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Ectoblast (?), n. [Ecto- + Gr. � bud, germ.] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm. (b) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall. Agassiz.
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Ectobronchium (?), n.; pl. Ectobronchia (#). [NL. See , and .] (Anat.) One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

{ Ectocuneriform (?), Ectocuniform (?), } n. [Ecto- + cuneiform, cuniform.] (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See .
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Ectocyst (?), n. [Ecto- + Gr. � bladder.] (Zoöl.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa.
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Ectoderm (?), n. [Ecto- + -derm.] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast. (b) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of .

{ Ectodermal (?), Ectodermic (?), } a. (Biol.) Of or relating to the ectoderm.
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Ectolecithal (?), a. [Ecto- + Gr. � the yolk of an egg.] (Biol.) Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.
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Ectomere (?), n. [Ecto- + -mere.] (Biol.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
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Ectoparasite (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ectoparasitic (#), a.
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Ectopia (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ek out + � place.] (Med.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.
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Ectopic (?), a. (Med.) Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.
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Ectoplasm (?), n. [Ecto- + Gr. � form.] (Biol.) (a) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. (b) The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell. (c) The ectosarc of protozoan.
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Ectoplastic (?), a. [Ecto- + Gr. � to mold.] Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.
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Ectoprocta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ektos outside outside + � the anus.] (Zoöl.) An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.
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Ectopy (?), n. (Med.) Same as .
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Ectorganism (?), n. [Ect- + organism.] (Biol.) An external parasitic organism.
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Ectosarc (?), n. [Ecto- + Gr. �, �, flesh.] (Biol.) The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amœba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.
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Ectosteal (?), a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
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Ectostosis (?), n. [NL. See , and .] (Physiol.) A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.
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Ectozoic (?), a. (Zoöl.) See .
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Ectozoön (?), n.; pl. Ectozoa (#). [NL., fr. Gr. 'ektos outside outside + zw^,on an animal.] (Zoöl.) See .
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Ectropion (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �, fr. � a turning aside; � from + � to turn.] (Med.) An unnatural eversion of the eyelids.
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Ectropium (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) Same as .
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Ectrotic (?), a. [Gr. � for abortion; 'ek out + � to wound, cause mischief to.] (Med.) Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.
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Ectypal (?), a. [L. ectypus worked in high relief, Gr. �; out + � stamp, figure. See .] Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.
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Ectype (?), n. [Cf. F. ectype. See .] 1. (Classical Archæol.) (a) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence: (b) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).
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2. A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.
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Some regarded him [Klopstock] as an ectype of the ancient prophets. Eng. Cyc. .
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Ectypography (?), n. [Ectype + -graphy.] A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.

{ Ecumenic (?), Ecumenical (?), } a. [L. oecumenicus, Gr. � (sc. �) the inhabited world, fr. � to inhabit, from o'i^kos house, dwelling. See .] General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council. [Written also œcumenical.]
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Coloq. Ecumenical Bishop , a title assumed by the popes. -- Coloq. Ecumenical council . See under .
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Ecurie (?), n. [F. See .] A stable.
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Eczema (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ekzema; ek out + zei^n to boil.] (Med.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Eczematous (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.
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-ed (?). The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented.
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Edacious (?), a. [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.] Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
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Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle.

-- Edaciously, adv. -- Edaciousness, n.
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Edacity (?), n. [L. edacitas.] Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon.
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Edam (?), n., or Edam cheese. A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.
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edaphosaurus n. an extinct heavy-bodied reptile of the late Paleozoic having a dorsal sail or crest.
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Edda (?), n.; pl. Eddas (#). [Icel., lit. great-grandmother (i. e., of Scandinavian poetry), so called by Bishop Brynjúlf Sveinsson, who brought it again to light in 1643.] The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.
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☞ There are two Eddas. The older, consisting of 39 poems, was reduced to writing from oral tradition in Iceland between 1050 and 1133. The younger or prose Edda, called also the Edda of Snorri, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.

{ Eddaic (?), Eddic (?) }, a. Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.
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Edder (?), n. [See .] (Zoöl.) An adder or serpent. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
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Edder, n. [AS. edor hedge, fence; akin to etar.] Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [Obs.] Tusser.
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Edder, v. t. To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge. [Obs.]
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Eddish (?), n. [AS. edisc; cf. AS. pref. ed- again, anew. Cf. , and .] Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See . [Eng.]
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Eddoes (?), n. pl. (Bot.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See .
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Eddy (ĕdd�), n.; pl. Eddies (ĕddĭz). [Prob. fr. Icel. iða; cf. Icel. pref. ið- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.] 1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
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2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
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And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden.
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Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.
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Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.
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Eddy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eddied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.] To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
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Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.
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Eddy, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.]
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The circling mountains eddy in
From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.
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Eddy current (?). (Elec.) An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.
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Eddy kite (?). Called also Malay kite. [After William A. Eddy, American kite expert.] A quadrilateral, tailless kite, with convex surfaces exposed to the wind. This kite was extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments. It is now generally superseded by the box kite.
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Edelweiss (?), n. [G., fr. edel noble + weiss white.] (Bot.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps. It is the national flower of Austria.
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Edema (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) Same as .

{ Edematous (?), or Edematose (?) }, a. (Med.) Same as .
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Eden (?), n. [Heb. ēden delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden.] The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.
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Edenic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. “Edenic joys.” Mrs. Browning.
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Edenite (?), n. [From Edenville, N. Y.] (Min.) A variety of amphibole. See .
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Edenized (?), a. Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).
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Edental (?), a. See , a. -- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Edentata.
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Edentalous (?), a. See , a.
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Edentata (?), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. from L. edentatus, p. p. of edentare to render toothless; e out + dens, dentis, tooth.] (Zoöl.) 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.
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Edentate (?), a. 1. Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.
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2. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Edentata.
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